DocsCorp
DocsCorp
DocsCorp is an Australian technology company that focuses on development of productivity solutions for document professionals and that integrates with Enterprise Content Management systems.[1]. Whilst it started focusing on PDF software[2], it later broadened to provide document management professionals information governance, security, review, and distribution solutions[3]. Third parties[4] can access core technologies through DocsCorp locally installed and cloud-based API integrations[1]. The product portfolio has also expanded beyond its PDF creation and editing tool to include data breach prevention, document comparison, metadata removal software as well as automated services for OCR and Compression of documents. These products are available on the desktop, server, and cloud[3]
History
DocsCorp was founded in 2003 by co-founders Dean Sappey (President) and Shane Barnett (CTO).[5]. Both founders had an extensive history developing practice management, accounting, and compliance software for the Accounting and Legal professions, either as business owners or in senior product development roles. They saw an opportunity to ‘fill the gaps’ in the various document and practice management solutions. There was a need for productivity tools that would integrate with the core systems and improve their efficiencies. These could be developed as standalone applications but integrate with the core systems – the large companies that developed these core systems had no development bandwidth or could see a financial benefit in developing these just for their own clients.
This led the Founders to workshop what productivity tools could be quickly developed that required little consulting and services to implement and could be useful to the widest range of clients in assisting in the creating, publishing and sharing of documents. The company was initially called ‘Business Prophet Pty Ltd’, and started with no startup capital. A year later with eye on the market outside of Australia, the company name was changed to ‘DocsCorp’[6] , building on the concept of the ‘Document Corporation’.
The first product developed was pdfDocs[2]. Its core benefit was the ability to support the workflows required by accountants and lawyers – taking multiple documents from many different systems (tax, accounts, excel, word, PDF) and combine into a single annotated PDF that could be communicated to the client as a single PDF document, a format originally developed by Adobe but by now no longer a proprietary format.
In 2008, DocsCorp, acquired DocuComp[7] which allowed the company to expand its product offer to compare PDF documents to each other, as well as Word documents – now known as compareDocs[8]. As the founders continued to develop new ideas for productivity application, on October 24, 2011, co-founders, Dean Sappey and Shane Barnett filed their repository content analysis and management system with the U.S Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)[9]. In January 2013, the USPTO acknowledged the unique nature of the repository content analysis and management system and awarded it a patent[10]. This patent was used as the core foundation of its contentCrawler application.
In 2012, DocsCorp expanded its business further in Europe. Major European companies such as Speechly Bircham, Ogier, Carey Olsen, Lewis Silkin, Krogerus, Rolfs & Partner, Wistrand and Leigh Day & Co[11] started using DocsCorp software which prompted further large-scale hiring across the company and senior management[12]
In 2016, DocsCorp was successful in raising its first capital to accelerate the company’s growth from Bailador Technologies[13]. David Kirk, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Bailador, alongside James Johnson invested $5 million in DocsCorp and joined the board of directors [13]. To date, there are 100-150 employees[6] across a number of DocsCorp offices globally.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Baildor Portfolio".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "New pdfDocs in Worldox Productivity Suite".
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Legal Technology Buyer's Guide".
- ↑ "Microsoft Azure Marketplace".
- ↑ "Crunchbase: DocsCorp".
- ↑ "Australian Business Register".
- ↑ "DocsCorp acquires DocuComp".
- ↑ "compareDocs Profile".
- ↑ "Repository content analysis and management". United States patent Application Publication. October 2011.
- ↑ "REPOSITORY CONTENT ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT" (PDF). US Patient Application Publication. January 2013. line feed character in
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- ↑ "DocsCorp Expands Customer Base and its Senior Management Team".
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Bailador Technology Investment Ltd Report" (PDF). ASX. July 2016.
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