Technical Functionality

Understanding the software engine under the Enterprise and Workbench hood

Microsoft Enterprise Search and Office Integration

 

Sourcing teams generate numerous document sets during the sourcing lifecycle.  Common tasks like calendaring meetings with multiple service providers and internal stakeholders becomes more complex as projects grow and progress.  Finding the right document when it is needed is challenging.  Tasks like these are made easier through the use of the Microsoft toolset underlying the Workbench and Enterprise platforms.  While leveraging standard Microsoft functionality, users can add new meeting schedules into existing calendars with one click.  They can take the latest financial business case to the next meeting with seamless integration into Excel.  Users can stop sorting and printing RFP responses and corresponding exhibits to find key information and let Microsoft Enterprise Search do the work for them.

 

 

Workflow and Process Management

 

Any experienced governance team knows the importance of getting change requests or invoice verification tasks to the proper person for approval in the allotted timeframe.  This sounds easy, but in a distributed and manual environment it is a slow, difficult and time consuming process.  EquaSiis Enterprise offers several critical workflows to assist in governing the deal and automatically routes the tasks required to the responsible person for approval.  They include:

  • Contract change requests
  • Invoice approval
  • Issue escalation
  • Deliverable acceptance
  • Project initiation and change request

This workflow is powered by EquaSiis Enterprise ecosystem partner Ascentn.  Ascentn is the leading provider of business process management software for the Microsoft platform.  Ascentn's AgilePoint Suite is a new generation and award winning business process management system (BPMS) that delivers a versatile solution to automate, manage, and improve end-to-end business operations like third party services including sourcing, transition, management and governance