While it follows the global trends fairly quickly, the Hungarian IT technology is surprisingly behind in the area of sophisticated document management/workflow and other high-level groupware applications. As for network systems, ERP applications, and even e-business solutions, a large Hungarian company has much the same as its Western counterparts. However, while in Western Europe most companies of middle and large size have some sort of established document management system, it is not at all so in Hungary, being rather the exception than the rule. Unfortunately, under today's difficult economic conditions even those companies think twice about implementing such a system that could expect a significant improvement of their main business.

Another sign of recent times is that when an organization decides to support document-related activities with information technology, it is not enough that the product to be implemented meets the highest technological requirements. Security on the highest level became an aspect none the less important.

It is the firm resolution of E-Group to develop modern, yet affordable solutions for all business and public administration organizations that could develop their groupware systems in the last years falling behind real needs. According to our market analysis, we built an application suit that can be quickly implemented, requires low implementation and maintenance costs and offers fast ROI (Return of Investment). The cornerstones of our solution are the easy-to-use user interfaces and the security functions that know no compromise and provide the best protection available.

We firmly believe that the new Office System product family of Microsoft gives an ideal solution in the light of current global trends and within that, conformity with to Hungarian business requirements. Our solution naturally builds on the advanced Web-based user interfaces, the document storage, electronic form management and knowledge management functions of the Microsoft SharePoint technology. We think that the InfoPath application - which is also the primary management interface for the high-level administration functions of eDOX™ - is one of the most modern and user-friendly tool to manage XML content. The brand new Human Workflow component of BizTalk Server 2004 provides ideal, easy-to-implement, highly available workflow management services, with its effective usege it is possible to operate dynamically the workgroup data management systems that would exist only as passive records otherwise.

After many months of development, E-Group announces the availability of the integrated office application suite called eDOX™. Recently the development advanced together with the final development of various components of the Office System and with the publication of various early versions. The framework prepared builds on the brand new client- and server-side products and services of the Microsoft Office System. What's more, it enhances them to support the services used more often offering the most spectacular increase in user productivity.

The first module our developers created was the general document management component. The eDOX™ Document Management System uses XML-based electronic forms, document databases, advanced knowledge management tools and modern workflow technologies to support the most important operations related to documents:

• Creating
• Capturing
• Classifying
• Managing
• Accessing
• Retrieving
• Archiving
• Disposing

Most certainly, all these operations are authenticated by a Digital Signature service built into the Office System components and we use the Windows Content Protection service to make it a solution that meets the highest document security requirements. The security level of the system is raised even higher by the products developed by E-Group: the SDX Document Security Policy (regulations for digital signature rights and authorities) and the Digital Watermark service (a unique watermark solution that guarantees the uniqueness of printed documents).

Some other eDOX™ modules, currently under development and soon to be released:

System requirements

Server side

Client side

• Microsoft Windows XP
• Microsoft Windows Vista
• Microsoft Windows 7
• Microsoft Office 2007

We firmly believe that for organizations that are equipped with a Microsoft-based infrastructure and running Office applications on the client side the best available solution for workgroup activities that can be managed by various document management and workflow tools is the new Microsoft Office System and the eDOX™ application that builds on it.

ASP Service

eDOX is also available as an ASP service.

Click on the following link to view the demo site:

http://edox.ceondemand.com/Login.aspx