The system can now index Adobe Acrobat files, and users can run the indexer as either a scheduled or continuous process. This is another scale issue, and the solution here is positive. The indexer makes copies of the documents it's about to evaluate, and this can be a performance benefit for some dynamic installations. Administrators should take note of a stress-testing tool designed to simulate specific types of users using specific types of clients on the buyer's own hardware. It lets a customer more easily assess iManage's performance before deployment.
Search results are customizable, too, based on which fields are to be shown.
Organizations with large databases to search will find this a labor-saving feature. New Open Document Management API-compliant code lets you access your iManage document repository from your desktop applications, so end users with appropriate rights can access managed documents and metadata. The 4.0 version of iManage still doesn't doesn't do different format renditions, and it still doesn't have any workflow features. The system still lacks integration with Windows NT Performance Monitor and dynamic load balancing. This makes it difficult to optimize distribution of requests across application servers.