Planet® IRM allows organizations to gain insight and control over their entire operation, ensure business continuity, assist in disaster recovery efforts, and increase flexibility for change and asset management. However, access is typically constrained to personnel with extensive training using local client terminals with a direct server connection; and export capabilities have been limited to the form of basic reports, spreadsheets or static sketches. Getting accurate, up-to-date, thorough information to the field in a simplistic form for day-to-day procedures or during emergency situations may take an extensive period of time, delaying work activities or leaving first responders waiting idly while critical minutes pass.
To better serve field personnel, Planet Associates has developed the iiPDF™ application and Planet eVolution™ web client for use with Planet IRM. With this innovative system, authorized remote users login to the Planet eVolution webserver over the internet and instantly create up-to-the-minute multi-layered iiPDF files with embedded tool tips, equipment inventory spreadsheets, parent-child hierarchy links, and other enhanced capabilities. These resulting password-protected iiPDF files can easily be viewed by authorized users with Adobe Reader® software. The Adobe users can manipulate layer visibility and use Adobe’s Reader Extension* functionality to annotate changes for later updates to the Planet IRM database.
The iiPDF / Planet eVolution solution increases Planet IRM’s usability throughout an organization by extending a portion of Planet IRM’s functionality beyond the constraints of a local client terminal. It is an essential tool for first-responders, field support, and outside contractors: it puts real-time, up-to-date critical data in the remote hands of those who need it most - quickly and easily - while protecting the contained information with established security mechanisms.
Future applications available via the Planet eVolution web portal include Intelligent Infrastructure Reports and User/Desktop Management.
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