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EditGrid
Maintainer: Team and Concepts
Stable release: February 2007 Release (rev 6933)  (14 February 2007) [+/-]
Preview release: February 2007 Release (rev 6933)  (14 February 2007) [+/-]
OS: Any (Web-based application)
Available language(s): Multilingual (9)
Use: Online spreadsheet
Website: http://www.editgrid.com/

EditGrid is a Web 2.0 spreadsheet service. It offers both a free-of-charge service to personal users and a subscription service in the SaaS model to organisation users. As of February 2007, EditGrid has signed up 15,000 personal users and 4,500 organisation users[1][2].

EditGrid is one of the players in the emerging market of online spreadsheets[3] along with Google Spreadsheets, iRows, Num Sum, wikiCalc, Xcellery and Zoho Sheet.

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[edit] History

EditGrid is developed, provided and maintained by Team and Concepts, a Hong Kong-based company. The first public beta release of EditGrid was launched on 7 April 2006. It registered its 10,000th personal users in November 2006[4]. In January 2007 EditGrid started to offer organisation accounts for free trial and also became available on Salesforce.com's AppExchange platform[5].

On 14 February 2007[6], EditGrid officially declared out-of-beta and launched its subscription service.

[edit] Subscription service

EditGrid is available to organisation users on an SaaS basis. Organisation users enjoy SSL-encrypted traffic, user account administration and management reports on top of the features available to personal users[7].

[edit] Features

EditGrid includes features for shared access and online collaboration[8] on top of conventional spreadsheet functionalities. Its Real-Time Update (RTU) feature allows multiple users to see changes on a spreadsheet immediately, while its Remote Data feature can retrieve live data on the web[9]. Its My Data Format (MDF) feature allows users to customise the output format using XSLT, such as live KML for Google Earth[10]. Other features include multiple access control levels, revision history[11], charting, live chat, permalinks and more than 500 spreadsheet functions.

Apart from access from its main site, spreadsheets hosted on EditGrid can be accessed on third-party websites by means of its post-to-blog feature.

[edit] Integration and interoperability

EditGrid is available as a module on Netvibes, Pageflakes and Google Personalized Hompage[12]. EditGrid is also available on Salesforce.com's AppExchange platform[13][14].

EditGrid also forms part of the Central Desktop offering[15].

In addition, developers can make use of the EditGrid API to build custom applications. There are a number of EditGrid add-ons that mash up other services. One of these, Grid2Map, turns longitude-latitude pairs into placemarks on Google Maps[16].

[edit] Applications

[edit] Multilingualism

In addition to the default English version, EditGrid is available in eight languages: German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, largely thanks to a community localisation project[17].

[edit] Software architecture

EditGrid is developed on an open-source software architecture[18]. It runs on Catalyst as the web application framework and uses Gnumeric as its back-end support. It adopts Ajax technology at the front-end.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Philipp Lenssen (2007-02-22). EditGrid, Google Spreadsheets Competitor. Google Blogoscoped. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
  2. ^ Dennis Howlett (2007-02-14). EditGrid out of beta. AccMan. Retrieved on 2007-02-15.
  3. ^ Richard MacManus and Gang Lu (2007-02-15). EditGrid - New Online Spreadsheet, Better Than Google Spreadsheets. ReadWriteWeb. Retrieved on 2007-02-16.
  4. ^ Exclusive EditGrid conversation with founder - David Lee. Folknology (November 2006). Retrieved on 2007-01-15.
  5. ^ David Lee (2007-01-12). Check out EditGrid at Salesforce AppExchange!. EditGrid Developers Blog. Retrieved on 2007-01-13.
  6. ^ David Lee (2007-02-14). EditGrid Out of Beta, Launched Subscription Service. EditGrid Blog. Retrieved on 2007-02-15.
  7. ^ It's a grid - get it?. Under the Radar Blog (2007-01-19). Retrieved on 2007-01-22.
  8. ^ (Hebrew) ליאור הנר (2006-06-09). עומדים על נייר. Haaretz. Retrieved on 2006-08-12.
  9. ^ Mark Gibbs (2006-07-17). EditGrid, an excellent Web 2.0 spreadsheet. Network World. Retrieved on 2006-08-11.
  10. ^ Stefan Geens (2006-08-23). EditGrid => XML + XSLT => KML. Ogle Earth. Retrieved on 2006-10-31.
  11. ^ (Portuguese) David de Oliveira Lemes (2006-06-29). Alternativas ao Excel. PC World. Retrieved on 2006-08-12.
  12. ^ Rafe Needleman (2007-01-11). EditGrid: A nice competitor to Google Spreadsheets. CNET Webware. Retrieved on 2007-01-13.
  13. ^ EditGrid Spreadsheets Application Overview. Salesforce.com AppExchange (2007-01-10). Retrieved on 2007-01-22.
  14. ^ App of the Week. The AppExchange Blog, Salesforce.com (2007-01-19). Retrieved on 2007-01-22.
  15. ^ Marc Orchant (2007-02-20). Central Desktop adds spreadsheets to their mix. ZDNet. Retrieved on 2007-02-21.
  16. ^ J. Murali (2006-10-30). Location-enabled webfeed holds promise. The Hindu. Retrieved on 2006-10-31.
  17. ^ EditGrid Localisation Project. Retrieved on 2006-11-11.
  18. ^ Andy Chun (2006-12-11). Web 2.0 Online Spreadsheets. ZDNet Asia. Retrieved on 2006-12-12.

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