OREANDA-NEWS. July 20, 2011. Documal SaaS employs highly-reliable cloud environment to share information globally between offices and business partners, enabling streamlined business continuity measures.

Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Chugoku Systems Limited today announced the availability of a SaaS-based version of the company's document management system, which has a deployment track record of approximately 400 companies, primarily in the manufacturing, retailing, and distribution industries.

The new service, Documal SaaS, can store documents for each work task that are produced as part of project planning, procurement/purchasing, production, and other related operations. Delivered as a SaaS-based service that leverages the Fujitsu Group's highly-reliable datacenters, Documal SaaS eliminates the need for expensive ICT investments and allows customers to quickly begin using the service. As a result, the service makes it possible for customers to quickly deploy a document management system, in addition to sharing information and strengthening collaboration between offices and business partners in and outside Japan(1), thereby improving business efficiency. In the case of a review or audit, records of work performed using the service can be reproduced when necessary, eliminating the need to manually produce special documentation thus making the process effortless. Furthermore, the service includes a variety of highly-convenient features, such as work templates that can easily be customized by users as well as workflow functions that facilitate the management of operations logs and other information.

During an early trial run of the service, one participant customer was able to make their operations paperless through the digitalizing of a process that involved the annual printing of 1,600 pages of thirteen different kinds of application forms, as well as by taking advantage of the software's workflow features. Accordingly, the customer succeeded in reducing printing, storage, and shipping costs while speeding up approval and notification processes. They also cut their CO2 emissions by 63%.