Meridian

Avantages

Documents kan be saved to vaults with the same hierarchy needed to interface with an asset management application.

Inconvénients

There is a fairly steep learning curve in order to use all of the functions of this application adequately.

Avantages

capability to tag assets, how to view revision history

Inconvénients

our company experience a lot of error messages, but trying to figure out if it has to do with the fact that we use a different platform to access the applications

Avantages

Meridian Enterprise is (one of) the best EDM Systems on the market with efficient and effective search capabilities to edit and store the latest accurate documentation.

Inconvénients

Meridian Portal is still not on par and needs a lot more configuration as it is not user friendly and has issues communicating well with Power. Many users get very confused because of the minimal information on the document status in the workflow. Meridian Power and Explorer are much more intuitive and if something is entered incorrectly one gets an error message with clarification. In Portal you can't see what went wrong and it causes issues after the fact.

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Avantages

Being able to organize and make accessible engineering documents for all to see. I also like being able to view current and past document revisions and keep things up-to-date and accurate.

Inconvénients

Some find Meridian PowerWeb cumbersome to use.

Avantages

Custom workflow configuration, industry standard approach

Inconvénients

Renditions configuration can be difficult to manage.

Avantages

It is integrated with software on user side
It can manage CAD files
Capability to work remotely and off line
BIM in mind for the future

Inconvénients

Support for bugs or issues are very long to get resolved when it hits Accruent engineering department.
Lack of explanation or documentation on how to use the Power interface remotely with CAD sofware integration.
There is no clear details how best to use it with Autodesk products especially in our case with Inventor.
We often find issues on new release version and it get frustated to see the time it takes to get issues fixed.
Being supported by a third party, it get hard to be supported by Accruent on a timely manner.

Avantages

Meridian cloud enables non IT users to move their drawings tp the platform without much IT support.

Inconvénients

It freezes at times. Cloud bandwidth needs boosting.

Avantages

That it is web based. Importing tool. Workflowing.

Inconvénients

The ability to move to cloud from a Life Sciences standpoint.

Avantages

Ease of use - easy to store, retrieve and print documents.

Inconvénients

There are a few bugs in the system. While a few have been resolved, a few more have surfaced.

Avantages

The layout is good and easy to locate most of the information we are looking for

Inconvénients

Some of the configurations can be complex

Avantages

Organizes sustaining drawings well and work flow in handing off and releasing to production with multiple duplicate copies made for other locations.

Inconvénients

Hard to find stuff even with the search feature. Very clunky adding files and the wizard use. Upgrading is difficult.

Avantages

Meridian Enterprise organizes our assets by storing them in 'vaults'. All assets can be documented with drawings, graphics, maintenance information and so on. This makes it possible to document large infrastructure projects and to disclose this information to a larger public. Also, it can be linked to other information systems, so the information becomes even more accessible.

Inconvénients

It takes some time to learn how to use it.
Also, for full access, a desktop client is required. It does not operate in a pure web based manner.

Avantages

The system is very versatile and has many functionalities

Inconvénients

Because of the many functionalities, it is important to clearly define what you are using it for.
The disadvantage is the implementation that was done in our case by a third party. It would be better for BlueCielo to take care of the implementation process itself.

Avantages

Keyrole in centralisation of documents with great and strong search options.

Inconvénients

The struggle during the implementation, which is partly still there.