Clearview™ Iriss Desktop Gadget                                
Dramatically Alter & Simplify Access to Basic Content Services Across the Enterprise

In as many ways as Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Document Management solutions have come into prime time as infrastructure or core business application requirements for the modern business organization, they still have not achieved the widespread or pervasive adoption across all desktops within the enterprise as they should. This is primarily due to the traditional challenges associated with the high cost for desktop ECM or web client licenses, as well as the relative complexity associated with the training and daily usage for the casual user needing only basic content services. Clearview continues to redefine the ECM landscape with the revolutionary Clearview Iriss Desktop Gadget specifically designed to overcome these issues and promote adoption of casual and power ECM users across the enterprise.

Inspired by the newest Windows Vista™ user experience, the revolutionary Iriss is a mini-application that floats on the desktop awaiting user activation for search or storage requests to be passed to the Clearview system for processing.  While the original vision for the Iriss was derived from Vista-like innovation, it actually works on both Windows Vista and Windows® XP desktops alike. To activate content retrieval, users simply select keywords, text strings, or tagged search criteria from any Windows or Web business application on the desktop and then simply drop the search criteria onto the Iriss. The Iriss then goes into action and offers a selection of user pre-defined searches to perform, or to create custom search parameters on-demand to easily and quickly satisfy casual access to business information and content. Developed with its own viewing interface, no other ECM desktop client is required to support pervasive casual access to basic content services across the entire business enterprise.   

While originally conceived for the casual user of basic content services, the Iriss so dramatically changes the ease of access, business application integration, and overall user experience that power ECM users enjoy the Iriss as a part of their overall experience as well. To that end, the Iriss can be configured to actually interact with both the Windows rich Clearview client as well as the thin Web client. The Iriss combines ease of desktop usage with the powerful and deeper ECM experience offered with access to full Clearview ECM functionality. 

To fully complete the casual basic content services requirement, the Iriss is also a mini-portal to drop content or documents in order to easily deposit them into the Clearview ECM repository. Virtually any content, document, or business object can be saved to the desktop and then dropped onto the Iriss for storage activation. The intuitive gadget then prompts information workers to transfer their knowledge of the object to the Clearview system through guided steps for content categorization, keyword, or metadata tagging for proper handling and organization in the Clearview ECM system.    

Clearview's "x"-generation Iriss is just one more advanced level of innovation offered by the Clearview ECM suite. Using ECM in your organization has never been so fun or quite this easy.  Explore the Clearview Iriss Desktop Gadget and see for yourself how we are changing the way you see Enterprise Content Management.

Benefits of the Clearview Iriss Desktop Gadget

	Deliver exciting user experiences with the innovative Iriss never before seen in ECM solutions.
	Quickly access relevant business or transaction documents and files directly from your line of business applications without customized programming or complex scripting.
	Give your information workers an interesting way to use ECM on each and every desktop without the associated high cost of classic concurrent or dedicated ECM client licenses.
	Rapidly capture content for storage and management directly from the information worker desktop and tag with the appropriate user knowledge directly at the time of capture to maintain content integrity and appropriate classification and handling.
	As the information worker front-end to Clearview repository federation and aggregation services, even casual users have rapid access to business documents and contents across the full spectrum of SharePoint® Server 2007 sites or third party ECM systems managed by the Clearview ECM solution.
	Each user custom configures the Iriss to fit user-specific business tasks along with their own preferences for Iriss operation. The Iriss  delivers extreme levels of end user personalization designed to work the way your business works with your business content.