ColumbiaSoft's Document Locator Version 2.0: Document Management Software for Windows' Servers, with Unlimited Server License Pricing.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 2003 Customers include Defense Language Institute The Defense Language Institute (DLI) is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) educational and research institution, which provides linguistic and cultural instruction to the Department of Defense, other Federal Agencies and numerous and varied other customers. , Lockheed, Mitre, medical and legal firms ColumbiaSoft announced today it has released version released version - release 2.0 of its document management system for Windows servers See Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Windows 2000 and Windows NT. : Document Locator LOCATOR, civil law. He who leases or lets a thing to hire to another. His duties are, 1st. To deliver to the hirer the thing hired, that he may use it. 2d. To guaranty to the hirer the free enjoyment of it. 3d. . Document Locator enables businesses and government agencies to intuitively store, quickly access and affordably manage virtually any volume of documents that can be saved on Microsoft file server(s), including scanned documents, PDFs, AutoCAD, HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , e-mail and standard MS Office applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio. In addition, Document Locator customers can rapidly set up approval and notification processes, automatically and securely publish documents to the Web, and set up the system to perform routine chores such as importing and archiving documents. File Server Smarts and Affordability Document Locator is integrated into Windows Explorer See Explorer. , so users navigate it as they would a Windows file server. However, unlike those limited, shared file servers, Document Locator stores documents inside SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. 2000 so they are full-text indexed as they are saved. Users can search for words or phrases within the document and literally find it in seconds, whether the document is a PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. of a scanned contract or an AutoCAD file. Document Locator 2.0 has a fully integrated scanner console supporting any TWAIN-compliant device, giving every desk top the ability to scan. "Most organizations store their documents on a Microsoft file server. The file server was great when it was first introduced over 20 years ago but it hasn't kept up with the growing demands of business and government agencies. File servers have gotten bigger because we all have more documents to store and manage, but they haven't added 'intelligence' to help you find documents quickly and intuitively -- we've done that," said Richard Day Richard Day can refer to
Day added that most ColumbiaSoft customers see an ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). within 90 days of installation. Document Locator Product Family and Features Document Locator for Small Business has been especially designed to serve the hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Small Business Server customers. It is sold in 10, 25 and 50-user license packages starting at $1,500. Document Locator Professional is sold in 25 and 50-seat packages starting at $4,000; it also has an unlimited single server license for $9,500. Document Locator Professional offers multiple repositories, a software developer's kit See SDK. for customizing applications, and can be upgraded for remote access and Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. through Document Locator Web Tools, which has an unlimited site license price of $5,500. Document Locator's new features include: -- Integrated scanner console supporting any TWAIN-compliant scanner, including devices from HP, Canon, Epson, Fujitsu and others, -- Outlook integration: users can now email a link to a document such as a budget or contract that needs to be reviewed by several colleagues. When recipients receive the email, they click the link to view or edit the document, using Document Locator's versioning, check-in/checkout and security features. The document remains securely in the repository, eliminating the excessive replication of documents common in email and file server environments, -- A task manager allowing users to automatically schedule archiving, importing, and launching documents, -- The ability to configure any Diff comparison tool for users to compare versions of two different documents and merge them as needed, -- Support for files up to 2 GB (such as WAV, MP3, MPG, and CAD drawings), -- Integration with Goldmine CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , -- Document Locator Professional 2.0 also includes a software developer's kit allowing IT departments to integrate Document Locator with mission-critical applications and to create customized solutions, -- A search tool bar built into Windows Explorer for even faster access to documents, For more information, call Columbia Soft at 800/298-1172. About ColumbiaSoft (http://www.documentlocator.com): ColumbiaSoft, a private Portland, Oregon company, provides intuitive, affordable document management solutions for 'unstructured data' problems caused by Windows shared file servers. Easy to install and affordably priced, Document Locator is a new breed of software used by small to mid-sized firms in the engineering, finance, human resource, I.T., legal, manufacturing, and medical industries as well as government and defense agencies. ColumbiaSoft is a Microsoft Gold Partner and AutoDESK partner. |
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