Cybozu Corporation, a subsidiary of Cybozu, Inc. (TOKYO:4776) today announces its release of Cybozu SP Apps, a next-generation Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint Server 2010-based collaboration product, in the global market.

The Business Collaboration Software Leader in Japan

Cybozu, as the business collaboration software leader, has the leading market share in Japan, beating out Lotus Notes and Google Apps by providing collaboration software to more than 3.5 million users and 30,000 companies from SMBs to enterprises in Japan, where customers have one of the most stringent quality demands in the world. Cybozu products are highly rated particularly for their ease of installation, administration, end user experience and high ROI value to enterprise customers. The latest version of Cybozu SP Apps provides the "fast & easy" collaboration user experience for Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint Server 2010 users.

Cybozu SP Apps

Cybozu SP Apps comprises of two features, SP List Scheduler and SP List Discussion, which enable richer schedule management and discussion within project teams for SharePoint Server 2010 users, as well as a set of free tools, SP List Advanced Search, SP List Item Copy, SP List Category Filter and Cybozu Team Site Template. These tools make SharePoint's out-of-the-box list features much easier to use. Cybozu SP Apps can assist in making quicker and more precise project management business decisions, and lead to increased team productivity.

NOTE: SP List Advanced Search and SP List Item Copy support Microsoft Office 365.

"Cybozu SP Apps was ranked first out of 188 products for its original development idea during one of our SharePoint Camps Contests sponsored by the Microsoft Innovation Center," said Steve Fox, Ph.D. Platform Evangelism Director at Microsoft Corporation. "They have some significant value-add features that can help make the SharePoint collaborative experience even more productive."

"We established a US subsidiary for sales and support of SP Apps for US customers.", said Yoshihisa Aono, President of Cybozu, Inc. "We will continue our joint development and promotions with Microsoft Corporation, to bring true collaboration value for even more global customers."

Product Features

  • SP List Scheduler
    Offers several rich and user friendly calendar views including Outlook friendly calendar views, group scheduler views to check all team members' schedule, and also be able to search for available time slots to arrange meetings. End users can manage team members' schedule and facilities intuitively. Team members can discuss meeting agenda, meeting minutes and follow-up discussions per scheduled item. "What's new" web part notifies any updates of schedules and discussions.
  • SP List Discussion
    End users can easily create new topic threads for discussion on bulletin boards, and choose public or private discussion modes for each topic, which SharePoint out-of-the-box Discussion Board list doesn't provide. Important information can be efficiently shared across the team without getting buried in individuals' mailboxes.
  • Cybozu Team Site Template
    The Cybozu Team Site Template not only includes all the Cybozu SP Apps and its Web Parts, but also SharePoint out-of-the-box Document Library and Tasks, etc., enabling high productivity team collaboration, as an one-stop solution.

Pricing

Starting from U.S.$1,980.00.

Purchase Method

Download purchases are available from Cybozu SP Apps product web site at
http://spapps.cybozu.com/us/

Free Tools

SP List Advanced Search, SP List Item Copy and SP List Category Filter are available on the
Codeplex web site.

Future Product Road Map - Smart Phone Applications

Cybozu is planning to offer applications specifically for smart devices such as the iPhone, Android and Windows Phone, etc., in the first half of 2012.

About Cybozu

Cybozu, established in 1997 and listed on August 23, 2000 (TOKYO:4776), headquartered at Tokyo, with subsidiaries in USA, China and Vietnam, has been providing collaborative software to help customers achieve better business performance. Making "fast & easy" user experience as its key concept of the products, Cybozu has strived to deliver easy-to-build and user-friendly enterprise collaboration software and services for worldwide customers. Cybozu has the number one market share and 3.5 million users in the Japanese collaborative application market.

Cybozu Corporation
Osamu Yamada, (949) 753-1232
SP Apps Information Center
spapps-info@cybozu.com
Web Site: http://spapps.cybozu.com/us/