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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    FileHold Document Management

    Score7.7 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    FileHold is a document and records management software. FileHold is integrated with both Microsoft Office and Microsoft Teams and provides secure single log in to both FileHold and Office 365. FileHold can be deployed on a customers own servers or private cloud or hosted by FileHold on the Azure Cloud Standard features include; document scanning, version control, search, tagging, full user audit trail, archiving and scheduled disposition. Out of the box, users can search the FileHold…

    $30

    per month per seat

    XaitPorter

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AXaitPorter is a co-authoring software solution for teams to collaboratively create, manage and produce documents. With it, users can streamline and optimize document production to maximize revenue from bids and proposals and other business-critical documents. XaitPorter is designed to enable co-authors to focus on creating bid-winning content so that teams can become more efficient while production time and costs are reduced.N/A
    Pricing
    FileHold Document ManagementXaitPorter
    Editions & Modules
    FileHold Enterprise
    $10.00
    Per user / month
    FileHold installed on cusomers own Cloud or in house server
    $15.00
    per month per seat
    FileHold Express for 5 users
    $15.00
    per user / month
    FileHold Cloud, Fully hosted on Microsoft Azure
    $30.00
    per month per seat
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FileHold Document ManagementXaitPorter
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsIn all cases the price per user will decrease as more users are added to the system. FileHold has many optional and custom features that can be chosen and will change the price. For outright purchase of a license there is an optional 20% per year support and upgrade fee.—
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    User Ratings
    FileHold Document ManagementXaitPorter
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.3
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FileHold Document ManagementXaitPorter
    Likelihood to Recommend
    FileHold Systems Inc
    Scenarios that FileHold Document Management documents are well suited are to store documents, manage them and share them with other employees through the cloud. FileHold Document Management does a good job at all of these in addition to the fast loading time and ample storage space. However, other software such as good drive still remain better due to its ease of use and accessibility.
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    Xait
    XaitPorter is ideal when a large document, containing many (preferably independent) sections is being created by more than five writers across different office locations and is subject to review by multiple reviewers and requires formal approval. It is particularly suited for external documents which are to be delivered as a non-editable PDF file.
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    Pros
    FileHold Systems Inc
    • FileHold scales well and can serve small companies up to enterprises with thousands of users.
    • Powerful workflow and approval processes.
    • MS Office Integration, version control, a powerful search engine, and cloud availability.
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    Xait
    • This tool gives us the opportunity to work together. We always work in the last revision.
    • We can write comments as we go along and all involved will see it straight away.
    • We can structure it the way we want/our the way customer wants it and print the whole book in one go. We are sure that pictures/text/tables are where they are supposed to be (they have not moved around the document as it does when using Microsoft Word).
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    Cons
    FileHold Systems Inc
    • Whenever there was an update done to the program, we would run into multiple issues.
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    Xait
    • It would be helpful to improve functions used to organize and reorganize sections. They work fine, but could be retooled for ease of use. Simple drag-drop over the tree-view from the primary navigator (not only in the dedicated dialog for reordering sections) would be very good. It would be good to support simple flagging or tagging of sections to indicate whatever is meaningful to the user (e.g., to flag a section as imported text that needs formatting, or a section that is high priority for review). The icons do change to indicate predefined workflow states (e.g. approved), but there isn't support for a user-defined tag, perhaps with the ability to filter by tag as many newer applications can do. That would be handy. These aren't criticisms so much as product enhancement suggestions.
    • The editor is ok but could be tuned up a bit. For example, styles in the toolbar dropdown apply only to the whole paragraph. It's hard to indent text. The button tool doesn't consistently remove the button attribute on an existing button; works sometimes, sometimes not. Little stuff. Overall it's adequate for text creation.
    • The process of defining templates and styles appears to be a black art. While it's something you don't do often, it should be simplified and better exposed to ordinary admins.
    • The ability to have more than one section open at a time in the editor would be fantastic. Great productivity tool.
    • Word import/export could be cleaner.
    • The ability to export to html with user-defined style sheets would open new markets for Xait. If the product had that, we'd use Xait to maintain our online help site too.
    • The ability to link to externally stored images rather than lock them inside the Xait library would be huge, as we've expressed to the support team. We manage hundreds of images (diagrams, screen shots etc.) that are used throughout the company, not just for Xait documents. We would like to store them on a file system (e.g. Dropbox) and have them update into Xait automatically when the master copy is modified. This is a very important capability, though in fairness we didn't find it in other products either. Explicit support for Dropbox/Google Drive/Box would be one way, but dynamic linking a la Microsoft Word would be fine, maybe even better.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    FileHold Systems Inc
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    Xait
    There are too many positive aspects versus negative.
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    Usability
    FileHold Systems Inc
    FileHold is the ideal solution if you are looking for an electronic library with workflow functionality. The ease of use and integration with other tools we already use was also a huge incentive. It also allows us to import and export data. The search features and the ability to accept electronic signatures further made our lives easier.
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    Xait
    We find it to be intuitive to use with a simple menu and right-click based functionality in place.
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    Reliability and Availability
    FileHold Systems Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Xait
    XaitPorter is always there even though we have issues with outages (suddenly the network does not work, but that is internal issue)
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    Performance
    FileHold Systems Inc
    FileHold was easy to implement as well as to configure to meet our organization's business requirements. We all found the search capabilities to be wonderful, reducing the time it takes to find a particular document. FileHold is easy even for the most novice of users to become productive in a very short amount of time.
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    Xait
    Our reports/Tenders complete in a reasonable time frame, actually faster than Word. We have not integrated with other systems or softwares.
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    Support Rating
    FileHold Systems Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Xait
    They have a clear method for reporting any issues and work hard to get a resolution, keeping me informed of progress.
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    In-Person Training
    FileHold Systems Inc
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    Xait
    He was really good. He came from Xait and trained us for several days. He got all involved and answered the questions asked. He was a professional trainee
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    Online Training
    FileHold Systems Inc
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    Xait
    The online training was really good. They know the way of getting people involved and they answered all questions asked. They were there for us.
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    Implementation Rating
    FileHold Systems Inc
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    Xait
    I was really satisfied with the implementation
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    Alternatives Considered
    FileHold Systems Inc
    I selected file storage document because it has better security feature and some employees are used to the software already. Also, I wanted to try out new software to see if there are better software out there than what I'm currently using. Google Drive doesn't offer too much security in term of their file storage feature.
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    Xait
    The standard product for many years has been Microsoft Word. Some have tried to use SharePoint as a collaborative tool, but it is not suited for the purpose and is generally very user un-friendly. It is not intuitive and we have very few persons with any competency in it. Porter is easy to pick up and the new interface is very intuitive, and the way that Porter works removes many of the typical layout and formatting choices that made Microsoft Word so difficult for the average employee. It also greatly simplifies and reduces the amount of corrective work that tender support staff used to have to do. We are not aware of any product in the market that comes close to Porter. It is an ideal product that was purpose built for collaborative writing.
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    Scalability
    FileHold Systems Inc
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    Xait
    I just love the system
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    Return on Investment
    FileHold Systems Inc
    • Faster approval process
    • Better relationships with our plant [locations]
    • Improved employee efficiency by making the approval process faster
    • Improved employee efficiency by allowing employees to find documents faster through the search function
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    Xait
    • Too soon to tell. Right now we're still at the near end of the value chain - it still seems expensive given the outputs to date. But we have a lower proposal volume than some companies, so you need to factor that in.
    • Also, the named user licensing is restrictive and problematic in a small company where people perform multiple roles and may dip in and out of the proposal development process over a period of weeks or months. A concurrent user model would be much, much better for us, though I understand you'd need to figure out a way to handle email notifications.
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    ScreenShots

    FileHold Document Management Screenshots

    Screenshot of Adding documents from Microsoft officeScreenshot of The Library treeScreenshot of FileHold architecture

    XaitPorter Screenshots

    Screenshot of XaitPorter - Document WorkspaceScreenshot of XaitPorter - DashboardScreenshot of XaitPorter - Edit PictureScreenshot of XaitPorter - Edit CommentScreenshot of XaitPorter - Export PDF