About Us
Catalyst is the sister company of RIMtech Consulting Inc. Bruce Miller, President, and Steve Saunders, CTO are cofounders and equal partners of Catalyst IG Tools. Our mission is to make highly specialized software tools and utilities to greatly accelerate EDRMS solutions for SharePoint platforms. These tools are based on RIMtech’s rapid EDRMS deployment methodology. RIMtech and Catalyst clients use Catalyst tools to greatly accelerate their EDRMS deployments.
Catalyst tools can be used in conjunction with any commercial recordkeeping software for SharePoint. This could include products such as Gimmal Records Manager, Collabware CLM, AvePoint Opus, RecordPoint R365, or Microsoft Purview. Catalyst tools can be used before, during, and after a SharePoint deployment.
Bruce Miller
Co-Founder, President
Bruce Miller, MBA, IGP is President of RIMtech, a vendor-neutral records technology consulting firm, and a world leading expert on electronic recordkeeping. Mr. Miller is an author, an educator, and is widely regarded as the inventor of modern electronic recordkeeping software. He pioneered the world’s first commercial electronic recordkeeping software and in 1997 he achieved the world’s first e-Records software certification against the US DoD 5015.2 standard. He has since presided over several successful 5015.2 certifications. He founded Tarian Software in 1999, where he developed the world’s first e-Records software engine for business software. That year he received ARMA Canada’s National Capital Region’s Ted Ferrier Award of Excellence for his contribution to the field of records management. Tarian was the first e-Records technology in the world to be certified against the revised 5015.2 June 2002 standard. In November 2002 Tarian was acquired by IBM, where Mr. Miller served for three years as IBM’s e-Records Strategy and Business Development Executive. Mr. Miller is the recipient of the prestigious 2003 Emmett Leahy Award, considered the highest international recognition given to professionals in the field of information and records management. Bruce’s ground-breaking book “Managing Records in Microsoft SharePoint” is an authoritative treatment of recordkeeping for SharePoint. He is working on his latest book entitled “Implementing Electronic Recordkeeping Software – a Methodology for Success”, Bruce holds a Diploma in Electronics Engineering Technology, and a Masters in Business Administration from Queen’s University. He is a certified Information Governance Professional (IGP), and holds a certificate in Prince 2 Project Management.
Bruce consults on electronic recordkeeping issues such as product selection and evaluation, implementation readiness and planning, and strategy and project management, where he helps buyers plan for, acquire, and implement EDRMS solutions. He also consults with software vendors to help them attain product certification and develop recordkeeping capabilities.
Steve Saunders
Co-Founder, Technology Director
Steve is a professional software developer and entrepreneur with over 40 years of experience. He has worked with Bruce Miller of RIMtech for over 20 years, where he developed the worlds first electronic records management system ForeMost, which was used throughout North America by many blue-chip public and private sector organizations before being acquired by Documentum.
Steve and Bruce went on to found Tarian Software which developed another world-first – API-level records management technology. As Chief Technology Officer, he and his team developed the Tarian e-Records Engine, software that enabled technology companies to records-enable their products to quickly become DoD 5015.2 certified. Tarian was purchased by IBM, then a Tarian partner.
At IBM Steve ran the records management division as an executive in the Software Group. Steve managed an international development and testing team in Canada, the USA, India and China. The e-Records engine was ported from Microsoft to Java technology and was embedded in the IBM document manager and supported on multiple computing platforms including Linux, SuSe and AIX with multi-lingual support. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Carleton University.
Steve and Bruce together share the same records management knowledge, understanding and passion. Steve is pleased to join Bruce at RIMtech as a Technology Systems Consultant to ensure RIMtechs’ projects are successful from design through to implementation. Steve brings his wealth of software development, project management, quality assurance and deployment experience to RIMtech. He can be reached at steve@rimtechconsulting.com.
Our Story
Over 20+ years of consulting work deploying EDRMS solutions at RIMtech Consulting, Bruce Miller and Steve Saunders came to realize that most of their clients were using SharePoint as their ECM platform. To deploy recordkeeping software, they realized the same three things had to be for every project. The retention schedule had to be modified to make it software-ready. The Information Architecture (sites, libraries, metadata) had to be defined to fit the retention schedule, Finally, the IA had to be carefully entered by hand into SharePoint. That was a lot of work, a lot of time, a lot of expense. It could take years, and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
There had to be a better way.
So they established a standardized methodology that ensured compliance, consistency, and classification accuracy. They they built software tools to deploy the IA within SharePoint, avoiding the manual labor of hand-entering the IA into SharePoint. Along the way, the toolset grew as they learned how to further optimize the various steps of the process. The tools now all work together to get your recordkeeping software deployed to SharePoint faster, with fewer errors, and ensuring recordkeeping compliance when complte.