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Intranet, CRM and Document Management Software Review

stickyNoteManAre you one of those people that have sticky notes all around your screen? It begins with only a few things to remember – call designer, eat lunch, pants first then shoes, but it rapidly gets out of control. Pretty soon you can barely see the screen and you are stuck to your desk with fluorescent paper squares.

You need a better system, so you start using your email as a to-do list. 4653 emails, 3000 files and 31 billion spam messages later; this method also begins to crumble as an effective task management system.

Email is messy and unreliable. The real issue with email occurs when a team member leaves. All their valuable communication and IP is lost with their email account, not that you could find anything anyway. If that person was a project manager, suddenly you’ve lost all history of their projects. Not an ideal situation.

Here’s the answer to your sticky, fluorescent hell – Get yourself an Intranet. [Read more →]

OurDisk is turning 2! (V 2.0 that is)

Version One of our document management software, OurDisk has been very well received across a range of different markets with our client base growing every day. Thanks to valuable feedback from our customers over the last 9 months, we now have a whole bunch of feature requests that have gone into the melting pot for OurDisk V2.0.

We are very excited about the result getting closer to release as we continue to echo our passion for building user-friendly web software that makes doing business easier.

Whilst the core of the app remains the same, improvements include;

  • revised file navigation to cater for hundreds of categories, files and users,
  • smarter communication tools for notifying your clients of file updates,
  • and, rich reporting for administrators are also added to the mix.

For the techies out there, we are also adding 2048bit file encryption – the best on the market – to ensure security of your documents.

So, when is the release I hear you ask? Early November is the target.

To find out more visit the OurDisk website

Document Management has a New Name

OURDISK logoWe’ve had an interesting couple of weeks in the complex and tedious world of trademark ownership. We have had to change the name of our newly launched document management software, FileSight. Apparently FileSight is not as original as we thought. Apparently, FileSite is the same as FileSight.

Semantics!

With a looming deadline for some magazine advertising, we were forced to think of a new name … a good one … that is still available … and design a logo … a good one … that doesn’t look like anyone else’s … in two days … bugger. So, we did what any self-respecting business would do – we went to the pub.

Unfortunately, that produced a lot of names like Fileasaurus and DocuMentalCase, but nothing actually useful. Finally, Dan saved the day at the eleventh hour, with OURDISK™. We’ve registered it in every possible way that something can be registered and the logo is a vast improvement on the FileSight artwork. (Sorry Hawk. )

Existing FileSight users will be switched to the new name over the next few weeks. Don’t worry; nothing will change except the name.

And so, without further ado, we smash a bottle of something bubbly on her bow and shove her off down the slipway and back out into the wild blue yonder.

…Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange…
Shakespeare

Check out www.ourdisk.com for more info.