It can't be said any more succinctly than it was summed up by a Document Locator user at State Mutual Life & Health: "Hard drives are cheaper than warehouses." The storage of paper is a burdensome cost that, when you consider it, really brings no return or adds any value to a company. Office space consumed by filing cabinets or archive...
It's official... we are Gold Certified for another year. Today, ColumbiaSoft announced that it has renewed its partnership with Microsoft. One aspect of this announcement that is significant is that this will be our 6th straight year of being a Gold Certified Partner - the highest level of partnership possible, and no small accomplishment. But, another important point to be...
Are you grappling with how to automate document version control? We're all familiar with this scenario: There's an important document with a critical deadline that has to be worked on by a group of people. Round and round the document goes, often by email, with edits written over edits. And... as the document progresses through stages, each person appends the file...
With so much being said lately about all the more flashy benefits of document control, it's worth remembering one of the more mundane aspects of our digital bandwagon: electronic filing offers some great business values. About one half of us business people spend about 2 hours of our day just trying to locate the information we need to do our job....
As any year draws to a close, it's a time honored habit among many to look back and reflect on the accomplishments of the past dozen months. Today, ColumbiaSoft did just that when in released its year-in-review roundup of news. Topping the headline is word that ColumbiaSoft will end 2008 with more customers than it had in the previous year... no small...
In our regulated world today, there is no avoiding the need for better document control. Anyone familiar with the bite of Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II, SEC, HIPAA, and FRCP eDiscovery can quickly attest to this. One of our customers said it best in his comment about regulatory risk, "Every piece of paper is a liability waiting to happen if it gets...
In advance of next week’s Autodesk University conference in Las Vegas, ColumbiaSoft made a pre-announcement today about an improved AutoCAD integration that is coming soon in the next version of Document Locator. It uses Autodesk RealDWG technology to offer faster performance of CAD file management within the Document Locator document management system. Now, Document Locator already connects to AutoCAD, so this...
Document Locator customers now have a new resource to share and exchange ideas, seek help from other users, and find tips about their document management system in the new online Document Locator Forum. The forum made its official public debut today as part of the new Document Locator Community Web site (which includes this blog, and soon a Wiki). The forum hosts...
For those who want an enterprise-class document management system, but don't want to deploy and manage the software... a new solution was announced today by ColumbiaSoft and its partner The Cram Group. Document Locator is now available via The Cram Group's ProjectXnet managed hosting service. Managed hosting for the document management system is available in two ways: SaaS Subscription Allows you to...
We'll be at DBIA's Design-Build conference next week in Las Vegas from Nov. 3 to 5, and we are happy to announce that The Cram Group, a well-respected hosting and solutions provider, will be joining us in our exhibit booth there. The Cram Group is particularly well-respected among the AEC industry for their focus on providing a full range of...
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