Another of our customers has successfully used Document Locator to power document management within an intranet environment… we issued a release on how HITT Contracting Gets Organized just the other day. Actually, much of the credit goes to our partner The Cram Group for getting HITT up and running. Now, HITT’s 700+ employees are using their intranet to share and collaborate in an organized way, with document management at the core of information control. So many companies face difficulties sharing information using email, shared folders, and FTP. Intranets are one way to help improve the situation, but they alone don’t necessarily put information under proper management. Intranets are like rooms… spaces where people can meet, share and exchange information, while document management adds a layer of control over information with versioning, notifications, approvals, workflow and more.

Ok… This isn’t the usual place for bragging, so forgive me for just a moment to announce that we have been named in the list of Top 100 Collection Technology Products by Collection Advisor Magazine. I’ll stop here and let you choose if you want to continue reading the Announcement.

It’s officially out there – our latest release of Document Locator raises the bar more than a little with new integration technologies. I’ll leave the details to those who want to read more about Document Locator v5.1, but in short – it’s now possible to connect document management directly to other business applications. So, for example, if Document Locator were to be integrated with your accounting system, Bob over in accounts payable could – with a simple key-click on any field in the accounting software – instantly retrieve all documents related to the content in that field. Bob never has to leave the application he is working in, yet he is able to search and retrieve from across the document management system used by the entire company.

The potential benefits here are enormous, because this kind of integration allows people to stay within their own line-of-business applications they are already comfortable with and using on a day-to-day basis, while everyone uses the same system for managing their documents and information.

Our integration with Prolog – a construction project management application – is our first showcase solution for integrated document management. In the case of Prolog, it’s construction project managers who need quick and easy access to documents (like invoices being processed by accounting, for example) .