Anuva electronic document & knowledge management system captures, stores and enables sharing of a wide range of electronic data. "The intellectual capital and knowledge of many organizations is tied up, not only in its staff but also in the documents produced by those staff," explains Anuva. "Staff may come and go but knowledge remains locked up in those documents. The ability to store and retrieve documents and to locate specific information from anywhere within any document is becoming essential to the efficient operation of all offices."

One of Anuva's best features is its comprehensiveness and the degree to which the system can be configured to suit the specific needs of each organization including multiple division and field options. Anuva supports most common files types including Microsoft Office, pdf, jpg, etc. Close integration with Microsoft Office ensures that all "business" documents are captured into Anuva through mandatory entry of Word and Excel documents on the "close." In addition Anuva has many features designed to overcome the problems experienced with email, including attachments. Anuva will even track documents emailed to other parties and then returned to the system.

Anuva improves document security through its extensive security features. Organizations can add a security setting at the individual document level. Or organizations can set up various groups of security. Anuva even supports specific security settings for managing individual projects.

On the document tracking end, Anuva provides full version control, including "check-in" and "check-out" capabilities. Tracking features show the history of each document through its various stages. Anuva even allow locking of documents, for final document integrity.

For knowledge management, Anuva include a wide range of annotation options. A database of notes adds the ability to link multiple notes to individual documents. Anuva even provides for date and author tagging of notes, for knowledge tracking purposes. Anuva makes setup and maintenance easy. For pre-existing files, Anuva provides for bulk loading enabling existing documents to be added to Anuva quickly and easily.

Finally, Anuva provides for complete searching of documents stored within the Anuva system. "Without an efficient means of searching, much of that knowledge remains inaccessible or very hard to access. Ask the question 'can you find your colleagues' documents? Can they find yours?' The answer is too often, no!"

For full-text and fielded data searching within the Anuva system, Anuva chose the dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine. "Anuva utilizes the powerful dtSearch Engine. The search aspect of Anuva is a key aspect of transforming an organization's scattered and generally inaccessible document 'stores' into an actively value-adding resource. This transformation both saves time and increases productivity via the capturing and sharing of institutional knowledge."

One important reason Anuva chose the dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine was its scalability. "We wanted Anuva to be fully scalable. No matter how large the data requirements, we wanted Anuva to scale to meet those needs. dtSearch gave us the scalability to meet any size data needs."

For more information on Anuva and its complete document management system, please visit www.anuvacorp.com, or email rburton@anuvacorp.com