Last week DeskAway was featured by Smashing Apps as one of the five excellent business management web apps for business owners, entrepreneurs, office workers, designers, web designers, developers and managers.

This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find incredibly amazing and Five Excellent (Yet Free) Business Management Web Apps.  These would be great enough to bookmark or just for get in your knowledge. I hope everyone of you will like this list. This is absolutely helpful for business owners, entrepreneurs, office workers, managers, designers, web designers, developers etc. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here. Get to know the 5 apps…

Thank you Smashing Apps and AN Jay.

PROMANA, a small business software blog has featured and recommended DeskAway in its latest article on ‘What is DeskAway?’

If you are a project manager trying to manage a team and clients that are distributed far and wide, you may be looking for an online solution that will let you both manage your project activities and timescales and provide a means of collaboration for sharing project information and documents.  There are several projects that will fit the bill on the market at the moment, some better than others. DeskAway, from the Indian company, Synage Software, is one of them.

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The NASSCOM Product Conclave is the biggest congregation of best minds from the Indian Product, Emerging and Startup technology companies during two action-packed days with a focus on ‘ideas to products to business’.

Vijay Rayapati and Avinash Raghava of the Organising Committee were kind enough to share their views on their experience with DeskAway to help them plan the Nasscom Product Conclave 2010 event…

Putting together a great event requires collaboration between many key stake holders to manage the communication, workflow and task dependencies. Hence, a hunt for a collaboration tool begun. Since the conference is all about ‘Made In India’ and ‘Product Startups’, we zero’ed in on DeskAway as our ultimate choice.

DeskAway effectively helped our 15+ member team to capture and manage the marketing and logistics related tasks for the entire event. This group comprised of people mostly from the Marketing as well as the Communications team.

What really helped the team collaborate effectively is that at any point we could measure and track our progress related to the planning of the event. Basic question like ‘what is done?’, ‘what is pending?’, ‘what needs to be done yet?’, ‘who is doing that stuff?’ were easily answered as every critical piece of information was stored centrally on DeskAway. This helped reduce the internal communication overhead (which normally happens via email) and helped us to focus on execution of the event.

The event was a huge success with over 1200 delegates, 600 companies and more than 80 speakers.

We look forward to using DeskAway again for 2011.

Thanks Vijay and Avinash and all the best for 2011.

Collaboration Ideas has featured and recommended DeskAway in its latest article on 25 collaboration tools you should not miss …

We all know how useful and practical Google Docs, Basecamp, Huddle and Zoho can be if you need any kind of collaboration tools or software. But there are many other tools that can really empower our collaboration strategy. I have listed a few one you should not miss!

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In my recent interview with K. Venkatesh of YourStory.in, I spoke about how I got started,  my journey, marketing SaaS in India, my new book and the challenges I faced in terms of customer acquisition, hiring etc. to get DeskAway off the ground.

Like most youth from India, I left for the US in 1998 in search for a business degree. Along the way, I bumped into a few dozen courses in computer science, and realized that it was my calling. With business acumen, and sound technical background, it wasn’t long before I joined the founding team of an entrepreneurship society in my university, hobnobbing with like-minded individuals, investors and spending a good deal of time around incubators.

Through college and post-graduation, I held multiple jobs in various verticals and industries (see details below) determined to get a feel of many business types, as I knew I would soon start my own Internet business. During the post-9/11 economic crunch, I survived on freelance jobs until I could land on my feet. In 2002, I co-started a web design and development consultancy with my wife, which I ran while holding down a full-time job in an e-healthcare firm. Our consultancy, after a bumpy start, began taking off and we had large publicly traded companies on our retainer in 3 years.

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