Apps are getting more important in workday organization – all the more
reason for additional happiness around the release of Kopano DeskApp
2.0, a big milestone in the development of the flagship client for
Kopano. Aside from usage of many more modern tools like chat and video
meetings, the ‘traditional’ email and calendar tasks take up more than 5
hours a week of my digital work hours. Therefore it is so important to
me that DeskApp is designed for the way I work with my colleagues and
external team members today. I see that our customers like that the
flexibility, integration and look & feel are identical on almost all
platforms – and identical for all my team members.
With version 2.0 Kopano DeskApp integrates into desktops running
Windows, MacOS and Linux. It is a stand-alone app similar to Microsoft
Outlook, but it is much more flexible because it is web-based.
Third-party applications such as Microsoft Office or LibreOffice can
transfer prefabricated elements such as e-mails with attachments to the
DeskApp. The handling of files was not so easy, because they are not
processed in a local application. So the DeskApp contains its own
download manager, a preview module for attachments and can of course
also open e-mail attachments with the standard desktop application for
the respective file type. For EML files, i.e. locally stored e-mails,
the DeskApp itself is the standard application. The DeskApp also
includes optional server and client side spellcheckers.
In everyday office life, DeskApp provides functions that users of Microsoft Outlook are familiar with. However, it is much easier to administer, because updates of all functions except the deep integrations are carried out on the server side. Using DeskApp not only gives you the flexibility to select the best and most suitable platform for each workstation. It is also possible to integrate web-based third-party applications such as chat solutions, DMS or even WhatsApp into DeskApp.
So now with Deskapp 2.0 almost all features defined by our key customers and ourselves as important during the 1.x cycle have been implemented and are now available. Thanks for all the feedback, please try it out.
Next Steps…
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(This article is based on the original article by Andreas Rösler on the Kopano site).
