MDY Expands Its Offering Of Federated RM To Manage Corporate Silos Of Content

MDY, the leading provider of records management innovation, and Silver Sponsor of ARMA International's 50th Anniversary Celebration, today announced that the Federated RM methodology can accelerate time to market and reduce costs associated with managing multi-repositories while helping organizations centralize their records and compliance management programs across the Enterprise. When records are spread across multiple repositories, or 'silos' of corporate content, a traditional electronic records management methodology often does not represent a practical solution. Substantial customization costs, the requirement for separate departmental solutions, and required system migrations have put many organizations at undue risk from delayed or incomplete records management deployments (e.g. litigation or regulatory audit).

MDY's Federated RM addresses these issues by allowing organizations to enforce critical records management strategies across multiple, disparate repositories of content. MDY FileSurf centralizes the records management rules engine to operate with multiple content repositories for enterprise-wide records management. The Federated RM methodology simplifies the complexities of managing recordkeeping policies across an organization and enables the centralized management of policies and lifecycle events for distributed content, regardless of location, media, platform, or content application vendor. Federated RM facilitates consistent policy management with a centralized security model, enterprise-wide search, discovery and hold processing from a single records console.

MDY's Federated RM methodology leverages the extensive capabilities and functionality of MDY FileSurf for real-time management of all corporate content regardless of the type of information, media, platform, or content application vendor used. This approach underscores MDY's longtime leadership as a visionary in the records management market. With MDY FileSurf, records can be automatically declared, classified and managed throughout their lifecycle. Documents of Record can be moved into a centrally managed records (MDY) repository, or left in their native repositories, managed by a single integrated records management policy engine and console. With Federated RM records can be located in a wide range of repositories including document management, content management, email archiving, imaging systems, and storage systems. Federated RM resolves the historically complex issue of managing repositories utilizing diverse metadata.

As a natural outgrowth of Federated RM, the organization gains the ability to run enterprise-wide searches, within the limitations of the security paradigm, effectively providing a substantial knowledge management advantage. MDY FileSurf enables customers to rapidly locate and access documents and records for legal discovery, audit and compliance purposes. The enterprise- wide search functionality utilizes the native search capabilities of the each repository. This provides end users one user interface that distributes the query to each managed application, manages credentials and the translation of query language, and returns a set of results. Legal hold can quickly and easily be applied across all managed repositories to ensure that documents of record are locked down and not destroyed inappropriately.

"Federated RM moves MDY FileSurf from a back-office application to the center of an organization's information management architecture in order to facilitate discovery, audit, and general records research across the enterprise," said Mark Moerdler Ph.D., President of MDY. "The integrated methodology provides organizations that need to integrate disparate repositories with a comprehensive solution for their complex business environment."

Through Federated RM, MDY FileSurf's records management functionality can be applied to content stored across numerous systems including EMC Documentum, Hummingbird DM, Hummingbird PowerDOCS, Hummingbird DOCSOpen, Interwoven Worksite, Global 360 BGS emPOWER, Stellent Content Manager, Microsoft Sharepoint, Appian Enterprise, VERITAS Enterprise Vault by Symantec, EMC Centera and NetApp. All integrations are available today. The Federated RM Methodology can also be applied to additional repositories of structured data such as Accounting, Human Resources, and Business Applications.

"MDY's Federated RM approach allows Microsoft clients to manage records in diverse repositories from their DMS, to email archiving, to their collaboration suite," said Norm Thomas, Microsoft's Director of Business Development for Professional Services. "Accessibility to all of an organization's records directly from within Sharepoint expands the integration capabilities of the Microsoft platform and significantly increases the return on investment for our clients."

MDY's Federated RM is built upon 18 years of experience in the records management industry. Since 2000, MDY has been a visionary in the Federated RM Methodology, delivering "in place" U.S. 5015.2 DoD certified solutions. MDY continues to add managed repositories to the model in order to assist clients in effectively controlling their multiple silos of corporate content. Federated RM helps organizations harness their wealth of corporate knowledge to effectively manage vital information while providing business efficiencies to address enterprise-wide compliance and reduce costs.

About MDY FileSurf
MDY FileSurf integrates all physical, electronic, and email files regardless of media type, source of origin, or storage location into a single, scalable, and extensible enterprise-wide solution. MDY FileSurf provides tight integration with various repositories of content, including email and document management systems, and provides a server based rules engine, that combined with flexible schedule creation tools and powerful discovery and disposition hold capabilities, ensures that all content is managed according to government regulations and organizational policies. MDY FileSurf is certified under the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.2 Standard for records management applications (Ch. 2/4) to enable content management compliant with government regulations and organizational policies.

About MDY Federated RM
When records are spread across multiple repositories, or 'silos' of corporate content, traditional electronic records management systems are simply not powerful enough to ensure enterprise-wide compliance. MDY's Federated RM methodology addresses this issue by allowing organizations to enforce critical records management strategies across multiple, disparate repositories through a centralized records management console and rules engine.

About MDY
MDY is a leading provider of records management innovation and offers a unique mix of software and services to give organizations a single point of accountability in gaining complete control over their information management needs. MDY offerings help organizations reduce risk, comply with government and industry regulations, and effectively implement knowledge management policies, best practices, and procedures. For more information call 201-475-4789 or go to www.mdy.com.