Huddle ~ Work Better Together

Huddle vs Hosted Sharepoint - bring it on!

So Microsoft are starting to push their Online offering; Exchange and Sharepoint – fantastic news! Why I hear you ask? Doesn’t the fact that a masive competitor is (finally) about to move into the space scare us? Well no, not at all.

Firstly it further proves the market is rapidly maturing.

Secondly it shows there is an alternative to Google; that enterprise security and boring work features are important for these sorts of apps in the business space (compared to Google’s consumer friendly but arguably useless, for business, apps).

Thirdly everyone hates Sharepoint! (But don’t shout that too loudly; We’re part of Microsoft’s Accelerator Program – trying to change the beast from within, cunning eh!) Partly because it’s so hard to use, boringly corporate and, let’s face it very ugly. And also partly because it is designed for INTERNAL collaboration – even in SaaS form. But given that 90% of our time is now spent working EXTERNALLY, with partners, suppliers, customers etc, you need a tool that gives you the prodctivity tools to get stuff done, but that also connects internally and externally in a much more social manner.

Fancy a Huddle anyone?

And check out their pricing. $180 for 1Gb of space. In todays world that is laughable. 1Gb is free on Huddle with unlimited users and full functionality; online document editing and sharing, discussions, tasks, whiteboards, team pages and lots more …

Finally, spare a thought for the poor partner community. Thousands of microsoft partners and developers who made a nice living selling hosted sharepoint and developing apps on top of sharepoint installations – now have the rug ripped out from under them. All they get in exchange is 12% commission! 12%! We offer 30% and a fully open API to build lots of lovely stuff on top of….Come on over guys, it’s much sunnier over our side!