Saturday, June 18, 2011

Create Share and Publish Spreadsheets Online: Spreadsheet LIVE

One major challenge which organizations face today is to share content. As we are constantly creating more and more of it, content requirements for businesses are changing and so is the requirement for tools using which we can share this content with the people/ community, we want it to be shared with.

There is always the most used Email, but it has its own limitations when you see it from an organizational perspective. Sharing large files is a challenge and so is sharing multiple pieces of content. Also it takes much of organization's resources to host such large pieces of content. The concerning factor here is, that organizations today want to not just share content, but have its employees comment upon it, make it sharable and ensure that more an more of collaboration happens around content.

Online Content Sharing: The Solution
There are several online content sharing tools available which help businesses address the challenge of content sharing. In general these content sharing sites make it easy for you to not just share small data, but also help you share large files across multiple participants at the same point of time and hence ensure collaboration.

How do these tools work?
The general process of working of these tools is that you upload the content which you want to share with the the intended target audience, eg: a spread sheet created by you can be uploaded on using the tool and a hyperlink is automatically E-mailed to each intended user who can view the document and if given the rights, can also edit the document.

For Small and Medium Businesses: Spreadsheets are Crucial
From business continuity plans to number crunching in terms of revenue, SMEs use Spreadsheets almost everytime. When it comes to sharing these Spreadsheet to invite collaborators, the challenge is to find a tool which is not Email.

Spreadsheets LIVE helps you achieve this. The screen capture below shows the glimpse:

Spreadsheets LIVE features:
  • Create spreadsheets from scratch using only a web browser
  • Share your spreadsheets with other users online
  • Collaborate with others in editing your spreadsheets in real time
  • Control access to your spreadsheet
SpreadsheetLIVE offers a fully featured spreadsheet application environment within your web browser. You can create spreadsheets from scratch and access them anywhere globally with just an Internet connection. You can easily share your spreadsheets over the Internet and collaborate in real time with other users.

How do I Create a Spreadsheet Online?
All you need to do is sign-up for a free account online by clicking on the "sign-up for free" spreadsheet link. Once done, you will be re-directed to the sign-up page:


Once you are logged into your account using your Username and Password, you will be re-directed to the following screen:


To quickly create your first workbook, all you need to do is to click on "create a workbook" link on the left sidebar of the screen and you will land into an online environment which is similar to what you would have seen while working on Microsoft Excel, as shown in the screen capture below:


Once you are done with the spreadsheet, you are ready to now share it with the intended audience.

As an SME obviously Spreadsheets LIVE helps you save time and cost of creating content and working on it in a collaborative environment.

There are many such services 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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