Keeping every member of a project team up-to-date and informed is significant task for any project manager. Across the team, different groups use different specialized software applications to do their work. Often it’s left to unstructured and uncontrolled means like email and shared network folders to share files and connect the team. Our approach has always been to unify project...
It’s no surprise that the new document preview technology built into the latest release of Document Locator is garnering accolades from users of the document management system. Being able to simply click on a file and see what’s inside without opening it first is a huge time saver. Images, emails, documents, spreadsheets -...
Creating a simple document workflow - a series of repeatable process steps where files are passed for review, approval, filing, and more, is as simple as step-by-step configuration using document management software inside Windows. The importance of document workflow can’t be understated where office productivity is concerned. Many typical office tasks are by nature repeatable, and they are made far more...
One of the great features of Windows is the ability to navigate through files and preview the contents before opening. Being able to do this with files that are under document management has until recently been more of a challenge. The latest version of Document Locator, however, solves that. For the first time, people can navigate through...
Microsoft's announcement yesterday that Windows 8 is coming this October is exciting news. Being a Microsoft partner, and a developer of Windows document management, the coming of what is sure to be the boldest reinvention of Windows ever has our rousing enthusiasm. Aside from being optimized for the tablet, the new Windows brings a radically new user...
Much attention has been paid to the arrival of eBooks and other paperless ways of learning in schools. Yet another paperless revolution is also occurring quietly at colleges and universities, this one in the administration. It's improving the efficiency of education with a transition to paperless business practices using document management software. Schools and universities, much like any other company...
Policies and procedures represent the underpinning of an orderly, efficient, and regulatory-compliant business. They are vitally important where regulatory controls and compliance are a concern. However, managing policies and procedures have long been considered complex and burdensome. Oversight, change management, communication, and the many other tasks involved with policy and procedure management are made even more complicated when this process is...
Schools are one place where there is (was in some cases) a lot of paper. Students are having no problem jumping on the paperless bandwagon. eBooks and iPads in place of heavy text books are a no-brainer for anyone not wanting a back-ache. Now, administrators behind the inner-workings of schools where back office student files abound are going paperless too. The...
Combining regulatory savvy with practical technology is one smart way to help quality managers in FDA-regulated medical device manufacturing tackle compliance. Today, ColumbiaSoft and Prism Plus Consulting announced they are doing just that. In a joint news statement, the two companies noted how compliance programs require tools to manage and automate document-centric procedures. ColumbiaSoft's Document Locator document control platform helps...
With Microsoft just days away from the expected announcement of the new SQL Server 2012, it's timely to note for users of Document Locator that the latest version of the document management system is already compatible. Having pre-release, developer editions of the new SQL database technology, ColumbiaSoft engineers designed compatibility into version 6.1. No worries about backwards compatibility either, the latest...
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