The Future of Document Management?
This interesting post: “The New Way to Work: The Future of Document Management Software“ caught my attention. Although very high-level and generic, the vision remains quite interesting – and very much in sync with my own.
This enticed me to learn more about Huddle.net, which I did not know much about yet. Huddle is a cloud-based Document Management Software, with a strong focus on collaboration. It is in the vein of some of the online tools that I reported on during my Office 2.0 coverage last year, but with an interesting twist which might make it appealing for companies with distributed teams.
Its uploading and online editing (Word and Excel) capabilities are relatively standard, but its “project dashboard”, workflow capabilities, and audit trail of documents, make it sound like a very good tool for small companies with intensive document processing and interaction needs. What does not hurt, too, is the included support for online collaboration, including phone and web conferencing, IM, and an interesting “Whiteboard”.
Probably an interesting player to watch in that Document 2.0 space.
I think it would be helpful to broaden the definition of “document” to include all digital media including video, audio, slide decks, and etc. Support for internal workflow is very important but in Web 2.0 world we need to consider ways in which media can be outward facing to customers. This includes support for conversations, folksonomy tagging, semantic search and the use of embed tags. One interesting SaaS vendor is Wistia which I find intriguing. do you know of any others of similar type?
Great comment Phil. The document is much more than paper – video, audio, multimedia, virtual, augmented… I should make that clearer.
As for Wistia, this is a very interesting company, competing head to head with Cisco and Google. Did you check Veodia also? I happen to know their CEO, Guillaume Cohen, well. You should also check their screenjelly product, for recording your screen and disseminating it via email or tweets. pretty awesome.
I should probably blog about video document technologies in Web 2.0… Too much to do, too little time