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Norada's Solve360 communicating and collaborating Web service for small business is now available to Macintosh users using the Apple-native Safari browser, the company announced last week.
"Following the release of Safari 2.0 for OS 10.4 and 1.3 for OS 10.3, we set to work optimizing the service so that all the features -- e-mail, team scheduling, contact management and CRM tools, personal and group file sharing -- work as seamlessly in the Mac environment as in the Windows world," said Norada CEO Steve Ireland.
Avoiding IT Challenges
Solve360's Web-based productivity services are already being used by "thousands of small business customers around the world," Ireland claimed, adding, "Now Mac users can reap all the productivity and cost benefits of the Software as a Service (SaaS) revolution."
The Norada service meets all of the e-mail, collaboration, file-sharing and online archiving needs of Mountain View, Calif.-based WisdomArk, says Ryan Keating, the startup's VP of finance. "We're 12 people today, with plans to grow aggressively in the future. Getting everyone in the office on the same Web service lets us focus on building our business instead of building an IT department," he said.
Mac Shops Shut Out
New Solve360 features, including integrated invoicing tools and enhanced, archivable instant messaging, are due for release in the next quarter, according to the company.
"On the invoicing and accounting fronts, Mac shops are effectively shut out of using products such as Intuit's (Nasdaq: INTU) QuickBooks Online or Sage's Act for Web because they don't support the Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) OS, much less Safari specifically," says Ireland.
"We're keenly aware of the needs of our small business customers. With more than 30 percent of our customers having Macs in the office, we know that everything we're doing has to be designed to work with OS X and Safari," he said.
