CASE STUDIES Salesforce and eDOCS Integration Streamlines ...
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CASE STUDIES
Salesforce and eDOCS Integration Streamlines Deal Approval Process
Fox Entertainment Group Establishes Collaboration Between Sales and Legal Teams by Utilizing SeeUnity's Fusion Content Integration Product
BY JO BECKER
Workflow is streamlined, saving time and speeding up the deal approval process.
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s with most organizations, effective collaboration between legal teams and other departments can be difficult to
establish, but providing the ability to securely work
together in a centralized system, where searching and
accessing all related documents is quick and easy, adds
significant value.
As Executive Director, Secure Document
Management Services, at Fox Entertainment Group
(Fox), Michael Burch was looking to improve workflow
and efficiency by restructuring how Fox's legal
department was housing and organizing all of their
legal documents and business collateral. As part
of this process, Burch implemented an innovative
collaboration solution in order to streamline the deal
approval process between Fox's Television Distribution
division (TVD) and legal teams. The groups needed a
centralized, cloud-based system that would provide
detailed visibility into the sales pipeline and allow
them to work together more productively. The TVD
group chose Salesforce to manage their customers and
accounts but needed a secure way for all to access the
related contracts and amendments, now housed in Fox's
OpenText eDOCS DM.
A secure integration was implemented between
Salesforce and eDOCS, enabling the TVD group and
the legal teams to not only collaborate but simplify
their whole business process. From the Salesforce UI,
users can search the eDOCS DM and expose all related
contracts and documents for the customer or account
they are working on in Salesforce. Because the user has
full eDOCS functionality from the Salesforce UI, they
can, for example, upload new contracts to eDOCS from their Salesforce screen or edit the documents returned from the search. Bringing the relevant information all together in one system proved to be convenient and sped up processes that normally take much more time. As word of this marriage between systems spread, other departments within Fox began requesting similar integrations between their business critical applications.
Challenges
Fox Entertainment Group (Fox) is comprised of many corporate divisions and subsidiaries, all with their own unique document management challenges. Fox utilizes an OpenText eDOCS repository (eDOCS) that serves 700 users, houses over 6 million documents within 7 libraries, and supports over 14 application integrations.
Salesforce Integration With eDOCS
The Fox Television Distribution division (TVD) and legal teams wanted to create a centralized, cloud-based system that would allow for detailed visibility into the sales pipeline, establish collaboration between the sales and legal teams, and streamline the deal approval process.
The TVD IT group chose Salesforce as their CRM platform. To fully take advantage of this new system, a key requirement was the ability to access the underlying contracts and amendments for all of the customers and accounts. The legal group that negotiated the TVD agreements housed the working agreements in eDOCS, but the fully executed documents were paper copies.
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"We're breaking down silos. Giving an executive or a lawyer the ability to quickly research and find information that sets precedents on a very critical decision makes all the difference."
-- MICHAEL BURCH, FOX ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
Solution
A scanning vendor was brought in to scan and index the entire file room. Later, those files were ingested into eDOCS. All of the documents had an old Agreement ID from the previous system, which made it easier to tie desired metadata to the agreements. Microsoft's SSIS was used as the ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tool to sync the data to eDOCS.
For the Salesforce integration, two solutions were needed: an ETL to connect to Force to sync the Salesforce data, and a way to present the eDOCS content in the Salesforce user interface (UI). Fox already had a global license and the infrastructure to support Informatica, so this was used as the ETL. SeeUnity, a longtime development partner for Fox and a technology partner with OpenText, was chosen to provide the integration to connect eDOCS and Salesforce. SeeUnity's Fusion Content Integration product (Fusion) provides secure access into Fox's eDOCS repository from within the Salesforce UI with full eDOCS native functionality.
Benefits
With the integration in place, this new process allows attorneys to upload the fully executed agreements to eDOCS and profile the document with the integrated Salesforce Agreement ID, which auto-populates the customer information in Salesforce, their region and territory, and media type. The process creates a relationship between the agreement and Salesforce customer, which is now accessible through the SeeUnity Fusion iFrame in the Salesforce UI. The sales and operational staff can now access and work with any related agreements housed in eDOCS from any tab in Salesforce (Account, Agreement, Customer). The teams can also upload content directly to eDOCS from the Salesforce UI. ILTA
SeeUnity's Fusion embedded in the Salesforce UI to expose the fully functional eDOCS
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