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VirtualWorks Brings Enterprise Discovery to the Azure Cloud

ViaWorks enhances the Azure environment with the power to deploy and manage enterprise-wide document and data discovery across on-premises systems, as well as hybrid private and public clouds.

VirtualWorks Group Inc. today announced its plans to support Azure by linking on-premises, private and public cloud information assets in a seamless discovery platform. ViaWorks for Azure is a powerful crossover platform for on-premises and the hybrid cloud. It’s designed to bring new capabilities, insights and mobility to the enterprise. Easily configure crawling and build an enterprise index. Document discovery helps enterprises across industries, geographies and with dispersed workforces.

“The Marketplace for Azure was a great fit for ViaWorks’ debut in the cloud, providing a strong customer base, enterprise performance, hyper-scale and hybrid capabilities,” said Robert Wescott, VP of Global Marketing, VirtualWorks.

ViaWorks for Azure is a turn-key solution you can use right away. Within minutes, enterprises can connect data from Azure’s on-premises systems and other private and public cloud services.

“By working with Azure, ViaWorks takes a game-changing position that addresses the complexities our clients face as they look to use the cloud,” said Erik Baklid, CEO, VirtualWorks. “IT departments face challenges every day in providing security-enhanced access across data, content and knowledge bases that are disconnected. Document discovery is a necessity to be efficient, agile, and intelligent in a cloud based, mobile world.”

ViaWorks Hybrid Cloud Solution for Azure delivers new technologies to migrate and manage document discovery between private and public clouds in a controlled, seamless and automated way – on demand, at speed and from a single search. The list of document connectors is continuously growing and includes document sources such as Office 365, SharePoint, Exchange Server, Lotus Notes/Domino, Microsoft Dynamics, SuperOffice, Maconomy, OpenText, Alfresco, SAP, Autonomy, Documentum, Sitecore, EpiServer, Jira, Symantec Enterprise Vault and Siemens Teamcenter.

“ViaWorks is using the on-demand, scalable infrastructure of Azure to enable enterprise-wide discovery of documents and data,” said Vibhor Kapoor, Director of Product Marketing, Microsoft Azure. “We are delighted to bring the benefits of cloud by improving the understanding and access to enterprise knowledge base, increasing productivity and data-driven insights.”

ViaWorks for Azure key platform capabilities:

  • ViaWorks is easy to configure and operate
  • OCR engine to automatically extract text from image files such as emails from faxes and scanned documents
  • Accessible from integrated functionality with Microsoft Office Applications
  • Document rules engine puts the enterprise in the driver’s seat for optimal results
  • Security and access control based on Active Directory
  • Security-enhanced mobile device access
  • Extensive APIs that can be used to create user experiences: integrating enterprise information sources to build time saving tools or compelling dashboard visualizations of internal big data analytics