DocuPhase Document Management and Progression-based Process Workflow Automation are a powerful and a horizontal business processing technology that can be effectively applied in different ways across many diverse departments, functional organizations and even the enterprise. As such, each of these diverse business infrastructures have existing software tools that will continue to be used and must work smoothly with the new DocuPhase Platform capabilities.
One can imagine many possible ways secure Repository and Workflow capabilities might be integrated with a free-hand to develop, modify and write computer programs. However, as discussed previously in the “Modern Integration Approaches” section, the older approaches that make direct API program-level function calls and require programming-level changes to existing software tools which are not practical over a network as well as for cost reasons; plus, they are often not possible when proprietary source code is not open for changes.
Fortunately, DocuPhase has developed an effective suite of highly integrated tools that support modern integration approaches without requiring programming-level modifications to pre-existing software.
DocuPhase has invested a great deal of engineering effort in order to create an easy to use and easy to implement interface for our DocuPhase Platform. DocuPhase Corporation identified early in its product design planning that integrating to third-party and key-line-of-business applications is critical to the overall success of the DocuPhase Platform in most implementations.
It is much easier and more powerful for end-users to have a “Get Invoice” or “Scan PO” button in the same accounting application that they have used for years, than to train employees how to use a completely new approach. When the user is looking at a specific account, it very helpful to have the ‘Account Number’ and/or additional information automatically provided to the DocuPhase Platform to perform its next operation for that user and the current account – Avoiding human transcription errors and effort.
The ability integrate by placing buttons and data capture features like this externally into pre-existing programs without modifying them makes DocuPhase integration tools very effective and practical.