OfficeLink is a document-level version control system that permits many types of organizations to work on several project versions at the same time.

Version Control and Document Sharing: OfficeLink allows the quick and efficient sharing of documents among users. When you add a document to OfficeLink, the document is stored on the repository and made available to other users. Changes that have been made to the document are saved so that any user can recover an old version at any time. Members of your team can see the latest version of a document; make changes to local document copies, and save new versions in the repository. When a set of documents are ready to deliver, OfficeLink makes it easy to share and obtain different versions of the selected set of documents.

Parallel Cooperation: OfficeLink supports parallel cooperation’s and cross-platform development techniques. Such support allows individual team members to complete different parts and versions of a document at the same time, instead of being stalled while waiting for each to other to finish certain tasks. In support of parallel cooperation’s, OfficeLink also includes a label promotion feature to advance document as needed to different versions of a project. It also supports the use of share, pin, and branch operations for parallel cooperation on a project over an extended period of time.

Designed for the Internet: OfficeLink was built to work over any Internet connection. The entire product uses Web Services as the network protocol between the server and clients.

Reliability: OfficeLink was designed with reliability as its top priority. Your document is a critical asset. Losing repository data is an unforgivable sin. Our suite of automated tests is almost as large as OfficeLink itself and includes many special tools which abuse an OfficeLink server far more than most of our customers ever will. Under the hood, OfficeLink stores all repository data in SQL Server.

Atomic Checkin: You can checkin a group of logically-related operations as a changeset, and the checkin operation is atomic. The entire changeset either succeeds or fails. Your repository is never left in a half-baked state.

Remote Access: OfficeLink was designed to work well over the Internet. All communication between client and server is done over HTTP, familiar and friendly for network administrators. Compression and binary deltas are used in both directions to minimize network traffic. Configure IIS for SSL support to keep your data secure.

Folder Security: OfficeLink offers folder-level security, by user or by group. This allows teams to:

• Share library documents as a read-only repository to all teams.
• Hide entire sections of the repository from contractors, partners, etc. while allowing complete access to the core team.
• “Lock down” production, QA, or deployment branches so that only certain users can allow documents to move to production, etc..