DocStar AP Automation

ECM
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Need to ask a few questions regards to DocStar Licensing.

Customer background.
Epicor 10.2.500 (On Premise) - 20 User looking for AP Automation.

  1. Can we have DocStar AP Modules with just a 1 user license for ECM CU?
  2. What are the constraints for a view only users vs a full ECM CU?
  3. Can DocStar be sold in SaaS and integrate with OP ERP?

Thanks.

2

Can you explain ECM “CU”?
In general you can have no users if you’re just using it as attachment storage for Epicor ERP and do not care t view inside ECM. We have only 1 AP user right now, but it’s based on # documents scanned and the Integration, not seat as I recall. I can check next week when I’m back in the office.

As for Saas and connect to OP - yes, all the connections between DS and ERP are REST/API connections.

3

Dear Mike,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

ECM “CU” = ECM Concurrent User

If DocStar hosted in AWS-UK and ERP is sitting in Frankfurt & Singapore. Do you foresee any network issue or security problem?

4

We are On-Prem so I have no idea about the lag time/performance of the hosted ECM platform. I do believe that the AP Automation only works on-prem - double check me on that as it’s been a year+ since I asked about it - so you would at least have to have the IDC server as on-prem, but the ECM server could be hosted. Again, the interface between ER and ECM is so very lightweight that the data exchange would be very quick and I suspect the only issue would be the image transfer - size = time.

5

As for this, You’ll have to ask Epicor. I don’t know what the minimum licensing is and the last time I asked was over a year ago…

6

I still can’t find anything on this online, so you’ll have to ask Epicor CAM. But I did find this:
https://www.docstar.com/enterprise-content-management/ap-automation/frequently-asked-questions