HyperOffice, providing customers with more facilities than just connecting the first and second-generation Apple (News - Alert) iPhones to secure corporate e-mail, contacts, calendars, tasks and notes, has launched a new public beta of business collaboration tools. With this second beta of HyperOffice, users get usability enhancements and, more significantly, access to shared documents.

 

HyperOffice operates as software-as-a-service (SaaS) and it works on the iPhone (News - Alert). In fact, it works on any phone including smartphones. It also works on any PC, Mac or handheld device. Users just need a browser and an Internet connection and do not have to install, fix, upgrade or patch anything.

 

The beta uses built-in tools that connect to corporate messaging systems and operates as an alternative to Microsoft (News - Alert) Exchange and Sharepoint. It also includes a 30-day free trial of HyperOffice that makes it easier for owners, employees, clients, partners and suppliers of growing businesses to collaborate, communicate, plan projects, share documents, schedule meetings and tasks.

 

To get a suite of Web-based applications that deliver the power and productivity of collaboration software, switch on your iPhone, open Safari, and log into your HyperOffice account. Until now, this facility was available only to big companies with a mammoth IT budget.

 

HyperOffice transforms the iPhone into a business collaboration tool where iPhone 3G users can now sync e-mail, calendars and contacts to personal desktop computers. With the help of facilities such as online storage, versioning, user rights and commenting, users may also retrieve, share and update address books, projects and tasks, and manage documents. Without the danger of spam and viruses, HyperOffice also provides discussion groups, security and backup and business-class e-mail.

 

“This is what the new iPhone 3G does not have,” said Farzin Arsanjani (News - Alert), president of HyperOffice. “MobileMe and support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync begin to finally give business users of the iPhone the ability to sync and share calendars, contacts, e-mail and tasks. That's what we delivered back in January 2008 with the initial beta of HyperOffice collaboration tools for the iPhone. But they're still basically e-mailing files back and forth as attachments. You're not managing documents with online storage, version control, user rights and workflow. In contrast, with HyperOffice, five people in three cities in two time zones can all work with the same spreadsheet at the same time, trying to knock out a proposal by deadline.”