The issue of integrating technology systems when two companies merge through acquisition is not new but organisations risk losing valuable corporate knowledge if employees can’t easily access any document they need from either business.

Even prior to an acquisition, the due diligence process requires solicitors and accountants to access hundreds of documents for analysis and forensic accounting. These documents may be held in legacy technology systems that are not easy to convert to a readable format, taking precious time and resources to resolve.

As a result of the acquisition there may be staff changes, office moves and restructuring, all contributing to the possible loss of corporate knowledge held in varying document formats.
A key benefit of gDoc Fusion is the ability to quickly and easily translate and merge over 200 types of incompatible document files into a single document through a simple drag and drop action, even though the original application is not available. Users can create a summary, report or other document that can combine disparate documents such as spreadsheets, slides, images or text in one simple operation, then save the result in a format everybody can handle: PDF.

So solicitors and accountants can rest assured that all nighters at the office during an acquisition will no longer be down to simply trying to convert one key document into a readable format!

Computing is now ubiquitous in our personal lives. We can connect to our friends, tell multiple people what we are doing, show them videos and share music or photos in an instant. We do this with little thought for the technology that drives our online socialising.
The devices we use are increasingly handheld, mobile and touch sensitive. Interfaces are easy-to-use and intuitive to our touch and thinking. We can use technology anywhere to assist us. We are no longer tied to a computer at a desk but free to go about our lives with technology on hand for our benefit.

With this in mind business computing is also becoming more intuitive and mimicking our offline lives in the way we search for or organise our offline data. gDoc Fusion is helping improve office productivity through easy to use features that emulate our offline document reading habits.

Instead of clicking on individual pages one at a time to read or search, we thought about how people read documents in real life and when creating Flick View. The feature saves time and printing costs by allowing users to quickly visually flick through the pages of a document to find information, just like a physical document but using a computer mouse to scroll pages on screen.

We constantly listen to our customers feedback to continually improve our products and during one visit to a legal practice, we discussed how solicitors stack case files in the real world and if this could be emulated in gDoc Fusion. A quick conversation with our useability genius, Riccardo Taffarello and bingo we’ve added Page Stack as a new feature for the forthcoming version, gDoc Fusion 2.5. Check it out when it ships at the end of May, we’re sure you’ll love it as much as Flick View.

Business-strength PDF software for students and home computer users

This week Global Graphics announced the launch of gDoc Fusion Home & Student Edition (http://www.globalgraphics.com/fusion-homestudent), offering students and home computer users easy-to-use, enterprise-level PDF software at an affordable price.

The PDF creation software has been designed with simple navigation and user interface so people can quickly and easily create, review, edit, share and archive documents. Instead of presenting you with a window with a blank document and thousands of tools, toolbars and menu options, gDoc fusion was designed from scratch to give you a clean and simple user interface, giving you different views to suit the way you want to work, having observed users struggle with enterprise applications that are not intuitive to use.

The interaction is intuitive, if you select some text, you get a context sensitive toolbar automatically popup right beside it. This gives you all the commands you need when you need them at your finger tips. Once you have edited your document you can use the Flick View to browse through it and see how it looks or present it to your friends and family in a fun way.

gDoc Fusion Home & Student Edition also offers students and home users advanced functionality that was only available to enterprise users with benefits such as:

• Viewing, editing and saving Microsoft Office (Word, Excel & PowerPoint) documents
• Enhancing the presentation of coursework, essays, and dissertations
• Redaction and secure archiving of sensitive personal documents
• Sharing, emailing, printing or posting documents to websites
• Creating easy-to-share electronic photo albums
• Simple ‘drag and drop’ editing of multiple file formats into one document
• Viewing documents with unique Flick View functionality to reduce wasteful printing

While our gDoc Creator product remains free for anyone to download here (http://www.globalgraphics.com/en/gdoc/free-creator) we are passing on the huge benefits of its big brother, gDoc Fusion, to home and students users at a great price. Download gDoc Fusion Home & Student Edition here (http://www.globalgraphics.com/fusion-homestudent).