Flare's IM Solutions Business Benefits

Information Retrieval

Personalised browsing and searching for information across multiple systems through a single interface incorporating text, spatial and graphical tools
Ability to retrieve only what is relevant – reduced information overload
Frequently used searches can be saved and shared with others
Facility to create custom individual and shared views (virtual folder structures)

Knowledge Management

Ability to view related information, providing rapid access to experts, processes or applications that may assist
Allows users to add key remarks about information or processes to capture usage, quality or rationale, and add to the ‘story’ about the information
Enables people to quickly review what previous work has been done in a geographic area, on an asset or within a project

Process Management

Provides a simple, consistent way to define and view process descriptions, roles, ownership and accountability
Enables creation and tracking of active workflow processes with assigned people and timeframes using best practice templates
Allows easy creation and maintenance of process elements by identified process owners with assigned roles and detailed procedural descriptions

Ease of Use

Familiar web-based interface reduces learning curve
Ability to launch actions from search results - display documents or database views, export data, launch applications or order physical items
Easily order information services from within the Catalog (e.g. scanning, reformatting, core-photographs) and track through to completion