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Subject:Re: Document Control Software From:Tim Altom <taltom -at- IQUEST -dot- NET> Date:Sun, 22 Sep 1996 08:51:00 EST
At 12:02 PM 9/22/96 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello,
>We're a small/mid-sized computer multilingual software firm with a
>documentation department of a half-dozen writers. We don't have a
>huge inventory of pieces of documentation, but it's naturally
>constantly increasing. Before the number of our documents becomes
>unwieldy, we want to give thought to ways to catalog our increasing
>collection efficiently and effectively.
>Do any of you good folks out there have any suggestions, general or
>about specific document control software? Thanks in advance for your
>help.
>Bruce Brill
>Bruce Brill
Just one: don't focus on the software. Document control is a specialty that
deserves special attention. We turn over such projects to a local company
here in Indianapolis, specifically to a person who's a member of AIIM and
specializes in control schemes. The software is usually chosen only after a
round of defining talks.
Tim Altom
Vice President, Simply Written, Inc.
317.899.5882 (voice) 317.899.5987 (fax)
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