Enterprise Modeling, Document Control/Management, and Groupware

Subject: Enterprise Modeling, Document Control/Management, and Groupware
From: Crystol Wigemyr <Crystol -dot- Wigemyr -at- KENONIC -dot- COM>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:25:27 -0600

Hello all (please forgive the jargon),

This is a horrid question but I really need some help! It's horrid
because I'm not even entirely sure how to ask properly. I feel this is
the right forum for the question(s), however, because technical writers
are so often responsible for information management (deployment,
sharing, change management, version control, repositories,
re-deployment, etc., etc., etc., <sigh>).

1. Conceptually, how do/should enterprise modeling solutions (product
e.g. Popkin's System Architect), groupware solutions (e.g. Lotus Notes),
and document management systems (e.g. MS Visual SourceSafe) work
together? Does the implementation of one or the other make one or the
other redundant (huh?).

(see what I mean about the question...;-))

I know where to get the textbook definitions for all of these things,
and I've got a pretty good handle on network administration. I've read a
Lotus Notes primer and some info on System Architect. What I need is
some help from folks who aren't trying to sell me something and who
might have some real-world experience to share....

2. Should I just forget about all of this and concentrate on finding a
suitable document management system?

My company needs a better document management system (i.e. we don't have
one other than scooting around from folder to folder on the network --
Windows NT, very little security... our intranet is still "under
construction"), but my research is leading me to conclude that we may
need something well beyond just document management. We're an
electrical engineering consulting firm with an IS department and we've
become a "big" company in a very short time with all the endemic growing
pains.

Well that's enough for now. All you IT whizzes go ahead and start
talking!


> Crystol Wigemyr, B.A., B.Ed.
> Technical Writer/Editor
> Kenonic Controls Ltd.
> Calgary, AB, Canada
> (403) 258-8403
> crystol -dot- wigemyr -at- kenonic -dot- com
"Deracination in any form just doesn't suit me.... I like the simple
dependability of the familiar. I am like a dull ruminant, content to
graze in well-known fields and re-examine the same old cud."

Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast (with nods to e.f.)


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