Document Management System

Cordelia_Tracy

Our office is looking for a document management system (cloud based) that can help us improve our organization and of course to save time and money. It would be better if you could mention an actual company that offers this kind of software. I hope someone here can share information regarding this. If I am not in the right forum feel free to move the thread to the right place. Thanks in advance.

AndyPix

SharePoint is the most obvious suggestion here ..

Its not cheap, depending on what features you require - and it takes some setting up/maintaining .. There are whole careers dedicated to it ..

It is the best solution and is the market leader, I advise your further research should be googling "sharepoint alternatives"

S0litaire

Personally I would not use "the Cloud" for general business document use (that's just me)

Depending on the size of your organization, I'd invest in a half decent Server and Business grade NAS devices, since Cloud On-line storage usually have ongoing costs and
issues of you loosing access if their are internet/payment problems.

Their is a lot of free and paid for document management systems out there (Sharepoint being the Microsoft offering).

Here is a few alternatives :

http://technologyadvice.com/project-management/blog/6-sharepoint-alternatives/

agrinnall

If you are going to consider Sharepoint and want it to be cloud based rather than locally hosted then you'll need to look at SharePoint Online.

https://products.office.com/en-us/sharepoint/sharepoint-online-collaboration-software

I'm not a big fan of SharePoint at all simply because to get full functionality you have to access it using IE, which I don't use for anything else.

If you want cloud then perhaps Google Docs would be worth a look.

https://www.google.co.uk/docs/about/

ThemeOne

I completely agree - please don't use the cloud for business critical documents - a client of mine tried this and it was a disaster.

You might take a look at a product called WorkSite. It's very popular with law firms, is an established product with a long pedigree, and as far as I've ever seen, is pretty rock solid stable.

SharePoint is another option, but to be honest, although it works, and seems stable, I've found it a bit clunky as a document management system - WorkSite would certainly provide a more slick user experience.