Adeptol: Document Viewing On-Prem Or In The Cloud

Company:

Headquarters: Santa Clara, Calif.

Technology Sector: Software

Key Product: Adeptol Document Viewer

Year Founded: 2008

Number of Channel Partners: 10 worldwide

Ideal Channel Partner: Enterprise Focused Solution Provider

Why You Should Care: Adeptol provides and easy-to-use API to that lets partners integrate its high-speed viewing technology with content and document management, CRM, and project management systems.

The Lowdown: Document viewing may not be the sexiest technology, but the ability to integrate it with CRM and other management systems has become a key need that solution providers must fill.

Enter Adeptol, which makes document viewing technology that VARs can offer in the cloud or on-premise. The document viewing capabilities can be embedded into any Web-page or application, or integrated with any process or system.

With Adeptol's server-based Document Viewer, documents can be rendered quickly and on the fly, and the tool includes a host of capabilities to render, enrich and deliver content.

Adeptol's viewer supports more than 300 document types which includes Microsoft Office documents, Open Office, PDF, Images, AutoCAD files and more.

Adeptol is currently growing its partner base. The recent addition of Malaysia-based VersaPAC as a partner brings its global total up to 10. VersaPAC, Adeptol said, signed on to switch from legacy systems and adding Adeptol's high-speed document viewing to its Saffron Web front-end for HP TRIM records management.

Currently, Adeptol has 10 partners worldwide, but CEO and founder Prateek Kathpal said it hopes to bump that number up between 50 and 60 partners by the close of 2010, focusing closely on traditional VARs and systems integrators.

Using Adeptol's platform, partners and customers can build information access and delivery solutions aimed at various industries including publishers, government agencies and other types of enterprises to accelerate the viewing of documents.

Adeptol makes itself available in two flavors: On Demand and On Premise.

The cloud-based On Demand version eliminates the need to spend time on installation and setup as it links to Adeptol in the cloud using CloudConnect. The On Demand option also enables the addition of branding through personalization features. For users, the On Demand option essentially streams documents, eliminating the need to download them to view them. Users simply click and view without the need to download, open and view.

"We're the first to stream the document itself, you don't have to download. It saves on bandwidth and is instantaneous," said Kathpal.

The On Premise option, which requires Viewer to be installed on a server, enables full control of documents; install and setup on an in-house server; user viewer as part of an application and speed development and improve time to market.

Kathpal said partners will likely offer both versions of Document Viewer to enable customers to choose because both options have distinct use cases.

In the future, however, he said he sees partners offering a hybrid of both the On Premise and On Demand offerings and letting customers choose which documents it wants to put into the cloud and which it wants to remain on site.