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The growth and advantages of cloud computing
Are you debating whether or not a cloud-based application has a place in your company? Some companies have a rule against using cloud-based apps - they prefer having servers at their premises - and while they may have a legitimate reason for doing so, it appears to be...
10th Biennial Valve World Conference & Exhibition
The 10th Biennial Valve World Conference & Exhibition takes place in Dusseldorf, Germany from Nov 29-Dec 1, 2017. When last held in 2014, the conference drew 12,500 visitors and 664 exhibitors in the following categories: Measuring, control and regulating...
How do you improve document control processes?
There are plenty of ways to improve how you do document control. You can spend a great deal of time "improving" a process by making what you currently do less manual - ie. your Microsoft Excel usage - but at the end of the day you're still doing things manually and...
The movement to electronic documentation
The best way to manage and control information is electronically. We have reached the age of the paperless office and shop floor. This quote doesn't come from 2016 but from an article published at Quality Progress.com back in 2003. Author Mikel E. Janitz covers a...
If You Still Use Excel For Your Document Control Work…
Has Excel Reached the End of its Run? This is the title of a recent article posted on the Business 2 Community website by author Quentin Poiraud where he discusses Excel's 30+ year history and how it may no longer be suitable for all the tasks that corporations often...
Flare Gas Recovery Systems Projections To 2020
In December 2014, Future Markets Insights published a report entitled Flare Gas Recovery System Market: Global Industry Analysis and Opportunity Assessment 2014-2020 which discussed the expected growth during this time period for the global flare gas recovery systems...
Handling increased document customization and workload
One of the things many document controllers tell us is that the customization of documentation work is increasing and that customers are becoming more stringent in terms of how they want their documents received. In some cases, it's simply the increasing document...
How did 2015 documentation trend predictions turn out?
At the end of each year, it's easy to find lists of predictions for the upcoming year regarding various trends in business and technology. Axero Solutions produces Intranet software for small to medium-sized businesses and released an interesting article last year...
Who Takes Care of Backing Up Your Documents?
One of the distinguishing features of DocBoss is its security and related backup feature that enables our customers to be assured that their documentation is protected and stored safely. Instead of wondering if your IT staff are properly backing up your data and...
Expected growth in Canadian oil sands into 2020
DocBoss has its roots in the Canadian oil sands and many of our first customers in both Canada and the US do significant work there. To see a list of select DocBoss customers, check out our homepage and view the "Our Clients" scroller to learn more. A recent article...
DocBoss is Growing: Welcome Luis and Bill
DocBoss would like to welcome Luis Berumen and Bill Bagshaw to our growing team. Luis has 15 years of experience in product and UX design in Latin America, Europe, and North America. He has worked for start-ups, transnational companies and governments during which...
Auto-Creation of Document Registers in DocBoss
Is there anything more frustrating with document control than the manual, time-consuming tasks that on the one hand are tedious but on the other hand must be done every time you start a new project? If the set up part of your projects is time-consuming and very...
Oil & gas growth will be driven by Asia, Africa, Middle East
A recent GE Oil & Gas report entitled Digital Future of oil & gas and energy discusses a number of expected trends including the continued growth of oil consumption, suggesting that by 2020 the global economy will be significantly larger than it is today. By...
IE expo 2016 Summit Forum takes place May 5-7, 2016
Billed as "Asia's Leading Trade Fair for Environmental Technology Solutions: Water, Waste, Air and Soil" the 2016 IE expo Summit Forum takes place in Shanghai, China from May 5-7. In 2015, the summit attracted 1,085 exhibitors from 27 countries representing products...
Starting a New Project in DocBoss
The set up of a project is often one of the most time-consuming parts especially when you're doing the work manually. Keeping track of the latest versions of documents and ensuring that everything you've received has been inputted and accounted for is a fulltime job...
Has an increase in documentation got you frustrated?
Perhaps the following statement from Vishal Tripathi - who is Principal research analyst at Gartner Inc. - resonates with you in terms of your company's documentation work: Voluminous growth in data, compliance and regulatory issues, the need for a faster...
Engineering and Design Documents for fabricators and packagers
Tagged equipment is the lowest level of tagging on a project. We're referring specifically to instrumentation, valves, cables and electrical equipment for example. In DocBoss, we refer to these as minor tags. If you work in fabrication or produce skids or packages,...
Energy infrastructure projections for the US and Canada into 2035
A new study commissioned by the INGAA Foundation Inc reports that between $471 billion USD (low case) and $621 billion USD (high case) will need to be spent from 2015-2035 on natural gas, crude oil, and natural gas liquids infrastructure in Canada and the US. The...
How Much Pain Do Databooks Cause You?
If providing databooks to your customers at the end of your projects is time-consuming and causes a holdback which prevents you from getting paid quickly, DocBoss can help. Perhaps you call them record books or compilations. Basically we're talking about the package...
Document control training in Asia
When inadequate document control system leads to losses, excessive document control leads to inefficiency, what should you do? Knowledge Hub Asia is a Malaysia-based training company that offers courses in document control and many other functions such as HR, finance,...
Focused largely on tagged equipment, DocBoss minimizes the manual work required to deliver project documentation.
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