The total real estate of the world (excluding commercial) is projected to be 1.5 to 1.9 trillion square feet by 2027, clearly, there is a clear incentive to real estate investors to digitise the information contained in their investment portfolios. The rise in the use of new-age technology such as real-time data sharing of real estate assets with the potential of reducing transaction fees through Virtual Data Rooms (VDRs) for investors (especially owners) are set to transform the sector.

Introducing changes to custom fields/columns, enhanced PDF security mode, OCR data stored into PDF and more as we continue into Spring 2021 with more platform improvements.

As we know, COVID-19 has caused problems for many industries, and the legal industry appears to be no different. With specific impacts to mergers and acquisitions (M&A), it is important, now more than ever, to look ahead at the potential longevity of the pandemic’s effects and how its challenges can be overcome.

We have introduced a new feature to allow specific sites (under a master licence) to be granted "extra secure" status in order to prevent usual admins from gaining access, unless they obtain specific authorisation from a second admin.

Technological changes are constant and affect everyone. Impacting individuals on a social, economic and political basis, Deloitte Global note that technological development and mobility will require consumers and employees to adapt.

As we move rapidly into 2021, we've gone Carbon Neutral, as well as the introduction of Placeholders and the re-working of templates and site alerts.

Carbon neutrality refers to the achievement of net zero carbon dioxide emissions through either balancing, offsetting or eliminating carbon dioxide emissions.

Thanks to Pippa on the RD team, with a very keen eye on attention-to-detail, we have spent the month of October improving lots of minor things around the platform.

September has been an incredible month for us. We released our new Question & Answers module, bringing Q&A into the document viewer itself. This is a first for Virtual Data Rooms, or at least to our knowledge.

Further updates to the Ruby Datum platform as we continue to grow with a larger developer team. In particular, we have started to re-visit our Questions and Answers functionality.