SharePoint’s out of the box concurrency control ensures that while one person is editing a document, the document is checked-out and locked, preventing other people from editing the document and overwriting each other’s changes. While this approach works well enough for documents that only need to be edited by a single person, the approach is highly inefficient when a team of people need to work on a document concurrently.

For example, let’s say you have a team of five people who need to work on a sales proposal. One person is working on the proposal while the other four people are sitting idle. If it takes an average of one day for each person to make his/her edit to the document, it will take five days to complete the work. If only two of the people could work concurrently on their respective sections, the document could be finished in four days, a productivity improvement of 20%.

The docBlock sells as a hardware appliance. The docBlock has fixed cost per device. There are no additional per user, per server, per farm, per site, or per document costs. Buy a device and use it as much as you want. You only need another device when you start to exceed the processing capabilities of the device.

Because the docBlock device contains all of the hardware and software installed and pre-configured, the docBlock is extremely easy to acquire and deploy: connect power, network cable, set the IP address, and use the automated connection web page to connect the device to the SharePoint farm. The whole process can easily be done in one hour.

Download the Enhancing SharePoint Document Management with Virtual Documents black paper (registration required). The black paper discusses several key document management usage scenarios enabled through docBlock Ascend's virtual document enhancements to the SharePoint platform.

For more information on the docBlock Ascend, please download the docBlock Ascend product brochure or contact sales@blackbladeinc.com / +1-703-260-1111 . See the docBlock Ascend in action by scheduling a live web demo, or attend a public webinar, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm EST.