Picture Perfect Content Management

Agfa Corp. has streamlined its processes for handling engineering documents by leveraging a content management solution that the company already had in place. The key to success: focus on enablement, not on automation.

Agfa came to focus on a class of products for product data management (PDM) offered primarily by the providers of solutions for computer-aided design (CAD). The company's CAD vendor proposed a $3 million pilot project using the provider's latest product lifecycle management (PLM) solution, and the vendor even went through a comprehensive return-on-investment process to demonstrate that Agfa would see an ROI within 18 months. But Holleran says that because the vendor had only recently acquired the PDM solution, he had doubts about the software's integration with the rest of the provider's PLM suite. Not to mention the $3 million price tag. "That didn't fly," Holleran states flatly.

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