Cyco Software, a global software company offering Electronic Document Management (EDM) solutions, and Archibus Inc., developer of facilities and infrastructure management solutions, have teamed to offer customers a total Infrastructure Facilities and Document Management (IFDM) solution.

Cyco’s AutoManager Meridian provides engineering and document management solutions for the CAD and facilities management market. ARCHIBUS/FM is a tightly integrated suite of applications for managing and extending the life cycles of facility and infrastructure assets. The solution lets users organize information in meaningful ways, thereby improving business processes such as space planning, moves/adds/changes, maintenance/repair operations, and more.

"By extending our solution with the engineering document management capabilities of Cyco&singlequot;s AutoManager Meridian, our clients will enjoy enhanced collaboration techniques as both internal and external personnel access all the information they need related to a company&singlequot;s facilities," says Jim Goodfield, vice president of Business Development at ARCHIBUS.

The recently merged Pharmacia/Pfizer organization in Milan, Italy, has deployed both AutoManager Meridian and ARCHIBUS/FM to manage crucial facilities and infrastructure information. Franco Zambra, Systems & Automation Manager says, "Pharmacia has saved a significant amount of time and increased document security by using AutoManager Meridian and ARCHIBUS/FM." He continues, "It is very important for us to share data within our project development team and to have quick and secure access to all our engineering and facilities-related documents in and outside the office. By using both products we have been able to create efficient management of facilities documents and automate important procedure control for our engineering operations."