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NEW RELEASE - FILESPHERE 2008

The FileSphere team is pleased to announce the release of FileSphere 2008, which includes Personal, Professional and Enterprise editions. You can view a comparison of features in the Features section of the Products page.

WHAT'S NEW IN FILESPHERE 2008?

The familiar interface now runs on Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007.

The Microsoft Office 2007 Add-In places FileSphere tools inside the
Office 2007 Ribbon and they can also be added to the Quick Access Toolbar.

WEB 2.0 REMOTE ACCESS TO FILESPHERE NOW AVAILABLE

If you’re at a remote location or FileSphere isn’t installed on your local desktop, you can still access and manage documents via a web browser interface provided by FileSphere WEB 2.0, a standard component of FileSphere Enterprise 2008. 

FileSphere in Office 2007

Contact sales@filesphere.com for a preview of the new web interface

NEW DISTRIBUTOR

FileSphere welcomes LocumIT on board, as a new distributor. Queensland-based, LocumIT is a professional service company focusing on connecting business values with technology.

LocumIT’s mission is to empower the small business manager with the insight to govern their technology rather than having the technology govern the business.

LocumIT

Contact Managing Director, Clive Mason, to take advantage of a wealth of business experience
Phone: 07 3824 8252 or
Email: clivemason@locumit.com.au

AWARDS

At CeBIT 2007, FileSphere was selected as a Finalist for the inaugural ZDNet Australia and CeBIT2007 Emerging Technology Innovation Award

Emerging Technology Innovation Award
Manly Dily Centenary Award CertificateManly Daily Centenary Medal

Bahram Boutorabi, CEO & Founder of FileSphere, was awarded the Centenary Medal for Services to Science & Technology

CONFERENCES & EXHIBITIONS 

CeBIT 2007: 1-3 May - Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre
FileSphere showed its exciting new web interface, developed using the latest web technology.

FileSphere in action at CeBIT 2006
Many visitors to CeBIT 2006 in the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, 9-11 May, experienced FileSphere first hand.

The Future of Global Information Standards
Bahram Boutorabi, FileSphere CEO and Chief Technology Architect spoke on the topic of ‘The Future of Global Information Standards at Open Standards 2005. OASIS Open Standards 2005 (26-28 October 2005) is an annual Asia Pacific event for management and technical professionals from the business and government sector, held to share expertise and promote open discussion on the latest technologies, applications and services supporting the global e-Business community.

Challenging Current Document Management Technology
Bahram Boutorabi, CEO and Chief Technology Architect, spoke on the topic of Challenging Current Document Management Technology at Open Publish 2005. Open Publish is an annual conference for people who create, manage and publish information across traditional and electronic media.

AWARDS & REVIEWS

Emerging Technology Innovation Award
FileSphere was selected as a Finalist for the inaugural Emerging Technology Innovation Award by ZDNet Australia and CeBIT2007

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Centenary Medal for Services to Science & Technology
Bahram Boutorabi, CEO & Founder of FileSphere, was awarded the Centenary Medal for Services to Science & Technology by the Manly Daily, as part of their centenary year celebrations.

Manly Daily Medal

APC Magazine, Editor's Choice Award for FileSphere Professional 2006

"Excellent, elegant document management and versioning" plus 4.5 stars, was the verdict after a review of Filesphere Professional 2006, by Matthew Overington, in APC Magazine (Nov 2006).

FileSphere selected for Microsoft award
FileSphere was selected as a finalist for the Microsoft Business Productivity Solution Partner of the Year - Small Business in the Microsoft Australia & New Zealand Certified Partner Awards 2005.

FileSphere Professional 2005 - Highly Recommended (79 KB, PDF)
FileSphere Professional 2005 was reviewed and awarded Highly Recommended by APC Magazine, in their August issue.

Australia's Best Innovators are here! (172 KB, PDF)
The Australian, January 2004.

ADVERTISING

Electronic Mail and Document Management
IDM Magazine, April/May 2006

Life after search (363 KB, PDF)
Business Briefing, Technology & Business Magazine, April 2006

 

PRESS & WEB COVERAGE

Brainpower versus the filing cabinet
by Rodney Appleyard, IDM.net, May 2005
Our brains should be the inspiration to computers, not filing cabinets, according to the founder of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, because our current system of searching for emails and documents demands too much from our memory.

Sydney software 'rocks' MS's world
by Dahna McConnachie and Darren Greenwood
PCWorld, June 2004 (81 KB, PDF)
ARNnet, June 2004 (72 KB, PDF)
Computer World, June 2004 (51 KB, PDF)

Sphere of influence
 - new approach to filing
(1166 KB, PDF)
The Manly Daily, June 2004
by Sue Hoban

Finding Forgotten Files Fast
by Jennifer Foreshew
The Australian, June 2004 (69 KB, PDF)
The Courier Mail, June 2004 (77 KB, PDF)

CeBIT 2004 Sydney
- Product using .NET FX
(73 KB, PDF)
May 2004
by Frank Arrigo, Group Manager, Developer
Platform Evangelism, Microsoft Pty Ltd

Smart document manager
by Jennifer Foreshew
The Australian, September 2002

FURTHER READING

ODF (Open Document Format) Now an ISO Standard
IDM.net.au, December 8th, 2006
The Open Document Format (ODF) has been officially name a standard this week by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO).

Destruction of Documents 
– Now a Criminal Offence
(240 KB, PDF)
Victorian law concerning document destruction.

Context and Searching
DM Review, April 2006

Tim Berners-Lee
Did you know that FileSphere is based on the Resource Definition Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL), introduced by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor the World Wide Web?

As we may think
Way back in 1945, did Dr Vannevar Bush have a premonition about how FileSphere would work when he described a theoretical system for storing information based on associations?

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