Document Management

SharePoint alone is great as a collaboration portal, and well-suited for "document consumers" accessing content via Intranets and extranets, but M-Files adds vital capabilities for document creators to provide seamless management of in-process work, fast local performance and reliability even when the server crashes, the network is slow, or the server is unavailable such as when traveling.

SharePoint implementations can often force users to change their work habits to access, download, make edits and then upload to the SharePoint Web portal which can drive users to workaround SharePoint. Often users keep their own local versions of files for most of their work, and then irregularly upload final documents back up to SharePoint. The result is that much of the work the system is intended to manage never makes it to SharePoint and remains scattered on users’ PCs, effectively undermining the process and leading to a failure to achieve many of the key benefits for which the solution was implemented in the first place.

Get the best of SharePoint with M-Files

M-Files ensures that all document creators or editors can continue to work the way they always have, with a seamless interface with ALL Windows applications, not just Microsoft Office. They Open, Save, and access all documents just as if they reside on their local hard drive -- whether the server is present or not -- and M-Files handles the rest, quietly synchronizing with the server in the background. It's easy, it's fast and it's reliable, providing compelling benefits for users to adopt the system rather than reasons to find workarounds and backdoors to get around the system.

So how do you get the best of both worlds? With the M-Files for SharePoint.

M-Files for SharePoint adds significant value to SharePoint by providing listing, editing, searching for and linking to M-Files content on SharePoint sites!

Any M-Files content can be displayed and edited directly in SharePoint. The permission settings defined in M-Files also apply in SharePoint, so a user who doesn’t have access to a document in M-Files cannot access it through SharePoint either.

So now it's possible to benefit from SharePoint's collaboration capabilities while still taking advantage of a powerful, full-featured document management system. And in the process you ensure broad, consistent adoption and adherence to company processes, enabling the organization to gain maximum benefit.