InContext October 2007

The e-newsletter for information, records and content management professionals

Welcome to the first issue of InContext following my appointment as Vice President EMEA at TOWER Software.

Firstly, my thanks to our customers and colleagues for their positive response to the recent management changes. Tony Sumpster has produced fantastic results over the years and I wish him every success in his new role as Executive VP for Canada, US and EMEA.

In this issue, I'm pleased to announce the availability of
TRIM Context 6 Release 2. This offers some great new features including a meeting manager module, content rendering and a directory synchronisation module.

Also this month, TRIM Context has been named "Trend-Setting Product" by KMWorld Magazine - for the fifth year in a row!

I do hope you enjoy this issue of InContext.

Regards

Paul Brenchley
Vice President, EMEA
TOWER Software

Email records management
Mitigating the risk – 8 steps to legal and regulatory compliance
Tesco and ASDA, two of the UK’s largest supermarkets, are the latest high-profile organisations to have their email records management put to the test - the Competition Commission wants them to hand over millions of emails. We look at the issues and best practices when treating email as a record and how to ensure you're prepared for e-discovery.
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TRIM Context 6R2 is released
- Builds on proven advanced Enterprise Content Management solution
TRIM Context 6 Release 2 (6R2) has been released and is seen as a significant upgrade. Key features of the new release include a meeting manager module, content rendering capability and a directory synchronization module for the automatic creation and updating of information from any LDAP compliant directory.
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Life Sciences
- Managing the data explosion with EDRM
Life Sciences blur the lines that once separated pharmacology, biotechnology and other healthcare disciplines. It is a sector that is not only one of the most highly regulated, it also faces increasingly shorter product lifecycles, rising development costs and fierce competition. Huge amounts of product data need to be seamlessly managed across the organisation and readily available to satisfy the regulators - forty years ago a clinical study would be a 350 page document, today it is closer to 25,000 pages!
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TOWER Software scales new heights
- Senior management team strengthens
To further strengthen its operations in the northern hemisphere, TOWER Software has made a series of appointments in its senior management team. Tony Sumpster, formerly Managing Director EMEA, becomes Executive Vice President across Canada, US and EMEA. Paul Brenchley, formerly Sales Director in the EMEA region, becomes Vice President, EMEA.
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TRIM Context named 2007 “Trend-Setting Product” 
TOWER Software’s TRIM Context 6 has been named a “Trend-Setting Product” for the fifth year in a row by KMWorld Magazine. This award complements the magazine’s selection of TOWER Software earlier this year as one of its “100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management”.
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Ordnance Survey to rationalise 700,000 folders
with TOWER Software
The geographic information specialist, Ordnance Survey, has selected TOWER Software's EDRM system, TRIM Context to rationalise the 700,000 folders of documents and mapping files in its shared corporate network. The project has already commenced and is being rolled out to approximately 1500 users
department by department.
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