Edocr Ltd is a UK startup based at Daresbury Innovation Centre, Cheshire. It was founded by Manoj Ranaweera, Rhys Jones, Mike Carter and Chris Haslam in April 2007. Since then, Stuart Scott-Goldstone has joined the team as Legal Counsel.
Edocr is built around a document sharing community where user can upload and tag documents. Community, through a rich environment for document interactivity, interacts with the uploaded document through ranking, commenting or writing to the publisher, e-mailing to friends and colleagues, embedding on to blogs, linking from other sites, and book marking to popular sites. Edocr is targeting two audiences: Publishers of documents and Knowledge seekers. Community interaction is reflected through the importance of feedback to publishers, while at the same time provides a rich resource for knowledge seekers.
Business Case for (source Edocr.com):
"Most companies spend resources in optimizing their corporate web sites for Search. Whilst web sites contain significant amount of outline information, most of details that a prospective customer need to evaluate your offer is disseminated through documents such as product literature, product updates, newsletters, white papers and case studies. Businesses spend a significant amount of energy and resources in producing these documents, yet the documents are not optimized for Search. Even if a company request reader details before a document can be downloaded, there is no simple way of a reader to provide feedback or a way to interact with the author or publisher and other readers of that document. It makes it nearly impossible to understand the return on investment on your public facing documents. After all, the point of producing these documents in the first place is to increase awareness of the subject matter and initiate engagement.
Edocr resolves this issue by providing a rich environment for document interaction free of charge, leading to feedback on your documents, which could in return leads to design of better products and services as well as finding new prospects, partners, investors or team members."
