Effortlessly (develop apps to) handle your documents

NodeActa is more than just a Document Management System

Every business needs a good document management system. But why stop there? What if you could start with a document management system and build your perfectly suited information system on top of it? After all, your custom apps, forms, reports, graphs, charts, document generators, scan stations, etc are essentially javascript documents in your DMS. And, as the name implies, NodeActa is built on top of the Node.js engine, so your Node.js modules will work as well.

Let’s start with Document Classes

Entire NodeActa DMS is based on document classes. Each document class has its attributes that describe indexing data it can hold and properties that describe its behavior. Also, each class has associated one or more storages in the background, used to permanently store its data and documents.
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Let’s start with Apps

Storing data and documents in a DMS will not do much for you. The ability to retrieve, display, and change your documents is nice, but the ability to process data and documents in the way that best suits you, takes your DMS to another level. We have achieved exactly that. Everything you do in NodeActa you will do via javascript Apps. Whether it’s a built-in app we developed for you, or a built-in app you modified to suit you better, or entirely your app you wrote from scratch, or even better an app from NPM repository someone else wrote. And the best part of the system is that you don’t need to redeploy your software to all client PCs when creating new apps or modifying existing ones. Simply make the changes on one PC, upload them to the server, and they will be instantly available to all other client PCs.
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The Server

NodeActa Server can be installed on either Linux or Windows hardware within your own network, rather than in the Cloud. This means you have complete control over it. You only need a license for the server, allowing you to have as many clients as you want. The number of concurrent client connections you can have is limited only by your server hardware. Additionally, you can run multiple NodeActa servers on different machines with load balancing enabled. Although this approach requires an Enterprise license, it may be more cost-effective than investing in a single, more powerful server hardware. It's important to note that the server is highly optimized and requires minimal resources. Load balancing may only become necessary when you reach over 1000 heavy-duty clients attacking the server at once, or tens of thousands of concurrent clients with normal traffic.
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The Client

The Application Center is the place where all magic happens. It’s a Windows Explorer like application you will feel at home from the start. And it’s free.
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The Command

If you need to run some processing where UI is not required or it needs to be run in the background, NodeActa Command comes is place.
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3rd party

NodeActa is a highly extensible platform. Not only can you write your own apps, you can import your 3rd party libraries and use them in your javascript code. You can simply invoke functions from your 3rd party dlls, or wrap your 3rd party custom UI controls and use them in your apps. Also, your 3rd party application can access the NodeActa server via REST interface and skip Application Center all together. You can use http(s) requests to retrieve, archive and change your data and documents.