EMC has announced a cloud service for energy operators, engineering and construction companies and engineering project teams within large enterprises, EMC Documentum Engineering, Plant and Facilities Management (EPFM) OnDemand.

It aims to meet challenges such as misplacement and/or loss of information, poorly-managed supplier/contractor and operator collaboration and content sharing, and significant health, safety and environment risk due to project/operations inefficiencies, which can often cause project slowdown, project failure and costly fines. The EPFM solution is also available for implementation in a traditional environment.

Documentum EPFM focuses on highly project-centric and repeated "transmittal" processes for managing supplier/contractor and operator interaction through potentially thousands of drawings and documents. It can support hundreds of project engineering capabilities such as bulk importing and validation of content, engineering numbering systems, and collaboration across multiple parties.

EPFM OnDemand promises optimised operations and supply chain management processes with Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems and business tools such as SAP Plant Maintenance, Oracle E-Business Suite, Primavera, Maximo, AutoCAD and Microstation.

Developed using technologies from VMware, RSA and EMC, the infrastructure can contain one or many EMC and EMC partner products and can be completely portable from one data centre to another. It also enables customers to provision and configure the system for rapid deployment.