## Introduction

SSAź Enterprise Content Management (SSA ECM) brings the functionality of SSA PDM to your Web browser. You can now open documents, check your daily tasks, and perform many other functions within the familiar environment of your browser.

You can apply predefined workflows to PDM and ERP objects to run automated business processes easily. For example, you can run a workflow that initiates a process of approving a purchase order.

SSA ECM enables you to do the following to PDM and/or ERP objects:

- Receive and handle tasks assigned to you directly from SSA ECM or from SSA PDM. See Tasks.
- Launch a business process for PDM objects, such as items or documents, and ERP objects, such as production orders.
  See Launch a business process for a selected object.
- Create documents and view document-related information, including child documents, reference documents, revisions, used by, and so on.
  See Documents.
- View engineering item information, including part list, classification, where used, reference designators, alternative items, and so on.
  See Items.
- Link, replace and remove documents and files related to the ERP objects you work with, for example, purchase orders or production orders. The found objects and their linked documents and files that are handled in SSA ECM are revision controlled. From any ECM object page, you can also view and monitor the revisions, and see exactly what changes have been made and by whom. See SSA ECM pages.
- Apply queries to your lists of PDM or ERP objects and view only the objects that are most relevant for your work. See Using the Query options.
- Export object-specific data by downloading or sending by e-mail message to a business partner. See Export data.
- Compare items and analyse their impact.
  See Compare items and analyse their impact.

For an explanation of the terms and abbreviations used in SSA ECM, see Glossary, and Abbreviations used in SSA ECM.

SSA ECM 8.0 SP1 User's Guide © Copyright 2004 SSA Global Technologies (Israel), Ltd.