Cerience Announces RepliGo Mobile Document Solution

[dcho99]

RepliGo represents a breakthrough in document conversion technology and mobility. In a matter of seconds, virtually any document you have on your PC can be transferred to your handheld device while maintaining the document’s original look and feel. This includes Microsoft® Office documents, Adobe® PDF files, Web pages and hundreds of other formats. Once on your device, documents can easily be viewed, printed, and shared with others using the supplied RepliGo Viewer.

What makes RepliGo unique?

There are several handheld document solutions on the market today. Many of these products simply extract the text of a document and send it to your handheld. Others attempt to preserve the formatting of your documents, but often sacrifice the original appearance of the document when viewed on your handheld.

Furthermore, many solutions are limited to working with just the most popular file formats, requiring you to purchase several applications to cover all of your needs.

RepliGo preserves the appearance of your documents and directly integrates with and is optimized for Microsoft® Word, Excel, PowerPoint®, and Internet Explorer documents.

Additionally, RepliGo provides enhanced support for Adobe PDF files. Virtually any other document type can be translated to your handheld by printing it to the RepliGo Printer via your application’s Print command. A few mouse clicks is all it takes.

RepliGo Viewer, currently available for Palm OS® and Pocket PC devices, provides a desktop document viewing experience on your handheld while solving the challenges of limited handheld processing power and screen size. Your documents look like the documents you have on your desktop. Fonts, charts, graphs, images, and tables are all preserved and viewable on your handheld. RepliGo Viewer includes an intelligent flowed view of your document which allows you to read long documents in a small amount of space. If you want to print a hardcopy of your document, all you have to do is beam it to a compatible infrared or Bluetooth printer.

RepliGo Viewer for the Pocket PC is a Microsoft® Windows® for Pocket PC certified application. This means that the software has met the rigorous standards set forth by Microsoft® and has been tested by a third party to assure those standards were met or exceeded.

You can be assured that RepliGo Viewer for the Pocket PC is a stable, high quality, high standards application.

For more information, visite: http://www.cerience.com

[Pony99CA]

RepliGo represents a breakthrough in document conversion technology and mobility. In a matter of seconds, virtually any document you have on your PC can be transferred to your handheld device while maintaining the document’s original look and feel. This includes Microsoft® Office documents, Adobe® PDF files, Web pages and hundreds of other formats. Once on your device, documents can easily be viewed, printed, and shared with others using the supplied RepliGo Viewer.

RepliGo only allows viewing the documents, correct? If so, this excerpt from your Web site is misleading:


RepliGo allows you to convert virtually any document from your desktop computer onto your Palm OS® or Pocket PC based device.

Download RepliGo and experience the power and convenience of total access to your documents anywhere at any time.

I would define "total access" to my documents as the ability to modify them, not just view them.

Also, $40 ($50 when it's out of the introductory period) seems a bit steep for a document viewer. I would suggest following the Adobe Acrobat model -- give the viewer away for free and charge $50 (maybe more to compensate for the free viewers) for the PC-based components necessary to produce RepliGo files.

I realize that you're aiming this at corporate users, but your dream of sharing documents among co-workers will be difficult if the co-worker has to go buy a piece of software to view a document.

Steve

[dcho99]

Pony99CA: Thanks for the good feedback.

I will have our webmaster update the text to make that more clear.

When you purchase RepliGo, you get the desktop conversion components as well as the Viewer for the device. Our license agreement allows users to share the Viewer for Non-Commercial use, in effect making the Viewer free for personal use.

We are currently working on muti-user licenses in the corporate setting.

[Pony99CA]

When you purchase RepliGo, you get the desktop conversion components as well as the Viewer for the device. Our license agreement allows users to share the Viewer for Non-Commercial use, in effect making the Viewer free for personal use.

If you can share the viewer with others, that's great. I think I'd still make it a separately downloadable file to allow RepliGo files to be posted on the Web, for example, to make your viewer ubiquitous.

Steve