Monday, October 31, 2011

OCE to discontinue OCE Plan Center !!!

It’s official!

Effective January 1, 2012, OCE will no longer provide access to the OCE Plan Center on-line hosting service, rendering the software non-functional. In addition, OCE will no longer provide technical support or updates.

OCE has documented a process whereby you can export the files you are currently storing on the OCE Plan Center server. For information about that process, call OCE at 1-800-661-2966.

The two paragraphs that appeared immediately above were copied from a letter that, evidently, OCE has distributed to its OCE Plan Center customers.

I’ve placed a copy of that letter in my Google Docs library, and here’s the link to that letter:

http://tinyurl.com/3vro8ao

For those of you who have been using OCE Plan Center as your e-planroom service and are planning to replace OCE Plan Center with another Internet-based e-planroom service, I did a post on my blog, several months ago, that mentioned a variety of Internet-based “e-planroom” services. Some of the options that come quickly to mind are ARC’s PlanWell, ReproConnect, RSA’s PlanCommand, and Lynn Imaging’s eDistribution.

2 comments:

  1. Can anyone provide any additional information as to why OCE is throwing in the towel ? Could it be OCE is having the same problem that dominates the industry? That is to say, paying for plans on line is about as popular as a " root canal " ?

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  2. Is there any alternative planroom software (other than DFS) that allow file management to be done by the client?
    -Frankie R

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