Docushare to Market:
Putting People on the Same Page

Tayloe Stansbury, Vice President, Document Management Systems (DMS), Xerox Production Systems Group

Harry Wheelis and Kurt Hanselman, Employment Development Department, State of California

Abstract:

DocuShare is an affordable web-based solution for managing and sharing information across organizational and system boundaries. It allows users to store, retrieve, and update documents in many file formats and enables cross-platform access to shared documents. In this presentation, Mr. Stansbury will explore the extraordinary collaboration between Xerox research and product teams that brought DocuShare from research lab prototype to shipped, marketed, sold, and supported product in six months.

To illustrate the strength of their product, Mr. Stansbury has invited a guest to discuss the successful implementation of DocuShare on their Intranet. The Employment Development Department of the State of California loaded DocuShare on a development server on July 2, 1997. Approximately one month later DocuShare was loaded on a production Intranet server. The service has been successful as a tool to expand the concept of the utility of the Intranet, as well as a practical tool for involving non-technical internal customers in the building of the Intranet information structure. Some 75 authors have already loaded 900 data files on the server ranging in size from one printed page to major operational manuals.

Biography:

Tayloe Stansbury is vice president, Document Management Systems (DMS), in the Xerox Production Systems Group. DMS products include DocuShare, InterDoc, Visual Recall, and GlobalView. Prior to his tenure with DMS, Tayloe was an engineering manager at Borland International, a team leader and architect at Sun Microsystems, and a researcher at Xerox PARC.

Harry Wheelis holds degrees in bacteriology and theater arts. He has a varied background ranging from commercial radio and television production to programmer and IT analyst with the Employment Development Department. During his 19 years with the EDD, he has developed desktop applications and systems across all computing platforms within the EDD. He is currently involved in identifying and implementing the IT architecture(s) that will further this development.

Kurt Hanselman has an advanced degree in social anthropology and has been working for the Employment Development Department for two decades. He has held a variety of positions in the areas of economic research and IT. He was one of the designers of the EDD's first modern statewide, automated service and a member of the team that created the EDD's Information Center in 1982. He has been working on customer/user driven IT services since.