contactoffice: online collaboration and messaging that kicks ass !

Online Collaboration and Messaging that kicks ass !

TechCrunch Belgium Meetup

Thursday November 6, 2008

At a glance

Online platform for collaboration & messaging

Over 450.000 users, of which 400.000 paying users

ContactOffice replaces Exchange & Sharepoint for 5 EUR/month

Suite of Integrated Tools

State-of-the-art Office 2.0 application

Shared Calendar (RSS)Shared ContactsTo DoShared NotesShared Bookmark (RSS)Forum, WikiBulletin BoardRss Reader (in dev.)

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Group Organiser

Mail (+ RSS)

IMAP4 & POP3(s)

SMTP, Webmail

Antivirus & AntiSpam

SMS, Fax, Alerts & Chat

Messaging

Web upload or WebDAV

RSS & Vod/Podcasts,

Public sharing

Documents Repository

Synchronisation withorganisers, pda's, phonesMobile access

Mobility Solution

Based on the Google WebToolkit framework

Launched at the Office 2.0 Conference in SF, September 2007

Featured in Readwriteweb, Download Squad, Mashable,...

Best of breed Ajax frontend

• Multiselect, selection range

• Data grid,

• Scrolling logique

• Drag & drop • Utilisation keyboard• Sortable columns• Contextual menus

Best of breed Ajax frontend

Marquee selection

Click to sort

Right clickContextual menu

Best of breed Ajax frontend

Flexible

• Java Back-end: Portable to all platforms

• Modular integrations

• Customisations

Comformity to standards

Adaptability for administration (LDAP, SSO,...)

Performant:

• Based on OO Database

• High granularity in sharing and rights

• Low cost of ownership: One front-end server per 15.000 users

• Speed of response: No queries

Cutting Edge Backend

Broad market strategy

Self-serviced and sold through the webFree basic version with premium offerings

Private label version for resellers and corporationsLicence version for education and telcos

Blue chip customer base

Main market segments are:SME's and Soho's

Education

Service Providers and Telco's

Founded by 4 Internet serial entrepreneurs:

Patrick De Schutter Arnaud Huret Luc Claes Brice Le Blévennec

Previous initiatives include:

IP Netvertising : First adsales house of Belgium, sold to RTL in 2000.

Rendez-Vous : Largest dating site Belgium, sold to Rossel in 2007.

Emakina : Largest web-agency Belgium, listed on Alternext since 2006.

Seasoned Team

Contact Details

www.contactoffice.com&

beta.contactoffice.com

Patrick De Schutterpatrick@contactoffice.com

+32-(0)2-647 92 35