Hardly a day goes by that you don’t hear about another loss of confidential information. These events typically occur due to inadequate physical security, missing or improper implementation of technology, not adhering to security procedures or lack of awareness of potential vulnerabilities. Over the last 10 years companies have invested millions of dollars on keeping the bad guys out of their organizations. Unfortunately, today you have to assume the bad guys are already in. Enterprise Digital Rights Management is the best way to protect your confidential data. Read the rest of this entry »
This is the fourth in a series of articles on starting up a business using SaaS applications for little or no cost.
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This is the third in a series of articles on starting up a business using SaaS applications for little to no cost.
Collaborating & Sharing
In my last post I talked about email and using a telephone, which are pretty basic things in any business. We all know that businesses run on documents and if I can’t share them with my colleagues, business partners and customers, business will break down. I define documents very broadly; they are containers of information that communicate something to humans. By that definition presentations, spreadsheets, videos and photographs are all documents. I don’t intend to discuss the broad topic of what defines a document here, but I just want to broaden the thinking beyond Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Writer, iWork Pages or your favorite word processing software. Read the rest of this entry »
This is the second in a series of articles on starting up a business using SaaS applications for little to no cost.
eMail
Now that we got a time and billing system, we needed a communication platform. That makes it sound like something very complicated and fancy, but I’m only referring to email and phone. We had a few goals for email:
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This is the first in a series of articles on starting up a business using SaaS applications.
When we first started eDocument Sciences we wanted to practice what we preach. We help customers manage their documents and focus on using SaaS applications as a critical part of that. We needed to get up and running fast at low cost (or better yet, no cost), since like many small businesses we didn’t have a lot of capital. The company is distributed geographically, so we needed applications that we can access from anywhere, anytime and on any device; yes, I know that sounds like a commercial or ad jingle, but I like it anyway. Read the rest of this entry »
