Central Desktop is a web-based collaboration tool for business teams to manage projects, share information and communicate with others. The company and its products are most often compared to other wiki-based and project-centric solutions such as SharePoint and Basecamp.

Adding to the services are new features that allow multiple people to co-edit and co-author documents. The new tool will allow users to collaborate on Word, PowerPoint and Excel files while the Central Desktop platform keeps track of the changes and additions made by the different users. Central Desktop maintains that the added features eliminate the need to upgrade to Microsoft Sharepoint or Microsoft Office 2010.

Based on technology from OffiSync, Central Desktop for Office works with Office 2003 and 2007 as well as 2010. It’s a plug-in for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint which lets you open and save files saved on Central Desktop’s servers

Once installed, Central Desktop for Office adds a new toolbar in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint that enables users to open, save, edit and co-author files stored in the cloud – directly from within Office. Central Desktop for Office’s co-authoring capabilities are particularly powerful for business teams that need to create and collaborate on documents such as project plans, budget forecasts and sales presentations. Rather than waiting for each person to edit the document in a sequence, Central Desktop for Office allows users to simultaneously make changes and each version is automatically merged. Its features will be built into Central Desktop plans at various prices, and full access will cost around an extra $2 per user per month.

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Thursday, May 6th, 2010 at 4:52 pm | by Kur-nia-one |