Experience

Understanding and solving complex content & asset management challenges

All large responsible engineering companies include safety and operational efficiency as key elements of their mission statements. A significant component to achieving this is content management integrity.

Managing all the documentation associated with any major asset and proving that the right information is available at the right time to the right person sounds simple in terms of content management but is actually far more complicated and requires much more than just straight forward version control.

Many companies need to prove that the documentation associated with the design, construction and ongoing operation and maintenance of their assets has been through the required review and approval processes to ensure regulatory compliance. Any lack of such an audit trail is not only a failure of compliance leading to costly lawsuits and damages claims but also costly to the company in terms of operational efficiency and potentially from an environmental or health and safety standpoint.

Add into the mix the complexities of engineering drawing management and handling thousands of CAD drawings and associated reference files and the task of managing all these in a controlled, regulatory compliant environment is an enormous challenge. Finally change management may require the need for multiple projects to modify the same drawing simultaneously (concurrent engineering) then companies quickly realise that simple document management does not solve these needs.

ecms has both the knowledge and capability to design and deliver world-class Engineering Content Management solutions to these problems. Rest assured, our business acumen, experience and technical capabilities will ensure that your implementations are always a complete success.

Providing industry best practice solutions to global organisations

An unparalleled knowledge of the world's leading Content Management software including McLaren Software's Enterprise product suite utilising both EMC Documentum and IBM FileNet P8 ECM platforms AND BlueCielo's Meridian product set.

Having spent 14 years as senior consultants for McLaren Software, the ecms team has been instrumental in delivering successful ECM solutions to McLaren Software customers as well as providing invaluable input into the shaping of the McLaren Enterprise product suite. This has ensured the product capabilities are sufficient to meet the requirements for both engineering and asset content management.

We have a wealth of business and technical experience and knowledge, together with the skills and expertise required to implement solutions using the complete McLaren Enterprise product suite and we are still have a valued and respected relationship with McLaren Software.

Based upon this reputation, ecms was approached in 2015 by BlueCielo to become certified partners on their ECM platform: BlueCielo Meridian.

Extensive business and technical experience and in-depth knowledge of ECM platforms including:

• McLaren Enterprise
• BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise including Explorer, Publisher, Advanced Project Workflow & Asset Management Module
• EMC Documentum
• IBM FileNet P8

Why? Because we empathise

Having worked within engineering organisations, including implementing, operating and supporting content management systems, we fully understand the challenges facing the management of all content associated with the design, construction, handover to operation and maintenance of major company assets.

The ecms team is also able to call on many man-years of experience designing and operating the content management systems for a successful large railway construction project. This operational experience ensures that all our solutions incorporate a positive user experience, which should not be under-estimated because the use of a system, together with the required change management processes, can often influence it's success.