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United States: Extentech and Alfresco Intro Integrated Open Source Web Spreadsheet Solution.


Byline: Mamta03

Spreadsheet solutions company Extentech and Alfresco Software, a provider of open source enterprise content management (ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management.

(2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission.
), have announced Sheetster + Alfresco, an integrated open source web spreadsheet solution.

Unlike other solutions, this open source approach provides complete flexibility and control over data, and also the rich content management significantly lowers start up and maintenance costs.

Million of Excel users are expected to make the shift from the desktop to online spreadsheet applications. Company officials said the open source solution can offer the most cost effective, flexible and secure choice for businesses worldwide.

Integrating the Sheetster Web Spreadsheet into the Alfresco ECM drastically dras·tic  
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1. Severe or radical in nature; extreme: the drastic measure of amputating the entire leg; drastic social change brought about by the French Revolution.

2.
 lowers development costs, said John McMahon John McMahon may refer to:
  • Sir John McMahon, 1st Baronet (d. 1817), British politician
  • John A. McMahon (1833-1923), American politician
 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.  at Extentech, in a release.

In addition to collaboration across the organization and publishing, and reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity.  of charts, the online editing Online editing is generally the final stage of video editing.

When the offline edit is complete, the pictures are re-assembled at full or 'online' resolution. An edit decision list or equivalent is used to carry over the cuts and dissolves from the offline.
 of spreadsheet documents loaded directly from Alfresco ECM enables formula logic, and other spreadsheet assets. Also, officials said that it lowers errors due to file version problems caused by emailing spreadsheets.

Official said the open source web spreadsheet is a primary business tool offering a host of benefits to the business user, developer and IT manager. Using Sheetster, business users can edit, share and manage their spreadsheets all within Alfresco ECM, allowing for collaboration and delivery of real time data and charts.

Moreover, unlike other Web spreadsheet applications, Sheetster provides access to the source code. Officials said that this ensures that no third-party unwanted data is being run in the application at any time.

The Sheetster Web spreadsheet supports most of the common features of Excel, and also handles all Excel file versions, including Excel 2007. Plus, Sheetster PRO includes the ExtenXLS CellBinder automation API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. .

Officials said that integration is achieved through an intuitive REST API that allows for publishing of data-mapped spreadsheet cells as web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. , which enables leveraging of spreadsheets as secure formula engines within Web2.0 and traditional client-server web applications.

Customers can download the free Sheetster Spreadsheet Server from the Extentech Website and integrate it with the Open Source Alfresco Community Edition or free 30-day Alfresco Enterprise trial software.

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