Chris Churchill VP of of Document Management Solutions Iron Mountain

IBM (NYSE:IBM) has announced that Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) has selected IBM software to power its new Digital Record Center™ for Images, which provides organizations with hosted storage and quick access to scanned images, PDFs and other digital files.
Iron Mountain, the global leader in information protection and storage services, is using IBM Content Manager OnDemand, IBM’s Web Interface for Content Management (IBM WEBi), IBM DB2 data server, and IBM WebSphere Application Server to enable and support the drivers information management requirements of its Digital Record Center.

“The Digital Record Center for Images marries leading information management software from IBM with our Storage-as-a-Service expertise. The result is a secure, scalable repository for a company’s most accessed records and a pay-as-you-go service that frees companies from the costs and risks of maintaining their own in-house solution,” said Chris Churchill, vice president of document management solutions at Iron Mountain. “Combined with our physical document management and imaging capabilities, we can offer customers a true lifecycle solution: we can manage the physical document, convert it and then put it into our hosted archive to provide electronic access.”

“Enabling partners and clients like Iron Mountain to access and use data exactly when and how they need it to improve their business processes is the aim of our cross-company Information on Demand strategy,” said Ken Bisconti, vice president, product and strategy, for IBM Enterprise Content Management. “The combination of IBM’s information and content management software is helping Iron Mountain establish its Digital Record Center for Images and forge the transformation of processes and business models to create competitive advantage.”

Unlocking the Value of Information
The IBM software Iron Mountain has chosen to help transform its business and deliver information in the right context includes a range of advanced data and content management technologies, including IBM Content Manager OnDemand, which delivers high-performance, high-volume enterprise report management and content storage that provides streamlined, automatic access and distribution of selected reports and documents to authorized users, support for electronic bill presentment and payment solutions, and customer self-service access to bills, invoices, and statements. 

Iron Mountain also is relying upon, IBM WEBi, an out-of-the-box, easy-to-use, highly interactive Web Client for IBM Content Manager and IBM Content Manager OnDemand that employs open standards and supports Web 2.0 and AJAX technologies.  IBM WEBi can be easily customized and rapidly deployed to a business user's desktop and provides today's knowledge worker with the ability to search, view and edit documents and/or multiple content types using a visually appealing and intuitive user interface.
DB2 offers customers like Iron Mountain a truly innovative database server. Innovations such as Deep Compression and pureXML TM make DB2 Viper the ideal database server to slash storage costs and enable Web 2.0 applications. Customers of all sizes can rely on DB2's legendary mission critical capabilities to power their business applications.
          

IBM WebSphere® Application Server is the foundation of the IBM WebSphere software platform and a key building block for a service oriented architecture. As the premier Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) and Web services application platform, WebSphere Application Server V6.1 delivers a high performance transaction engine that can help you build, run, integrate and manage dynamic applications.
                      

For more information on IBM’s Information on Demand strategy.

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