Thorough study of the AJAX Office it's obvious to mention AJAX Spreadsheets, one of the AJAX-based applications that started become more and more popular. Here is a roundup of most popular AJAX Spreadsheets in alphabetical order, all goes from the very basic features to collaboration, APIs, plugins support, to the integration as wikis platforms.
EditGrid
EditGrid is one of the latest
AJAX Spreadsheet implementation with extensive collaboration features, and now integration with Salesforce. EditGrid is a very complete
AJAX Spreadsheet solution with
API and addons support, more advanced features will be released very soon.
Google Spreadsheet
The service is now part of
Google Docs and Spreadsheets, it provide basic and advanced features to manage your spreadsheets online in an intuitive interface ala Google. Notable features in Google Spreadsheets are the auto-save, discuss and collaborate, preview and print, in addititon to the possibility to export, update with a new version. Google Spreadsheet does not support graphics. We have to mention here that
Google have shutdown iRows, another competitor
AJAX Spreadsheet, when their founders joigned Google.
Read Google Spreadsheet's Review
JotSpot Spreadsheet
JotSpot have been acquired by Google, though they have a spreadsheets service pretty interesting. JotSpot Spreadsheet provide a more rich Spreadsheet experience since it support adding files, pictures, rich-format comments, and hyperlinks in additionn to calendar and maps views which provide more visuals for your data. Certainly you will see more of these great features very soon on Google Spreadsheet.
Numbler
Numbler is another
AJAX Spreadsheets solution which focus on collaboration online and sharing of spreadsheet in addition to the common feature to create and manage your spreadsheet. One of the great features of Numbler the Chat icon on the top which show users connected so you can discuss in real time about the spreadsheet. Numbler provide
API to access their service, but security remain a major issue for sharing spreadsheet on the service.
Read Numbler's Review
NumSum
NumSum is a one of the very first
AJAX Spreadsheet implementation, created by
TrimPath, simple and provide social features to share spreadsheets with your friends or working group. NumSum is totally free and will remain like that, there is a paid service which will provide advanced features for users.
Read NumSum's Review
OpenRecord
OpenRecord is an open source Wiki/Spreadsheet solution by the Dojo Foundation, the concept is very different from all others
AJAX Spreadsheets we are talking about here because it's mainly a wiki engine but geared toward loosely-structured database content.
Simple Spreadsheet
Simple Spreadsheet is an open source AJAX Spreadsheet implementation providing a ready to use component using Javascript and PHP. Simple Spreadsheet provide graph support via JpGraph in addition to basic features to create and manipulate online spreadsheets. Read Simple Spreadsheet's Review
wikiCalc
wikiCalc is an open source Wiki-Spreadsheet solution which aims to provide more than just paragraphs to create web pages. wikiCalc in addition to the very basic Spreadsheet feature provide many advanced wiki features. No graphics supports either here.
ZohoSheet
ZohoSheet is part of the
Zoho online office suite and provide a complete solution to manage your spreadsheets online. ZohoSheet allow you to create and share your spreadsheets, import and export to excel, in addition to a web
API to build your mashups. Notice that ZohoSheet allow advanced graph creation in addition to comments. One of the best
AJAX Spreadsheets implementation.
Do you think AJAX Spreadsheets succeeded to provide alternative to the desktop solution ?
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