Construction Giant Picks IIS' DocuSphere for Integrated Workflow

Published: September 5, 2006

by Alex Woodie

The Shaw Group, a $3 billion provider of engineering, construction, and facilities-management services to companies and governments around the world, has licensed Image Integration Systems' Windows-based DocuSphere product suite to provide integrated workflow and document management for several business processes, particularly Shaw's accounts payable and billing systems, which are housed in J.D. Edwards World.

James Sabin, vice president and director of business systems at Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Shaw Group, says the company picked IIS due to its "impressive track record" of improving the transactional processes of companies in the construction industry.

"We expect IIS DocuSphere software to enhance accounting processes throughout the company, which will help us improve productivity and accuracy, strengthen our document tracking abilities, and ultimately create significant value and cost savings compared to the current processes," Sabin says. In particular, the system is expected to boost Accounts Payable (A/P) and billing processes, based in JDE World, at all of the Group's 170 locations around the world.

Shaw will use several IIS products in pursuit of its goals, including DocuSphere Workflow, DocuSphere Auto Voucher, DocuSphere Electronic Report Management, and DocuSphere for Documentum, which provides an interface to The Shaw Group's existing document repository from EMC, and the DocuSphere JDE Integration module.

The initial planning and business process redesign work for the solution is currently underway, and the solution is expected to go live early in 2007, IIS says.