Vuzit today unveiled new document management software capabilities that help companies take advantage of Vuzit’s unique combination of document publishing software and analytics in formulating a social media framework that includes document publishing and integration into the company’s existing web services environment.  This will allow companies to transform their web site into a strategic social media asset that can be used to enable real-time communications to employees, stakeholders and customers to inform, to attract new clients, and to make better decisions for sustained competitive advantage.

In today’s demanding environment, the web presence is often the most important and most visible face to customers, constituents, distributors, suppliers, and employees.  Recent findings from The State of Inbound Marketing report that “Social media is the fastest growing category in lead generation budgets and are ranked as lowest cost lead-generation channel.”  This indicates that an encompassing social media strategy is key to becoming a leading business of the future. To meet these challenges, Vuzit is focused on helping businesses by offering document publishing capabilities that integrate into the web marketing system.

Vuzit DocuPub for Social Publishing is a document publishing solution for marketers to distribute their content in a real-time mode to reduce costs, build buzz and drive web traffic. It unifies the management of all your marketing and resource pages such as: company news, press releases, publications, success stories, white papers and more.  Vuzit’s new DocuPub software helps companies derive insight and value from the analytics collected for each document and make marketing and business decisions based on the facts. This level of document analytics is not readily available from other document management offerings.

The latest DocuPub offering addresses the growing need for document publishing and real-time distribution to social communities such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and others. It also complements existing web marketing solutions created specifically to meet the needs of the marketplace.  Please contact us at info@vuzit.com and we will send you an information packet and additional material to get started.

Enterprise Cloud Computing by Chris Cera (CTO Vuzit) and David Brussin (CEO Monetate) from Vuzit LLC on Vimeo.

Cloud Computing is changing all businesses that use or manage information technology, so most technology professionals are evaluating cloud resources within the context of their business. It’s often difficult to discern the benefits and business impact of cloud resources given the amount of hype and media attention. The panelists will discuss the benefits, risks, and cost considerations when deploying cloud resources. They will also discuss the cloud-based solutions they have implemented, and draw distinctions between traditional on-premise and co-location deployment options. The goal of the panel is to help the business understand the implications of deploying cloud resources by giving a fresh perspective on old problems.

Link: Documents-as-a-Service

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Do you know who is actually reading the documents you post online?

Do you need to control access to sensitive documents and reports? How do you know who is accessing those documents and when? Do you use white papers, case studies, data sheets and other content marketing materials to generate leads and provide customer service? If so, then you are losing valuable data on how those documents are being utilized by your intended audiences… until now.

Vuzit is excited to announce the availability of new document analytics functionally in its DocuPub Platform.

The ability to track detailed online document reading statistics has been difficult until the arrival of Vuzit’s new offering. Web analytics software vendors, such as Google Analytics, can only capture data on when a PDF file is downloaded from a website. Vuzit tracks 12 different document usage statistics, including document downloads, by individual document, page and user for 40 document types including:

1. Type of document request (i.e. new document or new page)
2. Name of requested document
3. Date document was read
4. Time of day document was read
5. Which pages of the document were navigated
6. How long was each page viewed
7. What zoom levels were used
8. Number of document downloads
9. IP address and geographic location of who requested the document
10. URL of the referring site or web page
11. What browser was used to view the document
12. Custom values (i.e. username)

IT departments can leverage this functionality to add security and auditing capabilities to sensitive documents and reports. Content marketers and e-publishers can use document analytics to generate leads, better understand document effectiveness and track document popularity.

The detailed analytics can be accessed via the Analytics tab on the web dashboard in a DocuPub Platform account. The full range of analytics reporting, including the ability to export statistics, is included in the Enterprise On-Demand account. Starter and Premium accounts offer limited analytics data. Get a free, no-obligation trial of the analytics feature for 60 days with an Enterprise On-Demand account.

More information about Vuzit’s document analytics can be found in the following places:

Document Analytics Developer Page

DocuPub Platform Analytics product page

Vuzit Document Viewer Demo Gallery

Since this is new functionality, Vuzit welcomes any feedback and suggestions regarding how we can improve the document analytics functionality we are providing. Remember to sign up for your free, no-obligation trial of the DocuPub Platform today and try this powerful new functionality for yourself.

Apparently the folks at Salesforce.com found our quote pretty interesting because they used it in a presentation given at Dreamforce 2009 called “Dreamforce 2009 Platform State of the Union.”

In the presentation Salesforce.com makes the case that cloud computing is no longer on the “bleeding edge” and that mainstream businesses are adopting it. The slide deck also includes several additional interesting statistics on cloud computing adoption including a Gartner estimate that the cloud services market will reach over $150 billion by 2013 and that 37% of firms are replacing current on-premise systems with SaaS.

Vuzit is naturally an advocate of cloud-based computing, as it is the primary way we offer our online document viewer and DocuPub Platform. Using SaaS business applications also helps us run our business more efficiently and enables us to focus more resources on our product and our customers.

Are you concerned about your digital content getting stolen?

Most businesses that produce content have this concern.  Vuzit can now place identifiable information within the Vuzit online document viewer, and also on  downloaded PDF files.  This way if there is a security breach, you can identify the person or party that was originally served the document.

You can see a live demo of Vuzit’s Ajax document viewer with a digital watermark in our developer community documentation.  You can also directly inspect a watermarked PDF file that we created using our watermarking web service.

The digital watermarks developer documentation explains how to get started implementing digital watermarking into your application.  Developers can access the watermarking features with a simple Javascript API parameter, or using the Web Service API to download a watermarked document directly.  This feature is available to all Enterprise On-Demand accounts.

We are excited to see how developers start using this new feature!  As always, please contact us directly with any questions, or leave us feedback in our support forum.

Vuzit can be used for more than an online PDF viewer. There are a number of business processes and departments that can benefit from web-based document viewing and document control. For example, finance departments can reduce days to pay by sending invoices, statements and bills via a private URL for easy online document viewing and document tracking.

Human resource departments can receive resumes and cover letters in 40 different file types but review, share and track these documents in a single online document viewer for faster review and processing.

Sales professionals can protect proposals and price quotations by sending these documents via a private URL which can be tracked and revoked after the deadline for approving the proposal or price quote has expired.

Selling e-books and other documents online? Safely allow prospective buyers to preview documents for sale and then chose whether to allow them to download or only view the document online after purchase.

These are just a few examples. More are listed in the Solutions section.

Last, but not least, we’ve made it easier to try the Enterprise On-Demand edition of the Vuzit DocuPub Platform with a risk free, money back guaranteed 30 day trial. Now you can try all the feature available in the Vuzit DocuPub Platform free for 30 days. For an updated list of what you get with each account type and to sign up, visit the Pricing page.

Selling ebooks or documents in your online marketplace and want to provide prospective buyers with a sample of the document for sale? Then check out the Document Preview API in the Vuzit DocuPub Platform.

The Document Preview API allows a few pages of a document to be previewed in the Vuzit Document Viewer before allowing access to every page of the document. Upon purchasing the document or authenticating to your website per your specifications, the complete version of the document can then be accessed within the Vuzit Document Viewer or as a downloadable version of the document.

The Document Viewer API is part of the Javascript API and is available to customers with an Enterprise On-Demand account.

Vuzit has been using several SaaS applications where information is stored in the cloud for years, including Salesforce.com for CRM, Quickbooks Online for finances, Fogbugz for issue tracking, Basecamp for project management, Yammer for communication and more. This is in addition to building, deploying and storing our software and data with  Amazon Web Services.

With each of these applications we have experienced excellent reliability, security and availability. As good, if not better, than our experiences with internal IT departments at the large organizations from where we came before forming Vuzit.

Those that commented on the article beg to differ about the importance and/or security of cloud computing. This has not been Vuzit’s experience. What about yours?

Check out the full article at http://bit.ly/2BdiCK.

Cloud computing and providers such as AWS make Vuzit and so many other businesses possible today. The Vuzit DocuPub Platform is a multi-tenant SaaS system optimized for the AWS cloud computing infrastructure. It allows our customers to scale up document storage and document processing bandwidth within minutes to meet demand without disrupting real-time production. Vuzit uses AWS EC2 for document processing and AWS S3 for secure document storage. In addition to offering document processing and storage in a shared cloud computing environment, Vuzit offers dedicated AWS instances to certain enterprise customers with unique security and/or bandwidth needs. We could not provide this level of flexibility, reliability, scalability and security to our customers as such an affordable price without AWS. To learn more about AWS security processes, check out their whitepaper, “Amazon Web Services Overview of Security Processes.”

Having AWS offer additional co-marketing, education, community networking and support as part of a Solution Providers Program, and a growing list of companies becoming members, continues to validate cloud computing as a viable elastic IT infrastructure.

This allows PDF Download users to click on a PDF document and choose to quickly read it online in their browser while maintaining all the original document formatting. You can then chose to download the PDF to save or print it.

Vuzit is very excited about this partnership with NitroPDF because it showcases the multi-tenant SaaS architecture of the DocuPub Platform. In beta testing document conversions only took a few seconds for thousands of documents a day. In addition, NitroPDF is very innovative in helping customers view documents online in response to marketplace demands. Read the full press release at http://bit.ly/4gRTe9.

PDF Download is available at: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636.

Vuzit CEO and founder, Brent Matzelle visited 32 students in Temple University’s “Introduction to Information Science and Technology” class on Friday October 2^nd. This class is the first that Information Science & Technology majors take and Professor Wendy Urban likes to bring in several speakers during the semester so that her students can learn about job opportunities and other areas of the major that they might like to explore.

Brent shared with the class his experience after college working in the IT industry with a computer science degree as well as his motivations, challenges and successes while starting his own company. After Brent’s talk, the students wrote blog posts about their impressions. Many were intrigued by the idea of starting a business and wrote that they planned to pursue business and/or entrepreneurship classes as part of their studies. Other students commented that after hearing Brent’s speech they felt empowered about their future career options and how by studying information technology they can a make an impact in the business world.

On October 5, Vuzit’s CTO, Chris Cera, participated on panel called, “How to Start a Startup Community” at Innovation Philadelphia’s Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit. Chris is on the board of Philly Startup Leaders (PSL), an organization of entrepreneurs dedicated to helping other entrepreneurs realize their dreams by providing networking, support and other resources. The panel shared with conference attendees how PSL got off the ground as well as insights on how several other grassroots organizations got their start.

New features include:

• Print PDF– Convert non-PDF document types to PDF files for downloading and printing
• Image File Format Support– PNG, JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP
• Web Services APIs– Upload, delete, and retrieve document information for application integration via PHP and Ruby client libraries
• Vuzit.Net Library for Microsoft .NET– Upload and manage documents directly from any .NET application; language support includes C#, Visual Basic.NET (VB.NET), JavaScript (JScript.NET), LUA, Pascal and Python
• Enhanced Dashboard User Interface– Manage documents and debug applications faster and more easily
• MySQL Database Support–The world’s most popular open source database

Increasingly online document viewing is being integrated into digital marketplaces, social networking sites and enterprise web applications such as CRM, personal finance and document management to improve access to documents online while also maintaining control over them.

The Vuzit DocuPub Platform On-Premise Edition version 2.5 is currently available and represents Vuzit’s continued commitment to bringing enterprise-quality document viewing products to market while reducing development and maintenance costs. Inquiries should be directed to info@vuzit.com or 215-966-6010.

Read the full press release at: http://bit.ly/jpLhA

Today Vuzit’s 100% AJAX document viewer was reviewed by MakeUseOf, “a daily blog that features cool websites, computer tips, and downloads that make you more productive,” in a post entitled, “3 Websites To View Your PDFs Online” The reviewer talks about our Vuzit Share page where you can post and share a PDF, or any of 40 other document formats, on the web for free in our online document viewer without needing a separate reader application or browser plug-in. In addition to the Vuzit Share page, where your documents are posted to our website, Vuzit also offers free and paid subscriptions where you can post and share documents to specified readers.

Vuzit welcomes your reviews and comments about its product. You can add your feedback here in our blog or on the MakeUseOf website.

Today, Vuzit was featured in “Shop Talk” on Technically Philly, a site dedicated to covering technology trends and news in the Philadelphia region, for our company growth and new document viewing product features. http://bit.ly/11fQCD

Thanks guys.

• Keyword Search– Click on the new binocular icon and enter your search term. Results are highlighted on all text-based documents.

• Print PDF– Reading a document you want to download, but don’t have the native application installed? No worries, just click the “Print PDF” button and the document is automatically converted to a PDF file for saving and printing.

• Private Document Sharing– Select “Create Secure Link” to generate a web link you can use to share documents privately via email.

• Document ID– Each document is given a unique Vuzit Document ID. Use this Document ID to share documents privately in a web application.
• Document Statistics– Track document upload dates, file sizes and number of views for each document in the Dashboard.
• Increased Document Control– Documents are kept private in the Vuzit Dashboard until you are ready to share them.
• Vuzit.Net Library for Microsoft.NET– Upload and manage documents directly from any .NET application. Language support includes C#, VB.NET, JScript.NET, LUA, Pascal and Python.

These features are 100% AJAX, supported by all operating systems and browsers, even smartphones like the iPhone and Blackberry.

The Vuzit DocuPub Platform version 3.0 is automatically available to all current Vuzit DocuPub Platform SaaS subscribers. New subscribers may access the software by signing up for an account on the Vuzit website at http://vuzit.com/signup. We offer free Basic account to individuals as well as three levels of paid subscriptions for businesses and organizations, which offer additional storage, features and support. Each subscription level includes a risk-free 30 day trial.

SaaS application providers, web designers and developers are invited to learn more about the Vuzit product line at http://vuzit.com.

See the press release at: http://www.pr.com/press-release/170935

The PDF was conceived to solve the problem of viewing printed information electronically and it has been very successful in doing so. Along the way, people also thought that a PDF document also protected the content in the document. For a long time that was true. Regular folks did not have access to the sophisticated software necessary to edit PDF files.

However, times have changed and software is readily available that will convert our PDF files into an editable formats within seconds. So, while the PDF still fulfills is mission to standardize document sharing, it does not fully solve the problem of document control. Once you email someone a PDF file, or post it on your website for download, you have lost control over what happens to that document… who it gets sent to, whether or not the content is edited, or is otherwise used in ways you did not originally intend.

A new crop of software solutions have emerged to provide increased control over documents shared online while still addressing the need for universal viewing.  These solutions range from complex and costly enterprise digital or information rights management applications to free online document viewers. Vuzit provides its own solution with the Vuzit DocuPub Platform.

The Vuzit DocuPub Platform is a robust, standards-based set of APIs, Web Services and libraries that enables you to embed 40 different types of files and images into your website or application. The Vuzit DocuPub Platform contains dozens of features to help control how documents and content are accessed in its online document viewer such as downloading, zoom levels, navigation and more.

The Vuzit DocuPub Platform and document viewer are intended for use by software companies, web development consultancies and developers who are seeking an enterprise-quality option for sharing documents online that is both easy to use and affordable. The Developer community on the Vuzit website contains reference documentation, sample code, API tutorials, feedback forums and more. Free and paid subscriptions to the Vuzit DocuPub Platform are also available.

Thanks so much to the folks at Techie Buzz for listing Vuzit as one of their 18 Unique and Handy PDF Tools on July 7. The post shows our Vuzit Share page (http://vuzit.com/share) where you can post and share a PDF, or any of 40 other document formats, on the web for free without needing a separate reader application or browser plug-in. We believe that the PDF is a great file format making documents portable, but it does not offer much in the way of security and control. You can add document control features to your PDF and other files by using the Vuzit DocuPub Platform.