Generic Integration

The integration of Meridian with maintenance management systems other than IBM Maximo is designed in a generic way that can be implemented with almost any maintenance management system. The integration is illustrated in the following figure.

For the maintenance management system users, a custom button is typically added to the user interface of the maintenance management system. This button executes a link program and passes parameters to it that identify the asset that the user requested. The program converts the parameters to a URL and opens Internet Explorer with the URL, which requests from Meridian Explorer a list of the documents that are linked to the requested asset. The user is shown web pages that are generated by an extension of the Meridian Explorer client application.

For Meridian Enterprise users, Meridian Enterprise allow users to manage references between tags (assets) and documents stored in a Meridian Enterprise vault. For more about this, see the Accruent Meridian Enterprise User’s Guide.