What is docBlock Ascend controlled concurrent authoring and how is it different from Office 2010 co-authoring? Office 2010 co-authoring is an exciting new Office 2010 document collaboration feature that allows small teams to perform simultaneous edits to Office documents. docBlock Ascend controlled concurrent authoring is an enterprise-class document management capability that allows organizations to implement multi-user document editing capability without sacrificing the concurrence control, security, and change management that led the organization to implement SharePoint in the first place.
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Client application support
Office 2010: Requires Office 2010 client applications or SharePoint 2010.
docBlock: Works with any Office file format-compatible editor (like Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, etc) and SharePoint 2007. |
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Client application compatibility
Office 2010: Requires co-authoring aware applications.
docBlock: Works with any application that can open the file. |
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Concurrence control
Office 2010: Lack of concurrence control still allows edit conflicts to cause data loss and prevent users from achieving true productivity.
docBlock: System concurrency control extends to document sections, eliminating edit conflicts even for off-line edits. |
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Controlled security
Office 2010: All authors can open and edit the entire document.
docBlock: Content managers can secure each document section individual for reading and editing. |
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Change management
Office 2010: Change management policies, processes, and auditing apply only to the entire document
docBlock: Change management can be applied to the document as well as to any document section. Can finally answer questions like, "When did the pricing section change, and who made the change?" |
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