| Standard Features | Benefits |
| Optimised for exploration and production data | Enables large files to be transferred quickly even over poor communications infrastructure. |
| Centralised data | Shared data is stored in a central location, ensuring a single version of the truth, physical security, and access control. |
Data security and rights management | Ability to define who can access data with read/write permissions to ensure the right people are using it and to prevent accidental erasure or overwrite |
| Data auditability | Text file histories of all versions of a file can be exported. |
| Version control | Each user can tell what the latest version of the data is and who has it. They also have the ability to roll back to earlier versions – even “deleted” files. |
| Remote data access | Users can work with the right data anywhere in the world without ever having to travel, maximising the effectiveness of high value staff across multiple projects. |
Leverages existing Internet infrastructure | Securely transmits data over existing Internet infrastructure, and makes fast and reliable data transfer possible over low-bandwidth and intermittent connections |
| Data synchronisation | Allows users to get the latest changes made to data without having to transfer entire files. |
| Notifications to file changes | Users know when the data they have been using has been updated by others. |
| File check-in/check-out | Data can be locked from being edited by other users while it is being worked on. |
| Intuitive searching | Data can be found without having to know what it is called or where it might be located. |
| Easy to use | Busy professionals can rest assured that they will be up and running quickly, with minimal or no training. |
| Low impact on IT | Does not require a change to existing systems and is easy to install and maintain. |
| System scalability | Scales to support individual workgroup users through to the enterprise. |
| Works with all file-based data | Manages data for all project files – not just Gemcom application files. |