Docverse Google Acquisition News | Docverse Google Apps | Docverse Google Updates - By acquiring DocVerse, Google walks on beds of Office! A new acquisition for Google: Docverse. The startup has developed a collaborative tool for online users of Microsoft Office.
Google has confirmed on Friday the DocVerse acquisition finalized, a startup that was the target firm in Mountain View since last December. DocVerse technology complements the arsenal of desktop and collaboration developed by Google, in particular through its offering documents. With this acquisition, Google addresses directly to Microsoft Office documents, generated from the workstation.
DocVerse, this collaborative service that allows Microsoft Office to link to Google Docs is now part of the Google family. DocVerse adds collaborative features to Office. It can work in groups, discuss and synchronize Word documents, PowerPoint and Excel directly from a workstation on Google Docs.
DocVerse, a U.S. start-up that developed a tool enabling users of Microsoft Office suite to collaborate in real time on the web enters the pockets of Google. Who would have paid 25 to 30 million dollars. The advanced goal is by Google to facilitate the transition for users of desktop tools to cloud computing. One area in which the company presents itself with Google Docs.
Specifically, DocVerse installs a collaborative environment within the Office suite, through the installation of a simple plug-in. Changes made on the shared document are automatically synchronized in the cloud. Surprisingly, Google ahead of Microsoft on this ground, it has planned to integrate such features in the 2010 version of Office, whose output is scheduled for June
“We find that many people remain attached to desktop software. Therefore, while we are working constantly to the enrichment and development of collaborative tools Google Docs and Google Sites, we also facilitate the migration of users to the cloud and the interaction with desktop applications such as Microsoft Office suite, “said Jonathan Rochelle, product manager, in Google on a blog.
Microsoft is launching this year’s Office Web Apps, the version “in the clouds” (no software to install on the client) of the Office suite.
DocVerse was funded by three companies of venture capital, including Metal Harrison, who has already “provided” to Google two more acquisitions: Aardvark and AdMob.
The group does not indicate how it intends to integrate the DocVerse tools in its Google Apps offering.
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