Office software: October 2009 Archives

Sitecore announced the availability of a new version of its Web Content Management (CMS) software. Sitecore CMS 6.2 offers features including native RSS feeds, Microsoft Outlook based workflow management, drag and drop media and document management, authoring enhancements and  marketing Web forms. The forms tool aims to help non-technical users build rich interactive forms, configure campaigns and conversion goals and provides a suite of reports to better understand user behavior for usability analysis and optimization. The tool also allows marketers to capture incremental data from abandoned forms and track form dropout statistics. Outlook integration should allow users to receive workflow notifications from within Outlook in real-time, and take action on those workflow requests without ever having to log into the CMS. All workflow actions, status and version comparison information is provided to the user, and dynamically adjusts should a workflow state change. Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Media and Document Management: Drag and drop image uploads are now available. Files can be uploaded directly in the page editor and can be stored within Sitecore CMS. Files can also be edited with Microsoft Word, Photoshop and PowerPoint and version controlled automatically. Natively edit content inline using full Microsoft Word functionality with full support of rich content pages. http://www.sitecore.net/

Zoho has announced that Zoho Projects, the company’s online project management and team collaboration application is now integrated with Google Apps. The move brings Zoho Projects to Google Apps users, complete with unified login and embeddable gadget options. Zoho Projects for Google Apps will soon be available in the Google Solutions Marketplace. A highlight of the Google Apps and Zoho Projects integration is the unified login system. Once logged into Zoho Projects, users should be able to upload their files from Google Apps and attach them to their projects. From Zoho Projects, users can then open, view and edit those files in the corresponding Zoho applications, e.g., Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, etc. Additional highlights include: Calendar integration - Meetings, Tasks, and Project milestones from the Zoho Projects calendar can be added automatically to a Google calendar; Zoho Projects will be available as a Zoho Gadget that can be embedded in iGoogle, Gmail, Google Sites and other online applications that support OpenSocial; Zoho Projects is free for one project, so Google Apps users can try out the software. For additional projects, prices start at $12 per month. http://projects.zoho.com/google-apps