You create documents
using Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and
share them with others using e-mail. That is the
easy part...
How many times have you suffered on working
on shared documents after you have sent them out
- worrying about document versions, revisions
and follow-ups such as reviews and approvals?
Also, do you have any way of tracking who is accessing
your document today and what they are doing with
it?
Live Documents attempts to solve all these pain
points - and from right within your existing desktop
tools like Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
With Live
Documents, the tools that you use to create and
consume documents are now the tools that you can
use to share and collaborate on the same documents.
Live Documents enables users to not only securely
share their documents but also access all core
document management features (automatic version
control, routing, and approval) via these familiar
interfaces.
Embracing and Extending familiar desktop applications
Through a simple, unobtrusive plug-in, Live Documents
bridge the productivity gap between desktop applications
such as Microsoft Office and the Web.
A Live Document is similar to your normal Word
document or Excel spreadsheet in all apparent
ways - but under the hood, it is a lot smarter.
Unlike your normal documents, a Live Document
is:
- Self-organizing - Automatically
updates content whenever any change is made
on any document copy
- Secure - Set restrictions
on who can read your documents and what they
do with them
- Intelligent - Allows
you to assign, track and manage document lifecycle
tasks and versions
- Context-aware –
Contextual linking with associated discussions
and tasks pertaining to the document
- Dynamic - Change access
on your documents even after you have sent
them out
- Audit-ready - Allows
you to track activity, so you know who read,
printed, or modified the document and when
and where the activity occurred
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