DocLanding - Powerful Solution for Online Documents Sharing

It looks like documents sharing is a hot trend these days with another startup launching today at DEMOfall to allow any web user to store at a centralized location, manage and share all the documents at a level of enterprise applications. DocLanding is launched by DOCCENTER with individuals as well as small and medium-sized businesses as a target audience for the documents storage, secure sharing and collaboration solution.

First it looks like we have already seen everything provided by DocLanding already: you upload your documents, manage and store them, share them with friends or colleagues without having to send them as email attachments. But there are a number of powerful advantages in DocLanding not available, for example, in the recently launched MyDocs by Docstoc. The first advantage is an annotation tool for the preview of documents. Basically availability of such a tool means that not only can you preview the documents stored on DocLanding but also add some annotations to the text or maybe even black out the words or figures you don’t want the people you share the document with to see. What’s more, the preview tool here even allows a user to search for some specific text right within the document itself - thus making search for the exact document needed easy even if a document is placed to a wrong file, for example.

For every document stored it is also possible to select which access permission will be granted to every users the document is shared with. Besides, DocLanding tries not to limit users in file types supported by the service: you can even use the tool to preview a Photoshop document without having the actual software installed.

But there’s one thing that can be viewed as a disadvantage by the spoiled internet users of today - and that is the simple (and predictable) fact that the solution comes at a price. And while basic accounts are free, they are only limited with 256 megabytes of storage for documents with more advanced plans charged from $9 to $20 per month per gigabyte of storage based on the support package an account holder receives. This may be viewed as a disadvantage with Docstoc offering unlimited storage and synchronization of documents for free.

But when a product is targeted at an enterprise user, price tag (when reasonable) can be more of an advantage actually with customers more willing to pay for the service and know the documents are safe and secure and support will arrive promptly when something unexpected happens. I believe it is a good venture in the SaaS model for the provider of enterprise documents management solutions and hopefully if more such companies decide to build web-based applications for their tools, more people will be willing to adopt paid-for web apps eventually.