Huddle’s New Offering Extends Your Desktop To the Cloud, Making Cloud-Collaboration Easier than‬ Ever

Huddle, the cloud collaboration tool for enterprise and government, just announced a new desktop application, which is available on both Windows and Mac.

‪Huddle Desktop is designed to connect the user’s desktop experience to the industry’s most powerful cloud-collaboration platform and simplify how they access and manage their files. With Huddle Desktop, you no longer have to switch between the tools you love. The new desktop allows deeper integration with Plug-Ins for all Microsoft Office tools and allows users to manage their Huddle files on, or offline.

“Our goal is to make document collaboration as simple and intuitive as possible,” explains Stuart Cochran, CTO, Huddle. “Huddle Desktop is all about personal productivity: the app provides instant access to recent work, allows users to manage offline availability, controls and prevents version conflicts, and enables you to search all of your Huddle content. Huddle’s cross-platform recent files mean you can pick up on a document you were just reading on your iPhone or iPad, and start editing on your Windows PC or Mac immediately.”

‪For the first time, Huddle Desktop also comes with Plug-ins for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook to deliver deeper integration into the user’s existing desktop applications. This allows documents stored within Huddle to be opened, edited, and saved natively from within the Microsoft Office suite of tools. Users can even view team member’s comments and sync their own comments back to Huddle.

Key features of Huddle Desktop include:

– Full integration with Microsoft Office – save files to Huddle from Word, Excel and PowerPoint, read and make Huddle comments directly from Microsoft Office applications and archive any Outlook email and its attachments to a Huddle project workspace or attach Huddle files to email

– Quick, direct access to relevant files – along with instant search from the desktop, Huddle Desktop provides instant access to the files users need most, across all their projects and teams.

– Eliminate version conflicts – users have the ability to lock a document, preventing any overlapping edits and providing full transparency into the status of any document at any time

– Work offline – users can make up to 50 files available offline and accessible from the desktop, Web or iOS at a time

Whether working on a home improvement project, whipping up a meal in the kitchen or creating a presentation at the office, we all work best when we have the tools we need close at hand. Huddle Desktop is available immediately to all new and existing Huddle users. For more information, visit www.huddle.com.