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Why Airdocs EFA : Business Case
Are your employees spending ever more time outside the office? One of the greatest difficulties they can face is accessing shared folders, documents and other files remotely from their laptop or home workstation. Some may spend hours each week just waiting for files to copy or email attachments to send or receive. Others may make do without the latest data, or simply schedule unnecessary trips to the office so that they can synchronize their files and email.

Airdocs EFA with Fast Folders enables your organization to ensure that employees outside the office can still access filserver file shares - even if they need to connect their laptop using GSM, GPRS, CDMA or a satellite phone. This "Fast Folders" functionality enables your employees to be more productive, further enhanced by power features for email attachments, file and folder sharing, offline working and other useful functionality.

End Users
Extremely Fast File Access
Behind the scenes, Airdocs EFA uses ground-breaking ARTR technology to deliver the world's fastest file transfer over slow networks. This enables road warriors to retrieve the latest marketing literature from remote file shares and upload proposals to headquarters for approval in real time, for example. Never before has it been possible to copy large files so easily over wide area connections.

A Familiar User Interface
Airdocs Fast Folder files can be copied and shared by email. But like a Windows shortcut, opening them launches a familiar Explorer-style Airdocs window upon a referenced file share. Because the system is so easy and intuitive to use your employees need less training and accomplish more when working remotely.

Edit Documents Locally
Some laptop users rely upon terminal software to take control of a remote machine when accessing file shares remotely. But a network connection is needed for the entire time they edit remote documents and such systems are difficult to use over slow links. By contrast a file copied to the Desktop using an Airdocs Fast Folder can be edited at a user's leisure, whether or not a connection is available.

Email Attachment Power
Have you ever waited for an age to send or receive an email attachment over a slow connection? With Airdocs Quick Links, which are compatible with all leading brands of email software, these problems can become a thing of the past. Within your organisation, users can send Quick Links to files on file shares by email attachment. The recipient simply downloads the file to their machine by opening the attachment - at a time of their choosing. All the benefits of ARTR, restartable uploads, restartable downloads and connection optimization are provided.

Administrators
Fast Deployment
To install the Airdocs server software you simply download and run the installer on a suitable machine - other than the entry of a license key or a trial activation code, no configuration is required! Installing the Airdocs client software is easy too and you only need to configure the address of the the machine running the server. In corporate environments, multiple client installations and configuration can be handled in one go using systems such as IntelliMirror and SMS.

Airdocs EFA is a secure system that seamlessly integrates with your existing NT domain or Active Directory architecture. Users are afforded no more and no less file access privileges than their login credentials would normally provide them. Deployment is simple and cost effective, and in certain case may allow you to reduce the number of VPN clients that you have to deploy. Test drive deployment now.


Easy Administration
Airdocs EFA simply hooks into your existing NT domain or Active Directory user/groups, so no additional administration or maintenance of access privileges is required. According to the user's login credentials, the software accesses the existing LAN of domains, computers, file shares, folders and files, and there is no need to create a new or alternative sharing structure. Learn more about Airdocs EFA Administration issues.

Unload Your Email Systems
Many administrators are finding that their email systems are heaving under the strain of file attachments. A user emailing a presentation to a group of recipients causes that file data to be copied across multiple InBox stores. Draconian measures are used to control the problem, and email servers and storage are constantly upgraded. Using Airdocs "Quick Links" reduces duplication by keeping attachment data on the file shares as well as hugely accelerating send and receive operations.

Support
Upgrades, Support and Maintenance
Software upgrades are always simple, and can be installed without any manual reconfiguration. The intuitive, integrated nature of Airdocs EFA ensures associated end-user support requirements are minimal to non-existent. Your organization can purchase a maintenance contract to gain access to all future major releases through a simple maintenance agreement.

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