MENLO PARK, CA, May 25, 2010
/24-7PressRelease/ -- "Content Circles supports teams that quickly assemble, often from diverse locations and organizations, around key tasks and require easy, secure access to the right documents at the right time," said Sri Chilukuri, CEO of Content Circles. "Large and small organizations are increasingly adopting flexible workgroup, team and intra-company collaboration tools. Despite this trend, traditional Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions largely remain expensive IT-intensive tools that require significant resources to install and support large, complex server-based software configurations. That or users are forced to put their data and documents into the Cloud, where there is a growing concern about privacy and security."
The Emergence of the Private Team Cloud
The Cloud is evolving quickly. Large public disruptions of service, security breaches and cloud solution abandonments by large institutions have widely called Cloud security into question. Private Clouds are an emerging answer. Cloud-based applications, collaboration, data and document management solutions may be tomorrow's "behind the firewall."
"Since information has to be quickly accessible on demand to authorized staff anywhere in the world, a cloud application makes perfect sense," continued Sri. "But you have to make sure the data is never exposed or out in the open. Content Circles solution is unique and elegant because documents move only between authorized systems, never to any other location. The only data that travels to the cloud is the meta-data about the disposition of the secured files."
A Completely New Approach to Pricing and Distribution
Content Circles delivers powerful collaboration software that is easy to use, virally distributable and priced for broad-based, rapid adoption. Content Circles pricing now starts at under $5 per month, or $50 per year. To drive rapid adoption, all new Content Circles members also receive a free 30-day trial of the system.
The new Content Circles pricing approach adopts ideas from other successful software pricing models in markets such as web conferencing and document sharing. Inspired by the idea that anyone should be able to join a workgroup to collaborate on content, Content Circles' approach enables anyone to participate in a collaborative workgroup for free. The new pricing model reflects the rapid changes in technology, efficiencies of operating capital and the ability to pass those cost savings and efficiencies directly to the customer.
Demonstrate Ongoing Value Before Ever Charging a Fee
Content Circles revenue model is designed around workgroup leaders. While anyone can join a workgroup (Circle), view and contribute content to that workgroup for free, the creation of new workgroups requires a paid license. Users are able to see the value of the application by participating in a workgroup and collaborating with other members, before paying for the application. This is the essence of the recurring subscription revenue model: demonstrate your customer value every day.
Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) driven by operating efficiencies
Content Circles requires no new hardware, no IT support, and no new data center requirements. Using the best elements of the Cloud and Peer-to-Peer technologies, Content Circles enables members to utilize their own existing networks without placing additional burden on these networks. By moving files through Content Circles, customers also reduce the burden on overwhelmed email systems, while maintaining a high-level of security that is not possible with today's email systems.
"Content Circles democratizes content collaboration in the same way that Microsoft SharePoint has democratized content management by bringing in thousands of small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) into the ECM market", said Sri. "We have achieved our goal of making content collaboration accessible and affordable for an entire category of users shut out of traditional ECM systems. We also expect to attract a significant number of current ECM users that are looking for a simpler, more cost effective approach that facilitates collaboration within and outside of individual companies."
The new pricing model for Content Circles is effective immediately. For more information on Content Circles pricing, please visit http://www.contentcircles.com/subscribe or call 650.847.5739.
About Content Circles
Content Circles is an innovative provider of secure, easy to use collaboration and content management solutions for teams that span departments, divisions and companies. Content Circles is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. For more information, please call +1. 650.847.5739 or visit http://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.
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