Bangalore-based InstaColl, co-founded by Sabeer Bhatia, Sumanth Raghavendra and Kaushal Cavale, today launched an application called Live Documents, which is a hybrid online-offline office suite of applications with features similar to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

In development for the last two years, the product is truly a ‘Made in India’ product, according to Sabeer Bhatia, chairman, Instacoll.

“I believe Live Documents does what Hotmail (which Bhatia sold to Microsoft for a little over $400 million) did for e-mail,” he said.

Sumanth Raghavendra, CEO, Instacoll, said, “The launch of Live Documents will fill all the gaps that Microsoft has not been able to fill, especially in the online category. With its software and services approach, users can access this via a hosted model, on premises servers or use a plug and play appliance.”

InstaColl is a powerful Instant Collaboration solution that is unlike any other real-time collaboration/web conferencing tool in the market.

In essence, InstaColl is not a new collaboration product - instead, InstaColl extends familiar mainstream desktop productivity tools such as the Microsoft Office suite into rich, interactive platforms that allow users to present, review and edit their documents, spreadsheets and presentations collaboratively with remotely-located colleagues.

Most people have experienced web conferencing and real-time collaboration as a formal session where a set of pre-designated people arrive at a predetermined time and share pre-decided documents and information along a scripted agenda. InstaColl believes that these collaboration occasions are only a small subset of the collaboration that goes on in organizations - where a majority of collaboration opportunities emerge in a spontaneous and on-demand manner. InstaColl is made to support a wide range of ad-hoc, spontaneous collaboration opportunities where users can initiate a session on a spur.

InstaColl adopts a data-centric model where only the data is shared with the applications running locally on individual desktops. This ensures that bandwidth requirements are very low and even dial-up users can experience InstaColl and users can collaborate even if their operating system or application versions are different.

InstaColl’s hybrid peer-to-peer/client-server architecture promises low latency and 100% connectivity. InstaColl allows for seamless collaboration between people inside and outside the firewall, without having to reconfigure the firewall to allow outsider access, which is time-consuming and presents security risks.

InstaColl makes it extremely easy to meet online. Your invited attendees will easily join your sessions in minutes because no pre-loaded software is required and no configuration is necessary; they participate as your guests, at no cost to you or them. Start InstaColling online today!

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