Formark Outside – Livelink for External Users

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Can you afford to have the people who are spending millions on equipment, materials and labor not to be talking to each other? Online collaboration keeps a project community – vendors, clients and partners; wherever they are in the world – all working from the same page.

Formark Outside allows organizations that use Livelink for internal collaboration to also engage clients and partners anywhere in the world – even if they have no experience whatsoever in using Livelink. The Formark application extracts only the Livelink functions used by a project and creates a “padded cell” web application that makes it easy for external clients and partners to do valid interactions with Livelink while hiding all the capabilities of Livelink that they don’t need and shouldn’t touch.

Who Needs Formark Outside?
Many business processes can benefit from collaboration with clients and business partners:

• Engineering consortia
• Managing client deployment projects
• Monitoring suppliers
• Issuing and processing RFPs
• Supporting 3rd party distribution channels
• Verifying regulatory compliance
• Moderating standards development & approval

Benefits of Formark Outside

1. Users will use it. Eliminating the need to know anything about Livelink and makes collaborating simple even for first-time users.
2. Faster decisions. Online collaboration allows users to participate whenever they’re available, without struggling to find a suitable time for a face-to-face meeting or conference call.
3. Better decisions. The more collaboration with clients and partners to confirm expectations, clarify decisions, and exchange needed information – the better decisions they make.
4. Lower operational costs. Tailoring Formark Outside to the specific business process eliminates the confusing actions and irrelevant options that cause the majority of help-desk calls. By automating the creation of workspaces and user accounts and notifying participants, errors are eliminated, security increased, and administrative overhead greatly reduced.

Case Study
Learn about how Siemens ICN used Formark Outside to improve network deployment projects.