![]() ![]() Michael and his team turned to Concurrency, Inc., both a Microsoft Partner and KnowledgeLake Partner, for assistance with designing and deploying the SharePoint-based solution, including preparation for integration with SAP, Dart’s chosen ERP platform. Dart requested KnowledgeLake to demonstrate its ECM solutions based on the SharePoint platform. As an alternative to standalone ECM platforms, Michael and his team investigated how Dart might extend its use of SharePoint, a product the company already owned. Also, those systems would have required additional servers dedicated to imaging. Michael and his team considered IBM’s FileNet and EMC’s Documentum but found these platforms to be limited in their potential for integration with ERP systems. ![]() Michael and his team sought an approach that would further reduce manual processes, establish workflows, accommodate additional documents types, and integrate with the company’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Dart needed to ensure access to their documents for years to come and this was in jeopardy with the current IBM system. Dart brought in KnowledgeLake’s Professional Services team to migrate over 16,000,000 documents from their current IBM system into SharePoint. Another factor influencing Dart’s decision was that their current IBM CM environment was aging and their service contract was set to expire. The new system would need to handle over 16 million documents migrated from the old system and ongoing additions of 30,000-40,000 documents per month. Michael Mead, Manager of Emerging Technologies at Dart, led a strategic examination of upgrade paths. Dart’s legacy IBM system, which the company had used since the 1990s, saved images to an optical platter device that was no longer supported. ![]() Dart Container Corporation needed to replace a legacy imaging system used for wide-ranging document types such as payroll, benefits, sales, vendor records, and HIPPA-covered records. ![]()
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