oneDrum

Overview

1. What applications does oneDrum work with?
2. How can oneDrum help?
3. What is oneDrum?
4. How does oneDrum work?
5. How secure is oneDrum?
6. Who is oneDrum designed for?
7. When can I use oneDrum?
8. How much does it cost?
9. What will oneDrum do in the future?

Installation

1. What are the system requirements?
2. How do I install oneDrum?
3. How often will you release updates?

Overview

1. What applications does oneDrum work with?

   Today oneDrum works with Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint.

   Later in the year we will support Microsoft Word and Project, Open Office, Adobe Photoshop and Google Docs and Sketchup.

   Next year we will release a development kit (SDK) that allows developers to convert any application into a collaborative environment.

2. How can oneDrum help?

   Easy sharing
   • Drag and drop files into individual or group workspaces
   • Files synchronize to every users computer whenever they are changed
   • New versions can be easily tracked
   • Notifications whenever other users open or save new versions
   • The latest version always available on your computer

   Same time editing
   • See when users open files
   • Changes are applied to everyone's copy as they are made
   • Chat about documents inside the document
   • Assign document tasks to collaborators

   Transparent collaboration
   • Notifications when file are shared, opened or changed
   • See active authors
   • Simple versioning
   • The latest version of shared files are always available on your machine

3. What is oneDrum?

   oneDrum is a desktop application that allows users to share and work on documents together, inside their favorite applications - such as MS Office.

   Specifically oneDrum allows users to:

   • share and synchronize files between each others' machines
   • author documents at the same time, seeing each others changes as they are made
   • communicate more effectively about your shared documents with in-document chat, simple project management, and notifications that tell you what other authors are doing

   In the near future, oneDrum will work from a browser, so you have access to your oneDrum account and documents from any computer.

4. How does oneDrum work?

   Files are shared and synchronized directly between users computers. When you log into oneDrum on a new computer, oneDrum automatically downloads all your shared files to that computer and continues to synchronize them thereafter. This synchronization might be between your laptop and other users' laptops or, say, between your laptop and desktop.

   Simultaneous changes to documents rely on the ability to detect changes to a document through the application you are using to edit it (e.g. Excel). oneDrum parcels those changes and sends them to every user with an open copy of the shared file. oneDrum then uses the recipients own application to apply these changes.

   Any user that does not have the document open gets the latest version via file synchronization after the editor has saved the document.

   We store every individual edit until all users have the latest version of the file, so if a user opens a document before another user has saved it, but after they have started editing, we apply all the changes as soon as it opens.

5. How secure is oneDrum?

   We take security extremely seriously. We provide security through authentication, transport layer encryption and digital signing. We are in the process of certifying our security with a specialist security firm.

6. Who is oneDrum designed for?

   In general, anyone that shares files and works on documents with other people.

   But we’ve especially designed it for people who don’t have an IT department to configure their computers and accounts or who just don’t want to be restricted to working with their IT department.

7. When can I use oneDrum?

   Currently, we are in a restricted beta program. This means that oneDrum is nearly but not quite finished; however we are slowly granting access to users that register on our website here.
   Within the next two months we will make oneDrum open to everyone.

8. How much does it cost?

   oneDrum is free. In the future we will introduce a premium version on a monthly subscription; this version will provide extra features such as backup to the cloud.

9. What will oneDrum do in the future?

   1. Integration to more applications:
   • MS Word
   • MS Project
   • Adobe Photoshop
   • Google SketchUp
   • OpenOffice

   Integrations will really take off when we allow developers to integrate their own applications.

   2. Interoperability between applications e.g. MS Excel to OpenOffice Calc to Google Spreadsheet (we already have this working as a prototype).

   3. More collaborative features such as desktop sharing and VoIP.

   4. Support for more notification channels such as Twitter and RSS.

   5. Browser based access and backup to the cloud.

   6. Better Enterprise support e.g. LDAP support, self-hosted backup

   But it is important that our users drive our roadmap and we will constantly look to you for feedback.

Installation

1. What are the system requirements?

   oneDrum should work on any operating system. However, the current integrations only work with Microsoft Office for Windows (we test on versions 2003 and 2007 on XP, Vista and Windows 7).

2. How do I install oneDrum?

   If you have an invite to the oneDrum beta program then click on the enclosed link and oneDrum will automatically install.

3. How often will you release updates?

   Once a month.