Wednesday December 25, 2024

Backupify Snapshot Exits Beta, Adds More Features For Exporting Google Apps Accounts

Backupify, the startup that provides online data backup, archiving and export, is today releasing a new version of its Backupify Snapshot tool with additional features for Google Apps admins. The tool, for those unfamiliar, allows Google Apps administrators to extract and download the complete Google Apps account for a departing company employ and save the […]

Spanning Adds Gmail Backup To Its Google Apps Backup Service

Austin, Texas-based startup Spanning launched a new version of its Google Apps backup service today, which now includes business-grade backup for Gmail. Previously, the company provided backup for other Google Apps products, including Google Calendar, Docs, and Contacts, but, says, Spanning Cloud Apps founder and CEO Charlie Wood, “Gmail backup has been, by far, the […]

Salesforce Adds Realtime Chat, Screen Sharing, And Groups To Chatter; Debuts HTML5 Mobile App

Salesforce’s ‘social network for the enterprise’ Chatter has been the company’s first real foray into incorporating social with business functions. Salesforce originally announced Chatter back in November of 2009, and the application launched into public beta in June 2010 after four months in private beta. Salesforce has said publicly that Chatter has been its most successful […]

Accel Boosts Social Enterprise Expertise, Adds Salesforce Chatter Creator As EIR

After adding online payments exec Bill Ready as an Executive-In-Residence, Accel Partners is shoring up another area of expertise with the addition of former Salesforce.com executive Chuck Ganapathi as the firm’s newest Entrepreneur-in-Residence. At Accel, Ganapathi, who was the creator of Salesforce’s “Facebook for the Enterprise” Chatter, will focus on developing a company in the […]

As The Productivity Suite Wars Heat Up, Microsoft’s Live@edu Adds More Partner Schools

The war to win over educational institutions for the cloud is getting heated. Productivity suite rivals Microsoft and Google are battling it out to see who can be the go-to provider for a cloud-based email platform for universities and colleges across the U.S. Google Apps, which currently has 8 million users, is slightly behind Microsoft’s […]

Salesforce Debuts Chatter 2; Adds Filters, Hashtags, Desktop App, Search And More

Salesforce is known for continually updating its products, launching new features and versions throughout a given year. So it makes sense that three moths after launching the company’s foray into social collaboration, Chatter, to the public, Salesforce is already releasing a new version. Today, Salesforce is launching Chatter 2, what it calls the “next generation […]

Zoho Adds Workspaces, Access Controls, Widgets And More To Zoho Wiki

Zohi Wiki, which originally launched in 2006, is getting an upgrade today, with additional collaboration features, access controls and more. Zoho has added workspaces within Wiki to allow teams to have their own groups within organization wikis. Each workspace has its own administrative and customization options and can serve as a separate portal. Zoho has […]

Box.net Moves Beyond Storage In The Cloud; Adds File Syncing To The Mix

Cloud-based storage and sharing application Box.net is getting into the syncing game today. The startup is unveiling Box Sync, an extension of the Box.net platform that connects users’ desktops to Box.net’s cloud-based content management and collaboration platform. With the Box Sync desktop client, users can sync Box.net folders with their desktops. The new feature is […]

Conformity Adds $3 Million From Guggenheim Venture Partners To Series A

Conformity, creators of a suite of on-demand solutions to enable organizations to centrally manage users of SaaS and cloud applications, this morning announced it has secured an additional $3 million in Series A financing led by Guggenheim Venture Partners. The new funding is in addition to the $3 million raised in January 2009 and will […]

Zoho Adds Unified Search To Productivity Suite

Web-based productivity suite Zoho is getting into the search game today. The startup is adding an “actionable” search tool to its productivity suite, allowing a user to do a keyword search across an organization’s entire suite, across multiple applications including email, documents, forums, contacts, and more. The search portal acts much like any search engine […]