Improve Productivity and Reduce Business Risk WHAT IS SOX? The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush on July 30, 2002. All public companies, large and small, must comply. The Act protects investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures…
Even though documents drive communication in all enterprises worldwide, document management and collaboration is a very dry topic that everyone takes for granted. Nobody wants to spend much time talking about it or reading about it. The startling negative impact of document management and…
Collaboration is a term that is used to describe a broad range of solutions offered in the marketplace today. Everything from Chat, web conferencing, content management, file share and sync and more can be described as a collaboration solution. At SavvyDox we looked at collaboration and…
Managing documents, especially using collaboration, can be a very complex, confusing and frustrating process. Let’s take a look at some key issues that may be encountered. Almost everyone bumps into version control issues. If you are distributing a Word document via email, version control becomes a huge…
One of our developers came to me recently, excited about how much SavvyDox was helping him in the review cycle for a novel he’s writing. The authoring software he’s using is called Scrivener, which is popular with writers who are attempting to produce a large work. What…
Think of today’s process that is involved in negotiating a contract or an M&A transaction. The document goes from Lawyer A (Alice) to Lawyer B (Bob) for comments. Bob marks up the document and sends it back to Alice. If Bob makes any significant changes…
Our second (and final) beta of our Mac OS reader is now available from the downloads page. The reader is now fully functional although there remain some UI improvements, particularly in the areas of Notes that we’d like to complete before declaring it ready for…
All employers are worried about the safety of their assets, whether they are computers, oil refineries, chemical plants, nuclear refineries, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) refineries, or hundreds of other things. However, even more important is the safety of your employees within those environments. OSHA standards dictate…
If you’re the author of a document that is being reviewed by multiple people in parallel, what is the biggest single problem that you face in the review process? If it’s a contract, what is your biggest concern? We’ve done some research on these two…
Freedictionary.com provides the following definition of collaboration – to work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort. There are multiple types of collaboration, so let’s compare and contrast two of the most common forms – collaboration in a face to face meeting and document collaboration. During collaboration…
