UNEP adopts M-Files solution

Benzinga.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the office inherited paper-based technical and business processes from its parent UN organisation, recognised the inefficiencies of paper files, and foresaw the difficulty in fulfilling the global mission of UNEP using outdated methods.

"With only 70 employees, we have a relatively small office, but we have to serve the whole world, all regions and all conventions," says Osmany Pereira, UNEP office manager.

The DMN Newswire says the Geneva office of UNEP implemented the M-Files system to better track, organise and manage its documentation. In the UNEP multiuser environment, MFiles software runs on both client computers as well as the server. Individual users access the MFiles Vault, which is a centralised repository of all documents in the organisation.

Rather than storing loosely-defined digital files in folders and subfolders, M-Files structures each document within a searchable database organised and indexed with user-definable tags or properties, also known as metadata.