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              April 2008 Newsletter
Vol. 2, No. 4
In this Issue:

> Welcome to NDBuzz
> HP Scanners Integrated with NetDocuments
> Upcoming Webinars
> Customer Spotlight
> What It Means To Be SaaSy

> Read back issues
 
Welcome to NDBuzz - NetDocuments Monthly eNewsletter

Learn the latest features, get the "buzz" on NetDocuments and SaaS. Learn how others are using NetDocuments. This eNewsletter is sent to all NetDocuments Administrators and prospective customers who have accepted news and information. Please forward this to your user base so they can feel the "buzz." Go to the bottom of this email if you prefer not to receive this newsletter.
HP Scanners Integrated with NetDocuments

Powerful scanning solutions save time, increase workgroup productivity, and add value to your document management needs.


NetDocuments is now integrated with any HP scanner that supports the HP Smart Document Scan Software (SDSS) bundled in about ten HP scanners. There are low-cost low volume scanners to high cost, high volume scanners that are supported. SDSS allows you to customize and pre-define the scanning file format and make your final document look almost as good as new!

During the scanning process, pages can be reordered, rotated, deleted and inserted using the preview window, and these scanning "profiles" or pre-defined settings can include specific file types — such as PDF, searchable PDF, TIFF, JPEG, or other formats — in addition to sending it directly to your NetDocuments Folders!

Yes, with this software, you can direct the scan with a press of a button to go directly into NetDocuments where you will be prompted to file to a folder. With our upcoming R3-08 release, you can create within NetDocuments a routing cover sheet with a bar code that is printed and placed on your documents to auto direct it, using SDSS, to a NetDocuments Profile, resulting in a new Searchable PDF document, for example, or a version of an existing document.

Once you have SDSS installed on your workstations, two of these scanning profiles can also be accessed directly from the Add Documents > Scan Image option from within NetDocuments as well. To learn more, contact support@netdocuments.com or sales@netdocuments.com, or read our latest blog on these scanners.
Upcoming Webinars
Put the power of pdfDocs and NetDocuments to work for you!
Date Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Time 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET

Attend this informative webinar to learn how you can better manage your business-critical documents. PDF integration specialist DocsCorp and leading Software-as-a-Service provider NetDocuments have teamed up to provide corporations, government agencies and law firms with a more efficient, integrated workflow for converting documents to PDF, in addition to pdfDocs Desktop providing users with all the tools they need for collation, annotation, redaction and form filling. The final document is saved back into the repository as a new document or as a related document.


Gaining a Competitive Advantage with SaaS Document Management
Date Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Time 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM ET

Attend this informative webinar to learn how you can better manage your business-critical documents. PDF integration specialist DocsCorp and leading Software-as-a-Service provider NetDocuments have teamed up to provide corporations, government agencies and law firms with a more efficient, integrated workflow for archiving and managing business-critical documents as well as for exchanging documents securely beyond the company firewall.
Customer Spotlight - Published Article on Kaufman Dolowich & Volluck LLP      
"We probably save five figures every year from a hardware perspective because we don't have to buy additional servers"
"The Law business is document-intensive .. When a client calls and asks if something happened with his case yesterday, or even today, I can just look in NetDocuments and tell him," said Michael A. Kaufman, Managing Partner at Kaufman Dolowich & Volluck LLP. Read entire article in PDF format.
What It Means To Be SaaSy
By Jeff Kaplan, March 25th, 2008 Blog

As the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) movement gains momentum, it is experiencing a 'gold-rush' affect with software, systems and service companies of all shapes and sizes trying to win a share of this rapidly growing market. The inevitable outcome of this proliferation of aspiring SaaS players is a bastardization of the SaaS term and escalating debate about what actually constitutes a valid SaaS company or offering.

Here are the characteristics which really set a leading SaaS company apart from SaaS wannabes:

Networked applications - One of the primary drivers of the SaaS movement is the need for increasingly mobile workers and geographically dispersed customers/partners to share information and collaborate with one another more effectively. Web-native applications ... are better suited to fulfill this need than the highly centralized, on-premise applications of the past.

Enhanced user experience - Another key driver of SaaS is user frustration with the cumbersome, inflexible nature of legacy applications. These on-premise apps were generally designed to accommodate the technical demands of data center systems and corporate databases rather than appeal to the real-world workflows of businesses and intuitive senses of end-users.

Variable pricing - Corporate decision makers are also fed up with the capital investments and significant risks associated with legacy apps. They no longer want to be locked into perpetual licenses and escalating maintenance agreements. Having the opportunity to try software solutions before they buy them, and then being able to use their operating budget to acquire the software functionality they need as they need it is especially appealing in today's recessionary environment.

Real-time analytics - Given the economic climate and intensifying competitive landscape, companies of all sizes need to generate greater intelligence from their applications. It is for this reason that analytics is becoming an increasingly important feature in nearly every type of enterprise SaaS application, rather than just an assortment of standalone business intelligence SaaS solutions.

Continuous enhancements - We are also living in a time in which the rate of change is accelerating and customers expect their vendors to respond to their constantly changing needs. Therefore, leading SaaS solutions are those which rely on agile development techniques to incrementally improve their solutions on a continuous basis rather than depending on long development cycles to roll out disruptive 'upgrades' to their legacy applications.

Self-provisioned, dynamic toolkits - Corporate end-users are also becoming more tech savvy and more willing to take advantage of a rapidly expanding reservoir of gadgets, widgets and other mash-up devices to solve business problems or achieve their corporate objectives without the help of internal developers or outside consultants.

Aggregated data & benchmark studies - Smart SaaS companies are beginning to recognize that the SaaS model gives them unprecedented insight into their customers' operations based on their SaaS usage patterns. These SaaS companies are accumulating activity data which can be converted into valuable benchmark statistics and best-practice studies. This puts the SaaS company in an advantageous position to provide a new level of value to their customers that gives them an opportunity to transform their user base into a powerful 'club' where users get insight in addition to software functionality. Companies that can deliver these benefits will be in a better position to survive and succeed in the SaaS market.
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