FileNet Announces Integration With Microsoft SharePoint Products And Technologies

FileNet Corporation (Nasdaq: FILE), the leading provider of Enterprise Content and Business Process Management solutions, and Vorsite Corporation, the premier provider of products and services for connecting Microsoft SharePoint to Enterprise Content Management systems, today announced an agreement to offer Vorsite's Enterprise Integration Toolkit (EIT) as a preconfigured module for FileNet Content Manager.

The Vorsite EIT enables companies to leverage FileNet Content Manager content from within their Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 environments, creating an easy to use and enterprise capable content, process and compliance infrastructure. With this approach, business users can stay in the familiar Microsoft Office environment while using Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal 2003 for the majority of their daily content-based activities while integrating with the enterprise content management capabilities of FileNet's P8 platform.

"Offering Vorsite's Integration Toolkit as a preconfigured module makes it easy for our customers to enable SharePoint products and technologies as the user interface of choice assessing the FileNet P8 platform," said Martyn Christian, chief marketing officer for FileNet. "FileNet P8 embraces and extends SharePoint products and technologies and the Office system to offer the Enterprise-class ECM capabilities that our customers want."

The FileNet P8 integration with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services provides the ability to capture content into FileNet Content Manager based on administrator configured metadata and then synchronizes indexes with SharePoint Portal Server 2003 so content behaves as if it is in the local SharePoint repository. The toolkit also gives users a single point of access to this content through the SharePoint interfaces. This allows for more robust compliance policy enforcement while making content available across the entire enterprise regardless of what desktop environment is used.

"Microsoft is pleased that FileNet and Vorsite are working together to make SharePoint Products and Technologies an even better solution for enterprise customers," said Sanjay Manchanda, director of SharePoint Products and Technologies at Microsoft Corp. "Our customers will appreciate the added degree of security, robustness, and administrative capabilities the solution built on top of SharePoint Products and Technologies provides."

About FileNet
FileNet Corporation (Nasdaq: FILE) helps organizations make better decisions by managing the content and processes that drive their business. FileNet's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions allow customers to build and sustain competitive advantage by managing content throughout their organizations, automating and streamlining their business processes, and providing a spectrum of connectivity needed to simplify their critical and everyday decision-making.

FileNet ECM products are designed to deliver a broad set of capabilities that integrate with existing information systems to provide cost-effective solutions that solve real-world business problems.

Since the Company's founding in 1982, more than 4,000 organizations, including more than three quarters of the FORTUNE 100, have taken advantage of FileNet solutions for help in managing their mission-critical content and processes.

Headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., the Company markets its innovative ECM solutions in more than 90 countries through its own global sales, professional services and support organizations, as well as via its ValueNet Partner network of resellers, system integrators and application developers.

About Vorsite
Vorsite is the premier provider of products and services for connecting Microsoft SharePoint to Enterprise Content Management systems. The company helps customers ensure that users can access information supporting key business processes quickly and easily while preserving security and data integrity. Vorsite offers solutions to a wide array of Fortune 1000 companies in energy, pharmaceuticals, and any industry that relies on robust ECM capabilities. The company can be reached at info@vorsite.com or at 1-800-218-7260.