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Xerox® ConnectKey™ for SharePoint® - Simple, smart, and flexible workflows
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Even in this digital age, many businesses continue to struggle with ways to manage all of the paper documents that are created or arrive by mail or fax on a daily basis. Many offices employ complicated, multi-step processes to get these documents captured so they can be archived in document repositories like SharePoint or Windows folders. One reason may be because some businesses still believe that document workflow automation is too costly, complicated, and time consuming. Xerox ConnectKey for SharePoint changes all that, providing a highly productive workflow solution that easy to setup, easy to use – and even easier on your budget.

Xerox ConnectKey for SharePointsimplifies and streamlines the way you scan, capture, and store your paper-based documents. Using your Xerox MFP, you can route documents directly into the precise document repository folder, just like you would from your PC. At the MFP, you can browse to the folder, name the document, and add any key indexing information before you scan. With the flexibility to capture and route to SharePoint as well as Windows folders, ConnectKey is the right solution for any office that needs to archive and share paper-based documents.
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Key Features

Simple: easy to set-up, use and maintain
  • Easy configurator-based setup gets you up and running quickly.
  • The setup routine lets you view your SharePoint and Windows folders and with a click of a mouse, and adds them to the user interface panel of your Xerox MFP.
  • Full integration with your SharePoint environment so the user experience at the MFP replicates what users see at their PC.
  • Greatly simplifies your document capture and routing workflows with dynamic folder browsing so your documents can be named, indexed, and sent to the desired location right from the MFP.
  • Supports the intuitive "Scan to Home" workflow, enabling office workers to scan to their "home" directories.
  • Ideally scaled for small to mid-sized businesses.
Smart: automatic workflow updates
  • Create fully text-searchable PDF documents as you scan so business-critical information can be found for customer inquiries, compliance audits, or anything that requires the quick and accurate retrieval of information.
  • Accurately digitise your legacy Microsoft Word and Excel files to save time and improve document collaboration for your office personnel.
  • "Ready-Now" workflows ensure that your MFP is always up to date. When changes are made to SharePoint or Windows document repositories on your server, the changes are made automatically at the MFP.
Flexible: route to both SharePoint and Windows folders
  • Maximise your hardware and SharePoint investments, using your Xerox MFP as the direct conduit to your preferred document repositories.
  • Your MFP will have no limitations to the number of scan destinations you can enable.
  • Works with SharePoint 2007 and later environments.
  • Create PDF, PDF/A, Searchable PDF, JPEG, Tiff, MS Word, and Excel files
The most common challenges associated with paper-intensive environments are high costs, errors, difficulty with compliance, and recreating older documents.

Key Challenges

  • Recent industry data tells us that with all the new ways we have to create digital content, our offices are burdened with more paper than ever, and many offices struggle with ways to manage and organise it.
  • Most offices don't have a direct link from their MFPs to the desired document repository, resulting in an error-prone multi-step process which is time-consuming and costly.
  • Scanned documents are typically non-searchable PDFs, which makes it almost impossible to find business-critical information when needed.
  • More and more industries are faced with complying with government regulations which necessitates the easy retrieval of key information – this is nearly impossible with paper-based documents or unstructured digital documents.
  • The need to repurpose older paper-based documents usually means starting from scratch using your PC to recreate the entire document which is time consuming and costly.
Be More Productive
  • Shorten steps and save time with smart and intuitive workflows
  • No longer use scan-to-email and all those extra steps – scan directly to your desired location right from your Xerox MFP
  • Reduce errors and enhance compliance
  • Recreate older documents with a touch of a button
Reduce Costs
  • Time is money – your office will get more work done faster and reduce errors with accurate and easy workflows
  • Minimise shipping and faxing costs by routing documents directly to shared repositories
  • Reduce physical storage space by easily archiving your paper documents
  • Easy to purchase and own – affordably priced per MFP with no user licensing
Ensure Security
  • ConnectKey is based on secure scanning technology with encryption and secure transmission which eliminate the chance of data loss
  • Integrates with Microsoft Active Directory and MFP login schemes to ensure that users only see the workflows critical to their job function
Support Your Environmental Sustainability Initiatives
  • Intelligent capture and routing help you eliminate costly paper documents
  • Reduce the number of copies you need to make to save electricity, paper, and toner
  • Lower your carbon footprint by reducing the shipping of documents to other business locations, vendors, and other business partners

Why Choose Xerox?

Unlike many competitive solutions that route to multiple document repositories, ConnectKey for SharePoint was designed specifically with the SharePoint user in mind.
  • The user experience at the MFP was designed to replicate the SharePoint libraries the user sees at the PC, making ConnectKey extremely intuitive to use
  • Dynamic folder browsing at the MFP further enhances the SharePoint user experience by letting the user scan to the desired location in one easy step
  • If you use SharePoint as a collaborative tool then you need to go beyond simple PDF creation. ConnectKey offers you the ability to digitally recreate legacy Microsoft Word and Excel documents with the push of a button
  • If you have set up 'Scan to Home' destinations for your users, ConnectKey will easily let you set up workflows for these locations eliminating the multi-step process of creating scanning templates
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Hardware Requirements
  • A Windows operating system computer
  • At least 2 GHz Processor is recommended
  • Minimum 2 GB of RAM (4 GB or greater recommended)
  • Minimum of 10 GB of (free and available) hard disk space
  • Network Interface Card
Software Requirements
  • Windows 2008 Standard/Enterprise (32 bit only) – with the latest service pack
  • Windows 2008 Standard/Enterprise R2 SP1 (64 bit)
  • Windows 7 (32 bit)
  • Windows 7 (64 bit)
  • Windows 7 Professional (32 bit / 64 bit) SP1
  • Windows 2003 (32 bit only) Standard\Enterprise – with the latest service pack
  • Windows 2003 R2 (64 bit) Standard\Enterprise – with the latest service pack
Supported SharePoint Environments
  • 2007 - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS)
  • 2010 - Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and Microsoft SharePoint Server
ConnectKey for SharePoint supports single server SharePoint® environments with an on-premise install. Hosted SharePoint or SharePoint deployments with more than one server (e.g., a server farm) are not supported by Xerox ConnectKey for SharePoint.