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click.to to OfficeDrop

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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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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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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OfficeDrop CEO Posts on TechCrunch

Monday, May 16th, 2011

competiting_in_the_cloud OfficeDrop CEO, Prasad Thammineni, recently had a piece published on TechCrunch called “Competing in the Cloud – Let’s be Frenemies.” OfficeDrop was one of the first startups to get into Amazon’s cloud services back in 2007, and we’ve noticed that cloud/SaaS software is very different from the packaged software business model. In particular, open APIs and integrations are really changing the way companies interact with each other. Startups that would once have tried to aggressively compete with larger players are now helping the big platform companies round out their product offerings, and large players who once would have squashed every startup in sight are now helping distribute competitive offerings.

OfficeDrop is really benefiting from these “frenemy” integrations – Google Docs, Evernote, FreshBooks and more have helped grow our business and make for happy customers.

Please check out the post!

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OfficeDrop in Canon’s Scanner Alliance Page

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

OfficeDrop is now officially in Canon’s Alliance Marketing DR Scanner Compatibility Listing. This means that Canon has not only provided OfficeDrop with the code necessary to interface our scanner software and our digital filing system software with their scanners, they also recognize us as a valuable member of their scanner ecosystem.

The Cannon scanners listed as compatible are:

DR-2510C
DR-2580C
DR-3010C
DR-4010C
DR-5010C
DR-7090C
DR-9050C
DR-7550C
DR-6050C
DR-X10C
P-150

OfficeDrop’s Listing in Canon’s Alliance Marketing:

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Visoneer Integrates Software with OfficeDrop’s Cloud

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Visioneer OneTouch to the Cloud

Visioneer, the makers of both Visioneer scanners and Xeros small business scanners, announced today that they have integrated their scanners’ Visioneer OneTouch software with OfficeDrop’s cloud filing system and with our ScanDrop scanner software.

Click on the picture above to learn more about Visioneer Connect OneTouch to the Cloud and to download the updated software from Visioneer.

This is a big deal because it shows that major scanner equipment manufacturers are not only taking cloud storage seriously, the are taking OfficeDrop’s online filing system seriously.

As OfficeDrop continues to grow our cloud content management platform we are committed to working with other scanner manufacturers to make it seamless and simple to digitize to the cloud.

Visioneer OneTouch to the Cloud Press Release

Here is a little bit from the press release announcing the Visioneer OneTouch to the Cloud:

According to Anne Valaitis an Associate Director at InfoTrends, “Businesses today are looking for devices and applications that help them conduct business more economically and effectively. This has fueled significant interest in the use of cloud computing. In fact, in a recent study by InfoTrends 68% of IT administrators reported they are currently using or considering cloud computing. By offering connectivity to the cloud, Visioneer is addressing customer demands for effortless usability.”

“No other scanner company offers as many cloud scanning options for such a broad range of scanners models. Every Visioneer and Xerox scanner supporting OneTouch 4.6 or greater is immediately enabled,” said John Capurso, vice president of marketing at Visioneer. “Visioneer CONNECT represents the most comprehensive set of cloud scanning solutions available to extend the usual terrestrial destinations to the leading cloud on-line services. As Visioneer releases more cloud links, you’ll find them at connect.visioneer.com.”

Visioneer CONNECT is the latest link development for Visioneer OneTouch. Your cloud credentials (username and password) can be preset through Visioneer OneTouch so every scan job is not interrupted with log-in details. Most cloud destinations even allow users to choose the folder of their choice and even specify an email address so that a notification email is automatically sent with a link to their file. By scanning images directly to the cloud, users can easily collaborate and share files while working in multiple locations.

Visioneer OneTouch is an award winning utility that simplifies scanning to one button. Everyone wants ease of use and convenience, however sometimes in order to obtain it, you have to sacrifice quality or functionality. Not true when it comes to the Visioneer OneTouch technology. Visioneer OneTouch provides the most elegant ease-of-use scanning experience without “dumbing down” the device.

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OfficeDrop in the Google Chrome Web Store

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

OfficeDrop just became even easier to find now that Google has launched their Chrome Web Store.

You can find OfficeDrop under the Productivity section. (Click here to go to our listing and install the OfficeDrop app; it will work with your existing OfficeDrop account.)

Once you’ve installed the OfficeDrop app, you’ll find it even easier to get to your paper documents!

Here is what Chrome will look like when you open a new tab:

OfficeDrop Chrome Web Store

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Nice Job Evernote!

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Our good friends at Evernote have just announced they now have 5 million users! Nice job! Congratulations to them for having such a great growth.

Everyone should celebrate by using OfficeDrop to get your paper into Evernote!

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OfficeDrop and Google Docs

Friday, September 10th, 2010

The entire team at OfficeDrop uses Google Docs everyday. We find the spreadsheets and documents are ideal for sharing important operational content across the firm. That is partially why we have put so much effort into our integrations with Google Docs. Here are a few of the great things you can do with OfficeDrop and Google Docs.

Scan to Google Docs

OfficeDrop’s ScanDrop software is the easiest way to scan directly into your Google Docs account. We connect TWAIN enabled scanners directly to your Google account for PC users. You don’t even have to open a browser to get your files online!

Connect OfficeDrop Digital Filing System to Google Docs

You can easily use OfficeDrop’s mail-in scanning service and online digital filing system to manage paper files in Google Docs. The best part about using OfficeDrop’s system with Google Docs is we make everything text searchable, so you can use Google Doc’s search bar and find information in your PDFs.

You can either automatically push contents in OfficeDrop to Google, or manually push individual files or folders of files.

You can learn more about OfficeDrop’s integrations on our Digital Office page.

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