Congratulations to ColumbiaSoft Corporation and its visionary founder, Richard Day, on this the company’s 10th anniversary! ColumbiaSoft was founded on September 9, 1998 by Day, former owner and president of PED Manufacturing, one of the nation's leading producers of orthopedic prosthetics. Day’s vision: to create a new breed of document management that included enterprise-level functionality and performance at a price...
After nine months of planning, coding, QA testing, and Beta evaluations... the big day is finally here: Today ColumbiaSoft released its ninth edition of our document management software - Document Locator Version 5.2. For those who are interested in: Email compliance, discovery or retrieval, Document delivery (file hand-off), Adobe Acrobat integration and digital signatures, or Improved document workflow ... This release...
For employees whose job dictates that they regularly create new documents, having access to an intuitive and easy to use version control system is a major advantage. Early in my career I distinctly remember the struggles I experienced creating specification documents, training guides, and other business related documentation. Authoring the content was challenging enough, but the issues were compounded by...
Document management systems provide users the capability to index documents using metadata attributes. These index attributes, when applied in a consistent fashion, can provide users with the capability to quickly find and retrieve associated documents. The question is... how do you enforce consistent metadata indexing for all of your documents? Relying on free-form text to index documents in an environment...
Included in Document Locator v5.2 are several enhancements to the workflow system. One enhancement already generating enormous fanfare in the user community is the overhauled notification system. Previous generations of Document Locator dutifully rendered and distributed email messages to the appropriate users notifying them based on the required task. These notifications included relevant information such as workflow task details, file...
When considering new enterprise software, demos are almost always a step in the process. Very few people ever buy an ERP system, or deploy a CRM system, without first kicking the tires. Document management usually falls in the same category... And we agree, it's good to see and learn before you buy. That's why we hold at least two live,...
An interesting poster arrived in the mail today. A galactic map of the Silicon Forest Universe. And right there, not so far, far away, was ColumbiaSoft's own galaxy nestled between the 4th and 5th rings of the massive Tektronix universe. The poster is a second generation of the map to result from research by Virginia Tech University and Portland State University....
I recently read that product managers categorically receive the most emails in the company. Reading this brought a grin across my face - misery loves company. My email inbox gets bombarded daily with product enhancement ideas, consulting proposals, internal questions, meeting requests, and industry articles. For me, it’s an imperative that our employees have a means to organize and manage their...
We talk a lot about Document Management here, without a lot of particulars on how to get it, or as importantly, how to explain its value to others. That's intentional, because we are not "salesy" in this blog, rather just informative. But, something struck me in a meeting with a finance company the other day that seemed would be helpful...
The term ‘document management’ has been employed by marketers to describe a broad spectrum of business functions including document scanning, version control, document retrieval, document creation, electronic and paper archiving, document retention, and more. Despite the multitude of definitions, at the core of a robust document management system is an indexing system that is configured to easily capture metadata attributes...
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