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DocVerse Puts Google Docs-Like Collaboration Inside Microsoft Office

Source: Mashable!

Nov 07, 2009

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This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: DocVerse

Quick Pitch: DocVerse brings the collaboration functionality of products like Google Docs to the 600 million users of Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Genius Idea: Collaboration is a key to success in any business, especially when you have a scattered team that needs to work on documents constantly. There are already a lot of options, including Google Docs, Adobe Acrobat, and even Microsoft Office 2010 to some extent. But having full, Google Docs-like collaboration in Microsoft Office would be nice.

This is the gap that DocVerse is trying to fill. It’s a plug-in for Microsoft Office that adds this type of functionality to a new sidebar within Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint, and Word.

This sidebar is where all of DocVerse’s magic happens. You can invite friends and colleagues to collaborate on any documents.

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Comments (1)

Mitchellmckenna,

Nov 07, 2009

If your going to pay for a product like this, might as well be Microsoft official version of this - SharePoint