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Globodox is a document management application. It provides you with all the tools and features you will need to create, manage, secure and query a database of all your paper and electronic documents. Globodox provides you with a simple platform to manage the business information residing in your documents and move towards a paperless environment in a phased, gradual manner.
Benefits of using Globodox
Some of the benefits of using Globodox are...
• | Saving time lost filing and retrieving documents |
• | Minimizing space used for document storage |
• | Helping you in disaster recovery and maintaining business continuity |
• | Preserving organizational knowledge |
• | Quickly finding the document you need. Always! |
• | Securing your documents and letting you control access to them |
How does it work?
You can add your existing electronic documents like MS Word (*.doc) files and Adobe PDF files to Globodox by simply dragging and dropping them into Globodox. You can add your paper documents to Globodox by scanning them using a scanner and the built in scanning tools in Globodox.
Inside Globodox, you can do one of the following (or a combination of the following) to organize your documents...
• | Arrange your documents into a hierarchy of folders |
• | Attach one or more text tags (labels) to each document. You can later search for documents containing specific tags. |
• | Separate documents into various types (e.g. bills, checks, letters) and store type specific information along with each document. For e.g. you can store date and amount with each bill and then easily find all bills greater than US $100 from January 2008. |
• | Group documents into different types of stacks. For e.g. you can create a stack type called Supplier and group documents into different stacks (one for each supplier). |
• | Link documents to each other |
Globodox features full multi-user support. This means multiple users can simultaneously access and work with the same document database.
Globodox also features a comprehensive multi-level role based security framework which lets you control access on a per user basis.
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