Category Archives: Mobile Collaboration
Mar 11 0 comments
Mobile Collaboration, Product Update, What's New

Mobile collaboration comes to growing businesses

logo“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 allow employees to be able to push corporate email, calendars, contacts or tasks to whichever device they already had, say, a BlackBerry, an iPhone, Windows Mobile, Nokia or any other?

- What if you wanted to go beyond accessing and synching personal information, and actually allow your teams to be able to share contacts, calendars and tasks on their mobile phone?

- What if you wanted to synch your mobile with your Outlook account, with or without Exchange?

These aren’t questions MobileMe can answer. Not quite “Exchange for the rest of us” then?

HyperSynch – True Mobile Collaboration for Growing Businesses

Today, we announced the beta launch of HyperSynch, a service added to the HyperOffice Collaboration Suite for no extra cost, which allows users to push, synch and share mail, calendars, contacts and tasks across multiple mobiles, PC and Macs.

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HyperSynch is uniquely positioned to empower teams in growing businesses to use their mobile phones as business tools, for the following reasons: -

Bring your own mobile – HyperSynch can push and synch emails, calendars, contacts and tasks for over 1700 mobile phones, including iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Nokia, many Androids etc. You don’t need to force employees to buy a particular phone, or even procure special business purpose phones.  In all likelihood, HyperSynch will work with the mobile phone everyone already has.

Completely online - Unlike expensive mobility software like BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) or MS Exchange, which require dedicated hardware, HyperSynch is completely web based - no servers to set up or software to download and install. Exchange and BES for the rest of us?

MobileWe! – Not only can you synchronize personal mail, contacts, calendars and tasks on your mobile phone, you can even share this information with your team! Any edits you make to shared contacts, will be reflected on your teams mobile phones in seconds; set up a group event, and everyone in your team will know, and so on.

Outlook Synchronization – HyperSync also lets you keep your mobile in sync with your Outlook mail, contacts, calendars, tasks and notes. No MS Exchange needed!

Battery Friendly – Regular IMAP/POP3 mobile mail sucks battery life right out of your mobile phone, when it queries the mail server every few minutes. HyperSynch puts the energy-onus on the server, as information is pushed only when it is updated.

Mobile Collaboration – Since HyperSynch is built into HyperOffice, you also get the benefit of HyperOffice’s award winning online collaboration software features – document storage and sharing, intranet/extranet workspaces, polls, forums, web forms etc. You can access these features right on your mobile browser, in addition to any PC or Mac browser.

See a video demo of what HyperSynch can do for you

Feb 10 0 comments
Cloud Computing, Mobile Collaboration, Online Collaboration, SaaS, Software as a Service, Uncategorized

Company.com launches to help small businesses collaborate online via social networking to save money and boost productivity.

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While social networking has been all the hype lately, it’s not clear/proven how small businesses will put it to work for them. New companies sprout up daily claiming to be experts to help you leverage social networking in your small businesses. Typically they focus on building a message, report, widget, video that will get passed around and people will hear about your business. Others advise you on how to protect you reputation in communities and use communities like LinkedIn to find leads and insert yourself in relevant discussions online.

How many communities can one possibly be active in? There’s no shortage of online communities; Salesforce.com has Chatter, Google just put out Buzz, LinkedIn is my favorite so far, and of course Facebook.

We come back to the question, how can businesses put social networking to work for them. I think Company.com has the answer. What they do different is structure the conversations and match up people so business owners and management can find conversations around their toughest problems. They do this by creating communities with experts they have vetted who contribute with solid advice. I’ve sifted through and have been impressed so far.

Company.com wants to be there for you from cradle to crave, by helping you find information around every step of the small business cycle i.e. how to raise finances, technology advice, how to streamline operations, advice on business strategy, and more.

They are backed by a very experienced management team – In my opinion the single biggest factor to the success of new business ventures. They also bring that human touch to helping businesses save money by vetting vendors, side-by-side comparisons, negotiating the best deal for their members- you- the small business owner. Not just another ad-based non-discriminating aggregator like business.com

They want to “help businesses make money and save money.” We’ll, we’re all for that.
At HyperOffice “ Our mission is to empower growing organizations with technology traditionally available only to large enterprises, and help them achieve business growth, competitive advantage and success.”

You can see why we decided to get behind Company.com and help small businesses compete with more effective and lower cost collaboration software. I hope you’ll check them out, and I look forward to watching them become a household name.

Jun 19 0 comments
Business Productivity Online Suite, Cloud Computing, Collaboration Software, Live Seminars, Mobile Collaboration, Online Collaboration, Press Coverage, Software as a Service, Uncategorized, What's New

Collaboration Software is a hit with Virtual Assistants

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Last night the Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce sponsored a webinar event for their members titled Leveraging Collabortive Virtual Office Technology for Virtual Assistants and Solopreneurs, where they invited HyperOffice to present our collaboration software suite. This was the second event we have done together, in response to the tremendous amount of interest we have from the Virtual Assistant community. Seems like the downturn in the economy is leading to greater demand for Virtual Assistants - since small businesses are laying off full-time staff, yet still have to keep up with the demands of trying to grow their business.

One of the common themes during the webinar was business productivity online suites  like HyperOffice help Virtual Assistants save time in trying to service their customers, allowing them to take on more clients in the same amount of time. One time saving trick  Danielle Keister, VACOC Founder and Virtual Assistant expert, shared with the group was creating a virtual drive which can be shared with between Virtual Assistants and their clients.

Danielle demonstrated how  HyperDrive can be setup in a couple minutes to create a central document repository where documents can be stored securely while giving access to clients to view and upload files and documents. As compared to other tools on the market, HyperDrive allows you to store multiple versions of a shared document without the clutter of sifting through multiple files with built in document version controls right from your windows explorer (also available on Mac). HyperOffice welcomes the Virtual Assistant community to try HyperOffice and take advantage of our deep domain expertise on setting up your virtual office to streamline your business using HyperOffice.

Mar 08 0 comments
Mobile Collaboration, What's New

Handheld Support - Take the Whole Office with You - Any Handheld Will Do

Do Anything on Your Handheld You Could on Your PC

Is your team always traveling? Do they use their handheld devices more than most muscle groups? Now, their power to collaborate continuously from any location at any time takes a great leap forward.

Today, phone and PDA support for HTML is comparable to any browser on your PC. To serve you better, HyperOffice re-designed every screen to suit the display of modern handheld devices.

What You Can Do with Your Handheld

- Enjoy a pronounced spike in your team’s productivity when everyone can:

- Send and receive email

- Receive continuous email alerts (IMAP support)

- Use any HyperOffice Module to collaborate with your team - (Calendars, Email, Contacts, Projects, Tasks, Shared Documents, Voting, Forums, etc.)

- Manage projects

- Manage internal teams and intranets

- Manage mixed teams and extranets

- Design new portals tailored to your unique business needs



With 10 years of experience delivering online collaboration soutions, HyperOffice is the recognised market leader in online productivity and collaboration solution software for small to medium sized businesses. We provide the most comprehensive suite of solutions developed over years of hard experience understanding your growing business needs. HyperOffice's capabilities include customer extranet & intranet software, online document management, online project management, web calendar, contact management software, business email, Outlook sharing and synchronization, mobile collaboration and much more - offered as an integrated, easy to use solution accessible over any web connected PC, Mac, iPhone, or mobile device. HyperOffice is also a viable Microsoft Sharepoint alternative and Microsoft Exchange alternative for growing companies looking for the power of enterprise class messaging and collaboration - but without the associated costs and hassles. HyperOffice's extended suite of solutions includes HyperMeeting - a web meeting solution, HyperBase for online database management, and HyperCampaign for email marketing campaigns - all developed for your emerging needs, and seamlessly integrable with the HyperOffice collaboration suite at your choice.