Media FAQs
Company FAQs
Q: Who is Avantstar?
A: Since its founding in 2001, Avantstar has focused on developing software tools that address digital content viewing challenges faced by businesses, government agencies and legal organizations. Thousands of companies and millions of users worldwide rely on Avantstar’s products to reduce licensing costs on unnecessary software programs for viewing files or for publishing critical business information to websites.
Q: What is Avantstar’s overall value proposition?
A: Avantstar’s products helps government and private sector organizations to be able to view multiple types of files without having to buy and install extra software on users’ desktops. This reduces software license costs and saves users time by letting them open virtually any file without the need for native applications.
Q: What are the most pressing needs and issues in this industry today?
A: Organizations that receive many different file-types, such as law firms, need to be able to open and read them when they want, regardless of whether they have installed the native application that generated the file. The proliferation of email attachments means that any organization has users everywhere who are getting files they can’t read and it’s expensive for companies to have to install non-standard applications and manage user desktops to accommodate odd file types.
Q: How does Avantstar address those needs and issues?
A: Avantstar software lets user view, print and copy any of 300+ file types without having to purchase and maintain native programs.
Q: What makes the company different from its competitors?
A: Avantstar’s flagship product, Quick View Plus (QVP), is the #1 desktop file viewing utility for eliminating the hassle of support calls from users who can’t open email or company file attachments. The product has more than one million users across numerous customer sites world-wide, and has won numerous industry awards, including a 9 out of 10 rating from PC Today, and was named both a PC Magazine Editors’ Choice and a ZDNet Editors’ Pick.
QVP is an all-in-one desktop file viewing utility so it helps control PC software and support costs. It eliminates the need to purchase and install multiple applications on every computer as well as the need to manage dozens of “free” file-viewing utilities across different PCs for different applications.
QVP gives users confidence that they won’t have to worry about file viewing issues because it protects their environment from viruses and other malicious threats by enabling users to view files without opening them. QVP integrates with popular email clients and web browsers, giving users confidence that they can safely and automatically view most file attachments.
Product FAQs
Q: Describe Avantstar’s products/services. What makes these products/services better than the competition?
A: Avantstar’s primary products are Quick View Plus (file viewing) and Metro (content management).
Quick View Plus enables users to view, print and copy information from more than 300 different file types—a wider variety than virtually any other file viewing program—without the native software, delivering substantial savings for large organizations in the area of software license costs. Files cannot be modified, however, which is critical in legal electronic evidence investigation environments. Because the files are not opened in the native program, there is no risk of corrupting evidence, nor is there any risk of a macro-virus infection from malicious files.
Metro is an enterprise-class web content management system, designed to manage multiple websites, at a cost far less than typical enterprise-level CMS products.
Q: How do customers benefit from Quick View Plus?
A: Quick View Plus reduces licensing costs because it enables viewing of 300+ file types without the need to purchase and manage the native software. It saves time because there is no need to install and learn all of those native software packages in order to view, copy and print email attachments, files downloaded from the web, or files on the corporate network. Because files are opened in a viewer and not in the native application, Quick View Plus also provides protection from potentially destructive macro-viruses.
Q: How do customers benefit from Metro?
A: Metro provides enterprise-class web content management capabilities (e.g. the ability to manage multiple sites, to enable non-technical users to create and edit web content using WYSIWYG tools, to set levels for user access and approval processes, site search and automatic PDF generation of any page, etc.) at a lower cost than most enterprise-level content management systems.
Customer FAQs
Q: Who are bellwether customers/partners for Avantstar’s products?
A: Quick View Plus is used by individuals as well as a broad range of organizations, including the Canadian federal government, Shell, Securities and Exchange Commission, Recommind, FTI Technology, Lexis Nexis, as well as many of the largest law firms in the United States.
Q: Where is a list of customers who benefit from Avantstar’s products today?
A: Numerous customers benefit from Avantstar's products on a daily basis.
Public Relations FAQs
Q: Who is the Public Relations Contact for Avantstar?
A: Brant Skogrand, KC Associates, LLC.
Contact Info:
brant@kc-associates.com,
626.756.4763