Did You Know Cells is also a Document Management System?

When you build a platform, you start by defining use cases — how this product will be used and what it is intended to do. For Cells, the original use case was to create a self-hosted platform to enable teams and partners to work together and collaborate on projects. But pretty early on in the life of the platform, we noticed that many of our clients were going beyond sharing and collaboration and using Cells to solve document management challenges.

The feedback we got from clients is that they value Cells flexibility and capability to take on duties that usually require multiple independent platforms. They tell us “platform creep” is an unwelcome reality in the corporate world. They also tell us that any time they can reduce the number of platforms they need to maintain efficiency, reduce complexity for end users, and, of course, cut costs, that is a real win. Also, the advantages of a self-hosted platform and its ability to simplify data sovereignty were viewed as a real plus.

Like any good software developer, we listened to what users were telling us, and we’ve consistently added new features that enhance Cells’ capabilities as a document management solution. 

How Does Cells Tackle Document Management?

Let’s take a look at how Cells solves document management challenges

• Managing your documents - The first challenge of modern document management is making documents findable.  Cells includes rich search functionality, indexing, and metadata to make sure your documents are findable and accessible.

• Efficient storage options  - Today’s organizations create and keep vast numbers of documents, making storage a key issue in performance and cost. Because it's self-hosted, highly scalable and multi-cloud ready, Cells allows you to choose the most efficient storage options and scale up or down quickly.

• Securing your documents - Cells was born with security in its DNA, with multiple levels of highly configurable access control, in-depth security capabilities and, of course, full integration with your Identity Access Management (IAM) technology.

• Managing the Document Lifecycle - The tidal wave of new documents, the cost of storage, and security vulnerabilities mean that document lifecycle management capabilities are at the heart of any document management system. With Cells, you can implement and automate simple strategies in minutes or develop complex, highly automated, multi-stage processes. 

• Access Anywhere, Anytime, on Any Device - Your teams and partners don’t just need to access documents when they are in the office sitting at their desks. That’s an old model that doesn’t fit the way we work now. Cells allows your teams, partners, and even customers to access documents securely from anywhere and on any device.

• Automating for Efficiency - One of the knocks on many document management platforms is the workload they can generate. Cell Flows, our powerful, no-code automation engine, lets you streamline workflows, automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks, and even connect with outside systems, taking your document management sharing and collaboration to the next level.

• Boost Teamwork - Cells sharing and collaboration features let your teams (and partners) exchange and work together on documents, make changes in real time, and track changes to ensure version control — going far beyond the capabilities offered in most document management platforms.

• Scalability when you need it - When you deploy a platform, your initial needs may not represent your future needs, maybe not even next week’s needs. To be truly enterprise-ready, Cells leverages best-in-class cloud technologies like Helm and Kubernetes to put enterprise-level scalability within everyone’s reach.

For more information, visit our document management page.