DoD Enterprise Software Initiative
DoD Enterprise Software Initiative establishes enterprise agreement with TOWER Software
12th Decmber 2005 - Virginia, USA - TOWER Software, the leading Enterprise Content Management (ECM) provider to government, announced today that HQ Operations and Sustainment Systems Group, on behalf of the Department of Defense (DoD) Enterprise Software Initiative, has established an Enterprise Software Agreement (ESA) with TOWER Software Corporation North America, under BPA number FA8771-06-0302 for TRIM Context Electronic Document and Records Management software and services. This Agreement includes software licenses and support for TOWER Software’s TRIM Context, training, professional services and maintenance. This Agreement is open for ordering by all DoD Components, the U. S. Coast Guard, the Intelligence Community and authorized Defense contractors. ESA discount ranges from 10 - 40% off GSA, based on dollar value ordered. Estimated requirements of $34.1M are projected to be supported over the five-year duration of the agreement.
“By leveraging requirements across DoD and consolidating the requirements for TOWER Software Corporation products into a single ESA available to all DoD customers, ESI projects a minimum of $12 million in cost avoidance across the Department of Defense throughout the five-year term of this agreement,” said Susan Kirkland, the ESI Air Force Software Product Manager at OSSG. Visit the ESI Web site (www.esi.mil) for more information.
TOWER Software’s TRIM Context® solution is a single, integrated DoD 5015.2 Standard Certified platform that securely manages business information in a single repository through its complete lifecycle. TRIM has been designed from the outset around the Records and Document Management or folder paradigm making it a very
powerful solution for large scale, high integrity and secure Records and Document Management requirements.
“This agreement demonstrates the confidence that the DoD has in TOWER Software and TRIM Context,” says Jan Rosi, President of TOWER Software North America.
“The DoD recognizes TOWER Software’s ability to deliver enterprise solutions.”
TOWER Software’s TRIM Context provides Defense Agencies with a Records Management system that is highly scaleable using an N-tier architecture that can be flexibly deployed across numerous large scale departments as well as different agencies to significantly increase the ability to find the right information in a timely fashion. Its current deployment of 360,000 seats across the Navy and Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) is just one example of their enterprise wide success in DoD. TRIM Context has been designed to address the business needs of the Federal Government and Department of Defense. As a Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) product, it provides a solution which is low risk and fast to deploy.
TRIM Context manages and secures vital information assets, enabling the automatic capture of information while maintaining current daily procedures. The solution includes tightly integrated document management, email management, process management, and records management functionality in a single application. The single integrated system which consists of each of these functional components meets the needs of DoD Agencies and commands by providing:
- Records Management
- Document Management
- Workflow Management
- Web Based Records Management
- Alerts and Notifications
- Search and Reporting
- E-Mail Management
- Document Content Indexing
- Built-in Reporting Tools
- DoD Classified Security Module
- DoD 5015.2 Standard Compliance
TRIM Context seamlessly integrates with major desktop applications, enabling users to capture and manage business information in any format. This ensures information is captured securely and readily made available for access across the business.
Examples of successful installs of TRIM Context in the DoD and Federal Government include the Department of the Navy (Enterprise NMCI), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Joint STARS Program Hanscom AFB, Army Review Board, The Federal Bureau of Investigations, Department of Veterans Affairs, United Nations (Afghanistan, Iraq WMD), and Center for Disease Control.
