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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...
Cloud Computing Trends for 2021
Now that we're 2 months into 2021, let's have a look at expected trends during this year relevant to both document control and cloud computing. 2021 is expected to see a continued increase in the adoption of cloud based computing. In particular, as cloud computing...
January 2021 New Release Notification
DocBoss has released our latest update for January 2021 which is now available for all customers. Below is a quick overview of the changes. The link at the bottom takes you to full release notes with more detail. eSignatures DocBoss now allows eSignatures to be...
Does Your Company Take Document Control Seriously?
I came across an interesting discussion on LinkedIn recently. A document controller made a comment and posted a graphic about how document controllers have a gatekeeper role and play an important part in managing documentation projects. There were some interesting...
How Has Remote Work Affected Document Control?
2020 was an interesting year to say the least for anyone who was "lucky" enough to experience it. For anyone working in an office environment, chances are you spent at least part of the year working remotely from home. Some of you might still be working remotely as we...
DocBoss security updates for all customers
While in the recent past, security was the number one concern for most people when considering use of a web-based application, current concerns tend to focus on functionality, scalability, usability with other applications and things of that nature. Security is still...
Do You Customize Cover Pages On Customer Documents?
If you find that your customers increasingly demand customized documentation, how easy is it for you to handle this work? Customized cover pages are often something that customers request with their documentation. Here's how DocBoss helps in that regard. Add cover...
Handling Outgoing Submittals And Incoming Docs
DocBoss enables you to handle all outgoing documents to your customers while also managing incoming documents that they send or return to you. Here are some recent additions that DocBoss customers all have access to. Outgoing Submittals Our document control research...
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