Summary from Vendor: Docollab helps teams across various industries to achieve better results through better collaboration. With all your projects, tasks, and files in one place, and with an easy and intuitive interface, all team members can focus on their work instead of dealing with multiple complex tools.
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Features & Specifications
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Interactivity
Interface functionalitySearch functions can search across file formats and beyond typos
- Able to search for documents within the platform
- Able to search beyond file formats
- Able to search beyond typographical errors
- Transparency of file structure
Ability to manipulate files and images
- Can manipulate datasets (diagrams and molecular structures), text documents and spreadsheets
- Can manipulate some elements of images
Support for multiple open windows
- Yes
Ability to link out
- Yes
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Support for Researcher Documentation
Documentation and metadata creationHyperlink Support
- Yes
Metadata Creation Prompts
- Yes
Rights Management (Licensing)
- Yes. Your content is legally owned by you or by your employer. Docollab does not share your content with third parties.
Protocol Integration
- Yes
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Adaptability to Lab Workflows
Platform compatibilityAccounts/Permissions Levels
- Yes
Internal Data Sharing
- Yes
Adaptable to a Variety of Workflows
- No information provided
Compatibility with authoring tools
- Yes
Windows Compatible
- Yes
Macintosh Compatible
- Yes
Linux Compatible
- Yes
Android Compatible
- Yes
iOS Compatible
- Yes
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Storage
Available data storage optionsCloud Storage
- Yes
Local Storage
- No
Hybrid (cloud/local) Storage
- No
Versioning
- Version tracking applies to additions, modifications, and deletions of the ELN content (e.g. file and document manipulation.) Operations are logged and can be viewed chronologically along with the identity of the user and operation timestamp. File revisions can be viewed and restored from the log.
File Redundancy
- No information provided
Creates stable URLs or persistent identifiers for entries
- Yes
Can unregistered users access the data found at persistent links?
- No
Storage Capacity - Users
- No limit
Storage Capacity - Max File Size
- No limit
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Hosting
Software accessCloud
- Yes
Local
- Yes
Hybrid (combination of cloud and local)
- Yes
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Support
Training and maintenance offeredTraining
- Administrator, user, in-person, administration-wide adoption training
Documentation
- FAQs, video tutorials, instructions, "quick-start" instructions
Data Migration from Other Systems (incoming migration)
- Yes, especially Microsoft Office files
Compatability with data repositories
- Yes, this is customizable
Exit Strategies (outgoing migration)
- Docollab allows mass exportation of all organization content to your machine at any time with no vendor lock-in.
Recovery Options
- All data is periodically replicated to multiple data centers in different geographic locations. If one data center becomes unavailable, the system switches to another with no loss of data or activity.
Single Sign-on (Institutional ID)
- Yes
Number of Installations per institution
- No limit
Multiple client use
- Yes
Number of registered Harvard/HMS users
- No information provided
Other higher-education users
- Several dozen, including UW Madison, Tufts, and Monash University.
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Security
Compliance with Harvard security -
Other
Additional featuresOpen Science/Open Data Efforts
- The Docollab development team contributes to open source projects. Though all data is private by default, users can define public content and make it available via persistent links as open data.
Academically Oriented
- Yes
Cost (per seat)
- $25/month per team of 5 users
Dictation/voice input
- Yes
Data Entry
- Supports the importation of all file types, especially Microsoft Office files (Word and Excel). Microsoft Word and Excel files can be manipulated within the ELN. Periodically, editing capabilities for new types of files are added.
Platform Integrations
- Integration with specific systems can be implemented upon request.
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Tiers of Service
Features and costs associatedFree Level
- Cost: $0
- Features:
- Unlimited Storage
- Share and collaborate with any other user
- Own your content and decide who can access it
- Email support
- No time limit
Pro Level
- Cost: Starting from $25 per user per month for a team of 5 users
- Features:
- You own the entire environment - all data, files, and revision history of all users in your team/organization
- Designated administrator can manage organization users
- Sharing and collaboration subject to organization policy
- Different permission levels allow specific users to access content in the organization
- Mass data export allows for a local backup of all users’ data and files
- Priority email support, scheduled calls for support and training