Monday, May 16, 2011

Free Document Viewers for Microsoft Office Files by SoftMaker


Technology is surely changing the game for Small and Medium businesses. Intelligent and smart software has opened new horizons of doing smart business for SMEs. One of the biggest advantages for any SME of using such smart software is the cost advantage. SMEs need to use technology to ensure optimum utilization of financial resources. For Small and Medium Enterprises, innovation is the name of the game and if as a business you are not upto it, then you surely have lots of catching up to do. SMEs require solutions which solve their very many needs, while being cost effective and within their operational budgets. 

SMEs and Technology
While many small and emerging businesses are waking up to the fact that they need to leverage technology at all times for being smart operationally, technology makers and vendors are coming up with innovative solutions, some of them free which are helping SMEs solve pending business challenges.

Microsoft Office Documents, View them for Free!
While Microsoft Office suite is an important office productivity software, it also makes it challenging for smaller businesses to buy costly licences to the MS Office productivity suite. Buying licenses for every team member becomes a challenge which obviously needs a solution.

It becomes a challenge for the SMEs to invest into software which costs heavy in the per license mode. Especially business productivity software. These options can weigh heavy on the financials of an emerging company.

The solution is Free and intelligent software
The best that SMEs and emerging companies do is find innovative solutions to the various challenges they face. And hence is SoftMaker. A software which allows you to read Microsoft Office documents without having the MS Office productivity suite installed.

The SoftMaker document viewer can help you view documents of the following file types:
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  • .docx, .docm Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010
  • .dotx, .dotm Microsoft Word 2007/2010 templates
  • .doc Microsoft Word 6.0 up to Word 2010
  • .dot Microsoft Word templates 6.0 up to 2010
  • .tmd TextMaker 6.0 up to 2010
  • .tmv TextMaker templates 6.0 up to 2010
  • .odt OpenDocument Text
  • .ott OpenDocument Text templates
  • .sxw OpenOffice.org/StarOffice Text
  • .rtf Rich Text Format
  • .psw Pocket Word (Pocket PC)
  • .pwd Pocket Word (Handheld PC)
  • .htm, .html HTML documents
  • .txt Plain-text files (DOS, Windows, Unicode, UTF-8, many more)

How can I get the SoftMaker software?
You can download the SoftMaker through this link. Once installed, the software will enable you to view the documents on your machine, even if you don't have the MS office suite installed.



How does it help my business?
Software like SoftMaker has a major impact on your business. It helps you smartly reduce down the cost of technology acquisition, while making your business smarter. Also, in many cases, when the SMEs are not technology savvy, such smart software helps you get introduced to the usage of technology without any cost and enables you to be prepared before you go ahead and make an informed investment into your business.

There are many such online tools available, which are benefiting the Small and Medium Enterprise segment. To know more, get in touch with the experts at IndiaMART Knowledge Services. Do drop in a comment to this post to let us know what else would you want us to share about!

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