High Concept Opens North America Office | 01 June 2007

Leading enterprise content management (ECM) company in Europe introduces  SmartDocuments to the USA market.


San Francisco, California: High Concept Software Development BV, a Deloitte Touche rated company based on revenue growth, has signaled its intent to move aggressively into the North America market with the opening of its office in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. Founded over twelve years ago by Mr. Marco Drost and with its World Headquarters in Holland, High Concept is the leading Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software company throughout Europe.

Our ECM solution focus is on template and document management”, said Mr. Drost who serves as the organization’s CEO, “our template solution, named SmartDocuments, provides the organization the ability to develop, maintain and control a wide range of documents for use within the office system. This includes simple correspondence, forms and other boiler-plate documents that require personalized changes to accommodate the parties involved.”

CEO Drost went on to explain that SmartDocuments not only provides for easy document preparation, but allows for the Administrator to identify rights to specific staff members for both use as well as to make approved modifications as required. “More than this”, Drost continued “the administrator and assigned Application Managers are able to build a knowledge base to ensure that the documents are completed correctly every time they are used by the staff personnel. The staff members that are utilizing the documents on a daily basis require virtually no training and are able to initiate use of the SmartDocuments solution immediately. Using SmartDocuments will make less copy and past errors. The ROI is realized immediately.”

San Francisco Leadership
he San Francisco office has been staffed with both business development and consultancy professionals. “We are already building positive relationships with leading government agencies, internationally recognized solution partners as well as strategic relationships that will provide us with the required infrastructure as we continue our effort in the USA market.” High Concept has established long-term integration relationships with such companies as OpenText-Hummingbird, Docuware, Capgemini, AtosOrigin, FileNet and EMC Documentum in Europe in their continued effort to provide comprehensive solutions to their client base. Currently, there are over 120,000 staff professionals utilizing SmartDocuments. Drost elaborated that High Concept is proceeding to Incorporate in the State of California and has joined the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce as part of its continued effort to build strong community ties in the United States.

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