We recently added a range of useful features to the Ajax version of our web office. To name but a few:
- Most of the ContactOffice tools now support the tagging system to help categorize the content.
- The homepage contains a personnalized tab displaying the content hosted by your own server.
- You’re now allowed to select [...]

ContactOffice was present at the yearly meeting of the Committee of IT departments of French Superior Eduction and Research Institutions.
This year was in Corsica, allowing us to enjoy the great climate while having very interesting contacts and attending very interesting lectures. The programme included a stimulating lecture about externalisation of Messaging services for universities given [...]

Data News magazine published last week an article about our latest business and technological developments. Expansion in Brasil, new versions in German and Italian, Doodle-like and implementation of CalDav… A very good overview of what we’ve achieved over the last few months despite the current economic meltdown. Check it out in French or in Dutch.

Arnaud Huret, CEO of ContactOffice, was invited as speaker at the Convergence Web conference organised last week in Namur by the AWT (Agence Wallonne des Telecoms). During his presentation, Arnaud explained how the Internet impacted the software industry during the last 15 years, from good old desktop applications to the rise of the SaaS model.
Saas, [...]

If you’re a user of the Ajax version of our virtual office, have a look at the comment option we just implemented. For each item in your mailbox, you’re now able to write and save a personal note by clicking on the “comment” button” (cf. this screenshot). Very useful when you want to remind yourself [...]

Jim Burleigh, CEO of SmartTurn, wrote a very interesting column on the website of IndustryWeek about the connexion between Saas and… the Swine Flu. Even though Saas can’t really help to prevent the spread of such infectious diseases, this model enables companies to better respond to shocks and disruptions that threat their business continuity when [...]

You know the story: even though you’ve been able to find a wireless network (using your credit card or not), you can’t send e-mails from your e-mail software because of these annoying SMTP relay server settings, which you have to change each time you switch networks.
Of course, you could connect to the ContactOffice Web interface [...]

No, there’s no mistake in the headline: Microsoft itself now recognises that companies are now ready to start deploying and using hosted services for business-critical purposes. Check out this article for further details.

Tons of fixes and enhacements :

NEW Contextual help contents
NEW Messaging - Mailing lists
FIX Mail proxy: read messages are not set as read on the server
FIX Mail proxy: disable unavailable features
FIX Common : Share with groups: allow the operation for the owner only
FIX Common : The contextal refresh action on groups folder must update the subfolders
FIX Common : Refresh action available for all [...]

According to a recent Gartner survey called “User Survey Analysis: Usage Plans for SaaS Application Software, France, Germany and the UK 2009″, UK and France are leading the way in Saas adoption. Gartner found 71% of French respondents say their organisation currently uses SaaS for business applications, compared to 68% in the UK and 45% [...]

According to a study conducted by IDC, sales of SaaS are expected to grow at a rate of 40 to 42% this year and the harsh economic climate will probably strenghten this trend in the months to come. Check out the official press release for furher information.

According to a recent study conducted by Saugatuck Technology, the demand for Saas (Software as a Service) and on-demand software should remain strong this year despite the current economic meltdown and the subsequent cut in IT budgets. Are we facing the risk of a new tech bubble that wil grow and eventually collapse like in [...]

According to a recent study from Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, US home-based companies are adopting Saas applications at a blind pace. The driving forces behind this shift are cost reduction and convenience : Saas services relieve home-based business owners from installing sotware updates and let them upgrade their business tools without external IT [...]

We’re happy to announce that ContactOffice continues its European expansion thanks to our very first Italian client, the Centro di Documentazione Giornalistica (documentation centre for journalists). This 40-year old organisation delivers services, courses and specialized information to journalists, marketeers and public relations practitioners. By now, all of these media professionals can use our collaborative solution [...]

Beta GWT interface 1.3.003 is released with the following updates/fixes.

Drag and drop: Can’t always move folders
FIX Messaging: Cannot rename a subfolder of the Templates folder (and of other special folders)
UPD Groups: administrator mail address is now accessible in the group’s properties dialog
FIX POP3 fetcher: cannot download manually anymore
FIX Notes: Note content isn’t displayed anymore
FIX Groups: Ability to select [...]

According to a study conducted by MeriTalk, an online community that studies public policy and IT, the US federal government could save billions by moving to more open source software, virtualization and Saas. “With a grave economic outlook and a new administration in office, Federal agencies will be forced to do more with less,” the [...]

After many requests from users, our technical team has developed a brand new function in the mail tool: a IMAP client (Internet Message Access Protocol).

In fact, IMAP is a protocol used by any mail servers active for the reception. This protocol allows leaving e-mails on the server in order to consult them [...]

This release 1.3.002 includes numerous bug fixes and improvement amongst which :

Calendar : Layering : there no way to select a group
Calendar : Meeting polls (not shown yet)
Calendar : Link a document to an event
Common : Tree items aligment
Common : Ability to select all group members
Message : New Message from Template did not work anymore
Message [...]

We are extremely happy to announce the first partnership with one of the French official institutions in Brazil; the CenDoTec. CenDoTec, the French-Brazilian Technical & Scientific Documentation’s Center, has chosen ContactOffice to boost their internal communications and collaborative works.
CenDoTec is mainly divided in three activity’s poles:
- The Campus France, an administration service [...]

A French user group has just been created for all people interested in the ContactOffice Virtual Office in Superior Education.
A first meeting of this user group will take place at the CIUEN conference in Bordeaux on thursday 11/12 at 14 hours. The meeting will take place in room G2 of the palais des congrès [...]

Just receiced the latest domainname stats:
Ranking Novembre 2008
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2 .CN 13 000 000
3 .DE 12 407 681
4 .NET 11 964 545
5 .ORG 7 281 070
6 .CO.UK 7 215 447
7 .INFO 5 016 129
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CIUEN, colloque international “l’université à l’ère du numérique”
At the request of David Reymond of the University of Bordeaux, we transmit his invitation to participate to the 2008 edition of the CIUEN, colloque international “l’université à l’ère du numérique”, organised with the help of the SDTICE of the ministry of Education of France and which will [...]

The largest professional Education Show is Paris is taking place the 27,28 and 29 november. We’ll be present together with our partner Demarque.
The Educatec Educatice fair will present the most complete range of educational opportunities in the market. It will show a reflection of the latest educational trends and innovations!
Come and visit us at [...]

Wow, what an evening. Thanks a lot to Robin for organising this great get-together and of course Mike for coming to Ghent.
Thanks also to Bart Claeys for his super pictures of the evening.
Below our presentation:
ContactOffice: Online Collaboration and Messaging that kicks ass !
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: collaboration [...]

TechCrunch UK / Ireland editor Mike Butcher is hitting Belgium in the spirit of his ongoing Euro Tour , to get a taste of the local web/mobile entrepreneur community and digital startup scene, and …. ContactOffice will be there presenting!
The event takes place on Thursday 6th November in Ghent.
More info can be [...]

As announced in september, more languages are in the Pipeline. We are happy to announce that after French, English, Dutch, Spanish and Italian, ContactOffice now also is available in German. The entire application and commercial website has been translated and made avaible in the language of Goethe and Schiller.
The www.contactoffice.de url has also been [...]

We faced an issue on the faxing out feature since the 22 Oct. It’s fixed now. Sorry for this inconvenience.

[REISSUE] TMAB is organising a Software as a Service Congres on 16 Octobre 2008 in Brussels. We’ll be there and giving some specific customer cases.
When? On Thursday 16 October 2008 from 13.30 am until 16.40 pm followed by a networking closing coctail and contact with the partners of the congress
Where? Business Faculty in Brussels
More [...]

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