The Sword Achiever Suite also includes full function Policy & Controls Management addressed through document control and skills management training, leading Risk Analytics & Reporting capabilities through graphical reporting and in-depth Risk & Controls Assessment functionality.

According to Robert Dent, Business Unit Director of Sword Achiever, "The Sword Achiever Suite for IBM FileNet P8 offers a progressive approach to Governance, Risk & Compliance management by enabling enterprise-wide control over GRC policies, processes and controls via a single integrated framework, for simplified management and reduced costs. In doing so, the solution reduces headaches associated with manual tracking of data required for audits while reducing the costs associated with external auditors.

"While other solutions do little more than mirror legal requirements, the new Sword Achiever Suite for IBM FileNet P8 enables organizations to go far beyond mere compliance, serving as the catalyst for continual business improvement via the implementation of best practices. The solution is intuitive and easy to use, requiring minimal training and ensuring fast and consistent use across the enterprise. The Sword Achiever Suite for IBM FileNet P8 can be deployed quickly and can typically provide a complete return on investment in 12 to 18 months."

About Sword Group

Sword Achiever ( www.achieverplus.com ) is a business unit of Sword Group (www.sword-group.com)

Sword Group (NYSE Euronext: FR0004180578 SWP) delivers high value business applications to organisations across regulated industries.

A global leader in the delivery of Governance, Risk and Compliance Management solutions, Sword's skills, infrastructure and experience help our customers improve performance, increase efficiencies and maximise return on investment.

Our flexible delivery options, including On Demand, Software as a Service (SaaS) and ASP, combined with our extensive industry expertise enables Sword to support our customers across insurance & healthcare, energy, banking & finance, telecoms, utilities, engineering & construction and government.

With operations in 37 countries, Sword today employs over 2000 people and in 2007 generated EUR179m in consolidated revenue. For more information, please visit www.sword-group.com.

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IBM said it will also add to extend digitization across the Danish Medicines Agency and to pharmacies and the pharmaceutical industry.

The DAHLIA project uses the IBM FileNet P8 platform with IBM WebSphere Portal as the user interface.

"The DAHLIA project demonstrates the leadership of the Danish Medicines Agency and how IBM is helping the Agency to drive business transformation. The project not only encompasses IT systems but also uses legacy systems through Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The entire project will be implemented without any interruption of the Agency's operations," said Steffen Lerche Nielsen, GBS Healthcare Leader, IBM Nordic.

The companies said the DAHLIA contract was signed in October 2008.

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Together, the Thru Server appliance and Thru SCN service can be implemented in a hybrid model to extend internal networking, storage and security resources with cloud computing for external, on-demand collaboration.

"Increasingly difficult and volatile financial times for companies of all sizes have made comprehensive governance imperative for the foreseeable future as shareholders, government mandates and internal corporate measures dictate that information flow has tighter controls and be audited. The challenge is to collaborate efficiently within these boundaries to drive innovation and global collaboration," says Lee Harrison, CEO of Thru. "By extending traditional managed file transfer with an array of global file exchange and GRC capabilities that hook into the existing enterprise architecture, Thru Server 7.5 and the Thru SCN service enable Critical Message Governance [CMG], essentially a deep level of visibility and controls across messaging infrastructures."

The Thru Server 7.5 web services API "turns on" secure content delivery and archiving capabilities inside disparate portals, collaboration tools, project and data management systems, and CRM and ERP applications, including those from SAP, Oracle, Salesforce.com, NetSuite and Microsoft. For example, using Thru Server 7.5, organizations gain off-the-shelf integration into Microsoft SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 which allows content owners and contributors to encrypt the delivery of files and analyze internal and external file transfer activity across multiple content libraries directly from Microsoft SharePoint. Also, Thru Server 7.5 removes the need to put Microsoft SharePoint in the DMZ by letting users publish explicit collections of IRM-protected content to the Internet as on-the-fly web pages with searchable metadata and guest access control.

"Thru Server 7.5 resolves collaboration, regulatory and e-discovery challenges by centralizing the audit and protection of electronic information assets through integration," said Jeanine Banks, Senior VP of Sales and Marketing at Thru. "That way, businesses can simplify messaging infrastructure complexity, making staff more productive, reducing risk and speeding up manual information GRC processes."

The Thru Server 7.5 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Library, the official name of the web services API, will be shared with select systems integrators and consultants as part of an initiative to expand the availability of connectors seven-fold over the next two years.

"In this global economy, IT Infrastructure plays the role of a powerful business enabler," says Mark Gigliotti, President of USA Consulting, Inc., a Texas-based, mainframe technology solutions consultant and owner of IT Group, Inc., a certified solution provider for IBM FileNet and Hyland Software OnBase products. "To improve your business processes, ad hoc messaging needs to be successfully integrated into the IT infrastructure and content applications. Thru is helping to drive the evolution of ad hoc messaging infrastructure into a fluid business communication platform for disparate systems."

Thru Server (http://www.thruinc.com/thru_server.asp) appliance pricing starts at $11,000 per server, Thru SCN Corporate Edition (http://www.thruinc.com/scn/corporate_edition.asp) service starts at $15 per month per user based on volume and Thru SCN Small Business Edition (http://www.thruinc.com/scn/sb_edition.asp) service is $10 per month per user. An enterprise subscription license, which includes access to the Thru Server SOA Library, is available for organizations with 1,000 or more employees. Learn more at http://www.thruinc.com/thru7.5.

About Thru

Thru is a global pioneer of message governance and delivers secure content delivery and archiving solutions in an integrated software platform that is easy to use, cost-effective and accessible on demand. Thru offers the Thru Secure Communication Network (SCN) brand of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and an on-premise appliance option to help businesses realize increased productivity, reduced information risk and accelerated compliance. Founded in 2002, Thru uses a best practices approach to information delivery and management called Critical Message Governance (CMG) to help enterprises gain better visibility and centralized control of ad hoc messaging across network boundaries. For additional information, visit Thru on the Web at http://www.thruinc.com.

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Unifying content, process and compliance capabilities in a new composite application framework, IBM's agile ECM enables clients to quickly solve increasingly complex business problems. Using a flexible, services-oriented environment, clients can now deploy solution applications within days instead of months. With this new offering, IBM is helping clients accelerate time-to-value, improving end-user accessibility and allowing business professionals to optimize their content-based processes.

Further, IBM's agile ECM portfolio helps clients realize IBM's Information On Demand vision. It makes it easier for business users to connect content in the context of their business processes and leverage that information to facilitate business optimization.

"Organizations need information to innovate and optimize their businesses, but many struggle with how to manage all the information that they have," said Ken Bisconti, vice president, products and strategy, IBM Enterprise Content Management. "IBM's focus on agility with ECM software helps clients address many important challenges, such as how to globally integrate solutions with immense volumes of information and optimize their processes while managing regulatory requirements." For example, construction field personnel have frequent interaction with multiple contractors, inspecting their work and documenting their progress on various projects. Many documents are necessary for the accurate record keeping and reporting of all construction activity. Information captured on paper forms, which are then filed in a project book or transcribed into an online data storage system, can be flawed by delays in data entry, damaged paper forms and errors during transcription. With an agile, end-to-end ECM business process, these documents can be digitally authored and managed and contextual information, such as maps and equipment inventory, can now be electronically delivered to the contractors in the field instantly, improving speed, reducing errors as well as reducing overall project costs.

IBM Agile ECM Software Portfolio The volume of information, the number of different information types and the multi-channel communications world an organization deals with continue to grow dramatically. With globalization and changing market conditions, organizations need to access information instantly. Utilizing an IBM service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, IBM's agile ECM portfolio is designed to address these growing market needs.

Key enhancements in IBM ECM portfolio include: IBM FileNet P8 4.5 is a unified ECM platform that combines content with Business Process Management (BPM) and compliance capabilities. FileNet P8 4.5 has been significantly enhanced across all of its core modules. Highlights include: IBM FileNet Business Process Manager 4.5 is a comprehensive, enterprise-class offering for managing content-centric business processes. It supports business user-oriented and standards-based process modeling and simulation, promotes business user and IT collaboration, and provides tools for agile ECM application development, utilizing Smart SOA and Web 2.0 technologies such as mashups. This new offering enables users to launch FileNet BPM processes for content in multiple repositories including IBM Content Manager 8 (CM8). This seamless integration to IBM CM8 allows a FileNet BPM process to make changes to IBM CM8 content thru IBM CM8-specific content operations.

IBM FileNet Content Manager 4.5 is designed to provide clients with a scalable, single content catalog that embeds IBM's content-centric BPM and compliance capabilities into an ECM platform operating on content in multiple repositories. The enhanced FileNet Content Manager enables intuitive integration with Lotus Quickr, Microsoft Office 2007, and Microsoft SharePoint, allowing users choice while interacting with and benefiting from ECM capabilities. FileNet Content Manager has also implemented a component-based content model leveraging the DITA XML standard, now broadly adopted in the industry for advanced document management applications. DITA supports agility through the reuse of document components in support of diverse authoring and publishing requirements.

IBM Content Manager 8.4.1 manages all types of digitized content across multiple platforms, databases and applications. The new offering provides active content capabilities which allow content in CM8 to participate in IBM FileNet BPM 4.5 processes. Additionally CM8.4.1 has been enhanced to support collaborative content management through integration with Lotus Quickr and includes new Web Interface (WEBi) enhancements that support Web 2.0 style interaction.

IBM Content Manager on Demand (CMOD) 8.4.1 provides advanced enterprise report management. The latest CMOD offering includes integration to IBM FileNet P8 for federated Records Management and BPM applications.

In addition, the new IBM ECM products use the same technology as IBM's recently released compliance and discovery offerings: The IBM Content Collection and Archiving family is based on a modular, extensible architecture that helps enable organizations to take back control and unlock business value of content, while enforcing compliance and operational policies.

IBM's records management offerings are a prescriptive set of deployment and management practices, tools and best practices to eliminate deployment complexity, mitigate risks associated with lack of best practices and industry skill and knowledge shortages.

IBM's eDiscovery products help clients take the cost out of electronic discovery management. The offerings provide an integrated, in-house approach that helps control stored information and litigation response across the enterprise.

IBM FileNet P8 integration with IBM Content Analyzer enables organizations to increase the return on their enterprise content investment by analyzing unstructured content together with structured data to gain valuable, even business-changing insight from all information.

IBM also announced that it has extended the IBM Lotus Quickr collaboration software line to include IBM ECM Services for Lotus Quickr, further helping businesses of all sizes manage, share and collaborate on important information. Available in December, IBM Lotus Quickr version 8.1.1 will be the first software of its kind to integrate with documents, spreadsheets and other files that reside in IBM enterprise content management systems. This new integration between IBM Lotus Quickr and IBM's ECM offerings will allow Lotus Quickr 8.1.1 and IBM ECM users - both IBM FileNet P8 and IBM Content Manager 8 users - to collaborate on business content via Quickr while leveraging IBM's comprehensive enterprise content management infrastructure.

This technology advancement will allow employees to access enterprise content and programs so it can be easily accessed across the organization. This content includes every day business applications like e-mail, presentations and spreadsheets and complicated records management and business process management programs.

The new software will allow organization with a variety of IT applications to standardize on Lotus Quickr for team collaboration and social networking needs without the hassle of complex data migration.

IBM is the only company with an integrated portfolio that spans from team collaboration and basic content services to advanced enterprise content management.

For more information on IBM's agile Enterprise Content Management offerings, visit: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/content-management/agile-ecm/

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