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HyperOffice, the online collaboration and document management solution for small businesses, is growing again with four much-needed new features. All four will be available to current and new customers at no extra charge.

The company recently introduced full IMAP for its e-mail, freeing customers to use any IMAP-capable client to check their HyperOffice e-mail rather than the HyperOffice e-mail client. This should make implementing HyperOffice easier for administrators, as they no longer need to teach their staffs how to use a new piece of software for e-mail.

Further continuing HyperOffice's push to make its e-mail more useful and compatible is the upcoming HyperShare for Outlook, which will turn HyperOffice into a full Microsoft Exchange alternative. Customers will be able to share calendars, contacts, notes, and tasks just as they can with an Exchange system. With it, groups can easily exchange updated information, ensuring that everyone, even mobile workers checking in through Web-enabled PDAs and smartphones, are working with the latest dates and prices. But because HyperShare works with the HyperOffice system, it will go beyond what an Exchange server offers, adding in the robust document management introduced to HyperOffice several months back. The server will also work with groups created in HyperOffice, so that users can choose to share their information among work groups that they or the administrator has created.

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HyperShare will be a part of the next full upgrade of HyperOffice, version 5.0, and is expected to debut in late February or early March, 2006. Users will need to download software that will integrate HyperOffice with Outlook, but the setup won't be complicated. HyperShare is currently in beta testing.

A third new feature, portal customization, gives administrators the ability to set what front page different users or groups will see when they log onto the site. The admin could create one front page with internal information for the in-house employees, a second with product and purchasing information for vendors, and a third with constantly updated pricing information for the sales team in the field.

With a few simple pulldown menus, the admin can set which page users see when they first log in, and also what type of site information is presented to them. You can turn on HyperOffice's collaboration features-such as e-mail and document management-for your employees, while making sure your customers won't see those options. You can also customize the pages' content by choosing from a long list of news feeds. The portal customization option should be available to HyperOffice users in less than a month.

Finally, a new feature called interlinking promises to extend HyperOffice's already significant collaboration tools. With interlinking, customers will be able to create two-way links between elements stored in HyperOffice. For example, you could create a meeting in the calendar tool and then create links to everyone who will attend the meeting. Or you could attach documents stored in HyperOffice to your to-do list, this way you remember when they need to be updated. Interlinking will also let you create outside links, such as to other Web sites. This feature should be available by mid-February.

With HyperOffice's new interlinking feature, users can quickly create two-way links between elements stored in HyperOffice.

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