Virtual meetings bring teams together to view and markup documents and drawings in realtime

Yorba Linda, CA – Allegria Software, a subsidiary of netGuru, Inc.(Nasdaq: NGRU) has released eReview, a Document Review Conferencing solution that creates an online virtual meeting space where users can retrieve, view, and markup documents and drawings in a real-time collaborative environment. eReview can improve an organization’s efficiency and minimize the work and costs required to take a project from concept to completion by allowing geographically dispersed teams to securely share up to 150 document formats including major CAD documents, while communicating through visual markups, textual chat, voice and video.

“Companies operate on a global scale, across supply chains and between multiple offices, and they need solutions that allow them to collaborate on design decisions, workflow, or engineering change order (ECO), and share information or brainstorm together as if every participant is in the same room,” said Koushik Dutta, Vice President of Research and Development, “Many products such as java viewers or online meeting applications are categorized as collaborative solutions, but eReview presents a unique environment of sharing data and documents while moderating realtime communication from anywhere using the internet.”

With eReview, organizations can initiate meetings quickly and easily through automated email invitations that contain direct links to the meeting, while the chairperson/conductor administers the user controls and privileges on the attendee control panel.  Once a meeting has begun, documents can be retrieved from the eReview document vault or an integrated document management system, then discussed through the wide variety of multimedia and markup options.  All discussions, actions, and markups are logged, and can be saved and emailed once the meeting has concluded.

eReview represents a major milestone for collaboration and workflow, connecting teams around the world, enabling communication, and improving organizational efficiencies.  As a java-based client/server solution, eReview offers versatility to an organization by operating in an intranet, extranet, or internet environment.  Administration is minimized as no changes are ever required on the client side, and using http tunneling technology, eReview is truly firewall friendly. It will not compromise security, yet allows free communication across the internet.

“We are very pleased to offer such a comprehensive solution to meet the needs of the marketplace,” said Robert Bruns, Director of Sales, “eReview is on the cutting edge of new technology, and we are looking forward to seeing fabulous results in our customers’ effectiveness to communicate and share data worldwide.”  eReview is offered as a stand-alone solution, integrated with a document management system, or as an ASP solution for online providers wishing to offer collaborative solutions to their users.  More information is available by calling (714) 974-2500.

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Editor's contact:
Bob Bruns or Jeff O'Neal
(714) 974-2500