Executive Summary of TRIM | I. T. Overview of TRIM | Records Management | Trim

I. T. Overview of TRIM

Every organization has three key resources:

• Financial
• Human
• Information
• When managed efficiently, these resources will result in a highly effective and responsive organization.

TRIM is a world leading client server software product, which enables the efficient management of an organization’s business information. TRIM combines powerful electronic document management (EDM) functionality with strong information management principles to ensure an organization’s business records are captured and made accessible in a secure, scalable, and manageable environment.

TRIM allows an organization to take advantage of the opportunities and address the risks of doing business electronically.

The following features give TRIM Context™ the technical edge:

• Easy Capture
• Easy Retrieval
• Managing Corporate Business Information in an Electronic Environment
• Supports Multiple Infrastructures
• System Store and secure FTP Server Stores

Easy Capture

TRIM enables the capture and management of all important documents at the point of creation. Through TRIM’s tight integration with Microsoft and other office suite desktop applications, all forms of electronic documents (including email) can be easily captured, indexed and subsequently accessed.

Easy Retrieval

TRIM supports powerful information management mechanisms to ensure easy location of information in very large organizational databases.

Search mechanisms include classification, key word and document content pick lists to select individual searchable fields, Boolean searching and saved searches.

TRIM enables organizations to meet their customers’ expectation for access to information by enabling easy publishing of selected information to the Web.

TRIM provides extensive and configurable audit logging.

TRIM provides a wide range of user and management reports.

TRIM has strong business rules to enable the creation of relationships between documents, ensuring entire business processes are easily captured for subsequent use.

Managing Corporate Business Information in an Electronic Environment

By using a flexible and modular approach to installation, TRIM is easy to implement in today’s complex network environments.

TRIM can be implemented across an organization or division in a phased manner, removing the risk associated with large scale implementation.

TRIM provides extensive database creation and maintenance tools with no SQL scripting required.

TRIM provides all user creation, configuration and management facilities within the single product.

Supports Multiple Infrastructures

TRIM provides a flexible client/server solution

TRIM supports the full range of RDBMS’ including:

• Oracle
• DB2
• Sybase
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Informix
• SQLAnywhere

TRIM provides tools to enable the easy move from one RDBMS to another should an organizations requirements change

TRIM supports a number of object stores for storing electronic objects, making it fully scalable. From TRIM’s integral DOS File System Store and secure FTP Server Stores, through to integrated large scale object stores such as IBM’s VisualInfo, CVSI’s Optegra, and the Tower Technology KMS

TRIM will meet the needs of your organization

TRIM is a compact and efficient product which has been totally developed in C++. Supports Open Systems

TRIM can be integrated with a range of business applications via TRIM’s Component Object Model (COM) Application Programming Interface (API).

TRIM has integrated workflow capabilities which enable best practice management of corporate correspondence.

"TRIM is well received by all staff as a giant leap forward in document and records management, … a product that reflects the needs of modern office practice." Andrew Jessop, City West Water, Australia