EDMS Software

EDMS software, or an electronic document management system, helps organizations centralize, store, search and access documentation from a variety of systems and locations, thus increasing productivity, reducing mistakes from incorrect document versions, and ultimately helping companies save money.

Many companies consider their EDMS to be one of the most powerful tools in their software collection as it helps them with complex document management, optimizing plant operations, improving operational insights, achieving and maintaining governmental compliance regulations and standards, and streamlining workflows within departments for increased efficiency. It can also help organizations overcome their most pressing day-to-day pain points, including:

• Difficulty ensuring compliance with control procedures and requirements.
• Difficulty numbering, sorting, filing and storing important electronic and hard copy documents –aka poor document version control.
• Inconsistent collaboration and siloed information across departments.
• Low accessibility to data that can maximize staff productivity and support personnel safety.
• Complicated work order management and data entry errors.
• Data security and disaster recovery concerns.

The key is to find the right EDMS software to suit your unique business needs.

A robust, comprehensive EDMS software has several primary functions. Most centrally, it can keep your critical documentation centralized, accurate and easily accessible. This can streamline manual processes and replace pen and paper, which can ultimately increase employee productivity, asset uptime and ROI across facilities and departments.

Meridian EDMS system is customizable to be as robust or as simple as your business needs. Immediately upon implementation, you can use EDMS software to effectively store and manage your electronic documents and:

You can also integrate your EDMS with other systems as needed, including your EAM software.

• Import and organize pen and paper documents

• Easily archive electronic documents that are no longer active

• Create customizable workflows to inform users of their responsibilities and automate key tasks

• Automatically transitions comments and photos from maintenance to engineering departments

• Access document management information via mobile device, thereby eliminating the need for printouts

• Maintain relationships between CAD models, assets and documents

• Access your important technical documentation and EAM data in just one click

With Meridian electronic document management system, you can streamline inspections and make sure that your business is always ready for the audit process. Maintain compliance easily with:

• Automated document routing, escalation and document approval

• Document change controls that allow you to easily spot and control any changes to your documents

• Robust analytics and reporting capabilities

• Document version control to help you maintain compliance with regulatory bodies

• Effective standard operating procedures (SOPs) that make it easier to obtain ISO certification

Connect your electronic document management software (EDMS) with other mission-critical systems and processes to maximize efficiency and help your users draw comprehensive insights. More specifically, connect your EDMS software to:

• Your computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to break down silos, develop comprehensive insights, increase document security and ensure that your asset information is accurate throughout the asset lifecycle.

• Your CAD software systems so you can store, manage, render and visualize your 2D and 3D drawings.

• Mobile devices so you can access and edit documents from a computer, tablet or phone

• Your CRM

• Accounting software for comprehensive billing and financial insight

Incomplete or out-of-date documentation can lead to increased downtime, rework and lower employee productivity. Meridian EDMS can help ensure that documentation is comprehensive using:

• Proper implementation

• Advanced product training

• Technical support

• Automations

• Accessibility across devices

Effective electronic document management requires a significant degree of automation. Meridian EDMS software provides this kind of automation, ultimately increasing employee productivity, ensuring document accuracy and decreasing manual errors. Automation capabilities include:

• Document imports

• Grouping of documents with related purchase orders, receipts, drawings and more.

• Document-driven workflows

• Approval of invoices

• Creation of purchase orders

You’re not on your own when it comes to implementing your Meridian EDMS software. When it's time to implement, Accruent experts will build the implementation, test it, and provide the templates, plans, feedback and training you need for it to be a success. They will also help you resolve any existing concerns that could hinder implementation, helping you resolve issues with data cleanliness, technical concerns and business processes.

After implementing your Meridian solution, you’ll continue to have access to a number of Accruent resources, including post go-live resources and access to Accruent Academy. These are designed to help you accelerate adoption, build a profitable business and move forward in developing a culture of continuous improvement.

By digitizing and streamlining your document management using an EDMS software, your company can see both immediate revenue gains and big picture boosted ROI.

In the short term, this can be seen in the form of reduced paperwork costs, increased employee productivity and reallocated office supply budgets. In the big picture, an EDMS system will:

• Provide a single source of truth for mission-critical information
• Streamline collaboration across departments.
• Help ensure that every document change is properly tracked and managed.
• Facilitate regulatory compliance with all relevant bodies.
• Streamline task completion.
• Connect all the departments within your organization.

These improvements, in turn, will help you automate and optimize processes, develop a data-driven business model and transform your business efficiency.