Versionate launched.
As of 5 am this morning, we’ve officially launched.
Here’s the techcrunch coverage.
This is definitely a major milestone for us, but only the beginning. We’ll be rolling out additional features over coming months. Please send us feedback help us improve the service.
Good luck guys.
Congratulations. This is a great start. I am a longtime user of Wikis and have championed twiki in my large company. I have used google docs and other online docs. I think you have a very good mixture of wiki and document management together.
The features I already like are
1. Ability to download the documents in original format (I can’t do that in google docs and other places)
2. Ability to search even inside documents.
More later, as I use it more and more.
I’ve heavily tested Google Apps from the large user-base corporate perspective and I ‘m really impressed to see that you have some basic, key functionality in at the start (Default SSL as an option, bulk download, etc). Ive a few suggestions from my few minutes looking around:
• Consider publicly acknowledging suggestions from the community. For me, a key problem with Google is that constructive feedback disappears into a black hole. There’s no indication if they hate me for pointing out glaring errors or take it on the chin and have it in the roadmap. I don’t want anyone to give away the commercial crown jewels; just say that you heard the comment.
• Consider being able to direct the storage of data geographically (I’m assuming Amazon have data centres outside the US). A key issue with major European enterprises is the protection afforded to their data. The Patriot Act is a real turn off for many.
• Don’t set your thinking to the SMB end of the enterprise. Just because big companies have the resources to buy into the MSFT ecosystem doesn’t mean that they derive value from it. The one thing that amazes people in my typical client space (>1000 users) is the simplicity of collaboration on Apps. You can argue about what Sharepoint, Groove et al can achieve but the overhead is high and, most importantly, so is the user ignorance. Make it easy, safe and integrated so that they can come. You have stuff here that will be liked.
• Bouncing off those last two points, I *really* liked that you invited people to touch base if they are interested in a solution not hosted by you. SaaS can still be in an appliance and may well be a means to drive adoption of your platform into big companies.
It’s looking good and I’m going to enjoy playing…
Congrats on the launch! Looks like an interesting offering. We couldn’t help but notice the mention on your feature comparison chart. I’m hoping you’d make some corrections: Atlassian Confluence has versioning of files and pages, search within files, hierarchical and tag organisation, SSL, and group and user management, permissions across spaces and pages right down to the comment level. We’d be happy to give you a WebEx demo if you like.
Would be great to see ability to access and change files offline and then be able to sync/upload those changes automatically when you are online again.
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