Archive for the 'Benubird' Category

Introducing Benubird

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

We’re happy to announce that we now have a Technical Preview of Benubird available for download.
Our goal is for Benubird to redefine a way of storing, managing and retrieving documents (and other types of files too) — regardless of wherever they’re stored within your system or network. Well, that’s our goal anyway.
Give Benubird a try:

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Where’s that file?

Monday, May 19th, 2008

“Document management” was previously the domain of librarians and nerds in the filing room (no offense!). However, with the deluge of email, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, invoices, reports, and even more, it’s now a problem that everyone has to deal with.
Most versions of Windows (and other operating systems) use a file and folder based system for [...]

Get smart

Monday, May 5th, 2008

In a nutshell, what we’re looking to do is to overcome the problems inherent in a folder-based system. Remember the days of trying to locate a physical file you dropped in the wrong folder in a physical filing cabinet. In fact, I still periodically do this with invoices and other bills that our government hasn’t [...]

Personal document management

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Recently a friend asked me a simple question: what do you mean by personal document management? Since this concept is at the core of what we’re doing with Benubird, I thought I would quickly expand on it.
It’s fairly straightforward, ‘personal’ refers to the fact that the focus is on the individual user (i.e. you) and [...]