Yesterday’s blog post on Gartner’s take on cloud computing came to us while we read a Wired piece on, well, the same topic. It’s a good enough piece that you should check it out too here.
Major topics are: is it the end of the PC era (kind of, but PCs’ are not going away, they are less of a focus); Apps and more apps; mobile = powerful. And more!
We are very pleased to be finalists in the 2012 Appy Awards! OfficeDrop is one of three finalists in the Productivity category, and we are excited that the Appy Awards recognize how productive our iOS Apps can make small business owners.
MediaPost runs the Appy Awards. Kenneth Fadner, MediaPost’s Chairman and Publisher, says, “There continues to be such enormous creativity in the field of app development. Our editorial mobile coverage strives to be the finest in the industry, and we’re excited to continue our tradition of honoring the best apps in every imaginable category.”
The finalist page describes OfficeDrop’s apps as:
With OfficeDrop’s free iPhone and iPad app, users can snap a picture of a document with their phones and upload it directly to the cloud, where it becomes fully text-searchable and easy to organize, share, and collaborate on. This app makes going paperless easy for small businesses, in addition to saving time and money. OfficeDrop has completely changed the workflow for many users, allowing them to get more done in less time because they aren’t wasting time scanning paper or dealing with paper documents in filing cabinets. OfficeDrop makes the paperless office an option for small businesses.
If you don’t yet have the OfficeDrop iPhone PDF app or the OfficeDrop iPad Paper to Go app get them now!
Fox New’s Small Business Center has a new piece on how small businesses are going mobile and “cutting the cord” – read it here. This is a trend we’ve seen here at OfficeDrop. Our customers have aggressively navigated to our mobile apps, like the OfficeDrop iPhone PDF app and our Android scanner app.
The Fox article has some interesting facts and figures in it (the following are quotes from the article:
- More than four in ten (43 percent) small businesses reported that all their employees use wireless devices or technologies to work away from the office, a nearly 80 percent jump from three years ago.
- Tablet computers are now being used by two-thirds (67 percent) of small businesses surveyed, up from 57 percent a year ago.
- By the end of the year, about 50 percent of small businesses reported that they expect to have all their employees using wireless technologies to work away from the office.
- Almost all (85 percent) of small businesses reported using smartphones for their operations, more than double the usage of five years ago.
- Almost a third (30 percent) of small businesses surveyed reported that they use mobile apps for their business to save time, increase productivity and reduce costs.
- Half of the small businesses that use them say they could not survive—or it would be a major challenge to survive—without mobile apps, a 31 percent jump over last year.
That’s right! Get your mobile on small businesses!
It’s easy to get files into OfficeDrop. We offer several ways you can quickly get your important documents into the OfficeDrop cloud filing system.
Here are the different apps you can use to get files into OfficeDrop:
OfficeDrop on Android
OfficeDrop on iPad
OfficeDrop on Windows Desktop (note: download starts immediately)
OfficeDrop’s Windows ScanDrop Scanner Software
OfficeDrop’s Mac ScanDrop Scanner Software
And, of course, you can always login to OfficeDrop via the web to upload and manage your documents.
We’ve recently created a video explaining some of the ways you can get your files into the system.
Today OfficeDrop published a press release talking about our tremendous growth recently. 2011 is on track to be a banner year for us, and we are truly grateful to our customers for making this happen!
The press release:
Cambridge, MA — November 3, 2011 — This ain’t your momma’s momentum release. OfficeDrop’s been growing like gangbusters since the switch from a mail-in scanning service to a scan-your-own-way-to-the-cloud app powerhouse last year. We’re talking 50 percent month-over-month user growth for the past quarter! Not to mention being on track for 9x revenue growth in 2011 vs 2010.
“But, how’d they do it,” you ask?
Let’s kick it back to the beginning. It all started with this thing called the interwebz. And it was good. Field of Dreams style they built it and people came. Our CEO Prasad Thammineni said, “Why don’t small businesses store, search, and share their paper documents on this interwebz? In the cloud. Dig it!”
[Just kidding.] Here’s the real deal:
OfficeDrop used to be a mail-in scanning service. Mail us your paper and we’ll scan it for you. Then the definition of a small business “office” changed altogether. With smartphones and tablets, the office became omnipresent. Like “Friday, Friday” was earlier this year (shout out to our co-founder, Anand Rajaram, who loves Rebecca Black a little too much).
OfficeDrop quickly adapted to the way people were working by building scanner apps for iPad, Android phones and iPhones this year. We redefined the industry by letting people have a scanner in their pocket, everywhere they go.
But we didn’t hate on the office scanner. ScanDrop, our desktop scanner app for Windows and Mac, has been connecting customers to our digital filing cabinet, OfficeDrop Online and other popular cloud services they access most, like Gmail, Google Docs, Evernote and Dropbox. Also we provide document management for the popular FreshBooks invoicing software. It’s super easy. That’s how we roll.
Here’s how our growth stacks up for those of you “numbers people” out there:
Work with awesome companies that small businesses trust, but need to move to the cloud. That’s been our strategy this year in a nutshell. [Strategy: “Help, get me out of this nutshell!” Ugh, sorry. That Austin Powers reference was pretty dated. We need to get out more.]But seriously. Our partners find that we’re able to scale really quickly to meet the scanning, search, sharing and storage demands of millions of users, and bring traditionally very “offline” types of software to the cloud. In English – we can do this stuff really fast and really well.
So, that’s our story. We’re sticking to it. Here’s to another killer year.
About OfficeDrop
OfficeDrop makes it easy for small businesses to scan paper to the cloud and access documents 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
OfficeDrop had great write up on Makeuseof called “How To Use Your iPad / iPhone Camera To Scan Documents To PDF [iPhone & iPad 2]” by Steve Campbell. The article is almost a great case study and goes into detail on how the OfficeDrop iPad app can be used at a conference to scan and store paper.
Here is a quote from the article:
“Picture this. You have a really important meeting at work today, one that you’ve been up most of the night preparing for, creating documents, spreadsheets, and what not. You’ve been tasked with making digital copies of your physical notes to send to your colleagues to help prep them for this meeting, which starts in about two hours. If you were in a hurry and could only bring one thing to this meeting, what would it be?
If it was me, it would be my iPad. As for the documents I had to scan, well, that’s all been taken care of, because I used an iPad app that allowed me to take pictures of each of my documents and turn them into shiny new digital PDFs that I can organize and share with my colleagues at the click of a button. Sound convenient? Prepare to never need to keep a piece of paper ever again.”
Read How MakeUseOf uses OfficeDrop’s iPad 2 App to Scan
Here is some other recent press that we’ve gotten on our iPad app:
OfficeDrop Adds iPad Scanning Support
The application also supports taking, cropping and rotating photos that can be sent directly to OfficeDrop, useful for capturing handwritten notes, receipts and business cards on the go. Read About Using OfficeDrop’s iPad App to Scan
iPad Document Scanner: OfficeDrop
This free scanner app allows to store files up to 1GB. It is very easy to scan files to PDF using OfficeDrop. Read The Review of OfficeDrop’s iPad 2 Scanner App
We are really proud of a great write up we just got from Dave Johnson of the popular BNET technology blog. Dave’s piece is called “OfficeDrop: How to Move Paper to the Cloud.”
Wow! We couldn’t have said it better.
It’s great when a reporter with an important publication takes the time to use and review our app! That, plus our customer growth, makes us feel like we are headed in the right direction with the service.
Dave says, “Imagine getting a handout at a conference, which you immediately scan with your iPhone’s camera. The document is immediately stored online as a searchable PDF, and you can ditch the handout — one less thing to carry around. Once online, your documents can be organized, shared with others, and searched like a collection of files on your own computer’s hard drive.”
Please click on the link above to read the full article.
Gregory Huang, a well known reporter for Xconomy Boston, sat down with OfficeDrop CEO Prasad Thammineni recently to discuss OfficeDrop’s recent growth, partnership with Nuance and our plans for the rest of the year. He has just published a good piece on the conversation called “OfficeDrop Sees Nuance Partnership Pay Off” and you can read it here. It’s great that reporters are taking note of our recent success!
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!
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.
Cool Websites and Tools
OfficeDrop – Finding specific text within documents that span over many pages is not an easy task. But thanks to optical character recognition technology, the task is made much simpler. Read makeuseof’s review of the OfficeDrop Android Scanner App
OfficeDrop App Scanner for iPhone
Those who despise being lost in a bundle of paper documents may want to resort to aid in the form of the OfficeDrop app launched for iPhone. The application seeks to scan, organize and store paper files, PDFs and other documents in virtual guise. Read About OfficeDrop’s iPhone App Scanner
Fresh iPhone Apps for July 20: Google+, OfficeDrop
Yesterday saw the release of Google+… It leads today’s Fresh iPhone Apps alongside OfficeDrop, a Dropbox-like app that lets you scan documents using your iDevice’s camera and save them to the cloud… Scan documents and upload them to the cloud on the go with OfficeDrop. Read appolicioius Review of OfficeDrop’s iPhone Scanner App.
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