Int. Life Sciences Company: Rollout of a Global Records Management System

Brunswick - July 23, 2015 : In collaboration with fme AG, a large internationally working life sciences company set up a compliant Global Records Management System. Purpose of this project was to implement a solution to help the company to assure global and local compliance with the increasingly complex legal, regulatory, business and security requirements in the field of records management.

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The globally used EMC Documentum Webtop application was identified as target for the official document structure as well as for administration functions that were built to manage the retention periods according to the business tasks. The new global Records Retention structure with its supporting functionalities allows employees globally to store their retention relevant emails and documents more easily and efficiently based on their specific business tasks. Automatic retention policies will assure the compliant storage of the data according to the specific retention periods that are required.
»The Global Records Management System is helping us to comply with the global and local legal requirements while saving time by its predefined retention rules and its independence from organizational restructuring. The fme staff faced all challenges with professionalism and profound know-how in the area of life sciences« (Project Manager, Legal Department)

Benefits

The initial project of the Global Records Management System, which was carried out by fme AG on time and on budget:

  • ensures a much higher sustainability in filing and archiving documents.
  • facilitates cooperation across the world by a consistent basic folder structure.
  • helps saving time by providing predefined retention rules deposited to the mutual folders.

About fme

Digitalization enables new ways of dealing with existing businesses and creates totally new business models. We believe in the opportunities of digital transformation and love to help our clients worldwide maintain and create competitive businesses with business consulting and technology services. Our devoted consultants optimize or challenge our clients’ business models through existing and new technologies and advise them on the necessary cultural change in their company. Cloud, Business Intelligence, Collaboration and Enterprise Content Management technologies in combination with custom software development and the ability to operate our clients’ systems 24×7 help us to add value to our clients’ transformation process.

The industry focus lies on solutions for life sciences, industrial manufacturing and financial services. To this effect, we provide vendor independent consulting services. Our teams in Germany, the United States and Romania are experienced in managing global projects and also grant access to our cost-effective near-shore resources where advisable.

For 25 years, renowned corporations like Boehringer Ingelheim, BMW, CSL Behring, Debeka, EagleBurgmann, Merck, Sanofi-Aventis, Volkswagen and Volkswagen Financial Services have relied on our experience and competence. We are a privately held company and have enjoyed uninterrupted and profitable growth over the years resulting in a comfortable shareholder equity rate.