DEMOfall 2005 at Huntington Beach, Calif. – Sept. 19, 2005 – Today at DEMOfall 2005, NextPage launched the next generation of its document collaboration service, NextPage 2 Document Collaboration. This subscription service eliminates user adoption problems by not requiring a centralized repository to store and manage documents, allowing users to work online or offline, and tracking documents that come from non-NextPage users.
NextPage 2 Document Collaboration delivers real-time status of all document versions as documents progress through their life cycles. It revolutionizes the document experience through a user interface, called the NextPage Activity Center™, that reports status of documents, including who has opened, who is editing, where the latest version is and what needs to be done next.
“Our service was built completely from a user perspective, solving user adoption problems that many of our customers have had with other document and collaboration applications,” said Darren Lee, president and CEO of NextPage. “We have consistently heard from our customers that users need a document collaboration product that solves document problems from a users’ work pattern, rather than the enterprise focus. NextPage 2 Document Collaboration delivers a user-focused service that eliminates the cost of document coordination for the 7.5 billion Office documents generated each year.”
New NextPage 2 Document Collaboration enhances the user’s view of their documents by providing an Activity Center window that delivers a view into how the NextPage Digital Thread™ ties document versions together, regardless of where the versions are stored, as e-mail attachments, on desktops or across organizations. With the service, users continue to work with the applications they use every day – e-mail and Microsoft Office. NextPage 2 Document Collaboration also includes a Version Map, a graphical representation of document flow and how versions relate to each other; and Notifications, messages that warn about working on old versions and help users determine what steps they need to take next.
“NextPage brings a unique solution to the problems faced by people as they collaborate on documents every day,” said Chris Shipley, executive producer, DEMOfall 2005. “Most collaborative technologies fail because a few users circumvent or stop using the system, making the software useless to the entire team. NextPage 2 Document Collaboration embraces the tools people use every day and solves these adoption problems so users don’t change the way they work, yet are still able to collaborate on documents effectively.”
Users of NextPage 2 Document Collaboration prevent wasted time working on, finding and incorporating edits into the wrong version, reduce the risk of sending out the wrong version and lower the costs of coordinating document changes during document intensive projects, such as proposals, contracts, marketing plans, statements of work and consulting engagements.
"Each week, I iterate on about 20 document versions of license agreements and contracts," said David Vandagriff, vice president of business development at CORDA Technologies Inc. "Before NextPage, I spent numerous hours manually tracking down documents and changes. Now, I have eliminated those wasted hours, because I instantly know the status of any document, whether I am working on the right version and which edits are merged into my final version."
NextPage 2 Document Collaboration is designed to work the way people work in e-mail and Office documents. As users create, edit and review those documents with others, the NextPage Digital Thread keeps track of who has the latest version, what changes have been made and whether other versions have been merged into the master version, reported through graphical indicators in the NextPage Activity Center.
The service enables people to collaborate with non-NextPage users. Unlike other systems, as people work with non-users, NextPage tracks that documents are versions of the original and helps coordinate working with versions from non-users.
"NextPage offers a compelling solution that brings clarity to end users trying to coordinate edits on documents across a team of people," said Michael Sampson, research director and principal analyst at Shared Spaces Research & Consulting. "Because NextPage integrates with Microsoft Outlook e-mail and Microsoft Office documents, the service meets people where they live today, adding highly valuable capabilities not available from Microsoft. It's a great fit for people who collaborate with teams inside and outside the organization."
NextPage 2 Document Collaboration simplifies the way people collaborate on documents. First, users can simply drag a document version into the NextPage Activity Center, and all other versions, activities and information become immediately available. Also, the service allows multiple people to work on the same version at the same time, while the service keeps track of each version and the relationship between versions. In addition, NextPage 2 Document Collaboration enables a user to compare differences between two document versions in one click, enabling users to simplify merging documents into the final version.
NextPage 2 Document Collaborationis the first in a line of services built on NextPage patent-pending technology. NextPage will continue to solve additional document problems – from the user’s perspective and without changing the way users work – with future services such as document retention, records management and compliance.
NextPage 2 Document Collaboration is available for purchase starting today at $99 per user per year. A free trial version is available at www.nextpage.com/trial. NextPage 2 Document Collaboration tracks Microsoft® Word, PowerPoint and Excel files and runs on the Microsoft Windows® Operating System.
About NextPage
NextPage is disrupting how businesses solve their document collaboration problems and eliminating product abandonment experienced by traditional document management and collaboration products. NextPage delivers products that focus on solving problems from a user’s perspective. NextPage 2 Document Collaboration is the first to connect all document-based collaboration by tracking document versions that are sent as e-mail attachments, stored on users’ desktops and created outside the organization. The service provides a 360 degree view of all document activities and works whether users are online or offline. NextPage 2 Document Collaboration reduces the risk of sending out the wrong version, prevents wasted time working on wrong versions and eliminates the cost of document coordination. For more information, visit www.nextpage.com or call 801-748-4400.
About DEMOfall 2005
The annual DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products, which are hand-selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring and U.S. Robotics, helping them secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships and influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference features approximately 70 new companies, products and technologies. For more information on the DEMO conferences, visit www.demo.com.
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Contact:
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NextPage Inc.
801-748-4443
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