| >Who drove that decision? Centralized storage, accessibility, abstraction and usage tracking of all corporate documents sourced from all divisions / systems with proper access controls and redundancy. (That's a lot of business speak). I've seen this done with a network share / filesystem or as blobs inside an RDBMS; both of which start to fall apart after a certain volume for different reasons. Especially after building a company through acquisitions of various systems. The first step in merging systems acquired through M&A would be to migrate all the documents into a centralized repository (like bitbox). These systems usually have an auto-kill feature after X years which would be the legally required time to keep a document. Companies would purge the documents to avoid any unnecessary liability after the required retention period (incase they got sued). Also, they were interested in hot and cold storage, so documents that are say over a month old would get moved to cold storage (or whatever the company workflow dictates) to save money on storage costs (hot = SSD, cold = mechanical). I was thinking integration would be useful if this got any foothold. Integrate with email servers, scanners, existing sites with upload capabilities, etc. It also keeps a history of everything that happened to a file. Unfortunately the B2B enterprise sales cycle is brutal and I wanted to avoid that until we got bigger; funding the company through subscriptions of smaller companies that may not have the technical expertise to build a robust system, but still has the need of document storage. |
That would give you persona to look for when marketing / reaching out.