Central Desktop: Web DB + File Previews + more….

By Vivek | October 31st, 2007 at 04:35 am ET         

Central Desktop, one of the smarter, profitable, and never funded team collaboration startup, delivered another feature full release of the web app yesterday. Desktop’s new database features enable teams to create online, relational databases  and link database records with tasks, documents, spreadsheets as well as launch discussion threads within the database application.

In simpler words, this makes Central Desktop’s contextual collaborative database ideal for managing customer and partner contacts, product listings, price lists, corporate compliance or custom workflows. In comparison terms, a competing product for all the Web DB app providers like DabbleDB, Coghead, Trackvia, and more.

In my PoV, the real deal in the new release is the new File Quick View feature. Desktop users can now preview, zoom, scroll, search, copy and paste within the most widely used file types including MS Office and Adobe PDF. All this without leaving the Central Desktop workspace or downloading the file to a desktop. While I still need to dig up details behind what is powering this feature, from the end user standpoint, this really seems to be a great option to have. Last time I heard, among other things Koral had delivered a similar feature for Powerpoint previews(read only mode), before they got snapped up by Salesforce.

In addition, Central Desktop’s enhanced APIs deliver custom project management triggers and the ability to import, export and merge data within workspace applications as well as from external applications to streamline lead generation projects for sales, business development and marketing.