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Follow on Google News | Content Circles Expands Service Offering to Accelerate Subscriber GrowthContent Circles Announces a Free Personal Use License
By: Malcolm Hobbs Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and collaboration solutions have traditionally been expensive IT-intensive tools that require significant resources to install and support large, complex server-based software configurations. These legacy solutions require significant up-front investment and training, thus creating a high Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for organizations adopting the technology. When implemented, these tools are often too cumbersome to meet the needs of today's highly distributed and mobile workgroups and project teams that require easy and secure access to the right documents at all times. Driving Collaboration and ECM Adoption Analysts in the ECM market have long identified price and complexity as two of the biggest impediments to content management gaining broad market appeal. The focus of Content Circles is on delivering powerful solutions that are easy to use, virally distributable, and priced for broad-based adoption. Earlier in the year, Content Circles began offering the product at prices starting as low as $99.95 per-user per-year for enterprise users. The sub-$100 price point has been identified by industry analysts for many years as the level that could trigger rapid adoption. "In the first half of 2009, the company was focused on adding support for Enterprise Content Management Systems such as Microsoft SharePoint, Xerox DocuShare and Alfresco Enterprise," Personal Use License of Content Circles – Always Free How does the Personal License edition work? Any user can go to our website, www.contentcircles.com, register, download, and install the application. Once installed, the user can create one circle, invite as many members as necessary to that circle, and add 100 files of up to 25MB each to that circle. Unlike the current 30-day trial version, this personal use version is completely free and will not expire. Membership in Other Users' Circles is Always Free While offering a high-value, free Personal Use version is becoming a standard packaging option with many software products, Content Circles approach adopts ideas from other successful software pricing models in markets such as online meetings (WebEx) and document sharing (Adobe Acrobat) that have never been offered in the ECM market. These and other products allow free usage of and access to a broad array of content created through their networks and those of their customers, with content creation as a paid service. Content Circles' approach adds the free Personal Use license to give users comprehensive insight into the value of the application. "Content Circles is a transformational product that democratizes content management," The new free version of Content Circles is available immediately. For more information, please visit www.contentcircles.com/ # # # About Content Circles Content Circles is an innovative provider of secure, easy to use content management and collaboration solutions for distributed teams that span departments, divisions and companies. Content Circles is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA. For more information, please call 1.650.847.1366 or visit www.contentcircles.com. Content Circles, the Content Circles logo, and the marks relating to other Content Circles products and services referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Content Circles, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. End
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