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confidential independent review
PleaseReview is designed to directly support business processes which involve the review of documents, presentations and images. This page discusses confidential document review.
The problem: Independent review relies on the reviewer confidentially reviewing in isolation in the confident knowledge that their comments are confidential and will not be shared with other reviewers or, perhaps, the author. Thus their review is an independent examination of the document and not subject to external influences.
The PleaseReview Solution: PleaseReview provides an interactive review portal where there is a single definitive copy of the document, displayed in the browser (no downloads and uploads) onto which comments can be made, changes proposed and typos noted.
The whole ethos of PleaseReview, as a collaborative review solution, may seem at odds with the confidential independent reviews. However, PleaseReview supports 'independent reviews' as an option and has significant advantages in being used for such review processes.
In an independent review all reviewer's review the document in isolation being unaware of other's presence and unable to see each other's comments, whilst the review owner has the normal PleaseReview experience, ie sees a consolidated view of all comments.
With its simple 'point & click' approach to review even the most keyboard phobic people will find PleaseReview easy to use.
There are therefore significant advantages in using PleaseReview for confidential independent review:
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Reviewers are able to comment on specific paragraphs of a document (or location on a presentation or image) in additional to being able to add overall general comments to the document.
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The review may contain 'reference only' documents such as review guidelines or checklists.
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Reviewers receive automatic email reminders of pending review deadlines, and have a personal in-box of all allocated reviews with summary status information available.
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There is automatic review status monitoring. At any time the review owner can see a participant's status in the review: who hasn't looked at the document; how many comments each reviewer has made; who has completed their review, etc.
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There is automatic comment consolidation for the review owner. The review owner has control over the comments and can, for example, select a subset of comments to include in a copy of the document.
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Using PleaseReview's discussion thread capability, the review owner is able to interactively communicate with a reviewer perhaps, for example, to clarify a specific comment.
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There is an automatic complete audit trail generated for record purposes. |
PleaseReview directly supports the review of MS Word, PowerPoint, PDFs, images and image collections.
PleaseReview manages the review process, takes care of the comment consolidation and provides a complete record of the review.
Compare this approach with the way you would manage the process today, consider how many hours you'd save, work out what that's worth! PleaseReview's return on investment is impressive.
For a high level overview of the PleaseReview process please click here.
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