Last up dated
Mon, 30-Oct-2006

Columbus is not only one of the easiest document management systems to use and the world's most popular choice, but is available as a free 'Personal Edition'.

What is Columbus?
Columbus is a combined navigator and viewer that allows you to organise and view data in a more structured way.

Columbus combines two powerful viewing engines, supporting over 300 file formats, including Microsoft Office XP, AutoCAD 2004/2005/2006, Microstation V8 and Hewlett Packard HPGL/2.

Logically related files and folders can be gathered under one heading even though they are spread across multiple folders and servers around the office or globe*. This makes it easy to view, edit, redline, issue and print data regardless of the document type or where it resides.

Benefits to your business

• Ease of Use. Aside from being able to organise your data easily and subsequently find it easily, Columbus' viewing capability means that anyone in your organisation can find and print documents without having the native applications installed.
  
• Project Set-Up Wizard. Pre-create an entire project structure at the outset so that participants are not left wondering where to put their documents and whether new folders are required.
  
• Issuing Documents. Issue to an Extranet site or another server on your network, make a record copy on your own server, and notify selected participants via email.
  
• CAD enabled. Automatically extract title-block information from your AutoCAD and MicroStation drawings for display in Columbus.
  
• Minimal configuration. Columbus uses your system registry to determine which application to use to edit a file. If one person uses WordPerfect and his neighbour uses M.S. Word, Columbus will correctly load the appropriate editor without any configuration.
  
• Enterprise Deployment Tool. Install or update Columbus on computers remotely. Remote users can either be logged out, logged in or can even be running Columbus whilst the application is being updated.