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Thursday, December 15th, 2011

OfficeDrop and click.to are excited to announce the newest OfficeDrop API integration – click.to to OfficeDrop!

With click.to, you’ll be able to CTRL+C (⌘+C on a Mac) any file on your desktop and send it directly into OfficeDrop’s cloud filing system. It’s super easy, really fast and a great new workflow for the power OfficeDrop users.

Get click.to to OfficeDrop for free by clicking the following link:

click.to OfficeDrop Video

Here is how the integration works:

Select any file and press CTRL+C (⌘+C on a Mac). The OfficeDrop logo will pop up; simply select it and the file is stored directly in the cloud. Users don’t have to fumble with multiple open windows, dragging and dropping, or leaving their current screen.

Special for OfficeDrop Users

OfficeDrop is the first click.to partner to have folder integration. This means that a user can choose an OfficeDrop cloud folder to upload into at the time of clicking! We are really happy that click.to made us the first to have this integration, and we know it’s important since our customers are very aggressive folder users.

There is a little set up required at first to get click.to to choose a folder. First you’ll have to type in the name of the folder that you want to upload into. If that folder already exists click.to will put the document directly into it; otherwise click.to will create the folder for you and put the file into it. We know this is a little bit of an effort the first time you try to pick a folder, but we appreciate the development effort that the click.to team put into creating the folder integration specifically for OfficeDrop. They intend to refine the folder selection UI in the future.

Setting up click.to to OfficeDrop

Here is a quick video that helps you set up the click.to/OfficeDrop integration.

Learn more about the click.to OfficeDrop integration here.

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CloudBeat 2011 Result

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

Well, OfficeDrop did not win CloudBeat 2011 Innovation Showdown last week in Redwood City, but we did deliver a nice demo and meet some great people.

Congrats to the winner, Zadara Storage, a provider of virtual private storage arrays in the cloud!

You can read about our demo here on VentureBeat; here is what they wrote about our demo, “OfficeDrop also connects headquarters and workers in the field through file sharing, but it doesn’t end with the ability to share and manage users. Its mobile application allows small businesses to create and share files in the field. The company used the example of a cleaning service. At the end of a job, cleaners would need to fill out a proof of completion sheet, and take a picture of their work for the executives back at head quarters. Using the mobile app, workers can scan the completed sheet and take the picture of their cleaned room, which is created into a file and sent to the file share dashboard.”

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DreamSimplicity OfficeDrop Video

Monday, December 5th, 2011

The awesome folks over at DreamSimplicity, the SaaS Marketplace, sat down with Prasad and me at the recent CloudBeat Conference in Redwood city last week. Here is a video they shot that includes us running through beta products of where the service is going:

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OfficeDrop iPad App Review

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

Brooks, the document scanning and going paperless expert over at DocumentSnap, recently reviewed OfficeDrop’s iPad app. He gave the app a solid run through, pointed out a few items he’d like improved and did a great job taking screenshots of the various OfficeDrop iPad app features in action. You can read the review, called “Exploring the OfficeDrop iPad App” here.

OfficeDrop iPad App Review Highlights

The review starts off by talking about how you get your documents into the iPad app – and he mentions not only the scanning feature, but also using advanced features like sending and opening email attachments in the app and more. Finally, he gets into the search and organizing features that have made OfficeDrop popular.

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The Cloud Makes All Services Frenemies

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

An important business philosophy that we have here at OfficeDrop is the concept of “Frenemies” – we will work with other services that would historically have been considered competition if it makes sense for our customers. It means that we value our customers’ workflow and actively look to integrate our cloud filing system with other online, cloud and SaaS services that our customers are using. Our customers are small businesses who want to move to a “digital office” and away from having their different work processes silo’ed into particular, proprietary applications.

What’s a Frenemy (or Frienemy, depending on how you spell it)?

We believe that the cloud has changed the way software will be used. Old, desktop software that wrote special, unique and proprietary files and that trapped your data are out. Remember when a file could only be opened by the program that created it? Well, in the cloud all the smart providers have open APIs, which means your data can now be pushed (securely, of course!) from one application to another – making it easier for you to get your work done. This means that our service may have to work with other online storage companies, or companies that have overlapping features. Should we be competing with these companies and avoid integrating with them?

No.

We can only survive if our clients WANT to use our service. They can get their data out at any time, so we need to offer the best paper-focused, searchable storage service we can – and let customers use other best in class services in conjunction with ours – like our FreshBooks document management integration. We’ve got an open API, and if someone who might be close in features wants to connect with our service they are very much able to create a tight integration with the OfficeDrop service.

OfficeDrop Articles on the Frenemy Concept

Prasad wrote about how competing in the cloud is making companies frenemies in TechCrunch. Today he penned one on “Building a Business Around Frienemies” for FastCompany.

Frienemies

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iPad App: Ask and You Shall Receive!

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

A few months back, we wrote in TechCrunch about how we’re frienemies with a lot of cloud services companies, because they make our apps more useful to our customers. Sure, they could be considered competitors, but we’re all about trying to make our product more functional for users.

Updated OfficeDrop iPad App

That’s why we’re announcing an update to the OfficeDrop iPad app we relaunched just a few weeks ago. A lot of our customers do photo editing on the iPad, which a few weeks back we didn’t support. By popular demand, now we do! PhotoAppLink is an awesome new open source project that does what it’s aptly named to do: link a bunch of photo apps together. For us, this means that we can connect to other super high functioning photo editing apps effective immediately! If you’re an OfficeDrop iPad user, check out all of the apps that you can now link to your account to get a seriously excellent scanning and editing experience. Snap and GyroCropper are a few of our faves for writing notes on your pictures and cropping them, respectively. So if you don’t have it, get the OfficeDrop iPad App in iTunes now!

Another extra-requested feature was support for AirPrint, or Apple’s way to print wirelessly from your iPad. We’re like that extra creepy Genie in Big (Zoltar, in case you were wondering what his name was): your wish is our command. There are a few apps we like that help AirPrint enable any printer out there. Check out FingerPrint and Printopia, which we gave a go last week.

We also made a few cosmetic fixes to make our app look and feel more like the OfficeDrop iPhone PDF app that so many of you love. If you don’t have it, check it out — it’s free!

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Updated OfficeDrop iPad App

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

The moment we’ve been waiting for has arrived! OfficeDrop’s iPad app is now updated and available in itunes!

Version 2.0 of the OfficeDrop iOS App

With Version 2.0 you now can use your iPad’s camera as a scanner.

iPad as a scanner

Digitize receipts, invoices, contracts – any paper you collect for your business when your iPad is handy! You can create multipage PDFs, either by using the app for several scans in a row, or by selecting multiple items from your iPad’s camera roll. Of course, once uploaded, any and all items become text searchable PDFs in the OfficeDrop system.

Improved folder navigation

The new iPad app makes it even easier to find the exact file your are looking for in the OfficeDrop cloud filing system.

iPad Cloud Folders

We’ve taken customer feedback and dramatically improved the layout, look and navigation that you can use to get to your folders.

Press on the OfficeDrop iPad Update

Tech reporters at Bostinno and Lifehacker have already covered the update to our app. We particularly like the conclusion to the Lifehacker piece, “if you’re looking for an iPad app to scan and save paper documents digitally, OfficeDrop is a good, free alternative.”

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Email Document Management with OfficeDrop

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

OfficeDrop power users know the power of OfficeDrop’s email document management feature, and every few months it makes sense for us to remind our newer users how easy it is to email documents into OfficeDrop.

Emailing documents into OfficeDrop works just like uploading documents into OfficeDrop. The email bodies and attachments in any of the supported formats will be processed to your OfficeDrop account, just like the documents you mail in or upload. It’s document management through email made easy!

How OfficeDrop Email Document Management Works

Each OfficeDrop account gets its own unique email address, which is <your-username>@myofficedrop.com. As an example, f the username you use to login at OfficeDrop is sarah32, your OfficeDrop email address will be sarah32@myofficedrop.com.

OfficeDrop handles attached documents. So, documents attached to the email, in addition to the email itself, will be uploaded into your OfficeDrop online digital filing system. OfficeDrop currently supports over 25 file types, including: PDF, TIFF, JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TXT, HTML, DOC, XLS, and PPT.

Of course, everything becomes text searchable and it’s easy for you to find documents you email into OfficeDrop just as you’d find documents that get uploaded or scanned into the system.

Fight Spam and Uncontrolled Emails

Nobody wants their OfficeDrop document management portal stuffed with spam emails or documents, so we’ve built safeguards into the system that help protect you from spam. You can provision/allow different email addresses to send files into your account – but this system works on a permission basis, meaning you have to give permission to anyone before they can start emailing documents into your account.

By default, only the email id that you provide while registering with OfficeDrop is enabled to send you email. So, if you provided sarah32z@gmail.com while registering with OfficeDrop, you can already send emails from that email id.

You can modify the settings by clicking into the “tools” “upload via email” links in your account (click here and log in to visit this page.)

Most of our users allow individual email addresses to send files into their account. However, you can also give permission to everyone in your company if you’d like by allowing everyone from specific email domains to email you. In other words, everyone who’s email ends in at “yourcompany.com” can be configured to send emails into your account.

We highly recommend that if you have multiple email accounts that you use then you should make sure you give those email addresses permission to email into your OfficeDrop account.

The following image also explains how to modify these settings:

Email to OfficeDrop

Advanced Email Document Management Features

Sending emails directly into specific folders and adding labels

Your emails and their attachments can be sent into specific folders at the time you send the email. By adding a simple string into your email’s subject you can change where it goes. Add #Folder: customers/acme corp to the end of your email’s subject line to send it into the “acme corp” folder. To add a particular label, the syntax is the same: #Labels: label1,label2,label3 in the email subject.

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API for OfficeDrop and PaperPort Anywhere

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

This is one of those months when I’ve got to pinch myself at how quickly we are growing. And August is supposed to be the month everyone takes a vacation!

One of our growth strategies is to help bring in additional tools and solutions into the OfficeDrop ecosystem. In otherwords, we’d like cool developers to build stuff that works with OfficeDrop.

We created an API that works with PaperPort Anywhere and OfficeDrop to accomplish this. We are now formally inviting developers to use this API to offer their solutions to our user base. Since it is a universal API, dev’s will have access to both user bases at the same time – PaperPort Anywhere and OfficeDrop.

We also intend to aggressively have marketing support to make this work. Press, newsletters, blog posts, social media, and more press.

Here is the press release announcing the API:

OfficeDrop Teams with Nuance to Open Up PaperPort Anywhere API to Developers

Expands the Value of PaperPort Anywhere Cloud Service to Web Developers, Scanner & MFP Vendors, and Enables Customization by PaperPort Enterprise Customers

CAMBRIDGE, MA – (August 17, 2011) – OfficeDrop announced today an expansion to their partnership with Nuance to offer the PaperPort Anywhere API SDK (Software Developer Kit). Nuance PaperPort Anywhere, powered by OfficeDrop, is the first cloud service to focus on enabling sharing of both paper and digital files. The OfficeDrop & PaperPort Anywhere document management API provides web developers, as well as scanner, multifunction printer (MFP) and independent software vendors (ISVs) with a free and open way to connect their software and hardware products to cloud-based file storage and sharing. PaperPort Anywhere is integrated with Nuance PaperPort 14, the latest release of the world’s most popular scanning and document management application for the PC.

For example, an MFP vendor can now implement scan-to-cloud capabilities, leveraging the document storage and sharing capabilities of PaperPort Anywhere. Or, a developer of human resources applications can use the PaperPort Anywhere API to add scan-to-cloud capabilities to their solution, taking advantage of PaperPort Anywhere’s OCR and search indexing to make it possible for users to search and find scanned paper documents in the cloud.

“PaperPort Anywhere makes it easy to organize, access and share documents from any PC or mobile device, including the over 5 million seats of PaperPort for Windows deployed each year,” said Chris Strammiello, General Manager for Desktop, Cloud and Mobile Solutions, Nuance Document Imaging Division. “The new SDK provides a fast and easy way for hardware, software and our enterprise customers to add scan-to-cloud and document sharing to their applications.”

“Our partnership with Nuance proved our ability to build and scale our technology to meet the demands of millions of new and existing users each year. PaperPort Anywhere is compatible with the OfficeDrop API, making it seamless for developers to support both cloud platforms,” said OfficeDrop CEO Prasad Thammineni. “The combination of OfficeDrop and Nuance provides developers with a rich environment to differentiate and add value to their solutions.”

The OfficeDrop integration allows PaperPort Anywhere users to scan or sync files directly to the cloud, bringing the access-from-anywhere power of the cloud to anyone, anywhere. Developers can access the API documentation at the following link: http://www.officedrop.com/api.

About OfficeDrop

OfficeDrop makes it easy for small businesses to scan paper to the cloud and access files from anywhere, at any time, from any device. OfficeDrop’s cloud filing cabinet lets users sort, search and share documents—giving paper new life and making documents collaborative. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, OfficeDrop was founded in 2007. For more information, visit www .officedrop .com.
Contact:
Erica Orthmann or Kevin Leahy for OfficeDrop
(617) 945-1915
officedrop(at)launchsquad(dot)com

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Another Great OfficeDrop Review by a Customer

Friday, August 5th, 2011

It feels great when customers write nice things about us! As the marketing person here at OfficeDrop, I work hard with my team to get reporters to notice us. But when actual paying customers take the time out to write positive reviews of OfficeDrop it really shows off the hard work the development team puts into the product!

OfficeDrop Review by William Higgins

: William Higgins

William Higgins is an ECM technologist for a major financial institution in Atlanta, GA. So, he knows what he’s talking about when he discusses managing content and cloud based technologies. His post is called “Scanning Documents to the Cloud with OfficeDrop.”

William writes about OfficeDrop on his blog, augusthiggins.net. He says, “I work with Enterprise Content Management (or ECM) systems for a living and have an extensive background in Imaging or Document Capture. But yet, at home I struggle to find a good way to capture important documents and keep them intelligently organized.”

Of course, this is where OfficeDrop enters the picture!

He starts off by showing how he uses ScanDrop to scan to the cloud, “The user interface is styliezed like the newer Microsoft Office applications with the menu ribbon at the top. OfficeDrop makes good use of Folders and Labels…”

The he goes on to explain how to use OfficeDrop’s cloud filing system to organize and quickly find documents, “If foldering and labels weren’t enough, OfficeDrop also creates full-text searchable PDF files of the scanned documents you store in the cloud. This means that even if you don’t spend the time organizing your documents in folders or adding lables, you can still do a “Google”-like fuzzy search of your document contents.”

Thanks for the great write up, William!

Looking for other customer reviews of ScanDrop or customer reviews of OfficeDrop? Check out the OfficeDrop testimonial page.

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Archive for the ‘Digital Office’ Category

click.to to OfficeDrop

click.to OfficeDrop Video

Special for OfficeDrop Users

Setting up click.to to OfficeDrop

CloudBeat 2011 Result

DreamSimplicity OfficeDrop Video

OfficeDrop iPad App Review

OfficeDrop iPad App Review Highlights

iPad App: Ask and You Shall Receive!

Updated OfficeDrop iPad App

Updated OfficeDrop iPad App

Version 2.0 of the OfficeDrop iOS App

With Version 2.0 you now can use your iPad’s camera as a scanner.

Improved folder navigation

Press on the OfficeDrop iPad Update

Email Document Management with OfficeDrop

How OfficeDrop Email Document Management Works

Fight Spam and Uncontrolled Emails

Advanced Email Document Management Features

API for OfficeDrop and PaperPort Anywhere

OfficeDrop Teams with Nuance to Open Up PaperPort Anywhere API to Developers

Expands the Value of PaperPort Anywhere Cloud Service to Web Developers, Scanner & MFP Vendors, and Enables Customization by PaperPort Enterprise Customers

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