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I am almost nearing the end of my first month of work for Imtech Meica, “one of the largest mechanical and electrical services contractors operating within the London and South East region”, as a Document Controller.

This job is quite different from my last one working on Heathrow’s Terminal 5, which was my very first DC appointment, but I’m finding it way more interesting because I have much more to learn.

On T5 there was 1 Document Control system: Documentum. We all had to eat, live and breathe Documentum no matter which company we were employed by. In this job, however, I have to learn whatever the ‘client’ uses and as there are many jobs and clients there are many DCM systems.
So far I’ve been exposed to three: Asite, 4Projects and BIW for ISG, and although they’re all pretty much the same they’re NOT Documentum - who, by the way, are now owned by EMC - something which happened while I was away.

One of the main differences between these systems is that with Documentum you couldn’t go wrong; ergo it did most of the legwork all you had to do was enter some choice bits of information.
With Asite, 4Projects and BIW you can enter anything you like, whether it be the right or wrong bit of information, and they [the DCM's] will pretty much accept anything. This, if you know what I mean, can be most troubling as everyone either knows what the numbering system is or they don’t and if they don’t you end up with a whole lot of useless, or incorrect information which then gets rejected.
Documentum never let you make such faux pas, so long as you had strict guidelines programmed into it.

Anyways, I’m enjoying my new appointment because I work with the Design Team; caddies and engineers who are all individually funky and seem to make the day go quickly, sometimes too quickly - not that I’ve nothing else to do but I’m living back with my parents until I can find a place to rent, so going back to my childhood home every night is not something I always look forward too. Still, I will hopefully be moving out soon and all will be well.

This is Gedye, over and out.

PS1: I should get paid for plugging all these companies!
PS2: My hubby now works for Kodime and is very proud to do so.
PS3: <—– I still haven’t bought one yet