“Paperless offices” an elusive dream?

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

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 [...]

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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What is PDF/A?

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

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 [...]

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 [...]