Central Desktop Merges Wikis With Web Conferencing, Unifies Collaboration; Fall 2006 Release Simplifies Collaboration for Business Teams.PASADENA, Calif. -- Central Desktop, a pioneer in the business software collaboration market, today announced its Fall 2006 Release of Central Desktop, which features Central Desktop Live. Central Desktop Live is the industry's first web conferencing A videoconferencing session via the Internet. In order to interact with other participants, attendees use either a Web application or an application downloaded into their client machines. tool fully integrated into a collaborative wiki A Web site that can be quickly edited by its visitors with simple formatting rules. Developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s to provide collaborative discussions, there are several "wiki" tools on the market for creating such sites, including www.editme.com, www.seedwiki.com, www. environment. Central Desktop users can now schedule and host real-time web conferences directly within Central Desktop. "Central Desktop is about making web collaboration affordable, not just in terms of dollars but in terms of the time necessary to get things done," said Isaac Garcia, Central Desktop CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "By unifying different collaboration technologies behind an intuitive web interface, Central Desktop users spend more time working together rather than juggling tools." "Central Desktop provides us with the option to communicate and collaborate with our customers in real-time or on their time without switching programs or logging into other services," said Doug Mitchell, Vice President of Dispatching Solutions, Inc., a provider of GPS and Logistics Software. "Rather than piecemealing tools together to meet our various needs, Central Desktop vastly simplified our collaboration experience. We cancelled our other web conferencing and audio conferencing See audioconferencing. subscriptions." Central Desktop's business wiki empowers users to efficiently organize and share information in a flexible, user-centric environment. It unifies traditionally disconnected collaboration tools A collaboration tool is something that helps people collaborate. The term is often used to mean collaborative software, but collaboration tools were being used before computers existed, a piece of paper can for example can be used as collaboration tool. such as wikis See wiki. , web conferencing and discussion groups under one umbrella, providing users with tools that accommodate different types of collaboration. Designed from the bottom-up for business teams, the company provides simple and affordable collaboration solutions primarily to small-and-medium-sized businesses. Central Desktop is delivered 100% on-demand making it affordable to new users and still scalable with their budgetary and technological needs. Fall 2006 Release The Fall 2006 Release of Central Desktop is a major step in providing a simplified collaboration experience for business users. In addition to traditional collaboration features such as project tracking, task management, document management and discussion forums, the Fall 2006 Release includes Central Desktop Live, an integrated web conferencing tool that allows users to schedule and host real-time web meetings directly within Central Desktop. "Business users don't have time to integrate, configure and track credentials for different applications," said David Coleman This page is about David Coleman the sportsman, for the academic visit David Coleman (academic) David Coleman, OBE (born 26 April 1926) is a former British sports commentator and TV presenter. , Managing Director for Collaborative Strategies, a collaboration software See collaborative software. Industry analyst firm. "Central Desktop aids in productivity by enabling users to use just one product for all their collaboration needs." Key Fall 2006 Release Features: --Integrated real-time web conferencing (Central Desktop Live) --Integrated free audio conferencing --Email In (Create and assign activities and send files to Central Desktop via email) --Email discussion groups (Subscription based discussion groups) --iCal supported group calendaring --Microsoft Outlook calendaring support for events --Enhanced enterprise grade search (Full text document search) Central Desktop Fall 2006 and Central Desktop Live are available immediately at www.centraldesktop.com. Standard pricing starts at $25/month for 10 users with plans accommodating larger teams and companies. Central Desktop Live is available as an option for each plan. A free version of the service is available for limited use as well. About Central Desktop Central Desktop, a pioneer in the on-demand software See SaaS. collaboration market, provides affordable and easy to use collaboration tools to business teams in small and medium sized businesses. Used by more than 10,000 teams and individuals around the world, Central Desktop is an alternative to complex, traditional groupware Software that supports multiple users working on related tasks in local and remote networks. Also called "collaborative software," groupware is an evolving concept that is more than just multiuser software which allows access to the same data. products such as Microsoft SharePoint and Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. . Central Desktop clients include groups within Fortune 500 companies, academia, government agencies, manufacturing firms, and software development firms around the globe. Founded in early 2005, Central Desktop is headquartered in Pasadena, California Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 133,936 and the 160th largest city in the United States. The California Finance Department estimates the Pasadena population to be 146,166 in 2005. . For more information, visit www.centraldesktop.com. (C) Central Desktop. All rights reserved. Central Desktop, Central Desktop Live and the Central Desktop logo are all registered trademarks of Central Desktop. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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