CoSolvent

CoSolvent - (kō′säl·vənt)

Dissolving the resistance, bottlenecks and downright "gunk" that gums up the free flow of technical collaboration and corporate knowledge-sharing.

CoSolvent is iPOV's hosted document sharing web service. It can handle video content as easily and freely as conventional images and documents. iPOV has worked with web-based document and video sharing for years. Recently, we asked our clients why they didn't use the new web tools like PhotoBucket and YouTube. Everyone was intrigued by the question, but they voiced serious concerns about some of their needs that conventional web tools didn't address:

Sharing collections of different types of files - video, image, document, applications, etc.
Controlling access to the shared materials.
Business needs come from their value-added operational workflows. The tool or service must integrate with those workflows
Businesses must share information with 3rd parties that lack the company's internal communications tools.

In other words, business document and video sharing has to be a value-added operations tool. iPOV provides that tool with CoSolvent.

CoSolvent Features

Demo

Application Demos

Project Management
Supply Chain
Technical Support

iPOV Processing Center
(CoSolvent-based)

Target applications

Feedback to Suppliers - Every time you receive a badly made or packaged product, you can record with an inexpensive video camera, upload it and send the supplier an email with the link.
Sharing Best Practice - When an engineer in a plant finds a better way to handle a recurring problem, they can record an informal video and make it available to their counterparts throughout the organization.
Problem-Solving Teams - When a group of workers at dispersed locations work on a project together, they can record quick videos and share them quickly with their team members.

Field Service Technicians - When a technician is working alone and encounters an odd problem, they can make a short movie and upload it for their colleagues at the office to review it.
Marketing Teams - As marketing and sales personnel perfect great PowerPoint presentations, they can record their delivery and post it for ideas and comments.
Vendor Information and Training - In addition to sending a confusing text RFQ, make a short on-site video and include a link in the bid document.

In all these applications, the common thread is a need to tailor the document and video sharing to the operational workflow. It must be flexible enough to cope with complex business rules about who can view the material, it must be able to handle a variety of different document types and it must be easily linked and searched. CoSolvent is designed to fill that need:

CoSolvent Services

As the application scenarios illustrate, CoSolvent targets value-added corporate activities. iPOV offers a hosted service so it can help clients' weave CoSolvent's web document and video-sharing into their day-to-day operations. iPOV starts with a malleable web technology, then works closely with each client to understand that client's specific operational challenges. The result is a closely tailored, functional system that meets the client's needs - at a subscription fee the client can afford.

iPOV has been using web video to solve industrial problems for nearly a decade. We have applied video and web documents in a broad spectrum of business situations and we are intimately familiar with the underlying software technologies. With CoSolvent. iPOV can use its experience to help companies save time and make money.