Draft:Shinydocs Corporation

Shinydocs Corporation is an Enterprise Software Company founded in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada in 2013.

History
Shinydocs was founded in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, CEO Jason W. D. Cassidy, David Yoon, Darcy Manderson, Khalid Merhi, and Simon Arsenault in 2013 as a transition to a product company from Enterprise File System Incorporated a new software product development consulting organization.

January 2014: Shinydocs begins development on interfaces for Enterprise Content Management systems while winding down consulting contracts with the intention of transitioning from consulting revenue to software license and subscription revenue.

March 2015: Shinydocs launches Shinydrive, a simplified interface for OpenText Content Suite.

July 2016: OpenText awards Shinydocs Technology Partner of the Year as best selling 3rd party technology world-wide.

2016-2019: While continuing to sell Shinydrive worldwide, achieving two additional OpenText Technology Partner of the Year awards (2017, 2019), Shinydocs works with key customers on their largest problem identified that most important document and records content is outside their Enterprise Content Management systems and still needs to be found and managed.

January 2019: Shinydocs launches Shinydocs Cognitive Suite with scalable document, file, media, and record analytics including Artificial Intelligence document classification and entity extraction. This allows Shinydocs to scale their product and sales beyond the Enterprise Content Management space to address issues with traditional file share storage, e-mail, cloud storage, and additional content management systems.

September 2019: Shinydocs releases Shinydocs Discovery Search as a federated end user experience that respects content source permissions.

July 2021: Bruce Power wins IT World Canada Large Private Sector Innovation of the Year leveraging Shinydocs Cognitive Suite to clean up, classify, and search important operational documents.

October 2022: Shinydocs partners with the FedDev Ontario to develop and commercialize the Cognitive Suite into a scalable packaged software that does not require IT operators, and focuses on Privacy, Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Productivity.

March 2023: Shinydocs partners with First Ascent Ventures and Export Development Canada to compliment the earlier FedDev investment support of repackaging Shinydocs technology as a more scalable and transactional product in response to the increases pressures of Privacy and Cybersecurity risk on all organizations.

September 15, 2023: Shinydocs releases Shinydocs Pro with a focus on Privacy, Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Productivity.

Products
Shinydocs Pro provide the following value for Documents, Files, Media, and Records across Content systems like Network File Shares and Email, with connectors for commercial content software like iManage, Microsoft M365, Exchange, OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint, Box, OpenText Content Suite, OpenText Documentum, and others.

As of March 2024, the product is available for 10,000 USD for 90 day projects and 30,000 USD per year on SaaS Subscription and is available for customer use on-premise, in a customer cloud, or hosted by Shinydocs. Shinydocs Pro features a simplified Web User Interface eliminating the need for IT operators to analyze content and includes the features of Shinydocs Cognitive Suite.


 * Privacy Risk Identification
 * Personally Identifiable Information is continuously scanned across all systems providing search, reporting, and risk mitigation features such as automatic file migration based upon risk, or content disposal based upon applicable customer policy or law.


 * Federated Enterprise Search
 * Respecting end user permissions on all content sources while exposing a unified search experience.


 * Data Security and Protection
 * Content permissions management based upon automated and user provided classifications and risk.


 * eDiscovery
 * Legal Hold, Review & Analytics, Investigations across all corporate content


 * Storage Optimization
 * Identify Redundant, Obsolete, and Trivial (ROT) Documents, Files, Media, and Records. Remediate or migrate ROT.


 * AI Data Preparation
 * Ensure AI training documents and data are free from Personally Identifiable Data, are unique and properly classified, and confirm you have the copyright to use the work in your AI training data sets.


 * Migration Optimization
 * Avoid migration of Redundant, Obsolete, and Trivial (ROT) Documents, Files, Media, and Records. Pre-classify records and content prior to migration.

Offices
Shinydocs Head Office continues to be located in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Chief Revenue Officer Tim Shaw and much of the Sales and Business Development staff are located in Denver, CO, USA.