CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

14 January 2008

Implementation Investments

EMC Documentum Enforces Citizen Safety

EMC has been chosen as the supplier of the Norwegian legal sector's new information management platform. The delivery also includes search tools from FAST, and the contract partner for the total delivery is TietoEnator.

The delivery, EMC Documentum for up to 12.000 users, is intended to improve the handling of the Norwegian legal sector's enormous amount of sensitive information, and in addition enforce the collaboration between the police department and the judiciary. The police department and the legal department will, with this new solution, be able to focus on their primary tasks, which are to reduce crime, maintain law and order, and secure openness and democracy.

This contract represents a paradigm shift for how we look at solution architecture. In this case, our starting point is project based orientation, with high maintenance costs and information silos spread around the whole organization. Our goal with this project is to standardize on one platform. EMC Documentum can improve our work processes across the function areas, something that can result in far more effective investigations. The EMC and FAST solution will give us a more unified information architecture, where we are in control of the whole value chain, says Lars H. Bøhler, CEO of the Norwegian Police data and materiel service.

EMC Documentum is the leading platform for management of unstructured information (Enterprise Content Management). EMC Documentum is already being used by both police and legal authorities in several other countries, the US Department of Homeland Security, for example, manages fingerprints and photo through EMC Documentum. The Norwegian legal sector will eventually, with this agreement be the largest Documentum user in Norway, and one of the biggest in Europe.

This new information management platform will make the police and legal system better suited for collaboration between the departments and the judiciary. By using this platform, they will have better opportunities to unveil illegal patterns and repeated criminal actions across geographical and organizational borders, says Thomas Heiskel, Manager in TietoEnator.

With several hundred millions of documents and journals spread over more than 500 servers, in addition to a yearly multimedia production of approximately 1.5 to 2 terabyte sound, 4 to 5 terabyte video and 150 to 200 gigabyte photo, is both management and relocation of information essential to the legal sector.

We are very pleased that the legal sector, with its focus on security, has chosen EMC Documentum. This confirms that our message has been correctly received by the market. Good information management is something that all organizations should take serious. The Norwegian legal sector will increase the level of information sharing with EMC Documentum, and also reduce the information silo between the police districts and the courts, says Erling Kvalheim, Sales Manager Content Management & Archiving in EMC Norway.

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