Information Management

We maintain a separate blog dedicated to information management. On this blog we have written about a service that is set to change file management as currently practiced.

http://infoknowledge.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/data-management-easier-on-the-web/

There are many implications to file management for Box.net, however the one we want to discuss here is the capability with respect to service parts information.

Box.net

Box.net allows you to easily keep documents, and then to link these documents to web pages and to send these links through email. Service parts have many files such as specifications or user manuals. The question is how to best manage these documents. Our previous idea was to simply integrate the documents into the actual web page. See an example at our Service Parts Portal website.

http://www.servicepartsportal.com/?page_id=255

However, now we are not so sure that this is the best approach. A better approach may be to host the files at Box.net and then simply profile links to the page that lead to Box.net. Box.net has an excellent interface for managing large numbers of files, in fact we think it currently the best on the web. Systems like SAP and others are trying to maintain the content in a central repository, the fact is ERP systems are not very good at this.