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By Steve Barclay - November 2009

SpreadsheetLIVE Turns Ordinary Spreadsheets into Web-based Real-Time Collaboration Documents

Pagos, Inc., a leading developer of software solutions and IT consulting services, announces the launch of SpreadsheetLIVE, an online spreadsheet service that enables true real-time, multi-user collaboration to help businesses create, share and publish spreadsheets online. The service, which is currently free while still in Beta testing, is expected to be made widely available in late November.

SpreadsheetLIVE delivers a fully-featured spreadsheet application, much like Microsoft Excel, but in an Internet browser-based environment that allows users to create spreadsheets from scratch online or upload existing spreadsheets and share them with others. Unlike installed software, however, SpreadsheetLIVE allows simultaneous editing of a spreadsheet by multiple users. This enables true collaboration, improves efficiency and reduces errors and troublesome versioning problems created when multiple users must edit the same worksheet independently.

“The problem with typical spreadsheet applications, like Excel, is that each document may only be edited by one user at a time,” said Ugur Kadakal, Ph.D., CEO of Pagos. “Sure, they can be housed on a common server and many users can access them, or they can be distributed by e-mail for multiple users to review and edit, but that can cause confusion and errors when the documents change without other collaborators being aware of the changes or knowing which version is the most current.”

SpreadsheetLIVE solves that dilemma by allowing multiple users to collaborate concurrently on spreadsheet documents through an online control panel that is simple and easy to use.