Extentech and MindTouch Partner to Deliver Social Spreadsheets for the Enterprise

Owned by Robert Avery
Last updated: Oct 19, 2012
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Extentech/MindTouch Partnership Quick Info

DocsFree Sheetster and MindTouch partner to deliver social spreadsheets for the Enterprise.  The DocsFree Sheetster Mindtouch Add-On provides an open source collaboration platform now with the power of web spreadsheet software.

Positioning

DocsFree Sheetster, the first and only open source web spreadsheet and MindTouch, makers of the world's most respected social knowledge base have partnered to deliver an enterprise-ready social spreadsheet solution for organizations that require flexible, standards based solutions with the customization advantages of open source software.  This integration brings together Sheetster's extensible spreadsheet (the industry's first open source Java web-based web spreadsheet server alternative to Microsoft's Excel) product with MindTouch's award-winning collaboration platform (identified by leading analysts firms as the best alternative to Microsoft's SharePoint), delivered as a seamless offering. 

Problem Solved

In the past, collaboration of spreadsheets meant the inefficient emailing of spreadsheets, often resulting in many people working with outdated, superseded data. With this integrated solution, Sheetster and MindTouch provide the industry's most cost-effective spreadsheet solution which can be embedded within project management team sites, information portals, knowledge bases, etc, with full version control and data access compliance included. Unlike other solutions, this open source approach to enterprise collaboration and content management, significantly lowers start up and maintenance costs, and  provides complete flexibility and control over data.

Benefits of the Joint Solution:

  • Open source based and built upon open-standards for a completely customizable and extensible solution without vendor lock-in.
  • Edit spreadsheets in the browser from within MindTouch -- no client software required.
  • Significantly lower cost than other solutions, especially the Microsoft-based Excel and SharePoint combination, without vendor lock-in risks and expenses
  • Instantly create web 2.0 applications with forms, data-driven dynamic charts, and reports.
  • Robust spreadsheet file format support reads Excel 97-2010 file formats, import from CSV and XML data.
  • Output spreadsheets in a variety of formats from Excel 97-2010, XML, CSV, JSON, and Adobe PDF.
  • Easily access spreadsheet cells and data as REST web services for rapid re-use of spreadsheet logic.
  • All spreadsheet and collaboration data can be exported and shared further.
  • Full complement of data access and compliance tracking capabilities (Using MindTouch tracking capability)
  • Ensure data integrity with version tracking and roll back (Using MindTouch tracking capability)
  • Connectivity with all major database platforms. 
  • Multiple delivery options - on-premise, on-demand, cloud-based.