IntraNet Solutions Gains New Manufacturing Customers
IntraNet Solutions Inc., a provider of Web-based document and content management solutions, announced Fisher Controls and Guidant Corp. as two of the latest companies in the manufacturing industry to implement Intra.doc! Management System (MS) 3.5 enterprise-wide for publishing and managing content on intranets.
Fisher Controls, a manufacturer of control valves and process control products for improved plant performance, is using the system for managing engineering specifications, product documentation and technical manuals on a worldwide intranet. Guidant Corp., a manufacturer of cardiac and vascular medical products, is publishing and accessing policy and procedure documents on the its global intranet for ISO 9000 adherence.
Intra.doc! 3.5 provides centralized security models, such as NT domains, to secure content and control user access, an archive/replication capability to facilitate the rapid movement of data between multiple Intra.doc! sites and a search capability that enables workgroup-to-enterprise knowledge sharing from multiple instances of Intra.doc!. In addition, add-on functionality includes an e-commerce module, an Adobe FrameMaker-ODMA extension, a Forms Processor module, and a line of Legacy Plus paper-to-Web scanning solutions.
According to Olson, IntraNet Solutions' manufacturing customer base substantiates the findings of an IDC (Framingham, Mass.) report that found document management revenues from the manufacturing industry make up about 17%of the total market share. By the end of the year 2000, IDC estimates that the total document management market will exceed $650 million in total software revenues.
The enterprise-centric sector accounted for 19% of those total revenues, and is expected to grow rapidly due to an increasing amount of enterprise-wide deployments in all industries. "An enterprise-centric document management application is an essential component affecting a company's ability to create, organize, disseminate and manage the flow of information across an organization," said Amie White, IDC analyst and author of the Document Management [1998] Midyear report.
According to IDC, the manufacturing industry is one of the vertical markets that will continue to provide a growing revenue base for document management vendors.