The DocBoss Blog
Ensure Document Delivery Every Time
DocBoss ensures your customers receive and access the documentation you send them. When working with customers by email, everyone has a case of a document not being received. With DocBoss, you send email notifications directly to your customers. Customers click on a...
5 Things EPCs Can Do Better To Help Their Suppliers
Engineering companies (EPCs) need to find a method to discuss document requirements after the equipment supplier has been selected and before the project begins. Looking at it another way, here are 5 suggestions that suppliers of process equipment can make to their...
Having Trouble Managing Documents?
How much time do you spend searching for engineering documents related to your projects? If you don't know offhand you're not alone. Research has shown that workers may spend around 1 full work day per week searching for information: The average interaction worker...
Reduce Errors With Internal Review Workflow
Not only does internal routing remove the human error aspect of document processing (including the wrong reviewer/missing a reviewer), but it also saves time for everyone involved. Using DocBoss’ Internal Review Workflow ensures accuracy and creates a way to track...
Mapping Internal Codes With DocBoss
DocBoss customers regularly get access to new features and benefits that we add to the system as part of our regular releases. Earlier this year, we updated the Interface and added the ability for users to apply mapping codes directly from the source code list. Please...
9 Reasons to Choose DocBoss
DocBoss was designed by experience for suppliers of tagged process equipment. Here are 9 reasons why DocBoss could be right for you: Niche Problem, Niche Solution DocBoss was built by your industry peers – we know how rigid the rules can be for submitting vendor...
Can I Use Sharepoint For Document Control?
Sharepoint is a web application associated with collaboration and sharing of information, not on document control and submission. Sharepoint also requires the implementation of third party applications to give it the same functionality that comes standard with...
Revision Numbers In Customer Documentation
Does your customer include the revision number in their actual document number? If so, DocBoss can help you to essentially keep your best practices while still accommodating your customer's requests even if they don't match your practices. For example, your customer...
Handle Internal Document Workflow With Ease
During projects, it's likely that you may have internal stakeholders who need to review documents, make changes and additions, approve them and send them on to another colleague for their input. DocBoss enables you to do all of this and more. If you look at the...
Be The Boss Of Your Documentation
DocBoss project dashboard DocBoss has a great project dashboard to enable you and your colleagues to properly track and manage all projects at any given time. You can quickly search for any live project that is actively running to check on the status and see what...
DocBoss Customers Like The Custom Databooks Feature
Last week we spoke about how DocBoss helps you assemble custom databooks for your customers at the end of projects. Since then we had a few nice comments from customers regarding what they like about the DocBoss databooks features. Several customers have recently...
Are you charging for your document work?
Suppliers often roll the costs for document control into the overall project cost. While this is suitable for large custom equipment, the costs for document control quickly become unsupportable for high volume, smaller equipment. The DocBoss quote module allows users...
Handling Customized Databooks With Ease
How difficult and time-consuming is it to provide custom databooks to your customers? As submittal packages grow in size and customization the time spent on them increases accordingly. Your current document control processes might no longer suffice as a result. As how...
Deliver Documentation The Way Your Customer Wants It
Not every business does everything digitally these days. Some companies and people like receiving a hard copy of information whether in printed form or on a medium like a CD-Rom. DocBoss can help with all situations. DocBoss helps you deliver documentation...
Data Storage With DocBoss
How do you store and distribute project documents when a project has been completed? Some customers might like information mailed or emailed to them. Maybe you need to prepare a CD for a project. Or maybe you’re just done with DocBoss for awhile… At any point, you can...
4 Quick Tips for Using Microsoft Excel and SDIs
I was working with a client the other day and was surprised by the Supplier Document Index (SDI) they had been asked to complete for a project. I am not a Microsoft Excel expert by any means but if you are sending an SDI that others should use for tracking, there are...
Cloud Computing Market to Hit $172 billion in 2021
Research company Statista reports that they expect the global cloud computing market to hit $172.1 billion USD in 2021. Cloud computing has become widely accepted over the past number of years and with the effects of COVID-19 forcing more people to work from home,...
Build The Perfect Document List Quickly And Easily
Of specific importance to suppliers with many similar pieces of equipment (instrumentation, valves, HVAC), DocBoss allows you to automate the creation of your full document list and tracks the document specific impact of equipment change orders. Check out this short...
How DocBoss Manages Workflow
DocBoss offers a number of benefits to users regarding workflow and submittals. Unlike non-document control specific applications DocBoss was designed with companies who submit documents to customers at the end of projects in mind. More specifically DocBoss helps you...
Technology Trends for 2021
Back in October 2020 as economies around the world appeared to be several months into reopening and kids were back at school, Gartner published an article detailing the 9 major trends they see occurring during 2021 regarding technology. Needless to say the effects of...
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