DataSync CEO on Why Software Consolidation is Important

May 12th, 2009 by schnabeld

DataSync’s CEO, Mike Vetter, recently wrote a post on why software consolidation is important. Read the entire post on Silicon Grassland.

From the article:

Software shouldn’t be so hard. You shouldn’t have to hire a full time IT guy to (sort of) figure this stuff out for you. It should be available inexpensively, and it should be integrated out of the box.

This is the problem we’re solving at DataSync. We’re really doing 2 things:

1. Making software inexpensive and easy to access. We do this by delivering everything to our customers’ web browser as an inexpensive service. No more expensive updates that break your computer, no more “the server is down today”. The industry buzzwords for this are SaaS or cloud computing.

2. Consolidating – We’re building a great software tool that eliminates manually entering the same information into multiple software packages. This means if you put a contact in one system, it’ll synchronize to all your systems. The same goes for other types of business information. There’s a bunch of different industry buzzwords for this, but they all boil down to consolidation.”

DataSync is working hard on our 1.0 release, scheduled for this summer, which will eliminate some important redundancy that exists today. We’re focused initially on synchronizing email, contacts, and tasks between Zimbra and SugarCRM. We think there’s a lot of benefits to doing that, and it’s a good start on a long list of key pieces of information that we’ll be working on consolidating with DataSync Suite.