Archive for the ‘OfficeDrop’ Category

OfficeDrop in the Boston Business Journal

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

Kyle Alspach had a nice post today on OfficeDrop in the Boston Business Journal and the growth that we are making. It’s great to see important local reporters taking an interest in how our startup is going.

Kyle quotes our CEO, and the article says:

“OfficeDrop has since added apps for the iPad and Android, and allows easy storage and retrieval of the documents in the cloud, he said.

The company, which targets small businesses that must deal with large amounts of paper documents, had started to see traction about a year ago for the service, which has free and paid components, Thammineni said. But a partnership with Burlington’s Nuance to include the OfficeDrop product with printers and scanners has led the company to gain 60,000 registered users, up from 7,000 at the end of 2010, he said.”

Hopefully we can continue this strong growth! We are very excited about the engagement we’ve seen with our product recently and want to thank all of our customers for supporting us during this high growth phase of our company’s life cycle.

OfficeDrop is a CloudBeat 2011 Finalist!

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

CloubBeat FinalistHuge news! OfficeDrop is a CloudBeat 2011 Innovation Showdown finalist! We are one of 10 companies picked to present for the top spot at this year’s upcoming CloudBeat conference in Redwood City November 30th to December 1st! Wow!

You can learn more about the CloudBeat conference and competition and finalists here.

We are really excited about being a finalist because of the large number of companies who entered the competition and the tough criteria upon which they were judged -

  • Freshness of idea
  • Potential to disrupt an industry
  • The success they can potentially drive for their customers

Wish us luck as we travel to California to compete!

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.

News on OfficeDrop’s growth

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

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:

OfficeDrop Announces 9x Year-Over-Year Revenue Growth

OfficeDrop CEO: “Now we’re cookin’ with gas!”

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:

A Major Shift in Strategy

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:

  • In 2011, we’ve added 50,000 new customers to our digital filing cabinet…
  • Plus, 40,000 new installs of our ScanDrop desktop scanning app
  • Mobile apps account for 90 percent of our daily new users (wowza!)

Cracking the Small Business Market

“We found that small businesses tend to purchase from companies they trust most,” said our super-smart aforementioned CEO, Thammineni. “Not just the Staples-type stores, but also companies like Nuance, whose PaperPort offering is shipped along with millions of scanners throughout the world. So we started partnering up with these trusted companies to bring their software to the cloud, and co-branding our offerings with theirs.”

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

iOS Feature – Open Email Attachments in OfficeDrop

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

The newest OfficeDrop iPhone and iPad applications are more than just really great iPhone PDF readers. One of the greatest new features is the ability to open an email attachment directly in OfficeDrop using your iOS device.

To do this, once you’ve opened the attachment in your iPhone or iPad’s email, click the “Open in OfficeDrop” button – or if that does not appear, hit the little box with the arrow in the top right corner to find the open in OfficeDrop option. (This is the little button that looks like the forward email button.)

Once you’ve opened the document in OfficeDrop, you’ll have the ability to upload it into a specific OfficeDrop folder (and add labels) or set a reminder or rename the file.

This makes organizing attachments on the go even easier! Try it out today.

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

OfficeDrop’s iPad App Reviewed by a Customer

Monday, October 10th, 2011

You may remember when William Higgins wrote a piece on OfficeDrop’s ScanDrop software called “Scanning Documents to the Cloud with OfficeDrop.”

Well, he’s taken the time to write up a piece on our improved iPad application!

If you recall, William is a long time OfficeDrop customer who has been featured on the OfficeDrop testimonials page. He is an ECM technologist for a major bank, which means he knows a lot about managing content online.

He goes through the different organizational tools that are available on OfficeDrop iPad application, then talks about uploading and creating files using the iPad app.

Read how to manage documents in the cloud using OfficeDrop’s iPad application here!

Explain this Receipt Scan Contest!

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

In honor of the Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins’ season opener, OfficeDrop is holding a photo caption contest on our Facebook page!

Last season the Bruins brought home the Stanley Cup and racked up this receipt during the after party.  If you had to explain this $156,000 receipt to your boss, what would you say?

The response with the most likes at the end of the day on Friday, October 14th will win a Canon imageFORMULA P-150 Portable Document Scanner and a subscription to OfficeDrop to help you go paperless!

Entering is simple – just leave a comment on the photo on the OfficeDrop Facebook page. The comment with the most votes will win!

Click this link to enter and leave your comment:

http://ow.ly/6P7te (note that you need to log into Facebook to participate!)

Have fun, and keep it clean out there – our official rules are below.

RULES:
*NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A purchase will not increase your chances of winning. Contest begins 12:01 AM EST 10/6/2011 and ends 11:59 PM EST 10/14/2011. Subject to Official Rules. Open to residents of the 50 United States, 18 and older. Void where prohibited.
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OfficeDrop on Makeuseof and More

Friday, September 30th, 2011

 align=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:


September 20, 2011

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


September 16, 2011

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

BNET Says: OfficeDrop is How to Move Paper to the Cloud

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

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.

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