The Cadac Group, a leading Microsoft Gold Certified Partner developing SharePoint based engineering document management solutions, announces the release of Organice Publish. This new module in the Organice Product Suite is capable of publishing documents that are stored in SharePoint to a SharePoint document library or to another internal or external SharePoint site.

Documents can be published in their native format, but they can also be converted into an independent file format like PDF and DWF, so that they can easily be opened, viewed and annotated by others without the native application. Published documents can easily be distributed, accurately printed and securely archived for many years.

Organice Publish is especially suitable for organizations that manage their documents in SharePoint and need to share and exchange these documents with other (external) project participants. In these cases, sharing documents in their native file format is often unwanted, for the recipient is not allowed to change the document, or it is inconvenient if the recipient does not have access to the native application. Also for archiving purposes, it is recommend archiving documents in a file format that can resist time, like PDF/A. Paul Smeets, Manager Operations at Organice: “Organice Publish automates the process of publishing and converting documents and save organizations that are currently publishing manually an enormous amount of time and money.”

The native and published document are stored, linked and managed in SharePoint, including their metadata. This guarantees that changes to the native document are also applied to the related published document. Organice Publish can convert Office 2003 and 2007 documents, and AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT drawings. Documents can be published into PDF, PDF/A, and DWF.

Organice Publish will be available to customers from March 2008.