Koral launches desktop beta and upgrades

By Vivek | December 26th, 2006 at 04:30 pm ET         

Koral, the Enterprise20 Content Management startup about which I had written few months back, has added a bunch of features that makes it one of the best SMB apps along with EchoSign to emerge this year. Besides the new features, Koral has has upgraded its hardware that made the on-Demand application really fast responsive, which is nice change from what I had experienced when I tried it for the first time when it was in the real beta stage.

Koral Desktop, the newly released desktop uploader has the task of uploading files simpler. Once you are done with updating your document, all you need to is drag-drop the updated file into the java desktop app, and Koral automatically updates the file on the server. Koral’s “document identification” alerts the rest of the people with whom the document is shared about the availability of the updated version either through their subscription mechanism or when they try editing the outdated copy.

Other changes at Koral include an upgraded search functionality that enables filtering of results by the document type(Word, ppt,….), tag, authors, wordspace,…… Koral user-administration module also has been upgraded to enable linked-in style of user management and change/modify users and their access to workspaces.

My favorite feature still remains the ability to view powerpoint slideshows on Koral web-app itself instead of downloading them and realizing that you are editing the wrong document. Being able to view word and xls snapshots is also in the works, that should see light of the day pretty soon.

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