Microsoft SharePoint, the powerful but unintuitive filesharing platform* for businesses, has lacked an easy way to edit and collaborate on documents – you were meant to download docs, edit them on your desktop, and upload them again. Not only is this too laborious, but it allowed conflicts between different people editing the same doc.
Now Zoho, the best-featured set of web-based document apps, will integrate with your SharePoint file storage, allowing you to edit docs directly from SharePoint. Looks great (we haven’t tried it yet) and moves SharePoint into the realms of easy useability (if you can figure out how to structure your folder hierarchy in it).
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Sadly for Zoho, I can’t help feeling that, once MS releases its own web-based doc editors, they will get squeezed between MS and Google Apps.
* Yes, it does much more, but the cost of configuring it is far too high for smaller businesses. Just administering the file sharing takes skill and learning.
