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Manages user-defined information items with user-defined
attributes; whatever information that you need to store. We have jump-start
packages to avoid wheels getting reinvented but Cimera is your custom made
solution so you decide what is managed.
Manages relationships between data items allowing drill-down into the
organisation. No data is an island. An important
aspect of data is its relationships to other data
items.
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For a PC I want to know what software is installed on it
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For a customer I want to know what orders they have placed & what
communication we have had.
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For a customer complaint I want to know what service was at fault.
Manages information through its lifecycle and enables
workflow.
Example of the rules you could set up to protect your data
are:
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Group A cannot view items of type “Orders”
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Jim cannot create items of type “Customers”
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Anyone with a specified role on Group B cannot update items of type “Employees”
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Items of type “Report” cannot be updated when they do not have a status of
“open”
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Items of type “Complaint” can never be deleted by anyone
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Fields X & Y cannot be changed when the status is “in testing”
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No fields can be changed when the status is “closed”
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Only Managers can promote (change the status) items of type “Authorisation”
The best way to keep your data clean is to prevent errors at
entry time. Whether it’s simple validation (e.g. this must be a valid date and
be at least 7 days in the future or 5 days in the past) or involves other
fields too (e.g. this field must be at least twice as big as some other field)
Cimera will prevent the pains that corrupt data cause.
Colouring can draw attention fields that are valid but in some
way off-normal. A rule can be set such that if condition 1 is met then set use
colour scheme 1, condition 2 is met then set use colour scheme 2 etc
Who changed what field, from what, to what, when, and (if
required) why.
Some information is best managed in specialist third party
tools and not in Cimera, but this does not mean that the utopian ideal of “find
all your information in one place” need be lost. Cimera Integrations allows the
scheduled importing of external information, read-only, into its repository.
From there, additional fields can be added (so “base” fields are maintained in
the external tool and “additional” fields are maintained in Cimera) and
relationships can be created. In this way Cimera could be used to maintain
relationships between different kinds of data items that are each stored in
separate third party tools.
Our philosophy of one place to go to find whatever you need
extends to documents too. Simply attach to any data item the files relevant to
that item and these are copied into the Cimera repository where they are
unaffected by changes to, or deletion of, the original.
See a summary of the work you are overseeing in a set of
dashboards, click the part that interests you to drill down to the underlying
data. Click again to graph that subset of data, change the grouping criteria
& click to drill down again. It’s so powerful.
No information management system is complete without the
ability to search every data item and every attached document. Cimera also adds
the ability to restrict the search to specified types of data item or
particular fields. The results show the found text highlighted and ‘preview’
allows you to see the text found in any file attachments in a text format so
you do not need to have the relevant software installed.
Cimera’s client-server architecture means that not only does
everyone on the Lan use the same data, anyone connecting through the internet
also has access to the same shared information and files.
If you want to add some menu items, automate a repetitive
process, add triggers/events, create new screens, write reports or initiate
external applications then Cimera will let you because it has been designed to
be extended. Any .Net programmer can enhance Cimera’s functionality to make it
meet your unique requirements.
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