Case Study: Grooming Leaders with DocuBuzz

Fri, 10/02/2009 - 10:53 — emma

The Client: A training consultancy that organizes leadership development and team-building programs for corporate clients in various locations across Asia. The Challenge: The firm deals with a large variety of documents in the course of its operations.  These documents need to be shared among different groups of users distributed across many different locations.  The sales and marketing staff, for instance, needs access to the latest marketing collateral such as brochures, service-contracts and venue profiles.  The training consultants need to distribute material such as articles, instructions and presentations to different clients.... Read more »

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Case Study: Head-hunting with DocuBuzz

Sat, 09/26/2009 - 17:54 — john
The Client: A boutique recruitment agency with four principle consultants who focus on filling senior management positions for their clients.  Three other employees provide support through various administrative and research duties. The Challenge: The agency has to manage a large number of documents for each job candidate including resumes, testimonials, recommendation letters, interview records and employment contracts.  These documents come in a range of file-types including Word, Excel, PDF, RTF and JPG formats.
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Flavourings

Wed, 09/09/2009 - 02:46 — john
One avenue for enhancing DocuBuzz that we are seriously studying is to develop different flavours of the application to address the needs of different industry sectors.

We have implemented a fair number of bespoke document management solutions for clients from different sectors.  Not surprisingly, while the needs between sectors could vary substantially, most clients within the same sector had very similar requirements.
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Coming Soon: e-Fax Integration

Wed, 09/02/2009 - 00:27 — john
Now that the basic DocuBuzz features have been successfully rolled out, we are beginning to turn our development focus to adding more advanced document management functions to the platform.
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Do It Your Way - DocuBuzz Plus

Mon, 08/24/2009 - 01:46 — john
One of our guiding design principles for DocuBuzz is Simplicity.  The average small business user must be able to deploy and start using DocuBuzz quickly and easily.

One surefire way to kill simplicity in any application is feature overload.  We thus have to be extremely careful about incorporating new functionality into DocuBuzz.  On the flip side, we also need to ensure that the core feature-set is comprehensive enough to meet the essential document management needs of most small businesses.
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Personal Edition

Sat, 08/15/2009 - 10:25 — john
When we first released the DocuBuzz web application,  the smallest possible subscription allowed was a 3-user account.  This made sense as we had designed DocuBuzz expressly for collaboration and we figured most businesses would have at least 3 people who needed to share documents.

Almost from the start, however, we received requests for the option of a 1-user account.   We thus began toying around with the idea of introducing a stripped-down personal edition of DocuBuzz.
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Roadmap

Tue, 08/04/2009 - 01:05 — john
The diagram below provides an overview of our development focus over the next few quarters:
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New Feature: Versioning

Mon, 07/27/2009 - 10:13 — john
We have just introduced document versioning with the latest update of the DocuBuzz application.  You will now be able to replace an existing file with a new one.  The new file will retain all the meta-data of the file it is replacing, including the file-name, tags & notes.

New versions of the file will be numbered sequentially - V1, V2, V3 ... and so on.  Any active links to the document that you may have sent out will always point to the latest version of the file.
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Guiding Principles

Mon, 07/13/2009 - 20:14 — john
DocuBuzz was born out of the frustrations we faced managing our own documents at GonzoBuzz.  As we operate virtually, we sorely needed a simple and affordable means of storing, accessing and sharing our critical business documents.
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Announcing DocuBuzz

Wed, 07/01/2009 - 21:44 — john

After about a year of development and beta-testing, we have just formally launched our first stand-alone web application – DocuBuzz – an on-demand document management solution specifically designed for small businesses and distributed teams. The concept for DocuBuzz evolved from our experience in developing custom document & records management solutions for a variety of clients.  In the course of these projects, we realized that the core document management requirements are quite similar across most small businesses. 

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