Just today, I was informed by Mr. Mohan (VP Marketing, InstaColl) that they are now coming up with their latest upcoming product, LiveDocuments. We are sure many of you may have heard of InstaColl earlier. You may have read my earlier review on the product. Now I was just going through the latest product, LiveDocuments.
Let's now move one step ahead of Instantly collaborating your documents. So what exactly is LiveDocuments?

Your group may have collaborated together and prepared a file. You alongwith your coworkers, collaborate on on preparing a presentation together. Would you then like to take the headache of keeping track of file versions and who has the latest revisions etc... ? Think about it! Well, I would definitely NOT! :o Then who will? :s

As you see on the LiveDocuments website:

Here are few document chaos we usually get into:
Did John approve the document that I sent?
Is this the final version of the agreement?
Did Jim upload the latest version to the Intranet?
I have five copies of this document and they all seem different?!
Our competitor's proposal seems exactly like ours! Do we have a leak?
Did Jane update the document with her changes?
Is the product information in the database up-to-date?
Who has the master document?
Has everyone finished reviewing this document?

We all may have definitely experienced such hassles and so this may have landed us into several confusions. So, it now time for us to say bye to confusions and welcome the simple and secure document sharing software from InstaSecure.

This application allows Microsoft Office users to share documents online in realtime and also they can automatically synchronize updates among all document users who are online at that very moment. You can specify who can read, edit, or print a file, and even a date after which people can't access it at all. The tool synchronizes changes in files, and it prevents people from creating conflicting edits, since it locks all instances of a file for writing when somebody else has it open. The functions are somewhat similar to Microsoft's Sharepoint Portal software, but without the requirement of a Sharepoint Portal server. Interesting! isn't it? Not only this... infact, Live Documents does not use any kind of server technology, but only requires every user to install its toolbar.

The application works with Microsoft Office 2000, XP, and 2003 and needs a stable Internet connection. Documents that are marked as shared are automatically sent out over the Internet to all users who have been assigned the right to view and/or modify them, and any changes are updated among all users.

Live Documents also does not require to set up a special folder for shared files. The user has the preference whether he has to share it or not.

After the pros a very few cons:
Multiple users cannot edit a document simultaneously. And without installing the 2.5MB download, we cannot open the file that is received from the remote user.

Go ahead! Download the trial version now:
EXE version (2.6 MB) or ZIP version (2.5 MB)

More on InstaColl Blog: Introducing “Live Documents”

Please check this review by Michael Arrington on TechCrunch: Live Documents is Powerful Stuff

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