
	BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise 2012 Administrator's Guide \| BlueCielo ECM Solutions

Understanding system requirements for optional modules

The hardware and software specifications listed elsewhere in this document support the basic engineering content management functionality provided by Meridian Enterprise, the centerpiece of the BlueCielo product suite. The entire suite includes optional modules that integrate with Meridian Enterprise to extend its functionality to other enterprise departments and information systems. Each of the optional modules imposes additional requirements that should also be considered. A brief overview of the modules and their requirements are listed below

Module	Function	Resource Requirements
Meridian Asset Management Module	Integrates Meridian with plant maintenance management systems (MMS).	Additional vault database storage space, high-speed ODBC connectivity to the MMS server, web server, synchronization processing time, additional client component installation may be necessary.
Meridian FDA Module	U.S. Food and Drug Administration Title 21 CFR Part 11 compliant auditing, authentication, and electronic signatures.	Meridian server configured as described in Recommended server specifications, additional vault database storage space, audit log database server.
Meridian Global Collaboration Framework	Wide area network collaboration on documents stored in remote vaults.	Additional vault database storage space, transfer file storage space, synchronization processing time, high-speed HTTP/FTP connectivity between Meridian servers.
Meridian Explorer	Easy to use, web browser-based, read-only views of Meridian vaults for information consumers on a large scale.	Repository database server, web server, additional Windows components.
Meridian Publisher	Automated rendering of vault documents to alternative formats and publishing to other vaults or information systems.	Rendition storage space, rendering server, additional Windows components.

Several of the modules listed above perform tasks under the control of the Windows Scheduler. If the tasks take too long to complete when run on the Meridian server or if they need to be executed on a more frequent basis, an additional application server may be necessary.

For more information on specific requirements for each module, refer to the module's Administrator's Guide.