From the course: Information Management: Document Security

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Plug-ins and add-ons

Plug-ins and add-ons

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Plug-ins and add-ons

- [Tutor] A fairly common thing these days is third-party developers creating add-ons or plugins for popular business tools. These extend the capabilities of the tools or it integrates them with other business systems. Google calls them Extensions, in SharePoint, they're apps, Box has over a thousand different integration partners, and so on and so on. The good news is, that all of these add-ons can provide some incredible value in augmenting or expanding workflows. For instance, if you can move customer contracts between a customer relationship tool, like Salesforce, and your document management system, it will save a lot of time and trouble. Although some of the extensions need to be enabled at a system level, in many cases, it's very simple for users to install them onto their computers. And a lot of them are even free. However, because of the way these tools integrate there may be additional security exposure…

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