With a bit of creativity, you can find dozens of practical applications for this tool.
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Maintain a client support area, where you can collaborate and share data with clients, suppliers and business partners. Provide secure access via your Web site to documents such as product data sheets, reports or contracts - and collect people's input on them. Enable them to safely review materials on your site so they can better understand your needs, and to upload documents for your use so you can better understand their needs.
- Distribute information to your employees. Give them easy access to company forms, corporate guidelines, manuals, training libraries, marketing studies, and other information that they may be needing right now to give their best.
- Turn a simple Web server into a file server in just minutes. With this system, even non-technical persons are able to quickly set up a workspace for a response team, inside a department or across other organizational groups.
- Install it on your server as a Web-based file manager, to let other people edit the content of your Web site.
- If you don't have an Intranet yet, create one by using Afian as the first building block.
- Make production documents available to the sales staff, without letting them modify the documents, so they can show them to potential clients. Let your prospects see for themselves samples of your previous work, concept sketches, and other proofs of your capabilities.
- Help your management team prepare for meetings. Save time and effort by making sure everybody has all the elements they need in order to contribute to the best decisions.
- Secure comunication. Eliminate accidents caused by bounced e-mails, exceeded quotas or filtered attachments. Control who has access to documents. Keep out nosy search-engines and casual browsers.
- Keep an eye on the activity in your organization.
A glance at the logs of this system can give you insights on how your people work. You can see who has uploaded a document, who else has it, and for how long - for complete accountability.
- Save the time needed to switch applications for some frequent tasks. With Afian, you can e-mail documents without starting your e-mail client, you can edit text files without Notepad, you can upload files without a FTP client, you can manage archives without a ZIP archiver, and you can view images files without needing to install an image viewer.
