The advantage of employing the web content management solution icoya OpenContent within the SAP Enterprise Portal is obvious: web presences are managed in the same common portal environment as the familiar SAP Enterprise Portal. Depending on enterprise wide access rights and user authorizations, Enterprise Portal users can create, manage, and retrieve content and information within the Portal. The integration of the applications is based on SAP's iView technology allowing the seamless incorporation of icoya OpenContent and the SAP Enterprise Portal. Portal users are automatically logged onto the icoya system using single sign on (SSO). icoya OpenContent offers an unrivaled flexibility in the design of publication processes and allows the mapping of all present and future workflows. The integrated connection to Novell eDirectory and Microsoft Active Services Directory represents a consistent and central way of managing procedures, workflows, and user data within a company, and therefore reduced administration costs. The integrated icoya TREX interface allows the searching and classifying of content and information published in icoya OpenContent within the knowledge management of the SAP Enterprise Portal. This feature enables portal users to directly access documents stored in icoya within the Enterprise Portal. In addition, the integration allows the personalization of different portal views by the company.

icoya OpenContent offers an enormous amount of features, while being a cost-effective solution. icoya OpenContent, one of the main products of the struktur AG has become one of the market leading web content management systems in over 20 countries worldwide in an extremely short period of time.

Niels Mache, the CEO of the struktur AG about the SAP certification of icoya OpenContent: “By having gained this certification, new customer potentials are beeing opened by the struktur AG as well as for the SAP AG. With icoya OpenContent and its complete integration in the SAP Enterprise Portal, we offer a powerful and flexible solution, satisfying all possible requirements about creating, managing, and distributing information in the Internet or Intranet. icoya offers a substantial saving potential to commercial customers while having low acquisition and maintenance costs and offering an optimal return of investment (ROI). Already during the certification period, a number of companies have chosen icoya OpenContent as secure, team-oriented, and dynamic web content management solution.”

Further information can be found at http://www.icoya.com/icoya4mySAP

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