SharePoint and SAP Customers Can Run Their Businesses Better
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Houston, Texas – October 5, 2011 - Gimmal, a leading Enterprise Content Management and Records Management (ECM/RM) firm and the parent company of GimmalSoft, a leading provider of compliance and governance software for Microsoft® SharePoint®, has acquired the team and product offerings of ERP-Link Corporation, a company focused on providing SharePoint based solutions to enhance SAP back-office systems.
ERP-Link has been helping name-brand customers run their business better with the iNet Business Optimization Platform. This seamless SAP-SharePoint interoperability platform includes the iNet.DM platform for document-centric applications, the iNet.BI platform for BI interoperability, and the iNet.BPS SDK to create composite and custom applications. Gimmal is focused on the implementation of SharePoint solutions for enterprise-wide content, records and information management and the ERP-Link solutions will enable key business applications for clients who rely on SAP.
Gimmal is a widely recognized expert in deploying ECM/RM solutions from leading software providers and has worked with SharePoint since its initial release.Gimmal’s product division GimmalSoft offers SharePoint-based products that provide governance and compliance capabilities throughout the information lifecycle that lower client risk, operational expense, and improve business efficiency.
For SAP customers, document-centric business processes built around the ERP-Link iNet.DM platform can pass workflow steps, transactions, data, information, reports, and documents between SAP and SharePoint, all while relying on the flexibility and robustness of SharePoint as the central repository for enterprise documents and records. Combining the iNet.DM platform with the GimmalSoft compliance and governance suites means SAP customers can implement SharePoint to provide an absolute best-in-class ECM/RM platform to support their businesses.
“Gimmal through its product division, GimmalSoft, continues to offer ground-breaking solutions to the ECM/RM market. The combined ERP-Link iNet Platform for SAP with GimmalSoft’s DoD 5015.02 certified Compliance Suite for Microsoft SharePoint will enable clients to deploy complete, document-centric business processes to increase productivity and efficiency across their information management systems,” said Mike Alsup, founder of Gimmal.
The acquisition will provide clients an even stronger set of service and product offerings that make Gimmal and GimmalSoft the go-to resource to deploy comprehensive SharePoint content and records management solutions, and provide a strong alternative to legacy SAP ECM systems.
J. Eric Anderson, Founder and President of ERP-Link Corp. states, “We at ERP-Link Corp. are excited to join the Gimmal team. As an experienced Microsoft Independent Software Vendor (ISV), we can now offer SAP clients with SharePoint—or who are planning to implement SharePoint—an extended, more complete solution based on a truly, enterprise-class, ECM/ RM system integrated with SAP.”
Current ERP-Link customers will have their existing agreements assumed by Gimmal. We will continue to enhance and improve the solutions and partnerships that have been an important part of the success of ERP-Link. For more information about the acquisition, please contact Eric Anderson at eanderson@erp-link.com or Cynthia Wood at cynthia.wood@gimmal.com.
About ERP-Link
ERP-Link Corp. is a leading developer of SAP to Microsoft interoperability solutions for document-centric business processes that use SharePoint as the SAP enterprise content management/document management (ECM/DM) system, as well as business process optimization and business intelligence (BI) software for companies using SAP AG's ERP systems. Since 1998, ERP-Link has helped companies enable dynamic business processes with on-demand access to SAP data, SharePoint-based DM/ECM with SAP ArchiveLink interoperability, plus .NET-optimized transactional and workflow business capabilities. For more information, visit www.erp-link.com.
About Gimmal
Gimmal is a nationally recognized hybrid software and services company focused on enterprise solutions to fully enable governance and compliance of content and records with business applications that lower clients cost and improve business efficiency. Gimmal collaborates as a trusted advisor with our clients in industry and government, to improve our clients’ business performance and compliance at lower total costs. We deliver proven information, records and enterprise content management solutions built upon the industry’s leading technology platforms. For more information, visit www.gimmal.com.
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