We have just formally launched our first stand-alone web application – DocuBuzz – an on-demand document management solution specifically designed for small businesses and distributed teams.

The concept for DocuBuzz evolved from our experience in developing custom document & records management solutions for a variety of clients.  In the course of these projects, we realized that the core document management requirements are quite similar across most small businesses.  We also realized that most off-the-shelf solutions were simply not suitable for small businesses – being too expensive, too complex, or both.

DocuBuzz is our attempt to offer an alternative – a simple and affordable document management solution that leverages the benefits of the web-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model.  The current version of DocuBuzz aims to cover the essential document management needs of most small businesses.

Core features include:

• An intuitive multi-user interface
• Collaborative Notes & Tags
• Full text search with search filters
• Document versioning
• Built-in document viewer
• In-situ link & file sharing with variable shared-link lifetimes
• Flexible folder sharing permissions

Head on over to www.docubuzz.com and activate your fully-functional free trial account to check out DocuBuzz for yourself.  We are extremely eager to hear what you think about it.

According to separate studies done by the Carnegie Mellon University and Google, you can expect between 2% and 13% of all hard drives to fail in any given year.  This failure rate is much higher than what hard drive manufacturers’ data would lead you to believe.

This PC World article explores some of the reasons for this discrepancy in the expected reliability of hard drives.

Regardless of the actual scale of the problem, the bottom line for your business remains simple – back-up all your critical data regularly so that any hard drive crash is merely an inconvenience rather than a disaster.