Introducing Meridian Enterprise2016

BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise is the departmental to enterprise-wide engineering content management system from BlueCielo ECM Solutions. It can be installed with the following database engines: BlueCielo Hypertrieve, Microsoft^® SQL Server^®, or Oracle^® (see the Supported Applications list for your Meridian version available from your BlueCielo ECM Solutions Certified Partner or the BlueCielo ECM Solutions extranet). The number of vaults, documents, and concurrent users is limited only by available hardware resources on the host server computer.

Before you begin

Complete the tasks before you attempt to install Meridian Enterprise 2016:

• (Optional) Run the Vault Consistency Toolkit tools as described in the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Administrator's Guide. This will report the current condition of the vaults before they are upgraded. You might want to perform some repair or cleanup in advance.
• We highly recommend that before installing Meridian Enterprise 2016 on a production server that you perform a trial upgrade in an isolated test environment with copies of your vaults and your customization. This will allow you to identify potential problems and solve them in conjunction with BlueCielo ECM Solutions before they pose a real problem in your production environment. Proceed to install on a production server only when you are sure that the upgrade process has the required result.
• Run the Prepare for Backup wizard followed by a complete backup of your system.

Also make daily backups of all critical data. Store the backup in a safe location before making significant changes to the system. Whether you are upgrading the Meridian Enterprise software, updating some other system components, changing the vault configuration, or something seemingly insignificant like adding a navigation view, always make sure that you can revert back to the previous working configuration with as little effort and loss of productivity as possible.