Author Archives: Pan Tan

Mobile collaboration comes to growing businesses

“Exchange for the rest of us” was the slogan used to announce MobileMe to the world. It allows users to push email, calendars and contacts to their iPhone without expensive MS Exchange installed on their servers. A relief indeed.
But a few questions arise.
- What if you wanted to use a device other than iPhone and [...]

Collaboration Software Upped a Notch - All New HyperOffice Now Available

Think we have been adding new features to HyperOffice at a blinding pace (wikis, full document search, publisher, HyperBase) in recent times? Brace yourself.
This Monday, we made available to all customers a re-invigorated, super-charged, eye-candy, ease-enhanced, all-new AJAX version of HyperOffice. This rollout is the culmination of a two year long project incorporating R&D with [...]

iPad, SaaS and Collaboration

It’s incredibly thin.
So we were repeatedly reminded by Steve Jobs in his famous iPad keynote. Steve Jobs exhausted almost every glowing adjective in the English dictionary in his keynote, and the tech media panned it with almost equal ferociousness. Some say it lacks key features, while others complain about the choice of internet service [...]

Google Apps Learns Business Collaboration Lessons We Learnt Years Ago

A small company issuing such a statement for tech behemoth Google, may seem delusional on the face of it. But it’s happened before, for Google, a master of search and consumer markets, cannot be everything for everyone. Its not uncommon for it to learn lessons from companies that serve niche markets, and indeed, create new [...]

Wikis Part of Free Upgrade to HyperOffice Collaboration Sofware

The Wiki Phenomena

We are all familiar with Wikipedia, and have come across it often as we search the internet. It is the largest encyclopedia ever compiled by man - more than 7 times Britannica, the largest traditional encyclopedia.
The incredible thing about Wikipedia is that its content is entirely contributed collaboratively by volunteers – lay users [...]

Collaboration with HyperOffice Got Even Better : Full Document Search, Improved Publisher, More!

In the spirit of keeping our customers in step with the cutting edge of collaboration technology, and making our customer experience ever simpler and more powerful, we added multiple new features to HyperOffice. That’s what software-as-a-service is all about, isn’t it?
The latest up-gradations are the latest in a flurry of activity in recent months (we [...]

Online Database Management for Growing Companies is Here!

We recently launched HyperBase, an online database management solution designed specifically for small to medium sized companies. We know, we know. The very mention of the phrase “database management system” sounds forbidding to most small businesses.
HyperBase is an attempt to bring database management from the behind the gilded doors of the IT department, to non [...]

Online Collaboration Moves East with HyperOffice

These are exciting times at HyperOffice. The latest in a flurry of activity – in a pioneering move, HyperOffice has partnered with Tata Communications, the communications wing of Tata, one of India’s largest and oldest industrial groups. Under this partnership Tata Communications will offer the HyperOffice Collaboration Suite along with the high-speed data and voice [...]

What’s the Buzz? Enter Collaboration Software, Exit Email

As our dear readers must already know, last month Shahab co authored a white paper with tech whiz James Gaskin on the subject of “managing the email overload“. Email overload is a problem almost everyone faces, and many novel strategies have been suggested to deal with it. Our white paper was our humble take on [...]

Google Apps Sync - Old Wine in Google Bottle?

A few days ago, Google launched Google Apps Sync, a plug-in for MS Outlook, which allows users of Google Apps to sync mail, contacts and calendars with MS Outlook. Additionally, Google has positioned its new tool as an “Exchange alternative”, where it acts as a backend for Outlook, and saves businesses the costs and hassles [...]



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