Re: Enterprise Modeling, Document Control/Management, and Groupwa re

[Crystol Wigemyr <Crystol -dot- Wigemyr -at- KENONIC -dot- COM>]

> 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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