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OffiSync now available through the Google Apps MarketplaceMarch 9

The popular Microsoft Office add-on significantly improves the way people collaborate and share their documents through Google Apps

March 9 2010 -- OffiSync Corp. today announced that Google Apps customers can now add the company's flagship Microsoft Office add-on through the Google Apps Marketplace™, Google's recently launched online storefront for Google Apps™ products and services. OffiSync delivers improved real-time collaboration and document sharing to its users by adding the collaboration capabilities of Google Apps as a Microsoft Office Extension. The application improves the way Office users create content, collaborate and share Office files directly through Google Apps and Google Search . With OffiSync, information workers can import web content such as images and web clips right into their presentations, share a file with other users and collaborate in real time as well as publish the final document or presentation with their colleagues or partners, all from within Microsoft Office.

"OffiSync focuses on improving information worker productivity by bringing together the power of cloud computing with the traditional Microsoft Office Suite," says Oudi Antebi, OffiSync CEO. "Our mission is to ensure users don't need to overhaul the way they work today, no matter which version of Office they're using, while supercharging their experience with the power of cloud computing and Google Apps."

"We are very excited to offer OffiSync in

Google Apps – Not only for customers who want to replace MS Office anymoreJune 9 2009

Earlier today, Google announced a new product called “Outlook Sync” an outlook add-on that lets organizations use Outlook as their main email client while connecting it to Google Apps in the back-end instead of Microsoft Exchange.

Some people might be surprised by such a move, after all Google has its own productivity suite – Google Docs, so why endorse MS Office?

When you think about Google’s mission to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible” (both in the consumer and enterprise space) you start realizing that Google does not share the same vision as Microsoft around building tools for the sake of the tools themselves, but rather focuses on the data organization and accessibility whereas the tools are just ways to help achieve that goal. So...if those tools happen to be MS Office or Outlook then Google will make sure to leverage that.

By using the Outlook sync product, users will start managing and organizing their emails, contacts and calendar items on Google Apps, this means that the Google platform will kick in to start helping users organizing their information, archiving it, making it accessible through Google search, on the web and so much more….

OffiSync for Microsoft Office aligns with the sa

The idea behind OffiSyncApril 29 2009

The idea to build OffiSync came to me when I was told that many Google Docs and Google Apps users also use Microsoft Office.

I decided to learn more about why would people use both products at the same time? Why not switch from the expensive Microsoft Office to the free / Cheap Google Docs / Google Apps alternative?

So I started asking around, I talked to a Gartner analyst, a general manager in a fortune 500 company, a good friend that is a CEO of a start up company and about a dozen other users who all gave me more or less the same answer:

“We like using Office for content creation and editing, but then, when we need to collaborate with others we upload the document to Google Docs so we can work with others and see changes and edits in real time. We also like keeping the files online so we can access them when we are not in front of our own computer"

So I decided to try it myself and do the same. It is then that I realized 2 very important facts:
- Google Docs is an amazing service
- Working with Office and Google docs in the scenario mentioned above seemed to almost be impossible and was very cumbersome. It took so much time to take a file I created in PowerPoint or Word and make it available online so I could collaborate with my co-workers....

So being an adventurous person, I decided to solve the problem for myself and for all those who use both Microsoft Office and Google docs and started OffiSync.