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The Benefits of
Using DocShare
The following section covers the benefits DocShare brings to
all members of your organization including Knowledge Workers,
Accountants, Document Controllers and Network Administrators.
Benefits to Knowledge Workers
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Centralized file storage - provides a centralized
repository to maintain current and effective versions of
critical business documents. |
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Information sharing - makes it easy to access and
distribute most current versions of all documents to
employees and 3rd parties. |
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Group collaboration - thoughts, ideas and
knowledge is centralized and can be leveraged during the
document lifecycle process. |
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Task co-ordination - ability to centralize work
tasks to be completed on documents, files or projects
and to quickly bring workers from all sides of a project
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Benefits to
Document Controllers, Knowledge Managers and Team Leaders
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Low-level repository management capability allows
Document Administrators to control the structure of the
document repository. |
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Centralized document management allows for the
consistent and accurate profiling of all documents and
files from a central list of topics. |
Benefits to Business Managers and
Accountants
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Low cost of ownership - an affordable, web-driven
solution that doesn't require extensive service,
support, networking or user training keeps the total
cost of system to a minimum. |
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Increased employee productivity - accessibility
to data across business lines dramatically improves
employees' decision and reaction times. The result is
decreased operating costs and faster time to market for
products or services. |
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Increased customer satisfaction - provides
customers, partners, consultants access to relevant
documents to keep them satisfied. |
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Reduced operating costs - associated with
mailing, printing, paper, photocopying, filing, storage
space and telephone calls. |
Benefits to Administrators and IT
Managers
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Easy to administer - emphasis on community maintained
applications distributes the administrative burden
freeing up precious IT resources. |
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Easy to deploy and setup -Deploy and setup DocShare in
less than a day. |
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Secure intellectual assets - ensure data integrity,
control authorization for internal and external users.
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Low cost of ownership - an affordable web-based solution
requiring minimal licensing fees, networking
infrastructure or training ensures low cost of
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DocShare provides an easy to use, out of the box
document management solution.
1. Document Management Features
2. Search and Retrieval
3. Document Workflow
4. Set-up, Administer & Support |
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1. DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT FEATURES
Essential functionality for the organization and
maintenance of files and documents
MODELS YOUR OFFICE FILING ENVIRONMENT
- The DocShare document library models your office
filing environment. File cabinets contain drawers that
contain categories and categories contain folders and/or
documents.
VERSION CONTROL-
provides check-in/check-out ability that prevents
documents being overwritten or deleted as documents are
updated.
CUSTOM DOCUMENT PROFILING
customizable document tree navigator allows
permanent/temporary files or folders, user/administrator
specific document tree navigators.
SCANNING & IMAGING INTEGRATION
(optional)- provides for highly automated scanning.
Scanning Module supports over 200 different scanners,
including high-speed, color, and duplex scanners.
PHOTO GALLERY-
Ability to classify and upload logos, images and
photographs.
ROLE BASED SECURITY-
Access to any file or folder can be quickly and safely
restricted to individual or groups of users. For more
information on system security
FILE & FOLDER APPROVAL
- Users can subscribe to files or folders and be
notified via email subscription list - of changes or
addition of documents in DocShare.
DOCUMENT UPLOAD UTILITIES
- quickly index and upload files into DocShare multi
document upload facility (pdf,doc,exe,ppt etc.)
DOCUMENT USAGE LOGS-
track document usage and version history by system
users.
DOCUMENT HISTORY LOGS
track the last accessed documents by system users.
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2. DOCUMENT SEARCH & RETRIEVAL
Ensures fast and accurate document library searching
FULL CONTEXT SEARCHING-
The powerful indexing and full text search engine allows
users to search the contents of your favorite file types
including Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office, (Word, Excel,
Power Point) and more.
SEARCH SECURITY-
ensures users can only search against the documents they
have access to. This prevents unauthorized information
from being searched and retrieved.
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3. DOCUMENT WORKFLOW & COLLABORATION
Co-ordinate task efforts for document creation, revision
or processing.
PERSONALIZED HOME PAGE
- Users have a single point of access to all of their
content within DocShare including documents, photo
gallery, news updates, search, daily poll and
announcements.
SIMPLE DOCUMENT APPROVAL WORKFLOW
- process provides structure for documents needing to
pass through several authors and approvers before it is
ready for general distribution.
EASY WORKFLOW SETUP-
Allows users to set-up workflows without need for
programming knowledge.
EVENT CALENDAR
Provides a simple calendar based, events publisher for
departments and teams.
PERSONALIZED TASK LIST
- Provides a simple, prioritized task list unique to
each workflow participant. Task Notification of new or
overdue tasks via email or centralized task list.
DISCUSSION FORUM
- promotes collaboration from users at the task level.
WORKGROUP CONTACT DIRECTORY-
helps centralize contact information for system users
and third parties located on other messaging networks.
VOTE MANAGER & DAILY POLLS
provides polling system for the groups and
departments.
WEBMAIL SERVICES
this provides standard mailing facilities to user
groups, departments and individuals. Mails can be stored
and kept for future use.
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4. EASY TO SET-UP, ADMINISTER & SUPPORT
DocShare ensures hassle-free ongoing system maintenance
and support.
FAST USER ACCOUNT CREATION-
quickly creates new system user accounts MS Active
Directory support. Users are then quickly sorted into
groups based on their role in the company.
ROLE-DRIVEN USER SECURITY-
administrators easily control any group (role) of users
access to functionality and content within DocShare.
DocShare supports levels of group application / group
content access including add, edit, delete and
administrator.
DOCUMENT UPLOAD UTILITIES
- quickly index and upload files into DocShare multi
document upload facility (pdf,doc,exe,ppt etc.)
ACCESS VIA WEB BROWSER-
access DocShare using any standard web browser over the
Internet or through their LAN or WAN.
INTEGRATED HELP SYSTEM-
a help system shortens the learning curve and
accelerates system adoption.
WEB-BASED TRAINING-
Although customers report no need for training, a series
of training is provided. These instructional
presentations provide an excellent overview of how to
use DocShare document management for both users and
administrators. |
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