Meridio has been specifically designed to provide a secure, scalable and high-performance solution for the management and control of documents, records and other enterprise content. Meridio can be used 'out-of-the box' or can be integrated into line-of-business applications using the latest XML, Web Services and .NET technology. There are many ways in which organizations are using Meridio solutions to gain significant business benefits including:

• Business optimization improvements by making it easy for the organization to file, find and share key business documents;
• Ensuring conformance to legal and regulatory requirements;
• Exploiting the previously hidden information assets and knowledge held within business documents.

	Management and control of business documents and records
	By using the Meridio central repository for both documents and records, your organization can save costs through easier access to correct information, shortened learning cycles, reduced maintenance costs, reduced physical storage costs and full control over the lifecycle of information consolidated from different sources. Up to 90% of corporate information is held within electronic business documents and records in a variety of formats (emails, presentations, spreadsheets, audio and video files etc.) representing valuable business assets. These assets need to be securely managed, while being made easily accessible to those who have a valid business need and right of access.
	Legislative and regulatory compliance
	As we move to a world of greater openness in public and business affairs, organizations in both public and private industries are now required to conform to new regulations which effectively mandate the use of enterprise-wide Document and Records Management systems. Specific legislation and guidelines vary around the globe. Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), Model Requirements for Records Management of European Union (effective 2001), the Data Protection Act (2000), Electronic Records Management (2004), Human Rights Act (2000), e-Business Transactions (2005), Freedom of Information (2005) are only a few of the examples of a mounting list of regulations that govern both private and public corporations and government entities worldwide. These laws are designed to protect the public and govern records management in organizations setting the standards for the highest level of security and transparency. The Meridio eDRM solution offers sophisticated document and records management functionality which meets the legislative standards required. From a simple browser interface you have access to the declaration of records, disposal and retention schedules, enabling of authentication and audit, security, powerful search and retrieval functionality and the storage of contextual metadata. In addition, Meridio allows the registering of web pages, emails, instant messages, paper and other physical information assets as records, bringing the totality of content within the bounds of the enterprise document and records management system.
	Microsoft Centric
	Meridio is a Gold Certified partner. Meridio solutions are tightly integrated with Microsoft productivity tools allowing users to interface with their Meridio Fileplan while remaining within their familiar Microsoft client interfaces. Customers can standardize their IT infrastructure, optimize deployment, administration and support costs and leverage their investment in Microsoft to get maximum benefit from their existing technical competencies. An underlying objective of many improvements that we make to Meridio is to allow Document and Records Management usage to become increasingly transparent to end users and to be handled automatically behind the scenes, so that little or no action is required to obtain the benefits. Our standardized architecture uses Microsoft SQL Server to manage metadata information and COM, XML, Web Services and .NET to develop our high-performance clients. Microsoft Smart Client technology is utilized to enable seamless access for mobile workers whether they are connected or disconnected from their network. In addition to interfaces for Outlook, Word, and other Office products, we also have a seamless integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) enabling users to declare MOSS documents as records, store them securely in the scalable Meridio repository, and use a unified interface to manage both documents and records.
	High Performance
	Customers expect to have access to information quickly and so the speed of response of your system is paramount. Meridio uses the latest web and intelligent search and indexing technology to maximize the number of users who can access vast amounts of information across multiple sites. The fast response times of Meridio enable the relevant information to be accessed by the right person at the right time, improving business efficiency and providing competitive advantage. As Meridio is currently used in some of the largest eDRM implementations in the world, we have a track record that proves we can meet the most demanding performance requirements.
	Highly scalable
	As corporations across the globe continue to extend their geographic boundaries such as global outsourcing of services and other efficiency or expansion related strategies, a scalable infrastructure has never been so important. Meridio continues to look for ways to implement new technologies and enhance performance to meet the rigorous scalability and performance demands in today’s business climate. In addition to performance tuning across the product, the Meridio architecture evolution includes optimized Web Services, the introduction of Smart Client technology with intelligent caching for performance, and new more efficient APIs. Meridio delivers true enterprise scalability based on our unique architecture to ensure that you continue to reap the full return that you rightly expect from your investment. Meridio case studies show that Meridio has proven capability to support implementations of thousands of users and hundreds of millions of documents.
	Highly secure
	Meridio provides a highly secure, flexible framework and gives you the option to protect your documents against unauthorized access, accidental deletion, overwriting by new revisions and physical storage device failure. Additional protection is provided with comprehensive retention management of electronic records, providing full lifecycle management from creation to disposal.
	Capture Content from all locations
	Meridio Enterprise Document Capture (EDC) captures content from a variety of sources into the Meridio system based on a Rules engine. Meridio EDC enables an organization to use a single process for categorizing content across an enterprise, with all sources using the same rules applied across different types of content. Sources include the Microsoft Exchange Journal, Live Communication Server, PST and MAPI files.
	Extensibility for Line-of-Business Application Integration and Partner Solutions
	Integration with line-of-business applications enables business critical documents and reports produced by these applications to be captured and stored in the Meridio repository. Meridio solutions integrate information seamlessly from a wide range of data sources, such as Word documents, faxes, emails, paper, web-content, scanned images and legacy application data. It is completely independent of the type of content source and will integrate everything on the same server. Meridio has Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that enable various levels of integrations. These standard interfaces dramatically reduce development times allowing you to develop Meridio applications very quickly with the minimum of coding. Meridio has a certified integration with SAP ArchiveLink allowing SAP documents to be captured into Meridio via this standard SAP third party interface.