A feature list can be deceiving, especially a long one. Typically, when people who know an awful lot about software evaluate a new product, they head straight for the checklist. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. What doesn’t seem to matter to most of them — the experience of actually using the product, day in, day out — really does matter to the rest of us. These experts truly seem to miss the point, at least from where we’re standing. That’s because, at Drivve, we’re primarily interested in exactly how specific features are included in an overall user experience. We focus only on features that people actually need, then we make sure they fit seamlessly into the little universe we’ve designed for them, all with a particular person in mind — the End User. In any case, as you can see below, we’re certainly not lacking in features (or perspective).
- Documents
- Spaces
- Workflow
- Intuitive Indexing
- Ease of Use
- Installation
- Administration
- Scalability
- Data Protection
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Document Management Don’t just search — find!
It's simple. Your office won’t be energy efficient if its information architecture isn’t well designed and 100% integrated.
Instantaneous access to documents is today’s key to success. In these days of globalization, lower barriers to market entry, and increasingly shorter product life cycles, it’s important to base every single company decision on solid information. Competent service, responsive marketing, expeditious administration, and consumer-oriented product management — all this is possible only with optimal leverage of company knowledge.
Read complete specifications How do you achieve it? High-performance document management, flexible workflow management, and deep integration with existing informational assets are essential. Yet until now, small and medium-sized companies have either made only minor investments in such solutions or had a number of small, unintegrated systems installed. Perhaps your corporate knowledge is divided into many bits and pieces of information as well?
We would like to prevent the frustration and loss of time that can result from having to scour the relevant programs for a document, contact or appointment. Drivve | DM provides an integrated information management solution — with links to existing applications, such as merchandise information systems, CRM systems and others.
All your recorded company information is incorporated into Drivve | DM, where it's archived and managed — and quickly retrieved from any workstation. Just imagine. Access to all your information anytime, wherever you happen to be.
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Space Management Can you say “meta-organization”?
Your team is always busy working on spaces, and Drivve | DM is designed to keep them all on track.
Instant access to neat “piles” of documents — just the way you like them. Welcome to Drivve | DM Spaces, a workspace that lets you add a whole new level of organization to your Live Archive™. Yet another way of making retrieval of your precious docs a snap.
Read complete specifications There’s more to document management than simple storage and retrieval. The Drivve | DM Spaces workspace possesses its own special powers, such as additional access and security measures. Which means you can use them as yet another way to grant (or deny) access to a group of images used for a particular space by a limited number of users.
Spaces in Drivve | DM operate the same way they do at your office, so you can jump right into your work and know that each of them is already in place, organized in distinct "piles,” waiting for you and your team to pick up where you left off.
The same thing goes when you want to "take" your Live Archive™ with you into the field, whether it be your territory or the other side of the globe. We've made sure that Spaces is superfriendly to the mobile computing crowd. Just type a space name or number into your smartphone and rest assured that your space's own virtual filing cabinet will be delivered to you instantly and intact.
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Workflow Management Get in the zone
Deliver maximum flow to the processes (and people) your organization depends on.
Drivve | DM’s flexible Workflow Management engine lets you create dynamic automated workflows for all the processes your business requires. Now everyone on your team can easily pass along information, documents and tasks in a highly coordinated workspace that provides an optimal user experience.
Read complete specificationsUse the Workflow component to customize processes, assign employee responsibilities at the push of a button, and administrate information managment to keep team members in perfect sync. Oversee workflows by tracking them with a simple, color-coded diagram that displays the status of each assignment and records completed workflow steps. And access relevant assignment information through an array of Workflow Management tools.
By standardizing operations and making them more transparent, Drivve | DM Workflow Management helps you increase efficiencies and business flexibility while minimizing mistakes large and small. Arrange workflows according to priorities and automate processes as required such as standardized invoice verification. Create new workflows like reminders on the fly, define mandatory fields so that even the smallest details can’t be overlooked, and never miss a deadline with a workflow engine that alerts you when a task is coming due.
And when you use Drivve | DM together with Drivve | Image, Drivve’s powerful image capture suite, you can integrate all your vital workflows within a complete document ecosystem.
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Intuitive Indexing Exactamundo
By indexing your docs according to your own little world view, you get organizational precision right where you need it — everywhere.
Not all document management systems are particularly intelligent when it comes to indexing. And when it comes to input, their inherent lack of power and flexibility will dictate the limited way you work with your docs. We believe that you should decide precisely how you want your team to work. Because you know better than anyone how you want to organize your Live Archive™ (you just might not realize that yet).
Read complete specifications The generous, unprecedented indexing flexibility of Drivve | DM encourages you to organize your docs according to discrete values that matter, intuitively, to you and your people. Drivve | DM gives you an unlimited choice of index values or types that can be applied as organizing principles for a particular group of documents, a space, or the Live Archive™ itself — in its entirety.
Are you a distributor of fine wines with a customer base of 1200 retailers around the country? However you need to view docs associated with your customers or their needs, you can. Of course, there's customer number, invoice number, zip code, last purchase date, etc. And for those of you in collections, payment due date is a good one. (You see the point.) But why not call up your documents according to the wines themselves? Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Bordeaux, Montepulciano, etc. The choice is always yours. Group your docs however you like, and change your mind as you go. Drivve | DM enables you to reindex your existing documents on-the-fly and retroactively, so you can keep it all together, totally organized, as your needs evolve. It’s the reason we call the totality of stored documents the "Live Archive™."
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Ease of Use Finally, it's a no-brainer
The Drivve philosophy is simple. Make the most powerful DM software ever designed ridiculously user-friendly.
How many of the world's most-used software packages also happen to be incredibly unruly and difficult to learn? Just about all of them from our perspective. Some are downright dispiriting, a fact that takes its toll on your team in the guise of brain fatigue, general inattention to detail, misspent time — read: loss of productivity. The reality of the modern office is that working for hours on end with a user-unfriendly program can really tire you out and will, in a worst case scenario, make you resent your job. And in the wide world of business software, document management is no different. Bad design is definitely the rule rather than the exception.
Read complete specifications We at Drivve know that it just doesn't have to be this way. Our stellar development team has taken the concept of user-friendliness to a higher level with Drivve | DM, which will be apparent from your very first glimpse. To experience Drivve | DM is to enter a world where working with documents is actually kind of cool. This is because we’ve invested tons of resources and years of experience in building a uniquely simple and incredibly efficient — sleek — UI that takes the confusion and drudgery out of working with documents.
And Drivve | DM's signature Ease of Use isn't only apparent when you’re working with documents along with your team members. Nobody will be more excited about our product design than the people who are responsible for employee training. Why? Because it doesn't require much training at all. Just hop in the driver's seat (no pun intended) and you'll be cruising in no time.
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Installation Wait. Is there any installation?
Not if you’re using Drivve | DM's hosted version as your solution. It's for when you’d rather just leave it all to someone else.
With our ASP line, you have everything you need to manage your Live Archive™ in a plug-and-play format. All you have to do on your side is think a bit about how, ideally, you want to access your docs, and we’ll do the rest. Always.
Read complete specifications The truth is, IT managers just adore products like ours. They’re the kind of folks that love to be loved by their companies for simply keeping it all up and running. And as they usually have more than enough on their plates already, they don't enjoy the tedious task of installing and maintaining new software on all those computers you see around the office. It's a simple case of "the bigger you are, the harder they fall." Just think about all the money your company will save by letting us keep your office workflow operating smoothly.
For those of you that want to run a Drivve | DM system in-house, we have good news for you, too. Drivve | DM comes in a preinstalled package, server and all, that can be plugged directly into a rack, and integration with existing IT infrastructure is a cinch. In fact, this is what Drivve is quickly becoming famous for. If you take a look at Drivve | Image, which comes standard with every version of Drivve | DM, you’ll better understand why.
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Administration Control where you need it most
Admin: the one place where you are in absolute control. You decide who comes and goes. You decide how things work. From wherever you happen to be.
Anyone who has ever had the responsibility of administering a mission-critical application used companywide will tell you — there's a lot to worry about. There are a host of variables to keep under control, typically by navigating through windows within windows of disconnected, disjointed interfaces that are supposed to work together and all too often, just don't.
Read complete specifications Drivve | DM pulls it all together for you in a comprehensive, singularly elegant browser space that gives Admin absolute power over the Live Archive™ and all of its functions — from anywhere with access to the World Wide Web. Users and user groups can be set up in a matter of seconds and rights assigned, down to the level of individual documents, equally quickly. And the really good news is you don't need any specialized knowledge to be an Admin. Let’s put it another way: if you can run an iPod, you can administer Drivve | DM.
Of course, security is always a big issue for the Admin crowd, and that's where Drivve | DM always wins loyalty. As opposed to products that rely on relational databases (leaky, porous, unstable and insecure) to store images and their metadata, Drivve's object-oriented Document Vault offers the highest level of security possible, locking down access to your precious information and locking out anyone who isn’t supposed to see it.
Not even the Systems Administrator or, for that matter, CTO can gain access unless the Drivve | DM Admin says so. Outside IT consultants don't stand a shot. Within Drivve's sphere of influence, the Administrator is king, the Absolute Master of the Known Universe of Documents … the Live Archive™.
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Scalability From here to infinity
Whatever your business size, you can feel confident that you’ll never outgrow us. (And we can feel confident that you’ll always be true — sounds a lot like love.)
You’re an organization with 50 or maybe 10,000 potential users. And if you’re like the rest of us, your plan is straightforward: to grow, and do it fast, if necessary. So no matter how impressed you might be by a long list of features or a cool interface, one of the most important questions you'll invariably ask is, How much can this system handle? Our answer: Bring it on!
Read complete specifications You don't think we could construct the perfect machine for getting your work to flow — against a strong headwind on the backstretch if necessary — without dropping a serious amount of horsepower under the hood, do you? Drivve | DM is built on perhaps the most nimble yet robust document database ever made: an object-oriented, container-based system built to spec over 25 years ago for some of the biggest organizations in Europe. The base requirement? A system so simple in conception yet sophisticated in operation that no matter how much content you store in its infrastructure, it never requires an oversize superstructure to keep it all together. Translation? No matter how much info you throw at (or upload into) Drivve | DM, it can handle it, while remaining stable and a cinch to maintain (i.e., clearly long-term relationship material). With everything we do, power x simplicity = Drivve’s operating formula.
Then there’s the support side of things. We’d like to make our intentions clear about this too. Support scales proportionally to your space, and that’s easier for Drivve than it is for most of our competitors. The fact that we have such a fluent, steady, downright awesome engine running at the core of our system means that support is vastly more efficient for us — which means more responsive for you. The kind of question we get asked around here: How can I use the system to handle even more complex workflows, perform even more automated tasks? (We never hear the expletives that accompany a wayward or down system.) Any Drivve | DM Administrator will tell you, this is a system that’s admirably steadfast, even in large-scale installations. Once you set it up, it just keeps on running. Like we said, we’re in it for the long haul.
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Data Protection Peace be with you
Our fortified approach to data security gives a whole new meaning to homeland security. We’ve got your back, every step of the way.
When considering the acquisition of a document management system, all the major points on your wish list are trumped by questions concerning the security of your archive. More important than a low price point, a friendly UI, or a comprehensive feature list, data security is something you can never be too prudent about. And where compliance is an issue, the stakes are even higher. That's why we've layered the entirety of the system’s intelligence on top of a veritable Fort Knox Image Depository — built specially to protect your Live Archive™. Drivve | DM's proprietary image vault is a supremely impenetrable object-oriented database that offers some formidable advantages over the storage systems of competing products.
Read complete specifications But keeping your data protected isn’t only a question of the kind of storage device deployed. There should also be an explicit, intelligent, and practical backup strategy involved. With relational databases, backing up your archive means having to recopy the entire disc image, over and over again. This often takes an inordinate amount of time and doesn’t come without significant risk of data loss. Our approach is so much more efficient and secure that it's almost too good to be true — but it is. What's the big secret? It has to do with the fact that our container-based solution can back the vault up incrementally, which means that you copy only the newly created data to the backup disc, one step at a time. With this approach, performing a full backup of a Live Archive™ containing several terabytes of information (that's millions of docs) can be done in minutes. How long does it take a relational database to back up that much info? You don't even want to ask.