Re: Document management, Content management

["Simon North" <Simon -dot- North -at- quintiq -dot- com>]

By a strange coincidence, I am in a very similar situation, with a few
major differences: I also want the system so I can find useful sources
of information more easily,  I'm trying to nursemaid the company from
being a small company where everyone knew everyone and could just ask
for help to a medium-sized company where things need to be less
dependent on individuals, I want to include the whole company (sales,
marketing, R&D, etc.). 

I hunted around for a compromise between ease of use and power. I
figured there would be no point in having a full-scale (restrictive)
document management system as it would simply not be used. I opted for
OWL (http://sourceforge.net/projects/owl). 

It took me about 2 days to get everything up and running
satisfactorily. Being open source, there are no upfront purchase costs,
but there's a lot to install. You need OWL, PHP, Apache, and mysql, but
they are fairly straightforward. It gets a little tacky if you want to
be able to index and search the contents of PowerPoint files as well as
Word and PDF files, but if you get that far I can give you some tips.
Contact me offline if you need to know more. 

Simon.  



Quintiq Application Software BV
's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

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