A recent report by market intelligence company IDC revealed that 60% of responding Australian businesses produced more paper print-outs today than they had five years ago. This figure makes the eager projections of the early noughties look rather optimistic. The problem? According to the report, poor planning and implementation of electronic document management systems underpin [...]

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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PDF/A is a subset of PDF designed for long-term archiving. In order to make it suitable for long-term archiving certain PDF features, such as JavaScript support, embedding of audio/video content and encryption, were removed. In addition, use of standards-based metadata is mandated and all fonts must be embedded in the document.
The goal behind PDF/A is [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I was chatting with a good friend of mine, Don Fluckinger, about storage and retrieval of his various pieces of content all over the web and throughout print publications.
First up, a quick intro to Don: If you’re a member of the PDF world, you’d have definitely encountered his writings at PDFzone, and probably caught up [...]

With the first release of Benubird just around the corner we think it’s time to start letting everyone know a little more about what we’re doing. So let’s get started:
What is Benubird?
Almost a year ago, after over a decade of frustration at not being able to find a number of important documents, we first hatched [...]