WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwire - August 24, 2009) - ILTA09 Conference -- NetDocuments, the
leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) content management service provider,
announced today that it is developing an integration with Google Wave™
(
http://wave.google.com/) to simplify document collaboration and extend the
NetDocuments collaborative reach to more people.
NetDocuments has been offering web-based collaborative services for over
ten years. In fact, its genesis in 1998 was "NetEnvelope" a collaborative
container to exchange documents over the web -- now referred to as a
NetBinder. The NetDocuments NetBinder was just awarded in the KMWorld's
September issue (
http://www.kmworld.com) "2009 Technology Trend of the
Year" and is used today by tens of thousands of users.
The market demand to improve the efficiencies of email for business
collaboration, as well as an organization's need to deal with the high
volume of emails and documents being shared, predominately for regulatory
compliance, has attracted the NetDocuments team towards Google Wave. Google
Wave is a new communication and collaboration tool, currently available as
a developer preview. A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document,
where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text,
photos, videos, maps and more. Wave supports live transmission as a person
types, and participants can have faster conversations, see edits more
quickly and interact with others in real time.
By extending the NetDocuments NetBinder collaborative service with the
Google Wave functionality and platform, NetDocuments customers can ride the
wave for communicating and conversing on projects more efficiently than
emailing -- the same phenomenon that has occurred with Facebook users in
the consumer world as they have reduced their use of email with more direct
ways to communicate within the context of Facebook. A SaaS service that
integrates NetDocuments with Google Wave is a contemporary rethink of
collaborative content management and how documents are to be shared,
tracked and managed.
"Many of our customers see the value of collaboration via a web service and
use our collaborative features regularly," said Alvin Tedjamulia, CTO at
NetDocuments. "Extending our NetDocuments service with Wave will not only
enhance our collaborative features but will make it easier for our
customers to share content and conversations with the people in Google's
current and future market reach."
Another important concept is that through Google Wave, external users of
NetDocuments no longer need to use NetDocuments login credentials-just any
credentials supported by Wave, thus greatly improving the ease of content
sharing.
The integrated solution offers NetDocuments customers the following:
-- Ability to create a wave within NetDocuments and display it as a
separate object in a folder. It can also be embedded as an IFrame within a
NetDocuments Project/Client-Centric Workspace allowing the wave contents to
be visible when viewing the entire Workspace.
-- Ability to have NetDocuments folders, documents, and search results
displayed within a wave.
-- Drag and drop documents from an internal NetDocuments folder to a
wave, and vice-versa.
-- Login to the collaborative space using any methods that Google
supports.
-- Leverage the real-time wave collaborative features when it's released
to the market.
The release of the NetDocuments integration with Google Wave will follow
Google's development schedule. The NetDocuments team has participated in
the Google development program since Wave's initial announcements at the
Google I/O conference. For further information, please contact
info@netdocuments.com or call +1.866.netdocs.
About NetDocuments
NetDocuments was organized in 1998 as one of the first
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies in the world. Our vision is to
leverage the Web and the SaaS delivery model to offer the most feature-rich
and efficient document service, including the management and collaboration
of work in process documents, emails and records. For more information
about the company and management, go to
www.netdocuments.com
All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered
owners.
Contact Information: Media Contact:
Leonard Johnson
NetDocuments
(801) 722.6608