The SEAL Content Library Connector for SharePoint is designed to enhance SharePoint functionality by integrating robust content and records management capabilities. This connector allows for seamless content offloading from SharePoint to an external content and records repository, metadata enrichment, significantly reducing the cost of storage and ensuring efficient unstructured content and records management, enhanced productivity, and improved compliance with legal requirements.

Cost Reduction

• Lower Storage Costs: Reduce O365 subscription costs by offloading content to an external content repository (SEAL).
• Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Achieve a further TCO reduction through efficient content management and deduplication.

Improved Compliance and Governance

• Information Governance: Move content to SEAL’s regulated environment, ensuring compliance with GDPR and other regulatory standards.
• Unified Repository: Consolidate all documents (created in SharePoint, but also in SAP, Salesforce or other enterprise applications) into a single repository, providing a single source of truth and enhancing data governance.
• Compliance Audit Trails and Security: Retention and legal holds policies, e-Discovery features, and full auditing ensure secure and compliant content management.

Streamlined Unstructured Content Management

• Content Offloading: Offload unstructured content from SharePoint / SharePoint Online to SEAL’s external content repository, radically reducing storage costs and providing advanced content and records management to business users.
• Metadata Enrichment: Maintain and enhance metadata accessibility within SharePoint by integrating metadata created in SharePoint with advanced AI/ML-enriched metadata generated in SEAL. In the SEAL interface, leverage SEAL’s metadata-driven capabilities, including smart perspectives, smart folders, and metadata-based rules, to boost metadata usage, allowing users to search and manage content effortlessly and more effectively.
• Efficient Active Archiving: SEAL archives old SharePoint data and offloads documents to an external content repository, keeping the SharePoint instance manageable and improving backup and recovery. Despite being archived externally, this data remains easily accessible for both SharePoint and non-SharePoint users.
• Advanced Document Automation: Utilize SEAL’s low-code document automation features to streamline document-centric processes, reducing manual efforts and errors.

SEAL provides a secure and scalable external content repository for SharePoint (and other line-of-business applications such as SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft, Oracle, etc.) with a powerful yet simple user interface for both SharePoint and non-SharePoint users.

The SEAL Content Library Connector for SharePoint is an essential tool for businesses looking to enhance their SharePoint environment. By providing a secure, scalable, and efficient content management, automation, and active archiving solution, SEAL helps businesses reduce costs, improve performance, and maintain compliance while enabling better access and utilization of business content.

• External Content Repository: Offload and store SharePoint documents in SEAL’s centralized content repository to reduce the cost of SharePoint storage and ensure compliance with legal requirements.
• Metadata Enrichment: Enrich metadata in SEAL and display it within the SharePoint context to better support line-of-business functions.
• Optimized Content Access for SharePoint Users: Access documents and metadata stored in SEAL through the SharePoint interface.
• Enable Non-SharePoint Users: Allow non-SharePoint users to access, view, and share documents from the content-optimized interface provided by SEAL, ensuring efficient unstructured content management and improved collaboration.
• Compliance and Governance: Apply retention policies, control disposal, and ensure regulatory compliance with SEAL’s information governance capabilities.

Support SharePoint Optimization

• Reduce Costs and Storage Footprint: Optimize storage and reduce costs by offloading content to an external content repository (SEAL). Achieve additional reduction in TCO through efficient content management, and deduplication.
• Active Archiving: data and documents remain accessible for business users, allowing seamless access to necessary information without compromising performance or compliance.
• Improve Performance: Enhance SharePoint performance by managing content externally.
• Decrease IT Burden: Benefit the IT team by archiving SharePoint data and documents, reducing storage and backup complexities, improve backup and recovery times.

Enhance User Experience and Boost Productivity

• AI-based Metadata Enrichment: Advanced AI/ML-based content understanding, classification and metadata extraction. In the SEAL user interface, leverage SEAL’s metadata-driven capabilities, including smart perspectives, smart folders, and metadata-based rules, to boost metadata usage, allowing users to search and manage content effortlessly and more effectively.
• Advanced Document Automation: Utilize SEAL’s low-code document automation features to streamline document-centric processes, reducing manual efforts and errors.

Ensure Compliance and Security

• Unified Governance and Regulatory Compliance: Implement a unified information governance strategy, ensuring compliance with legal requirements, advanced records management, and data protection (including GDPR-related) functions for SharePoint content.
• Secure and Auditable: Maintain secure access and full auditing capabilities, protecting sensitive information.