EditGrid was a

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service, operated via

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(

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). It offered both a free-of-charge service to personal users and a

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to organizations and was available on a number of partner sites and channels. EditGrid was shut down on 1 May 2014.

History

EditGrid was developed, provided and maintained by Team and Concepts, a

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–based company. The first public

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release of EditGrid was launched on 7 April 2006. It registered its 10,000th personal user in November 2006. In January 2007 EditGrid started to offer organization accounts for free trial and also became available on

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's App Exchange platform. On 14 February 2007, EditGrid officially declared out-of-beta and launched its

. In June 2007, EditGrid announced a $1.25 million series A investment from the WI Harper Group. EditGrid announced a series of changes to its business in September 2009. According to the change, they were no longer supporting users through future enhancements or subscription based accounts. The user forum and the wiki have been closed. In October 2009 Apple had bought EditGrid.

Features

Touted as the most advanced and well-polished

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-enabled spreadsheet, EditGrid included features for shared access and online

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on top of conventional spreadsheet functionalities. Its Real-Time Update (RTU) feature allowed multiple users to see changes on a spreadsheet immediately, and it was considered a winning feature among similar products. Its Remote Data feature was able to retrieve live data on the web, while its My Data Format (MDF) feature allowed users to customise the output format using

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, such as live KML for

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. Other features included multiple

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levels, revision history,

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ing,

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s and more than 500 spreadsheet functions. Apart from access from its main site, spreadsheets hosted on EditGrid could be accessed on third-party websites by means of its post-to-

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feature. In September 2007, the EditGrid

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Edition was launched at the Office 2.0 Conference. In September 2008, EditGrid had launched its

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Macro support, enabling user-programmed macros to manipulate EditGrid spreadsheets using JavaScript.

Integration and interoperability

EditGrid was available as a module on

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, Pageflakes and Google Personalized Homepage. EditGrid was also available on Salesforce.com's AppExchange platform. EditGrid also formed part of the offering of Central Desktop, ShareOffice and ThinkFree Office. In addition, developers could make use of the EditGrid

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to build custom applications. There were a number of EditGrid add-ons that mashed up other services. One of these, Grid2Map, turned longitude-latitude pairs into placemarks on

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Multilingual

In addition to the default English version, EditGrid was available in eight languages:

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, French,

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, Dutch,

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and

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, largely thanks to a community localisation project.

Organization account

EditGrid was available to organisation users on a

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basis. Organisation users were supported by SSL-encrypted traffic, user account administration and management reports on top of the features available to personal users. EditGrid organization accounts had become completely free-of-charge for all users since September 2009.

Software architecture

EditGrid had been developed on an

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software architecture. It ran on

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as the web application framework and used

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as its back-end support. It adopted

technology at the front-end.

Acquisition

EditGrid was acqui-hired by

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in 1 June 2008, for the

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web applications development.

References

External links

EditGrid

EditGrid Help Centre
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