What is eXpresso?

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Lightweight document editors don't cut it in the business world. Businesses want the flexibility of the Web, but they still need their powerful, desktop-based applications to create and edit their documents. That's where eXpresso comes in.

eXpresso delivers a rich, desktop-based editing experience inside your browser.

eXpresso brings full fidelity, feature-rich desktop editing to the browser. Instead of compromising on functionality, people can edit their online docs with the same applications they use on their desktop.

eXpresso's award-winning technology lets you:

• Open your cloud-based files without leaving your browser (ie. office and open office)
• Edit those files natively online with full Microsoft^® Office or IBM^® Lotus^® Symphony™
• Push saved changed back to the cloud and out to others who may have the same file open at the same time

eXpresso is something you download and install to edit cloud-based files in your browser with Microsoft^® Office 2003/2007 or IBM^® Lotus^® Symphony™ and publish your changes to anyone else who has the same file open at the same time.

1. Edit files online while inside your browser

2. Effortlessly save your files back to the cloud

3. Use the applications you already know and love

eXpresso can be used across companies to collaborate on important documents, spreadsheets or presentations and to ensure that there is one place to view the most current version. Here are some departmental examples:

• Sales - Use eXpresso to share the forecast spreadsheet with all sales representatives.  Each person can enter the most current information for their territory without locking the file from the view from other users.
• Marketing - Work together on presentations.  Instead of emailing slides to others for updates, work as a team on a single file located in LotusLive. 
• Project Management - Keep a single spreadsheet or document with task assignments and due dates in LotusLive.  Using eXpresso each person can enter the task status or completion dates for their items.   The file will be alive, up to date, and ready for the next meeting.
• Human Resources - Keep a contact list in LotusLive.  When an employee gets a new cell phone number or acquires a Skype ID, they can simply use eXpresso to update the contact list in LotusLive and everyone who needs it will have instant access to the new information.

These are just a few of the ways to use LotusLive and eXpresso, but you get the idea.  Are you using eXpresso in a clever way?  If so, please tell us about it.

Now that you know what eXpresso is and how it can be used, why not learn How to Get it?