This week Fox News’ Diane Mercado interviewed Gary Fry, CEO of Global Graphics, when he was in New York. The topic was how to increase productivity in the workplace by the way you use your software.  Interesting to see that Diane identifies with the problem of wasting time on reformatting information to bring it into a report from the days when she was a PR Assistant.  Gary makes the point that, particularly in today’s economic climate, businesses should be looking at what this wasted time is costing them.  IDC, for example, counts the cost for an organisation employing 1,000 office workers as $5.7 million annually lost on reformatting information between applications.  With gDoc Fusion you can pull information together in minutes.  See the interview here

Back in March I posted a short blog with some tips on avoiding malicious code delivered via an otherwise respectable PDF. Just three months on and the baddies have been at it again, uncovering a security flaw that has made the news. This time it affects both Adobe’s PDF Reader and their Flash player. McAfee’s prediction (you can read the report here) that Adobe software, especially Reader and Flash, will be the primary target for attacks in 2010 is being borne out.

While alternatives to Adobe’s Flash player are a little difficult to find, there are several alternatives to the Adobe Reader such as our own gDoc Fusion. For viewing, even creating PDF, it’s free. We’ve just released an update, v2.5, and it’s well worth considering.

gDoc Fusion has been approved for the United States General Services Administration schedule (GSA).  GSA provides access to commercial services and products for government agencies. Congratulations to our reseller Annapolis Technologies, a veteran-owned, HUBZone business who put us forward.  Fredrik Salvesen, who is the CEO at Annapolis has already had very encouraging feedback when he’s shown gDoc Fusion to government agency representatives at workshops and exhibitions, “The Federal customers that we have spoken to are very excited about what gDoc Fusion offers because it solves a common business problem – at last here is a way of bringing together files in different formats quickly with a drag and drop.  In terms of creating, editing and archiving PDFs for business, it’s a fraction of the price of Adobe.”

Contact Fredrik at http://www.annapolistech.com/gsa/landing.htm GSA Schedule GS-35F-0021L