Introduction

ImageMaster is a document management & content service developed by T-Systems to assist users in dealing with digital documents. Functions to facilitate the handling of electronic documents and their long-term preservation are in focus. Business processes with documents and approval processes can be fully digitized with the help of ImageMaster and the efficient execution of business processes is thus ensured by ImageMaster.

Furthermore, ImageMaster provides the possibility to process large numbers of documents through its high performance and scalability in scenarios dealing with large amounts of content. ImageMaster sums up different storage systems and cloud providers in one instance, and the architecture is optimized for use in complex IT landscapes.

As a company-wide content service, ImageMaster offers extensive possibilities to optimize existing, heterogeneous ECM landscapes. A wholly service-oriented architecture and JEE technologies are the basis of the software design oriented towards industrial standards. The zero-footprint web client based on the latest web technologies provides a particularly user-friendly and efficient user interface.

The flexible application possibilities are rounded up by the support of different operating systems, application servers, databases and numerous interfaces for widely varying storage systems.

ImageMaster is used in projects of varying sizes across all industries and sectors and has more than a 10-year history as software as a service. Hundreds of terabytes of data are managed overall by ImageMaster handled by hundreds of thousands of users doing their daily business.

The ImageMaster document management methodology has been inspired by the comprehensive MoReq2 framework. ImageMaster supports efficient searches for archive objects through its versatile metadata management capabilities. In addition, with ImageMaster documents can be managed and approved in any complex workflows

A comprehensive role conceptualization, user groups and the connection to corporate Active Directories / LDAP facilitate the user management also in globally operating companies.

A typical ImageMaster solution covers a scenario, for example, where several Enterprise applications (e.g. MS SharePoint and different ERP systems) are to be connected to a content service. In parallel, a central search platform is available, which respects complex permission structures, and additional controls are established in the back end in the meaning of retention management in order to comply with the European Data Protection Regulation.