"The Preh strategy for enterprise-wide archiving and provision of documents and drawings is based on the SAP DMS and the storage is performed on content systems. The optimized distribution of the information to the locations is done with a cache server“, the director of IT at Preh group Martin Limpert explains.

„The implementation was carried out in co-operation with SAP and SEAL Systems. The pilot phase was started to achieve fast, revisable and presentable results. As a result of the „Proof-of-Concept“ the quick boots trap loading of the released documents for the production location Monterrey in Mexico was initiated.

The outcome of this was the electronical conversion of up to now all 23,3000 documents of the Preh Group and the relation with the appropriate objects within the SAP DMS. Since August 2007 also 3D drawings are additionally loaded and associated in the SAP DMS."

PDF/A as archiving format for documents

Giesecke&Devrient introduces PDF/A as long term archiving format replacing TIFF/G4

G&D project manager Franz Grabendorfer can report only positive things about the finished project: "Because of the late release of the PDF/A standard, we had to wait for the delivery of the modules longer than initially expected.

 After release by SEAL Systems a date was found within very short time and in less than three days with external support from the SEAL Systems specialist at G&D the software package was completely installed and configured on the servers and the users were trained.

SEAL Systems has supported us exemplary at installation and starting up works. During preliminary talks about the conversion we had a great help by sales representative Dr. Uwe Wächter. He supported us to find the right decision. Also the quality of the new development was convincing. Now we know, that we have chosen the right way. With PDF/A we have a significant higher level of data quality than we have had with TIFF before."