Do you know how many office documents your organisation is currently storing? To what extent are they still active or available for view only? How much storage is consumed by those non-active documents and may you still open or edit them? Lothar K. Becker, Managing Director of .riess applications, states: ‘Our feasibility studies on alternative desktop office products include the analysis of an organisations’ document inventory. During this process we frequently notice a major information gap at the corporate IT department: size, age and relevance of the document inventory maintained are widely unknown.’ However, the major role of documents serving as information carriers of business processes comes to the fore as soon as Collaboration Features of office products are used more frequently – either sequential or even in real time.

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Because more and more large customers has decided to use SAP PLM as their document management tool it was important to optimize the .riess engineering export tool PriEx for the handling of large Pro/INTRALINK databases.

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After the sales of .riess engineering europe has written in the last three months more offers than ever this positive trend is now also seen in the order entry. Therefore we have the highest order entry in October for the year 2009.

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More than 100 participants registered to the OpenOffice.org Congress, which was held for the first time at Wiesbaden Kurhaus (Germany) early in October. This was a major success for the first German experts’ meeting in this vein, which was exclusively designed for professionals and decision-makers in the field. The big response by this highly competent target audience served as a perfect starting condition for the organizers and main sponsors .riess applications und SCAI GmbH, hosting an event which was focused on both business and professional users around OpenOffice.org.

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