A new key feature in productivity suits is the ability to collaborate on editing documents and spreadsheets which is gaining popularity with the emergence of Google Docs, Zoho, Etherpad  and others. Microsoft is also planning to add collaboration features to Excel in its new version of Office.

DocVerse  offers a plug-in for Word, PowerPoint and Excel that allow users to collaborate with other users when editing a document. Once you download it, the DocVerse plug-in will appear on the right-hand sidebar of any Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel file. Then you can invite other users to collaborate with you. To share documents with another user, both of you should download the plug-in.  

It does not matter whether you’re working online or offline, DocVerse will track, manages and sync all changes to merge them into one updated version of the document. You can also communicate with other users via an IM feature within the plug-in.

DocVerse lets you view documents on the web. When you transfer your document to the web, DocVerse will render a high fidelity version of your document within it’s platform. It is possible to add comments from the web, which are synced automatically. This is especially useful when your collaborators do not have Microsoft Office software installed on their computers. Each DocVerse-edited document is viewable via Microsoft Office, any Web browser, or an RSS stream.

DocVerse costs $49 per month for 500 documents and up to ten users and likewise based on number of users. DocVerse will face competition from Microsoft once MS Office comes with more collaboration features. But the plug-in is very useful for past versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. DocVerse has recently integrated the plug-in with popular social collaboration platform Jive. 

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