Welcome to 2022 and our January update. We're pleased to announce a couple of new implementations, with Hunter Water and the University of Canberra.

Hunter Water is adopting a hybrid solution of Meridian on-premise with Lunr on the Cloud. 600,000 documents will be migrated to Meridian and contractors will gain project access using Lunr.

Lunr forms the entire solution for the University of Canberra, with around 20,000 documents being migrated from SharePoint.

A Meridian upgrade has been completed with Capral, and upgrades are in progress with Curtin University, Evoenergy, and Icon Water.

Meridian 2021 R2 is well established and Meridian 2022 won't be available until mid-year, so it's a good time to start planning and scheduling this year's upgrade, so please contact us if you'd like to start the discussion.

Accruent has published some new blog posts to bring you up to date:

Discover how corporate banking achieved a single source of truth with Meridian.

The last few years have been pivotal for the banking industry. On one hand, traditional banks feel a push to modernise and become more agile, particularly as they face ever-changing complex regulations, verification organisations, intense competition, and demanding customers. At the same time, though, banks struggle against existing paper-based document management systems and the inherent productivity and duplication concerns that come with legacy document management.

In short, yes. By design, Meridian is an engineering document management system (EDMS). But once in use by Engineering, the tool can be extended to support more general content management needs and maximize your software investment.

How? By definition, enterprise content management is a system that is designed to collect, organise and manage an enterprise organisation’s content. This includes unstructured documents – like those found in a Word file, an Excel spreadsheet, or a PDF and everything in between. An enterprise content management system is rarely, if ever, one single tool, but rather a combination of tools, processes and strategies that are used together to organise information and improve business performance.

The Lunr blog shares a number of recent publications. Here are some that may be of interest.

There's a wealth of information online, or contact us to get started with a 10-user plan to manage all of your engineering content in one cloud-based repository, all hosted within Australia.

Accruent has expanded its World Class Academy model to include the Meridian product, so that all Meridian software agreements now include the eLearning courses at no additional cost, allowing more customers to access out-of-the-box training.

By including the eLearning modules, ongoing product training is more widely available to maximise software adoption and achieve greater ROI.

If you have Meridian but have not yet received access to the Accruent Academy, please contact us to receive a login.

Introducing our senior software developer, Michael Vorobiev.

Name: Michael Vorobiev

Role: Senior Software Developer

Grew up in: Kurgan (a small industrial town near the Ural mountains in Russia)

Specialist topic: Divination (Harry Potter ref.)

Guilty pleasure: Good dark chocolate

Biggest fear: A recurring nightmare where I unknowingly missed all classes for a subject during a semester at Uni and tomorrow is the final exam day

What people wouldn't know about you: One of the first computer games I played was "Pacman" that I wrote by myself in Assembler on a computer I built from electronic parts bought at a "gray" suburban market in Novosibirsk

Current Podcast: Lex Fridman

Last Book: A. Vikoulov - Syntellect Hypothesis

Last Movie: The Last Duel (2021)

What you love about working at Onset: It's a fun place to work with an amazing team