Colligo News & Articles

Like we hinted at earlier today, desktop collaboration solutions are kind of a big deal. The latest to support that claim is Colligo (news, site) whose life mission seems to be making SharePoint less of a headache. The company reported record sales in Q4 of 2009:

• Total revenue in the quarter increased 32% compared to the same period in 2008.
• Bookings of SharePoint products increased 51% during the quarter while revenues increased 44%
• Operating earnings were up 216% during the year.

Yes, it seem that like many other content management-related companies, Colligo has manage not only to survive the economic downturn, but thrive in it as well. 

“Closing the year with record sales and profits is a real testament to the contribution of the entire Colligo team and our worldwide partner network," said Barry Jinks, President and CEO, Colligo Networks. "2010 is poised to be another incredible year for Colligo with the launch of SharePoint 2010 and the opening of new markets in the enterprise content management and records management space."

Colligo's developments over the last year included the addition of Microsoft veteran Grego Noriskin as Product Architect, and Colligo’s Contributor Pro product being named a winner of the “2009 Community Choice Awards” in the SharePoint category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro magazine. 

Follow up further by visiting Colligo here. 

The company is called Mobophiles. The solution, Mobolize is a new limited beta that offers the ability to not only speed up your connection to SharePoint (news, site) and the web in general, but also take SharePoint offline. Interesting, but how does it work?

With SharePoint 2010 quickly approaching, it is probably safe to say that interest in this Microsoft product-zilla is not likely to go away.

Companies like Colligo (news, site) take full advantage of market conditions and keep churning out products that (hopefully) make SharePoint experiences more enjoyable and productive. Please meet Colligo 4.0.

Colligo, the software vendor from Vancouver, British Columbia, has announced strong sales numbers for 2008 for its SharePoint related products. The software maker has reported that Q4 2008 sales increased 104% over Q4 2007. Year-over-year results were very positive too, with 2008 sales coming in at 111% more than 2007's yearly sales.

Colligo's SharePoint product line, while generating huge revenue figures, also received awards from various sources. Colligo Contributor Pro won the Microsoft Best of TechEd 2008 in the productivity and collaboration category and won the 2008 Editor's Best Awards from Windows IT Pro magazine.

Here’s an interesting tool for all you SharePoint users who want to take your work offline. It’s a set of products from Colligo Networks, the people who help make collaboration easy…unless you have a cranky team member who thinks they have all the answers…

Two products from Colligo: Colligo Reader for SharePoint and the Colligo Contributor for SharePoint - offline synchronization made easy. And it really is simple to use - I tried it.

Two new add-ons for Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 strive to not only make it easier and faster for users to locate their content but also enable them to store content in SharePoint directly from Outlook.

The OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture — known as DITA — Technical Committee has released version 1.1 of its draft specification for public review, an ideally useful period of user critique that will last until May 4th.

Used for authoring, producing and conveying information as discrete, typed topics, DITA gets a tune-up in v1.1 with architectural specs, a language specification, a set of DTD’s and equivalent schemas.

Colligo Networks, an offline collaboration solutions for mobile professionals, has announced the release of Version 2.0 of the Colligo for SharePoint product family. The new release supports the 2007 Microsoft Office System and Vista and aims to further the reach of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 to “users who need access both online and offline — enabling these businesses to effectively increase the adoption and utility of SharePoint with their workforce.”