Hear from our Techstreet Enterprise Senior Product Manager, Mike Visser: Techstreet Enterprise offers Administrators a feature to track PDF downloads by user on their subscription. Set the threshold at which you want to be alerted, enable the feature, and all Account Administrators will receive an email when a named user’s downloads exceed the threshold in […]
Mike’s Minute: Techstreet Enterprise Tip of the Month—Consider Single Sign On (SSO) for Authentication
Hear from our Techstreet Enterprise Senior Product Manager, Mike Visser: It’s true. Single Sign On (SSO) can make an administrator’s life easier. With SSO, your organization’s users can log into Techstreet Enterprise using their organization credentials. Techstreet won’t ever know the user’s organizational password. In the world of SSO, the user’s organization tells us whether […]
Mike’s Minute: Techstreet Enterprise Tip of the Month—Confirming you have the FileOpen client installed
Hear from our Techstreet Enterprise Senior Product Manager, Mike Visser: The FileOpen client is an authorized Adobe Reader plug-in that manages digital rights for the industry standards PDFs on your Techstreet Enterprise subscription. You and your users will need to make sure that you have the Adobe Reader FileOpen plug-in installed on your computer in […]
Mike’s Minute: Techstreet Enterprise Tip of the Month—Setting up single copy purchasing
Hear from our Techstreet Enterprise Senior Product Manager, Mike Visser: The Single Copy Purchasing feature is essentially an eCommerce engine built into Techstreet Enterprise. By default, it is not enabled, and requires some set up by a Purchase Administrator. The first step is setting up a global method of payment. Global methods of payment are […]
Mike’s Minute: Techstreet Enterprise Tip of the Month— Run a blank search to see everything on your subscription
Hear from our Techstreet Enterprise Senior Product Manager, Mike Visser: The primary visual focus on the Techstreet Enterprise home page is a search form. Similarly, a search form carries over to every other page in the application. Search is the primary vehicle for finding standards in Techstreet Enterprise (though don’t forget the Browse feature!). Something […]
Mike’s Minute: Techstreet Enterprise Tip of the Month— When your browser is the default PDF reader
Hear from our Techstreet Enterprise Senior Product Manager, Mike Visser: Sometimes, customers will successfully install the FileOpen plugin on their computer, but still have trouble opening PDF files. That is likely because the browser you use (for example, Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge) has taken over opening PDFs on your computer, and is now the […]
Mike’s Minute: Techstreet Enterprise Tip of the Month— Transferring a purchased document to another user
Hear from our Techstreet Enterprise Senior Product Manager, Mike Visser: If a subscription is set up to support it, users can request or buy copies of documents that are not on their subscription. These are stand alone, single license purchases of documents, and are not the same as licensing documents through a subscription for multiple […]
Copyright protection requirements on the rise from standards publishers
Standards publishers are ramping up measures to ensure compliant use of their intellectual property. Copyright is vital to maintaining high quality and current standards. Like any original work of expression written, recorded or otherwise captured, standards are protected by copyright law. This grants ownership of the original work to the individual or business that […]
Writing effective proposals to find the right standards provider
Looking for a new standards provider? Make sure you get the full picture by optimizing your standards proposal. Creating a Request for Proposal (RFP) to select the right standards management provider for your organization is no simple task. Where do you begin, what types of questions do you ask and how do you make sure […]
Fact or fiction: challenges with switching standards providers
Techstreet™ analysts debunk the myths associated with switching from one standards provider to another. We understand that in some industries, switching vendors can be particularly burdensome, especially when you’ve worked with the same one for quite some time. Luckily, switching standards providers doesn’t have to be a challenging transition when it comes to Techstreet Enterprise. […]
