But unlike high-end document management systems, the Conductor software offers no integration with a document's native application. Once a document is checked out, Conductor does not track any activity associated with the document, such as time spent editing or number of keystrokes,features often used by law firms or research organizations. Lack of application integration can also lead to confusion. Documents can be viewed in their native application by double clicking on them rather than checking them out. Most mainstream applications, such as Microsoft Office and Corel's WordPerfect Office, support integration via the ODMA standard.
Conductor provides a simplified security model, allowing the creation of users, groups and roles.
Security is contained completely within Conductor's database and does not support synchronization with NOS-level security schemes, thus requiring resellers to maintain two security databases on client systems. The lack of support for NOS-level security can allow users with sufficient rights to bypass Conductor's security and access protected documents. Conductor's workflow system offers very basic features. Workflows require some basic information, such as where to route a document to and the type of routing required. Papyrus said it is currently preparing to beta-test Version 2 of Conductor, which should greatly enhance the usability features of the product and overcome many of the observed limitations.