BlueTie Ups the Ante in Web-Based Calendaring and Task Management; Company Launches Industry's First AJAX-Based Integrated Collaboration Suite.ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- BlueTie, Inc., the leading provider of Software as a Service for small and mid-sized businesses, announced today the launch of an all-new calendaring and task management application integrated into its award-winning collaboration suite. The new web-based tools deliver performance that rivals that of desktop applications, makes managing busy schedules easy, and allows users to instantly schedule meetings with colleagues across the office or across the world. The desktop-like speed of the new calendar and task management applications result from BlueTie's use of Asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. JavaScript and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. (AJAX) - a technology that enables automatic changes to content without requiring the full Web page to reload (1) To load a program from disk into memory once again in order to run it. Reload is entirely different than reinstall. Reinstall means that you have to run the install program from a CD-ROM or floppy disk and perform the installation procedure over again. . These enhancements make BlueTie the first Software as a Service provider to move beyond beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the with the production release of an AJAX-based calendar tool that is fully integrated with business-class email - enabling users to automatically send meeting requests and changes to participants. "While other vendors are just testing the waters with beta versions A pre-shipping release of hardware or software that has gone through alpha test. A beta version of software is supposed to be very close to the final product, but, in practice, it is more a way of getting users to test the software in the first place under real conditions. , we've already delivered these improvements to our customers in a fully supported and integrated release," said Robert Conway, Director of Product Development. "With a pure Software as a Service business model, our customers benefit immediately from BlueTie's steady stream of new features without additional installation or upgrade costs." With the new release, users can create or reschedule re·sched·ule tr.v. re·sched·uled, re·sched·ul·ing, re·sched·ules To schedule again or anew: rescheduled the meeting for the following week; rescheduled the debts of many developing nations. appointments through a drag-and-drop feature that instantly notifies participants of the change. A color-coded overlay (1) A preprinted, precut form placed over a screen, key or tablet for identification purposes. See keyboard template. (2) A program segment called into memory when required. of colleagues' calendars identifies common available meeting times making it easy for users to avoid scheduling conflicts. Quick Add, an intuitive appointment scheduling feature, also allows users to enter a brief phrase using common language -- such as "Lunch with Jane at 12 on Tuesday" -- to automatically add meetings to their calendars. This latest Calendar release also introduces support of the iCal industry standard, which enables BlueTie's customers to coordinate their schedules with users of other iCal-compliant calendaring software. "With BlueTie's shared calendars our administrative support staff is able to access and update the calendars of our management team," said Andrea Jones, Support Analyst for F.C. Tucker Company, Inc. "And now with BlueTie's color-coded calendar overlays, scheduling appointments with multiple members of our leadership team will be a snap." These new service improvements follow closely on the heels of the email upgrades BlueTie released early in 2006. This earlier release provided customers with the first glimpse First Glimpse is a monthly consumer electronics magazine published by Sandhills Publishing Company in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. The magazine was known as CE Lifestyles before a name change in early 2006. into the speed and performance increases and user interface improvements that are now becoming the hallmark hallmark, mark impressed on silverwork or goldwork to signify official approval of the standard of purity of the metal, also called plate mark. The hallmark was introduced by statute in England in 1300 and enforced by the Goldsmiths' Hall, London. of BlueTie's offerings. About BlueTie, Inc. BlueTie is the leading provider of hosted email and collaboration solutions for small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and service providers worldwide. BlueTie revolutionized the Software as a Service sector in 1999 by introducing the first hosted suite of small business tools that require no hardware, software, or IT support. BlueTie continues to lead the SaaS movement by delivering incredibly simple applications that are fast, inexpensive, and reliable. BlueTie's software is licensed by channel partners, ISPs and other service providers, and is available direct to SMBs at www.BlueTie.biz biz n. Informal Business. biz Noun Informal business Noun 1. or 1.800.BLUETIE. |
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