Much like Zenbe, Hyperoffice offers tools to help you  stay connected with employees, coworkers and customers from any computer with an Internet connection. With Hyperoffice, you get a business email account, a calender (which can be shared/viewed by your coworkers if you like), to-dos and reminders,  and a forum to discuss issues and ideas.

When you log in to Hyperoffice, the first screen you see is called the Desktop. This is basically a dashboard that shows you everything that has happened recently in your HyperOffice account, making it easy to get up to speed. You can configure the information that shows up on the desktop, including importing a customized RSS feed for your industry.

The business email features  are pretty standard. There is a search feature that lets you search messages by sender and by subject, and you can import messages from non-company pop accounts.

The tasks and reminders page lets you create tasks for yourself or assign them to other group members. You can set priorities, save notes on the task and set reminders.  If you use Gantt charts to manage projects, you might like the fact that HyperOffice can generate them automatically from the tasks list for a specific project.

HyperOffice offers document storage, as well, so you can upload relevant files and view them on any computer with Internet access.  Group discussions can be hosted over HyperOffice’s forum, and there’s a voting section to help your team make decisions.

I really liked HyperOffice’s interface-there are a lot of different features, but the scrolling sideba makes it easy to navigate between all of them.  HyperOffice has a good, solid feature set that would make it useful for just about any small business, but their product doesn’t offer the same level of innovation that Zenbe does.

However, despite a one-time “set-up fee” of $49.99, HyperOffice’s monthly plans are either the same as or cheaper than ZenBe’s, so if you need a lot of online storage space, HyperOffice may be a better value.

What do you think of HyperOffice?

Our Rating of HyperOffice

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