Océane Consulting Data Management has partnered with several technology partners, each specialized in a particular field: capture and digitization, ECM/DMS, process management, automation, electronic signature, BPM, RPA, electronic archiving, digital safe and AI. And noticing the lack of interaction between their solutions, the company decided to develop connectors to enable them to communicate.
« We realized that there were very few interactions between our partners' solutions. Bonitasoft's BPM solution, for example, does not offer interaction with Oodrive electronic signature. So, when a customer wants to integrate BPM and electronic signature functionalities, we don't have a complete and combined solution to offer them. Hence the urgency to create a functional link between the two »
CREATING A BRIDGE BETWEEN TWO SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
« Imagine you were working on a call for tenders concerning Nuxeo's ECM platform and the customer also asked to integrate an electronic signature solution to be able to validate contracts, purchase orders or even delivery notes directly in the platform. To meet their request, we therefore developed a connector that is installed on Nuxeo's ECM platform and which allows you to launch a contract signing process and then retrieve the signed document. Our objective is nothing other than to facilitate and automate processing, exchanges and interactions between solutions, extend their standard functionalities and enable information transfers between them. »
DEMONSTRATORS TO SHOW THAT IT WORKS
« We therefore asked our partners to present various use cases and asked them to support us in providing answers. We even created "demonstrators" to confirm to our customers or prospects the technical feasibility of interfacing between the different solutions. We then invested in the industrialization of these connectors which will be available during the first quarter. Thanks to them, we obtain better listening from our customers, because we show that it works.
CONNECTORS: WHAT ARE THE 3 DEVELOPMENT AXES?
Three development axes have been prioritized. The first axis concerns collaborative editing with OnlyOffice or Microsoft (Office 365) and Nuxeo (ECM). The second axis concerns document security with the creation of a connector between the digital safe (Cecurity) and electronic signature (Oodrive). The third axis concerns the interconnection between business process management (Bonitasoft BPM) and electronic signature (Oodrive) and the digital safe (Cecurity). This covers the majority of needs. »
INTEGRATION VS CONNECTOR: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
« When we only have a single interfacing request between two solutions, we perform an integration. But as soon as several customers ask for the same things, it is more relevant to develop a connector. This allows us to accelerate things. Especially since customers buy a connector (in other words, a product) and what comes with it, namely functional guarantees, updates, etc. The connector also has the advantage of being able to evolve with the updates of the different interconnected solutions.
The development of these connectors finally allows us to have good technological visibility and provide technical assurance to our customers. Everyone wins. »
Technical Director Océane Consulting Data Management
