Key information for decision makers regarding upgrading to

Xerox DocuShare 6.5.2

Xerox has recalled Patch 6 for DocuShare 6.5.0 and 6.5.2.  It's recommended that you watch for Patch 7 which should arrive sometime around year-end or the first week of 2010.  The DocuShare User Group site collection for Downloads will have this once it's available.  https://docushare.xerox.com/doug/dsweb/View/Collection-23  Xerox urges you to not upgrade from earlier versions of DocuShare until Patch 7 can be installed immediately afterward.

It's also anticipated that DocuShare 6.5.3 will be available in late January.  This new release will have additional scalability options that may be beneficial to sites with more than 5 million documents, especially those in which much or most of the content is indexed for full-text search.  We'll relay information when this is available as it appears that many of you do not receive such announcements directly from Xerox.

DAVupDoc 3.2 accommodates DocuShare custom objects

You can now clone document objects and add properties to support unique documents types for invoices, POs, orders, etc. and upload them using the latest version of DAVupDoc.  Any file type can be used including PDFs, Tiffs, Word, and Excel documents.  You'll likely find this most useful when using DAVupDoc in conjunction with your data capture software, such as ABBYY FlexiCapture or Kofax Ascent Capture.  Export your data to CSV or tab-delimited format to use with the template you setup using the graphical interface in DAVupDoc to determine where your files belong and what metadata should be applied to them.  New collections are created as needed.  Both standard scripted mode and the new content intake mode are supported.

For more information on DAVupDoc 3.2 look to our page on CriteriaFirstWare for the datasheet and download the trial for the full documentation.  Be sure to read the Introduction and Operational Considerations sections.  A VBScript is available at no additional charge to run this in command-line batch mode.

Content Circles generous license change

Content Circles is pleased to announce a range of new pricing and packaging options for our flagship Content Circles solution. Our objective is to get as many organizations as possible trying Content Circles, because we know that once they try, it will quickly become an essential productivity tool in the organization.

The new pricing and packaging includes changes to both our free Personal Use License and our paid subscription plans. For the free Personal use license, we increased the number of Circles from 1 to 3, we allow up to 50 files per Circle, a maximum of 25MB per file, for a total storage up to 3.75GB. The Personal use license also places no limit to the number of Members per Circle. This is a powerful, feature rich product that really shows off the strengths of Content Circles. Expanding the capabilities of the free Personal Use license makes it easy for departments of companies, educational institutions and small businesses to adopt Content Circles.

For the Content Circles Pro License, our first-level paid membership which starts at $9.95/month or $99.95/year, Content Circles has increased the number of Circles from 5 to 10, with no limits to the number or size of files or total storage. Our Business, Group and Enterprise licenses remove all feature limits, with pricing for each license option varying based on volume.  For more information or to sign up, go to ContentCircles.com and use promo code CRITERIAFIRST.