WebEx WebOffice Walkthrough

WebOffice serves up its shared calendar, contacts, tasks and document folders through a customizable start page.

The WebOffice calendar made it easy to set up new events including using lists of eWEEK Labs members to invite attendees and check availability.

Contacts can be added by anyone and the information can be accessed by all members of the WebOffice.

E-mail distribution lists in WebOffice are a relatively simple affair, just a list of addresses assigned to a label.

New tasks are added and assigned through this simple management screen.

WebOffice comes with eight pre-configured databases, which offer small organizations a suitable starting point. The samples include databases of asset management, CRM, event registration, sales forecasting and time sheet-keeping. Databases can also be des

Collaborative discussions can be hosted using a simple tree structure to follow the thread.

The body of a discussion is visible in this thread.

WebOffice uses shared folders to facilitate group work on documents created in other word processor clients including, as shown here, Microsoft Word.

The canned expense report in WebOffice is suited only for the smallest of organizations. We found it cumbersome to use.

WebOffice provides polls for organizations that want to dabble in democracy from time to time.

Users can add favorite links to their start page. We added eweek.com and ziffdavis.com to our links through the simple interface.

Members can be added and deleted by the site administrator.