Beta testing begins today for HyperSynch, software that automatically
taps into corporate networks, updating and synchronizing desktop email,
contacts, calendars, documents, projects, tasks and notes with the wide
range of smartphones carried by users of HyperOffice -- including the
iPhone, Droid, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and other wireless devices.
HyperOffice
is the award-winning, cloud-computing, software-with-services
collaboration and
communication suite that makes it easy for company
owners, employees, customers, partners and suppliers to run and grow a
business by working together, planning projects, sharing documents,
scheduling meetings, and more.
"Bring your
own device," said Farzin Arsanjani.
"HyperSynch supports over 1,700 phones. Which means the battle over
whether to buy Blackberry Enterprise Server or Microsoft Exchange Server
or MobileMe, over how to connect to contacts and conversations from
Outlook, just to book a meeting or keep a project ticking along at a
small to mid-sized business (SMB), when everyone wants this phone or
that, is over."
HyperSynch
enters beta as HyperOffice emerges from its own beta. Rebuilt from the
ground up, Ajax and other Web 2.0 technologies power the new version of
HyperOffice, which integrates a range of software-as-a-service business
applications over the Internet -- shared calendars and contacts, access
to documents stored on the company network, project management, web
conferencing, databases and web forms; forums, polls and wikis; project
and task portals, Intranets and Extranets; user rights, versioning,
commenting, backup, and more.
"HyperSynch
adds amazing simplicity to HyperOffice," said Arsanjani. "It's the
first 'over-the-air push email' tool that supports all the major mobile
devices running on all the major wireless platforms. And, more than
'push,' it's bi-directional synching between desktop and smartphone, to
help you keep up with email, messages, data and event reminders. It
doesn't matter where the data is stored, or where you are. It doesn't
matter where team members and business partners are."
A
subscription to HyperOffice with business-class hosted email services
costs about $10 per month, per user - and
HyperSynch will be built in at no additional cost. For SMBs, this
delivers the power and productivity of costly corporate collaboration
products, plus business-class email, plus HyperSynch, plus IMAP and POP
access, 5GB of storage per mailbox, unlimited aliases, and the ability
to send and receive email from Outlook or any email application.
"Compare
this with other approaches that cost more than twice as much," said
Arsanjani. "And these other approaches work only with a limited number
of smartphones and operating systems, and you still need to buy, install
and fix server software. With HyperSynch, SMBs get push email and
over-the-air synchronizing of calendars, contacts, tasks, and more,
between your smartphone and desktop, affordably."
"Most users
today have to collect email manually, with a send/receive command. This
drains your battery, because the phone is doing all the work," said Farzin Arsanjani, president of HyperOffice.
"With 'push
email,' HyperSynch inverses this tedious process. The server does the
heavy lifting. Continually and automatically, it sends email to you as
soon as it arrives. It notifies you when a colleague assigns a task or
invites you to a meeting. It updates shared contacts. And you don't
drain your battery logging on and off all day," said Arsanjani.
HyperSynch
supports bi-directional synchronization between mobile devices and
desktops, plus backup and restore capabilities for contacts, calendars,
tasks and notes, using multiple protocols, including SyncML, ActiveSync,
OMA, IMAP. SMS, XML and WSDL. The push engine supports TCP/IP, CTP and
CMS to Microsoft Outlook and other email clients. It registers and
provisions devices and services, including billing and account
management systems.