Under the agreement, Logica will develop and implement a management system for the alliance’s electronic documents across Europe, Turkey and the USA.

Previously, Logica installed a “Document Handling System” (DHS) product for the “NATO Secret” network in ten of the organization’s locations worldwide. By December 2008, DHS is expected to be set up at 14 more locations. Once the project is completed, the majority of NATO’s military community will be using the system.

Prior to the introduction of DHS, NATO was using several separate systems for document management that were closely geared to the individual command centers and institutions of the organisation. With DHS from Logica, NATO employees are now able to access internal documents from any of the organisation’s locations. A powerful search function ensures that documents from a wide variety of different sources can be found quickly and easily.

Steven Janis, Core portfolio coordinator at the NATO C3 Agency, said: “What we wanted from our new document management solution was a user-friendly application that offered our users enterprise-wide rapid access to all appropriate documents stored in the business in a controlled manner, balancing the need-to-know against the need-to-share. Logica has implemented a solution that does exactly that for us”.