Last Friday while most of the world was closing their work week, eXpresso was ramping up for one of our most significant upgrades to date. And thanks to careful planning and communication, we are happy to report that the upgrade went exactly according to plan. Here’s a summary of what we accomplished.
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Product Development
In case you have not heard, a new version of the eXpresso Add-in for Excel is available. All users of the Add-in should download the updated version today. You can sign in to eXpresso and download the new Add-in or download it now. Users who do not install the new Add-in will get an error […]
Not long ago ReadWriteWeb wrote correctly that eXpresso expands and extends Excel, noting:
“They extend Excel rather than trying to replace it. That works in the real world. Apart from early adopters with relatively simple spreadsheets, people are comfortable with Excel. It works well, it is extensible, it is easy to use. In an enterprise setting […]
The story goes that a husband asks his wife why she makes a meatloaf, cuts it in half, then puts the halves in a pan side-by-side. She answered that her mother had always done it that way. Now curious herself, she phoned her mother, “Mom why do we cut our meatloaf in half before cooking […]
People often ask me what differentiates us from other online spreadsheet applications. And as a marketer, the question is welcomed with open arms. Not only is it a good opportunity to position what we do, it provides an opportunity to communicate our core competencies. Here are some points I
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Recently I have had several users ask me about eXpresso’s use of the Microsoft Office Web Components for online viewing and editing of spreadsheets. Particularly, I have been asked if our use of the Office Web Components is a violation of the Microsoft license agreement for this software.
Without getting into too much technical or […]
Wikipedia defines the word hybrid as, “The combination of two or more different entities or things, aimed at achieving a particular objective or goal.” For a long time hybrids were almost exclusively the domain of biologists, but today, professionals on the PGA tour use hybrid golf clubs and just about everybody who works at Google […]
The real estate tenet of location, location, location has a business counterpart: focus, focus, focus.
At first glance, industry giants Cisco, Microsoft, and Google might appear to be all over the map with their direction and emphasis. In fact, these corporations have a laser-focus on their products and their market. Cisco wants to own the network, […]
Let’s start at the other end: who doesn’t want SaaS? Vendors with an investment in mainframe applications (there are thousands in production every day) might head the list. But close behind are the makers of client-server applications and desktop apps. In short, anyone who collects a software licensing fee and is charging maintenance or upgrade […]
What’s the difference between promoting conventional software and marketing a Web 2.0 hosted service? Eighteen months ago I would have said, “Not much.” A year and a half later I know the real answer. It’s “everything!”
I mentioned earlier that I was used to marketing big ($100k and up) software applications to Fortune 1000 corporations. Once […]
