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about the availability of the updated version either through their subscription mechanism or when they try editing the outdated copy.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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January 12, 2007 at 4:06 pm |
[...] EditGrid joins the group of some of the most innovative and timely Salesforce AppExchange integrations that I have covered till date which include EchoSign, Koral, CentralDesktop, and Spanning Salesforce. Salesforce with its user oriented approach provides the best breeding ground for these productivity apps that can rattle enterprise class players Microsoft, IBM, EMC, and others. For a small price users can get first hand experience of the productivity tools which they feel are important in their everyday workplace. This methodology goes opposite to the existing mind set, where users need to wait on their IT Managers to go through the entire review process before dumping the product ’cause of high licensing and maintenance costs. A high-featured spreadsheet that has no upgrade pains associated but instead gives you the advantage of new features getting rolled in automatically all for $5 is THE bargain you should grab without even thinking twice. [...]
March 19, 2007 at 12:52 am |
[...] Also with the funding announcement, Instacoll launched a new product – InstaSecure. InstaSecure tracks the usage of your documents shared with other people and enables you to control the access, duration of access, audit usage, and version control options. As you might expect, InstaSecure works with Microsoft Office applications through the use of the InstaSecure plugin. Adobe has also been working on a similar application – Adobe Document Center(ADC). Even Koral does something related in this area but more from the PoV of maintaining the current version of the document, instead of document security. [...]
April 10, 2007 at 12:49 am |
[...] Below are links for my past coverage on Koral:Koral launches desktop beta and upgradesKoral – Enterprise2.0 Content Management Tags: [...]
May 8, 2007 at 4:01 pm |
[...] In some ways ShareDrive might sound similar to Koral’s desktop connector that watches for document updates and acts as a document bin to easily upload documents once you are done. ShareDrive offers a much better solution since it integrates with ShareOffice to let users access their documents from the online service on their desktop without the need to download the files. You can just drag-n-drop files from your desktop into the secure on-demand document repository, that has a familiar model of files and folders. Once documents are on your machine, you can open them via MS Office apps, edit them, and save them directly onto the on-demand document repository. [...]