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Historically growing storage structures and related problems
• All important, fundamental information the company
generates daily, our knowledge ‐ our data
– Word, Excel, PDF, Laboratory data, …
• since 2004 continuously growing amount of data was
stored and managed on the fileserver
• There was no defined way of storage or structures at
that time
• Every scientist and every team had its own art of data
management (folders and file naming etc.)
• There was no common way of versioning, especially by
reviewing different kinds of reports
• Communication with the experts in the field, emails
Slowly we started to realize that we need to bring everything in order!
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DMS – step 1 ‐ OpenText
• There was no evaluation
• Recommendation
• Document management und Project management with
OpenText
• IT‐costs for implementation and service ‐ not defined
• Project was stopped
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Step 3 – Decision
We decided for Alfresco !
Alfresco® Advantages
• Open Source
• Single repository
• Versioning, Check in & out
• drag and drop and upload
• Preview of documents
• Can be used like a network‐drive
• MS Office integration
• Workflow
• No client installations
• Claims to be easily set up
• Full audit logs
• Dashboard for every project
• Project wiki
Alfresco® Disadvantages
• Annual Subscription
• No direct office integration
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Start Setup ‐ Implementation
• Departments were selected
• Key – user from the departments were defined
• Main rule ‐ all data should be stored in Alfresco
• Every department had a Site
• a group of the department = R&D
• all active projects were migrated
– Structures were built
– Migrated data was taken over by users:
• aim: structuring and cleaning
• The old data from the files server was integrated into Alfresco
as Archive
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DMS STRUCTURE R&D
R&D
IGDG NG PG
Project A Project B Project C
Info Experiments
ReportsPresentations
Diverse (for info not
fitting well into other
folders)
Miscellaneous
(for info not fitting to single projects but to the whole
department); e.g. Group meetings
ServicesAnimal Works
USERS CAN NOT ADD ANY FOLDERS ON THE
BLUE LEVEL
INSIDE BLUE FOLDERS USERS CAN CREATE
SIMPLE FOLDERS AND TEMPLATE BASED
FOLDERS (PROJECT)
INSIDE EXPERIMENT FOLDER USERS CAN
CREATE SIMPLE FOLDERS AND FOLDERS BASED
ON THE TEMPLATE (EXPERIMENT)
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Evaluiation ‐ OpenText
• + pro
– Browser based
– Central repository
– Support for big number of data types
– Metadata
– Graphical Workflow‐Tool
– Drag & Drop
– Permissions system
– Versioning
• ‐ contra
– Price
– Fokus on big organisations
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Evaluiation – SharePoint
• + pro
– Collaboration, for example tagging
– Dependence on Ofice and Windows
– Workflow
– Working spaces for teams – Sites
– Metadata
• ‐ contra
– Rigid and unflexible
– Adjustments ‐ expensive
– License model
– To switch to the other system afterwrds might be complex
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Evaluation ‐ Alfresco
• + pro
– Open source
– Central repository
– Drag & Drop
– Document preview
– Access throught the connected drives
– Office integration as in SharePoint
– Dashboards und Sites
• ‐ contra
– Annual subscription
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Evaluation ‐ OpenKM
• + pro
– Browser user interface
– Drag & Drop
– Addins for the programs access, for example Office
– Workflow tools
– Digital signature of the documents
– Wikis, Chats, Forens
• ‐ contra
– Limitation in the data size
– Support time
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DMS Structure Clinical Department Example for VACCINE Folder
Clinical
Department
VACCINE
AD01
Study
AFF001
Study
AFF003
AD02
Study
AFF006
Study
AFF002
... (all other folders as described in figure above)
„Create new
AFFiTOPE ID“
(without Meta‐Data)
PD01
Study
AFF008
AFFiTOPE ID X
Project X„Create new
Project‐Folder“
(with Meta‐Data)
28 folders +
subfolders
28 folders +
subfolders
28 folders +
subfolders
28 folders +
subfolders
28 folders +
subfolders
28 folders +
subfolders