I’ve been comparing document management solutions. This table may help others or you may have some thoughts on the subject.
David
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Quickr |
Dropbox |
Alternative X |
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Shared Access from any Internet-connected location |
Yes |
Yes |
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Version Control/Always get the latest version of a document |
Yes |
Yes |
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Secure |
Yes |
? |
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Mac and Windows Access |
Yes |
Yes |
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Support complex file structures (subfolders, etc.) |
Yes |
Yes |
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Archive and backup (3) |
Yes |
? |
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In place editing (rather than download/edit/upload) |
Windows only |
Yes |
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Search across the system or in a specific place |
Yes |
Yes |
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Offline file access |
No |
Yes |
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Granular Security |
Yes |
? |
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Integration with productivity apps (file open/save) |
Windows only |
Yes |
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Integration with email |
Windows only |
Minimal |
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Share files inside the organization and with others (clients, prospects, partners, public) |
Yes |
Yes |
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Integrate with other enterprise social tools (e.g. IBM Connect, Sharepoint) |
Partial via plugins |
? |
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Administrator control of access rights, structure, archiving, etc. |
Yes |
? |
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I’ll be missing everyone at Connect 2013 in Orlando this year. As a budget measure there are no professional development funds available from my employer.
This may be a “be careful what you wish for” story. All of the great resources available at no charge these days, both online and in person, have clearly led management to see paid training as expendable. And in the IBM collaboration solutions world in particular the reality is that given the great content available at no charge IBM may have priced themselves out of the market a bit with a $2,000 registration fee.
I’ll be following remotely as best I can. And I hope to make up for the missed time in Orlando by participating more in user groups this year. I’m planning to start with SkiLUG in Feburary.
Here’s hoping for better business success in 2013 and my own return to Connect in 2014. And somebody please ask about Quickr Connectors for Mac for me.
As you can see http://davidschaffer.us has been moved to WordPress.
It’s a new platform for me so comments and suggestions are encouraged.
David Schaffer
I’m preparing to move my blog again since Posterous may be getting serious about winding down (having just introduced their tool for backing up your existing posts. Thanks Mitch Cohen for the heads up on that one.)
Which gives me a nice opportunity to struggle with the issue of personal branding. The blog you’re currently reading is available at http://davidschaffer.us, which redirects to http://theremustbe.posterous.com. I suspect most folks reach it directly via the latter url, which is what Planet Lotus links to.
Where did that name come from? I have a long-standing business supporting small business in technology use. I do business as “There Must Be A Better Way“. But most of my on line life lately is more related to my “day job” — Director of Technology for the management consulting firm of Schaffer Consulting (the Schaffer in that title being my father, Robert Schaffer). That’s where I deal with IBM’s collaboration products — Notes, Domino, Traveler, Quickr and Sametime — as well as such sources of blogging delight as Blackberry Enterprise Server, VMWare and Symantec Backup Exec
My first blogging efforts were on a Domino-hosted blog known as Bloginprogress.us. It seemed like a cute name at the time and didn’t limit me to one sphere of experience. But blog spam, bandwidth limitations and unreliable power at my home led me to decide a hosted blog was a better choice.
So the world is my oyster now when it comes to naming. How do I brand myself and what url do I use for the new blog?
As anyone following the news knows, the east coast of the United States is being hit with what is being called Frankenstorm, a perfect storm or the ever-popular storm of the century. Connecticut is expected to get some of the worst coastal flooding, due to a storm track that will funnel water into Long Island Sound, combined with the normal high tides from the full moon.
Please take this one seriously and I hope everyone is safe.
Some resources to follow along:
Official notices from the CT state government: http://www.ct.gov/sandy
Danbury local paper site: http://www.newstimes.com/
Stamford local paper site: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/
CTNow.com (local Fox affiliate; strong weather coverage): http://www.ctnow.com/
NBC Hartford: http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/
Could you please provide:
- Here’s what I did
- Here’s what happened
- Here’s the message/error/screen I got
Ideally it would be nice to know how long it to took from taking the action to getting the result, does it happen every time, does what you were trying to do in the first place actually happen or is this a failure?
Sending me a screen shot or a non-delivery message with none of the above will not get your problem resolved unless it’s something really simple or really catastrophic.
Thanks for listening. End of rant.
