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Subject:Re: Documentation management system From:Will Husa <will -dot- husa -at- 4techwriter -dot- com> To:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>, John G <john -at- garisons -dot- com> Date:Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:55:08 -0600
We have Subversion for document controls, but that's not enough. We need to control the flow of documentation. We have hundreds or thousands of documents.Â
Thanks, Will HusaÂ
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-------- Original message --------From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> Date: 3/9/18 13:25 (GMT-06:00) To: John G <john -at- garisons -dot- com> Cc: Will Husa <will -dot- husa -at- 4techwriter -dot- com>, "TechWhirl (techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Subject: Re: Documentation management system
What do you want to do that Confluence can't do? What do you mean by
"documentation management"?
Are you looking for an internal tool to manage your source or a
customer-facing tool to provide access to docs?
How many docs are you talking about?
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 11:08 AM, John G <john -at- garisons -dot- com> wrote:
> We manage all our end user docs (3K pages or so) with Confluence ... What
> additional controls are you looking for?
>
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Will Husa <will -dot- husa -at- 4techwriter -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all - I've been tasked with finding a documentation management system
>> suitable for our engineering company. We already have SharePoint and
>> Confluence.
>> We seek something with more controls.
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