Small Business Collaborative Workspace FAQs

Review the following Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding bringing internal and external teams together using secure, online workspace to share documents, manage projects, assign tasks, exchange calendars and more. No-obligation 30-day trial demonstrates ideal use with clients, vendors and employees.

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What is a Workspace Is there a Free Version Do I need to install or download software

Can I export data Is my data secure and private

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What is a Workspace?

A Workspace is a website where teams come together and share information. Rather than emailing project and team information to everybody, users share files, coordinate tasks, manage documents and discuss topics inside of a Workspace.

Depending on your business needs, there are three types of Workspace options:

Is there a free Collaborative Workspace?

Central Desktop provides users of its workspace solution with a free version and a 30 Day Free Trial of Web Meetings. During the first 30 Days of the Free Version, users are granted unlimited access to Central Desktop up to 2 Workspaces, 25 megabytes of data storage and may invite up to 5 Members to each Workspace. During the 30 Day Free Trial of their Web Meeting plan, users can host unlimited Web Meetings with up to 10 attendees.

After 30 days, if you choose to not upgrade your account or subscribe to a Central Desktop plan, your access to Central Desktop will be limited to 100 activities per calendar month. (Activities = creating a task, creating a new page, starting a discussion, replying to a discussion etc...) and your Web Meeting account will be deactivated.

If you would like to have unlimited access to Central Desktop Workspaces or Web Meetings after 30 days, you will need to subscribe to one of their Team or Company Plans. Click Here To Sign up for the Free Version.

No credit card information or payment information is required to use the Free Trial Versions of Central Desktop Workspaces or Web Meetings.

Do I need to install or download any software?

Not is you choose a Central Desktop solution as it is 100% web-based. Users access and use Central Desktop entirely through their web browsers. Central Desktop officially supports the following web browsers:

For Central Desktop: Internet Explorer 6.0 and newer Netscape 7.1 and newer Mozilla 1.4 and newer

For Web Meetings: Mozilla Firefox 0.8 and newer Java Runtime v1.1 or higher to launch a Web Meeting from the Browser. No browser restrictions to Join and Attend Web Meetings

Additional browser support is in development. Stay tuned if your favorite browser is not listed. Since there is nothing to install, you can get started right now. To learn more about the benefits of using an On-Demand Software-as-Service solution click here.

Can I export data?

Central Desktop allows users to export their Workspace HTML Pages, Documents and Files into a Zip File at any time. All data entered by you into Central Desktop belongs to you.

Is my data secure and private?

When using Central Desktop as your collaborative workspace solution provider, your data and the servers that the data resides on are stored at an offsite, secure Gigabit Data Center with complete power and internet redundancy. Security measures have been taken and policies put in place to secure and protect your data to the best of Central Desktop abilities. The data you enter into Central Desktop belongs to you and will never be sold or shared. Visit Central Desktop to review their Privacy Poliicy.

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"Founded in 2005, Central Desktop provides small businesses with affordable, easy-to-use collaboration tools for business teams making it easy to work together on projects both inside and outside a firewall without the need to download, install or configure any software. Central Desktop is a flexible collaboration platform that is perfect for managing projects, creating team Intranets and group workspaces."

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Note: This information is presented to provide a general overview of small business options and related services. It is not intended to be an exhaustive representation. Data has been compiled by the Knowledge Institute for informational purposes only. Content is provided on an "as is" basis and is not intended to, nor does it, provide advice or create a customer relationship between the Knowledge Institute, BUZGate™ and/or any other organization named herein, and any reader.

page updated: August 28 2008