Your documents should live on servers you control, not in someone else's cloud

Document management for IT teams should mean less work for IT, not more. Most document management systems do the opposite. They require proprietary infrastructure, dedicated administrators, ongoing vendor support contracts, and client software installed on every workstation. When something breaks, your team is stuck between a vendor support queue and a business unit that needs documents now.

infoRouter was designed to run on the infrastructure you already manage. Windows Server. IIS. SQL Server or MySQL. Active Directory. Your team runs it, owns it, and maintains it with the same tools and skills they use for everything else.

IT needs a document system it can run, secure and back up with the tools it already has.

A Document System Shouldn't Need a Stack Your Team Has Never Run

You should not have to learn a new set of technologies just to give your organization a document management system. infoRouter runs on the stack your team already knows:

• Server: Windows Server with IIS
• Database: Microsoft SQL Server or MySQL
• Authentication: Active Directory, LDAP, Windows Authentication, or Google and Microsoft sign-in (OAuth)
• Client: Any modern web browser. No plugins. No desktop client.
• Integration: Web Services API, plus WebDAV for direct file access

There is no proprietary application server to license. No Java runtime to manage. No containerization requirement. Your team provisions a Windows Server, points it at a database, and deploys.

Active Directory Integration That Actually Works

User provisioning is the hidden time sink in most enterprise software. Creating accounts, assigning permissions, resetting passwords, deactivating departing employees. Multiply that across every system your team maintains, and the administrative overhead is significant.

infoRouter syncs with your existing Active Directory or LDAP directory. Users authenticate with their Windows credentials. When someone joins the organization, they are available in infoRouter automatically. When someone leaves and their AD account is disabled, their infoRouter access ends at the same moment.

No separate user database. No password reset tickets for "the document system." No quarterly access review where you cross-reference two different user lists.

Zero Client Installs

Every application that requires client software on user workstations creates a support burden. Installation, updates, compatibility testing, troubleshooting when it conflicts with other software. For IT teams managing hundreds or thousands of endpoints, this is not trivial.

infoRouter is entirely browser-based. Users open a URL and log in. There is nothing to install, nothing to update on the client side, and nothing to break during OS upgrades. This is true for Windows, macOS, and Linux workstations alike.

What Is On-Premise Document Management Software?

On-premise document management software runs on servers your organization controls, not on a vendor's shared cloud. Your documents, your database and your backups stay inside your own network, under your own security policies. infoRouter installs on Windows Server with IIS and SQL Server or MySQL, signs users in through Active Directory, and keeps every document behind your firewall. It can run in your own data center, in your own cloud account, or on a dedicated instance hosted for you. Like any server software, it needs a professional installation and ongoing administration, such as backups and database maintenance, handled by your IT staff, an outside IT provider or a reseller. The infoRouter implementation checklist lists what to prepare before installation and what to do after it.

Cloud document management solves some problems and introduces others. Data residency concerns. Recurring subscription costs that scale with storage. Vendor lock-in. Latency for large files. Dependency on internet connectivity for core business operations.

infoRouter gives your organization full control over its document infrastructure. Documents stay on your servers, in your data center, behind your firewall. Backup, disaster recovery, and data retention are managed by your team, on your schedule, with your existing tools.

For organizations in regulated industries, defense contracting, or government, on-premise deployment is often not a preference. It is a requirement. For others, a dedicated cloud instance is the better fit. On-Premise vs Cloud Document Management sets out the trade-offs of each.

Your Data, Your Jurisdiction

Where your documents live decides whose rules apply to them and who can change the price of keeping them. With infoRouter, documents stay on a server you control, in your region, under your own policies. The license is yours, so the cost of your archive does not depend on someone else's price list.

The same applies to AI. With infoRouter Connect you choose the AI provider, or run a model you host yourself, and you can change your mind later.

Ready for AI Because It's Organized First

AI shouldn't touch documents nobody has organized or permissioned. Before AI can help, documents need one home, clear permissions and labels. infoRouter keeps them in one central system with Active Directory permissions and document types, and infoRouter Connect adds AI on top: it categorizes, summarizes and extracts data from documents after replacing the sensitive values it detects with placeholders. Only that redacted text leaves your network, never the original document. Connect also works inside infoRouter's permissions: what it writes about a document is visible only to people who can already see that document, and it never answers questions across documents. Connect is licensed separately.

An API Your Developers Can Actually Use

When the business needs to connect the document management system to a CRM, an ERP, an accounts payable workflow, or a custom application, IT gets the ticket. The speed of that integration depends on whether the API is well-documented and accessible, or whether it requires a vendor professional services engagement.

infoRouter provides a Web Services API. Your developers can create folders, upload documents, set metadata, trigger workflows, and query the repository programmatically. WebDAV support lets users map infoRouter libraries as network drives for drag-and-drop access. If your organization runs Microsoft 365, see how infoRouter works beside SharePoint.

Your developers build integrations without a professional services engagement. Your team owns the code and maintains it on its own timeline.

Low Maintenance, High Stability

infoRouter has been in continuous production since 1998. The architecture is mature. It has been in production since 1998 in more than 50 countries, in defense, energy and government among others.

For IT teams, this means fewer escalations, fewer emergency patches, and fewer "the document system is down" calls. It means a system that runs reliably on standard infrastructure with standard maintenance practices. Your team's time is better spent on projects that move the business forward than on keeping a document system alive.

See How It Fits Your Infrastructure

If your team needs a document system it fully controls, a guided infoRouter trial is the right next step.

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We set up an evaluation with you, in the cloud or on your own server, with infoRouter Connect included.