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Cimera is a powerful information management tool designed to
be readily adapted to meet an organisation's unique requirements. We think that
you know how your business works better than we do. Cimera manages the things
that you choose and moulds to your processes.
The "Build vs. Buy" debate is well documented:
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Advantages |
Disadvantages |
| Build |
Product meets requirements exactly |
Long lead time
High development cost
High testing cost
Ongoing maintenance costs
Ongoing development costs for enhancements
High risk of failure |
| Buy |
No development cost
Shorter lead time
Lower maintenance costs
Continuous product development by the vendor
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Product does not fully match requirements
Processes may need to be changed to accommodate product |
"Both" is the best of both worlds. The requirements match of a
"build" solution, with all the advantages of a "buy" solution. With none of the
associated disadvantages.
Cimera isn't a product designed to solve one specific problem, instead it's a
tool to assemble the tailor-made solution for your unique, information
management, situation.
Of course Cimera isn't going to solve every problem; we're not
claiming that you can use Cimera to develop "computational"systems such as a
pensions administration system or an accounting package or a billing
application.
Cimera is appropriate for rapid development of
"non-computational" solutions; those systems that are used to simply manage
information and information relationships. Examples of non-computational
systems are: Helpdesk, Asset Management,CMDB, Change Management, Product
Catalogue, Defect Tracking, Supplier Management, Project Management, Client or
Customer Management.
Non-computational systems will typically share over 90% of
their "DNA"; their design and their features. Therefore,over 90% of development
effort is spent on potentially reuseable codeand only a few percent of the
total effort is spent on the aspects that make the solution unique.
Cimera has been written to provide the functionally-rich,
foundational 90% out the box, and is designed to make it easy to assemble the
customer specific requirements through itsmeta-data based design and
plug-in architecture.With standard Jump-Startpackages
for common solutions the customisation can often be minimized to virtually
zero.
'Foundational', however, does not mean basic. Every Cimera
solution has rich functionality including:
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Extensible so it accurately maps your unique situation both now and as your
environment changes in the future
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Information relationships
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Integration enabled
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Complex querying
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Google-style seaching of all text, iuncluding file attachments (Word documents,
pdfs etc)
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Workflow
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Single point accessing
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Remote access across the Internet
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Granular security
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Comprehensive audit
Whether you are an IT development department, a property
letting company, an NHS Trust, a local authority, a large enterprise or a small
business you will have things that need managing and efficiencies to be
gained through having a single intelligent repository.
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