Draper, Utah – Feb. 14, 2005 – NextPage today released NextPage 1.5 Document Collaboration, the first software to eliminate ad hoc document chaos for millions of business professionals who use Microsoft® Office every day. NextPage 1.5 Document Collaboration is a new subscription service that provides users with real-time status and notifications about all documents on which they collaborate, providing control over the ad hoc processes that create the estimated 7.5 billion documents produced each year.
With NextPage 1.5 Document Collaboration, workers no longer waste time, effort and unnecessary cycles tracking down the latest versions of important documents, making sure others are working on the correct versions and double checking to make sure people are receiving the right documents.
“Our users estimate they spend 10 percent of their time managing documents with ad hoc processes, and until now, they had no solution to resolve the chaos of document versions in e-mail attachments and on hard drives,” said Darren Lee, president and CEO of NextPage. “Today, with NextPage 1.5 Document Collaboration, customers know real-time document status and can guarantee they spend their time working on the right document version.”
Unlike typical centralized solutions, NextPage 1.5 Document Collaboration doesn’t require IT infrastructure, takes only a few minutes to install and works with the applications people rely on every day – e-mail and Microsoft Office. In addition, users can still work with non-subscribers, and the service automatically knows when a new document arrives that it is a version of the original.
“In our research on content collaboration technologies, we’ve found that organizations want solutions that take into account the ad hoc nature of business,” said Michael Maziarka, director at InfoTrends/CAP Ventures. “NextPage’s software is designed to work like people work – typically in e-mail and in Microsoft Office applications – so the probability of adoption is high and teams receive value immediately when they start using the software.”
The patent-pending technologies of NextPage 1.5 Document Collaboration provide the only solution to the ad hoc chaos of creating documents. The service adds a Digital Thread™ of accuracy and control to document versions. The Digital Thread guarantees awareness of the following:
