PleaseTech Ltd: Collaborative Process to Reduce Review Cycles

As the economy continues to grow, so do the number of available jobs. This means that retaining talented employees becomes that much harder as companies seek to recruit a top quality workforce. Providing people with the right tools to do their job has never been so important, and this is especially pertinent in an era of increasing regulation, where employees are managing and reviewing more documents than ever before.

An expert in document and content management technologies, David Cornwell is the founder and CEO of PleaseTech Ltd, which specializes in document review and co-authoring software. ‘People underestimate the complexity behind document review. Ten years ago, whilst the bigger document management systems were providing check-in, check-out capabilities and approval workflows, they didn’t address the review process very well and there was the demand for controlled collaborative review processes. Email is one of the most highly used tools for getting a team to review a document, but it causes cumbersome email trails, messed up documents, duplicated and conflicting comments. This can result in lots of meetings, conference calls and late nights to pull everyone’s changes together. Now imagine that problem across geographies and time zones, or with multiple and lengthy documents to review with 25 people involved in the process.

“To alleviate these issues, we sat down to design the perfect document review and coauthoring software product” reminisces Cornwell, “we reasoned that, since document review is such a critical business process, there had to be a market for such a tool”. The result is PleaseReview - a revolutionary and unique offering in the collaborative review and co-authoring of documents, where people can mark up the document but not clutter it or overwrite others’ changes.

“Our solutions provide the collaboration where everybody can see each other’s comments and changes ensuring a transparent process,” assures Cornwell. Designed for use either as a standalone or integrated review solution, PleaseReview supports Microsoft Office suite, PDF, source code, text and images.