Recently, the McKinsey Institute published a fascinating report called Seizing opportunity in today’s construction technology ecosystem. The report highlighted the huge wave of innovation and digitization underway in the construction industry: “After decades of under-digitization, the engineering and construction (E&C) sector is making bold moves in a new era.” The McKinsey report focuses on the […]

High-Value Ecmstarts With The Right Foundation, Including a System That Minimizes Complexity Ask a group of business executives about the top-three drivers for enterprise content management (ECM) software deployments, and cost reductions will often top the list. Cost reductions can only be accurately assessed, however, by considering ease of deployment and the end-user adoption rates. […]

Document and Data Control: An Integral Component of Quality Management Companies that produce products with rigorous quality requirements face numerous challenges associated with meeting quality objectives—ranging from the need to comply with quality standards (such as ISO 9001, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, CGMP and EU GMP Annex 11) to operating in highly-regulated and frequently […]

Introduction The way organizations manage company information sits at the crossroads of just about all business processes. Day after day and week after week, employees are wasting a significant amount of time dealing with the myriad of challenges related to working with company documents — across the entire document lifecycle. That wasted time is a […]

Introduction This guide works as a practical tool to remind you of topics and steps to consider when planning to implement an Enterprise Content Management solution like M-Files. The guide is divided in three main sections: before, during, and after a technical implementation project. With an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) implementation project — like any […]

Organise your Office. Engage your Customers. Get More from your Existing Team. The Problems Document Management Systems Solve Information chaos – Stop duplicate files, content disorganisation, and data overload. Poor security – View audit trails, reduce risk of confidential leaks and hacks. Version control – One version of the document seen by everyone, no duplicates […]

Financial institutions are dealing with the data deluge brought on by digital transformation. As customers’ demands for instant information access and a frictionless digital experience create new challenges, these companies are also being hit with traditional industry pressures including: Increased regulation Economic uncertainty The need for ever-increasing revenue and profit New competitors and vertical market […]

Introduction Documents are potentially the least exciting aspect of construction, but they’re also one of the most important. While many construction professionals loathe tracking documentation, it must be done correctly, or it can lead to costly mistakes. But how much of this lies in hating paperwork, and how much of it lies in hating how […]

This document provides an overview of Intelligent Metadata Layer (abbreviated hereafter as IML). IML is a repository-neutral approach to enterprise content management that unifies information across different sources based on context, not on the system or folder in which the information is stored. IML allows an M-Files user to connect to multiple different external repositories […]

Introduction The business of tracking information, materials and financials as they move across the supply chain has long been riddled with complexities. This is especially true for manufacturers managing quality and regulatory compliance activities across global business entities, systems and processes – from supplier, to manufacturing subcontractor, to wholesaler to retailer. Even in the information […]