Microsoft's Liaise Outlook Management Tool Is Out of Beta

Liaise, the software developer of Microsoft Outlook leaves the Beta version behind and becomes available for commercial download.

The winner of the the People’s Choice for Best Enterprise Product last fall at DEMO, is now designed to increase productivity for team leaders and email power users, and re-give them control over their work.

The software is now available for Microsoft Outlook 2010, 2007 and 2003 and the novelty is that it is made for managers, team leaders and individual power users of email – who typically send and receive over 100 emails a day – and the people with whom they collaborate.

Liaise automatically captures, organizes and orders by priority degree the action items as the messages are typed and received.

It does so by analyzing the content of incoming and outgoing e-mail messages, it captures the important information on which it needs to act and establishes a management list based on it.

It also, automatically, tracks responses to messages sent from other e-mail platforms, such as Yahoo Mail or Gmail for example, as well as from mobile systems like the iPhone or BlackBerry.

The “out-of-the-Beta” version of Liaise includes a dashboard for work management and for synchronizing teams, meaning that item view can be organized by initiative, owner, priority or due date.

The Outlook calendar automatically displays action item due dates and any project information can be grouped into reports, which are available for export or printing.

The company also added a new feature they called Liaise Lists, that is basically a note-taking application that automatically captures actions by typing free-form notes like team plans and projects, to-do lists or meeting minutes.

It is so advanced that it will identify, track and organize the actions, the people, the dates and the priorities it finds in theses notes, making them available and modifiable as plans evolve, and ready to be sent as an e-mail later.

These past years the Beta version of Liaise has been tested by users in several industries, which include management consulting, financial services, healthcare, retail, Internet and technology.

Everybody’s feedback has been considered and the commercial release of the Liaise platform it attempting to respond positively.

The software faces competition from Gist and Xobni, and it has been accepted into the Microsoft very exclusive BizSpark One program.

Ray Villeneuve, CEO at Liaise said that “keeping track of what’s due, project status, and who is responsible is a daunting task when hundreds of emails are filling inboxes and sent folders every day.

“We’ve designed Liaise to help busy knowledge workers handle the myriad of daily interactions they have both inside and outside of their companies and to keep them on top of their work.”

The price is rather reasonable, at $50 per seat every year, with, of course, a 30 day free trial period.

The download is available starting today at www.liaise.com.

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