BuyerZone users' document management software requirements

We ask users of our quote request service to describe their document management software purchasing requirements in detail so the vendors we match them to can provide customized information in response. Now we're sharing these buyer requirements with you.

We hope these user comments help you get a sense of what types of document management software other users are choosing and what considerations are important to the average buyer. Take a look and you'll probably see some responses that are relevant to your business.

BuyerZone user comments: document management software purchasing requirements

"Need simple solution for growing company document management, retrieval, retention (automatic), user access and permission needs. Need forcast for growing company and any changes/additions or maintenance to software/hardware that may be needed if size of co. increases. Need info including data backup availablity and level of IT support/maintenance required."
-- Office Manager, Manufacturing, Irving, TX

"This program will be used to keep track of donors, foundations, volunteers, providers, and potentially patients for a non-profit medical clinic (free for the uninsured) in Colorado Springs."
-- Buyer, Health Care, Colorado Springs, CO

"Would ideally like to find software that is tailored to graphic design."
-- Creative Design/Writing/Production, Real Estate, Somerset, NJ

"I need to store emails and word documents by customer."
-- Attorney, Construction/General Contracting, Clifton Park, NY

"Document Management for multiple projects with secure controlled access for remote users."
-- Sales/Business Development, Equipment Sales & Service, Concord, NH

"Support customers in document scanning and managing files after scanning."
-- Buyer, Other Business Services, Manchester, NH

"We need to link 100's of documents to individual clients. We are not using a system now. Need information. We do not have a scanner."
-- Accounting/Finance, Financial Services, Billings, MT

"Camera and Video store. Need storage and retrieval capability for paper documents, ie: contracts, proposals, pictures, invoices, employee records, etc."
-- Partner/Principal, Retail, Little Rock, AR

"We would like to go completetly electronic with our documents. Right now some is electronic and some is not."
-- Buyer, Other Business Services, Kalamazoo, MI

"We have multiple transportation offices. Currently we are making copies of Bills of Ladings, Invoices, Driver's Logs, etc and FedExing them back and forth. Rather than copying I want to scan and save to a central server accessible from both offices."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Transportation/Logistics, Delaware, OH

"Document Control for Engineering documents, Production documents and Quality Control documents."
-- MIS/IT, Manufacturing, Vista, CA

"My global team needs to review all online documentation thta is produced by myd epartment, which needs to be retrieved, reviewed, stored, and version controlled."
-- MIS/IT, Financial Services, Stirling, NJ

"We would like to find a document management system for a financial environment that may also be used for learning management."
-- Consultant, Government, Hampton, VA

"Suplement existing document management software to provide access to old records that are not in our current data base."
-- Buyer, Government, Kansas City, KS

"Needed for general document management and for engineering document management with revisions and permissions."
-- MIS/IT, Manufacturing, Garland, TX

"Portal type functionality - providing both secure/confidential profiling and public and or designated login access."
-- Partner/Principal, Consulting, Parker, CO

"We want something simple. Instead of storing our word, excel, pagemaker documents on 7 or eight different machines. We want somewhere to put them so that everyone has access to them. cost wise - I am looking for a flat fee, not user licensing."
-- Buyer, Education, Bluffdale, UT

"Storage of engineering filesmust use active directory for user access."
-- MIS/IT, Manufacturing, Carpentersville, IL

"Tracking old projects and project data so that we can do research on what we have learnt."
-- CFO, Consulting, New York, NY

"We are looking to convert our paper Human resource files (worker's comp, benfits, personal files) to electronic files."
-- Human Resources, Manufacturing, Elkhart, IN

"Basically need to keep track of previous versions, check in and check out, know what is the most current version. Approve and post."
-- MIS/IT, Other Business Services, Vernon Hills, IL

"Track and manage in excess of 165,000 files and boxes both onsite and at offsite storage. Check In/Check Out files internally."
-- Facilities/Operations, Financial Services, Portland, OR

"Integrating company generated documents into an existing database and search engine."
-- Creative Design/Writing/Production, Computers - Software, Sebastopol, CA

"User Manuals, Drivers, Iso images, Images of Servers for recovery purposes,Documentation of servers, Help Documemts."
-- MIS/IT, Education, San Diego, CA

"We are in the process of digitizing all our drawings and paperwork. Most of the drawings will be in cadd form. We are looking for software to manage all our files."
-- Buyer, Education, Evanston, IL

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