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I found the following rave reviews and a press release regarding
InstaColl, a free online collaboration application/service. Have you
tried it? I would like if it can be installed/uninstalled without
breaking the currently intalled Office applications.
http://spaces.msn.com/members/ket000/Blog/cns!1pm_peVcRrtQtZAc4WaU3FBA!154.entry
Real-Time Sharing Of Microsoft Office Documents And Applications:
Instacoll vs. Conferral
http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2005/04/30/realtime_sharing_of_microsoft_office.htm
InstaColl : http://www.instacoll.com/
Instacoll is completely free for one-to-one collaboration sessions. A
paid version supporting multiple users as well as one for internal
deployment within any organization are available through Instacoll
sales department.
Conferral : http://www.conferral.com/
Conferral offers a full try-out lasting 15-days and then it charges
$199 (until May 31st 2005) or $299 for a perpetual license.
One key difference between Conferral and Instacoll is that participants
in a Conferral collaborative session require only a browser to
participate. They don't need a copy of Conferral, in fact they don't
even need Microsoft Office. With Instacoll, a copy of the application
must be always downloaded to their computers before they can
participate.
http://www.prfree.com/index.php?cur=index&action=preview&id=25522
Sabeer Bhatia Launches New Indian Product Company
The Hotmail founder's new offering, InstaColl seamlessly adds
powerful real-time collaboration features to familiar desktop
applications.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BANGALORE, / PR FREE / Apr 15 2005 --
Sabeer Bhatia, the co-founder of Hotmail, announced the launch of his
new offering, InstaColl in Bangalore today. InstaColl is an online
collaboration solution that is designed to expedite the task of sharing
documents and information across multiple stakeholders and locations.
InstaColl seamlessly converts mainstream productivity application such
as Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint into real-time, interactive
collaborative platforms that allows teams of people to work on a shared
document over the Internet as if they were in the same physical
location and looking at the same data.
Collaboration has been one of the buzzwords of the past few years, with
dozens of software vendors, new and old, touting their products'
capabilities of keeping users in touch and sharing knowledge with one
another. But InstaColl has an innovative vision that offers something
radically different from existing vendors. Instead of selling clients a
new collaborative application, it seamlessly makes existing
applications, such as the Microsoft Office suite, collaborative.
InstaColl lets Microsoft Office users collaborate seamlessly in those
familiar applications - Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint -
without having to learn a new collaboration tool. InstaColl allows
users to connect in real-time using their existing desktop productivity
tools, irrespective of where they are situated geographically and
allows for seamless collaboration between people inside and outside the
firewall, without having to reconfigure the firewall to allow outsider
access.
"While e-mail is the de facto business communication mechanism, its
'store-and-forward' nature introduces latencies and delays in an
Internet-centric business environment. InstaColl has been architected
to add an immediacy factor to the information sharing process by
enabling instant collaborative sessions. InstaColl's one-button
simplicity enables users to launch powerful collaboration sessions with
a single click from right within their favorite Microsoft Office
application. InstaColl is designed to support ad-hoc, on-demand
collaboration opportunities in an intuitive, easy-to-use way," said
Sabeer Bhatia. "With the introduction of InstaColl, users now have an
inexpensive way to immediately share presentations and documents in
both high and low-bandwidth environments securely."
Through InstaColl, users can cut down on travel and communication
costs, gain access to remote colleagues and customers and greatly
enhance corporate agility, responsiveness and productivity. Any set of
individuals that collaborate with others to create or share documents
using the Micosoft Office suite of applications will now be able share
these securely, virtually and with a single click from within Word,
Excel or Powerpoint. For example, sales people will now be able to make
presentations to remote customers across the globe or the head of a
finance department will be able to share financial reports with his
team - all with a single click of a button.
Apart from its solution philosophy, InstaColl is also unique in terms
of its technology underpinnings. InstaColl adopts a data-centric model
where only the data is shared with the applications running locally on
individual desktops. This ensures that bandwidth requirements are very
low and even dial-up users can experience InstaColl and users can
collaborate even if their operating system or application versions are
different. Secondly, InstaColl uses a unique hybrid
peer-to-peer/client-server architecture. By default, users are
connected in a peer-to-peer fashion that ensures low latency and delays
and only in the event that a peer-to-peer connection cannot be set up,
does the application seamlessly fall back on a server-centric model
through the company's hosted servers.
InstaColl is now available now for free beta trial at
http://www.instacoll.com.
About InstaColl:
Based in Bangalore, India, InstaColl aims to develop and provide
software and services that will transform the Internet into a personal
medium for direct communication and interaction. InstaColl's
collaboration solution provide businesses secure, online working
relationships with key customers and partners, allowing dispersed
stakeholders to reduce time-to-decision and problem-resolution by
responding in real time to critical incidents and opportunities.
InstaColl aspires to be the first global "Made-in-India" product
success story. For more information, please visit www.instacoll.com.
InstaColl, a free online collaboration application/service. Have you
tried it? I would like if it can be installed/uninstalled without
breaking the currently intalled Office applications.
http://spaces.msn.com/members/ket000/Blog/cns!1pm_peVcRrtQtZAc4WaU3FBA!154.entry
Real-Time Sharing Of Microsoft Office Documents And Applications:
Instacoll vs. Conferral
http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2005/04/30/realtime_sharing_of_microsoft_office.htm
InstaColl : http://www.instacoll.com/
Instacoll is completely free for one-to-one collaboration sessions. A
paid version supporting multiple users as well as one for internal
deployment within any organization are available through Instacoll
sales department.
Conferral : http://www.conferral.com/
Conferral offers a full try-out lasting 15-days and then it charges
$199 (until May 31st 2005) or $299 for a perpetual license.
One key difference between Conferral and Instacoll is that participants
in a Conferral collaborative session require only a browser to
participate. They don't need a copy of Conferral, in fact they don't
even need Microsoft Office. With Instacoll, a copy of the application
must be always downloaded to their computers before they can
participate.
http://www.prfree.com/index.php?cur=index&action=preview&id=25522
Sabeer Bhatia Launches New Indian Product Company
The Hotmail founder's new offering, InstaColl seamlessly adds
powerful real-time collaboration features to familiar desktop
applications.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BANGALORE, / PR FREE / Apr 15 2005 --
Sabeer Bhatia, the co-founder of Hotmail, announced the launch of his
new offering, InstaColl in Bangalore today. InstaColl is an online
collaboration solution that is designed to expedite the task of sharing
documents and information across multiple stakeholders and locations.
InstaColl seamlessly converts mainstream productivity application such
as Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint into real-time, interactive
collaborative platforms that allows teams of people to work on a shared
document over the Internet as if they were in the same physical
location and looking at the same data.
Collaboration has been one of the buzzwords of the past few years, with
dozens of software vendors, new and old, touting their products'
capabilities of keeping users in touch and sharing knowledge with one
another. But InstaColl has an innovative vision that offers something
radically different from existing vendors. Instead of selling clients a
new collaborative application, it seamlessly makes existing
applications, such as the Microsoft Office suite, collaborative.
InstaColl lets Microsoft Office users collaborate seamlessly in those
familiar applications - Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint -
without having to learn a new collaboration tool. InstaColl allows
users to connect in real-time using their existing desktop productivity
tools, irrespective of where they are situated geographically and
allows for seamless collaboration between people inside and outside the
firewall, without having to reconfigure the firewall to allow outsider
access.
"While e-mail is the de facto business communication mechanism, its
'store-and-forward' nature introduces latencies and delays in an
Internet-centric business environment. InstaColl has been architected
to add an immediacy factor to the information sharing process by
enabling instant collaborative sessions. InstaColl's one-button
simplicity enables users to launch powerful collaboration sessions with
a single click from right within their favorite Microsoft Office
application. InstaColl is designed to support ad-hoc, on-demand
collaboration opportunities in an intuitive, easy-to-use way," said
Sabeer Bhatia. "With the introduction of InstaColl, users now have an
inexpensive way to immediately share presentations and documents in
both high and low-bandwidth environments securely."
Through InstaColl, users can cut down on travel and communication
costs, gain access to remote colleagues and customers and greatly
enhance corporate agility, responsiveness and productivity. Any set of
individuals that collaborate with others to create or share documents
using the Micosoft Office suite of applications will now be able share
these securely, virtually and with a single click from within Word,
Excel or Powerpoint. For example, sales people will now be able to make
presentations to remote customers across the globe or the head of a
finance department will be able to share financial reports with his
team - all with a single click of a button.
Apart from its solution philosophy, InstaColl is also unique in terms
of its technology underpinnings. InstaColl adopts a data-centric model
where only the data is shared with the applications running locally on
individual desktops. This ensures that bandwidth requirements are very
low and even dial-up users can experience InstaColl and users can
collaborate even if their operating system or application versions are
different. Secondly, InstaColl uses a unique hybrid
peer-to-peer/client-server architecture. By default, users are
connected in a peer-to-peer fashion that ensures low latency and delays
and only in the event that a peer-to-peer connection cannot be set up,
does the application seamlessly fall back on a server-centric model
through the company's hosted servers.
InstaColl is now available now for free beta trial at
http://www.instacoll.com.
About InstaColl:
Based in Bangalore, India, InstaColl aims to develop and provide
software and services that will transform the Internet into a personal
medium for direct communication and interaction. InstaColl's
collaboration solution provide businesses secure, online working
relationships with key customers and partners, allowing dispersed
stakeholders to reduce time-to-decision and problem-resolution by
responding in real time to critical incidents and opportunities.
InstaColl aspires to be the first global "Made-in-India" product
success story. For more information, please visit www.instacoll.com.