Meridian Enterprise Server is the core product in the Meridian Enterprise product suite. It provides centralized, scalable, web services and administration for use with Meridian Enterprise, BlueCielo Project Portal, and other business systems. Besides the shared services, Meridian Enterprise Server includes the latest generation of BlueCielo Publisher and BlueCielo Explorer technology.
Note Although the names Meridian Enterprise Server and Meridian Enterprise are very similar, Meridian Enterprise Server should not be confused with the application server of Meridian Enterprise. They are distinct systems that work together. Throughout this guide, each name is used explicitly for its corresponding system.
BlueCielo Explorer provides a web browser–based view of the documents and related information in one or more Meridian Enterprise vaults. The platform is a very effective way of providing read-only access to information consumers of technical documents on a large scale. BlueCielo Explorer provides an innovative interface for quickly and easily finding documents with minimal end-user training.
BlueCielo Explorer includes the following major features:
BlueCielo Publisher is a configurable systems integration solution for copying (publishing) documents from one document management system to another. The Publisher can optionally render documents in the source system to a different file format before publishing them to the destination system. Publisher combines these two actions—rendering and publishing—in a publishing job that it can run either on demand, as a scheduled task, or in a scheduled batch along with other jobs. Publisher provides links to the most common engineering document management systems. Publisher also includes rendering modules for the most popular engineering content authoring applications. Additional links and rendering modules are under development by BlueCielo ECM Solutions.
Publisher includes application links that can be installed to simplify publishing documents from within source document management systems, such as:
The links add documents to the publishing queue, which can be managed through a website installed on the Meridian Enterprise Server computer or a separate web server. The queue can be viewed and controlled using any web browser from anywhere on the network.
Note BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Server 2013 (and higher) is a replacement for prior versions of BlueCielo Publisher and BlueCielo Explorer that has been completely redesigned and reprogrammed. This allows Meridian Enterprise Server to provide additional functionality over prior versions. Although Meridian Enterprise Server has many of the same features as prior versions of BlueCielo Publisher and BlueCielo Explorer, the products are not compatible and Meridian Enterprise Server 2015 should not be considered as a direct upgrade from the older versions.