Secure web browser access to organized Enterprise information: documents, iSeries reports and links to web applications
The Nexus ECM (Enterprise Content Manager), a major component of Nexus Portal, is a secured iSeries-centric store for navigating, viewing, storing, creating and searching for documents of all types, including iSeries spool files and documents uploaded to the store by authorized users from their own PC and network drives. File types include PDF, Images / Graphics, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more. Users can access these documents and links they are authorized to securely via a web browser. Nexus ECM is integrated with Catapult, our automated spool file report distribution solution, to auto-file iSeries reports to the Nexus ECM.
Nexus ECM's 5 Components
The Nexus ECM is made up of 5 components, each with it's own unique functionality:
ECM Navigator & Viewer: A tree-like structure that exists in a Nexus Portlet. It emulates a Windows Explorer interface, providing virtual folders and links to documents with the ECM store. It is accompanied by a viewing window, the ECM Viewer Portlet, that emulates the other part of the Windows Explorer interface by showing a list of folders and/or documents within the current node of the ECM Navigator tree. It also features tight access and authorization controls, so you can control which users or groups can see documents. Screenshot »
ECM Search: This window displays all the documents to which you are authorized, and allows you to search for documents using words in the document description as well as pre-established keywords.
Maintenance: Interface to allow users, managers or administrators to add and manage content. People can create folders, documents or add links and files. Screenshot »
ECM Maintenance: Interface to allow users, managers or administrators to add and manage content. People can create folders, documents or add links and upload files. Screenshot »
ECM Distribution Rules: Use this portlet to add authorities for documents that are
automatically published to the ECM via the Catapult interface.
ECM Administration Pages: Use this portlet for configuring site-wide ECM settings,
such as the location on your IFS where the files and links are stored. Here are 3 other base components of Nexus ECM Administration:
- ECM Document Skins: In addition to the site-level skin Nexus allows you to create multiple, customized skins that you can
apply to different types of ECM documents.
- ECM Page Templates: Every ECM document is associated with a page template,
which defines the identity and attributes of the portlet instances presented
around that document. The page using the Navigator/Viewer combination is
the default template. But, as an example, you may have other types of reports
that would benefit from being accompanied by a SmartCharts graph instance.
In that case, you could create a new ECM Template page that includes the extra
SmartCharts instance beside the report, and maybe drop the Navigator as well. Screenshot »
- ECM Default Content: When you create new HTML pages specifically for use
within Nexus, you can use templates as starting points in your page design. You
may decide to build a template after you have created several new pages that
share some characteristics, such as a corporate logo or header. But if every page
you create is unique, you may not need to create any default content files.
iSeries Reports auto-filed to the ECM with Catapult
Catapult, BCD’s unattended, automated iSeries spool file distribution software, allows you to
define distribution rules that automatically ship spool files and reports to the
Nexus ECM, so reports are readily available and published within the portal. The following features are available with Nexus and Catapult:
- Automated, unattended distribution of spool files to the ECM.
- Reports can be split into multiple sections (useful for invoices, sales reports by salesman, etc.)
- Reports can be transformed into new formats, e.g. rich text, PDFs with optional graphics/forms overlays and HTML.
- Indices for reports can be built dynamically as Catapult processes each report.
- Unlimited index keys and search values can be automatically derived from any report. e.g., you can index a sales report on invoice number, invoice date, salesman number, etc. Users can use the ECM portlet to search using any combination of these indices.
- You can define automated authority rules that get applied to documents as they are published, to control users' document access rights.
- The ECM portlet shows integrated lists of documents, regardless of whether they were published automatically from Catapult or uploaded manually by Nexus users.
- Nexus ECM with the Catapult Interface is HIPAA compliant because, like document distribution to other targets such as email addresses, Catapult logs distribution of documents to the Nexus ECM.
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