Did you catch all the important developments from DocuWare over the past year? And are you ready for 2025? Here’s an overview of the latest DocuWare products, the best user tips and the key topics for 2025.
Contents:
- Product innovations 2024
- The best user tips
- Other things you shouldn’t have missed
- Important aspects for 2025
Product innovations 2024
In the past year, DocuWare introduced two new releases — 7.10, focused on user-friendliness and security and 7.11, which featured the new Decision History. Several new products were also introduced in the past year, all of which improve DocuWare's ability to integrate with other enterprise software:
DocuWare Outlook Add-In
This add-in allows you to easily connect web versions of Microsoft Outlook to DocuWare Cloud. With support for all browsers, Mac users can now also store their emails securely in DocuWare. The add-in was recently extensively expanded, including the one-step "Send and Store" function.
DocuWare Connector for Power Automate
This connector enables DocuWare Cloud to integrate with hundreds of applications, especially those within the Microsoft ecosystem, without any programming, enabling seamless processes across different programs. Learn more
DocuWare storageRobot
This module is specialized for complex use cases when importing documents, such as journals and lists from ERP and inventory management systems into DocuWare. It supports document clipping to already archived documents, database queries, XML and more.
DocuWare docXporter
With this module, you can automatically export documents, index data or both from DocuWare file cabinets to your file system, for example to transfer them to external systems. Its flexible output structure for documents and data allows even the most complex scenarios to be implemented. Learn more
The best user tips
Many of our articles on the product blog are aimed at making your work with DocuWare as easy as possible. Did you miss any of them? Here are the top 5 tips of the year:
- 7 Ways to Save Time with Drag & Drop in DocuWare
- DocuWare Lifehacks: Save valuable time with shortcuts
- Working with overlays: Answers to the 7 most frequently asked questions
- Handy shortcuts for opening documents even faster
- Essentials at a glance: Customize your results list
Other things you shouldn’t have missed
New Knowledge Center
The new Knowledge Center for DocuWare users went live in the fall. The portal contains essential knowledge, product news, configuration help, and much more. Discover the extensive resources.
Thanks to modern search functions, you can now find the content you need even faster
AI start-up now part of DocuWare
In April, DocuWare laid the foundation for increased use of artificial intelligence by acquiring natif.ai. The company, one of Germany’s most innovative AI startups, is focused on document-based AI applications. The acquisition enabled the rapid development of DocuWare’s Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) features. The topic will continue to be relevant in coming years and serves as a perfect transition to the outlook for 2025.
Important aspects for 2025
Artificial intelligence
The topic of AI is omnipresent, with companies around the world benefiting from the new possibilities. DocuWare has been using these technologies for Intelligent Indexing for some time and is now taking it a significant step further with Intelligent Document Processing. AI-supported batch scans are separated into separate documents, documents are classified, and important content/data can even be extracted from handwritten text. As a result, the automation of document processing can be significantly increased. You can learn more about the possibilities of intelligent document processing on our website. Plus, we’ll shortly be providing more detailed information and application scenarios here on the product blog.
With AI, it’s important that questions of ethics and data protection aren’t forgotten. DocuWare's attitude is that the highest level of customer trust can only be achieved through maximum transparency in data processing. For this reason, we’ve prepared a white paper on AI-based data processing with DocuWare, which provides all the key information. Additionally, the blog post Ethical AI solutions that add real value outlines the ethical standards we follow when using AI.
E-invoices
The topic of e-invoicing is gaining momentum, and not just in specfic countries. It’s increasingly required at European and international levels. E-invoice platforms, used to exchange e-invoices, and e-reporting, (electronic submission of invoice data to tax authorities), are also becoming increasingly important.
DocuWare already supports you in various scenarios, including the receipt of e-invoices by email and subsequent automatic processing. In future this will also include connecting to e-invoicing platforms such as PEPPOL.
The benefits of DocuWare for you: During the transition phase, all invoice formats, i.e. e-invoices, PDF and scanned paper invoices, are available in a single system and all invoices are processed via the same workflows. In addition, the DocuWare Viewer displays XML-based e-invoices as readable “normal” invoices. You can even use the Viewer tools for markups and annotations.
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🎄✨ The DocuWare Product Marketing Team wishes you health, success and all the best for the new year! ⛄🎁
