Documents are captured by batch scan systems and automatically entered into the system in batch mode or by a user in single-document mode. During capture text indexing is completed by N2 text indexing service.

Store

Documents are stored in magnetic file system repositories or MSSQL/Oracle repository. The file system repository can utilize NAS or SAN storage sub system.

Profile

Documents are indexed using configurable templates and organized into appropriate folders

Search

Finds documents and folders using template attributes or full text search.

View

Rich multi file format viewer

Security

Controls access to documents and objects

           • Level 1 : Authentication
              -N2 internal authentication
              -N2 external authentication using windows
               2000/2003 Active Directory Services
           • Level 2 : Authorization using roles and ACL

Workflow management

N2 provides two types of rule based workflow: a) hierarchical workflow with user hierarchy b) queue based workflow where multiple users can participate.  It allows users to route documents or folders containing documents from step A to step B based on rules

Revise

Document revisions are controlled and annotations are stored separately

Integration

Interface to external systems linking documents to business processes