Email Expert from ClearContext Available to Share Perspectives around Microsoft Office 2007 and Rise of "InfoMania"

Business Wire, Nov 29, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft Office 2007 will soon be available to corporate customers, and users anxious to assess whether new features meet up to Microsoft's advance buildup. Early beta users have already commented on Outlook 2007's improved functionality that promise to aide the way organizations do business and users manage their incoming workload.

In advance of Microsoft's Office 2007 rollout, Deva Hazarika, CEO of ClearContext, is available to comment on the ubiquitous office suite's new features including:

- Office 2007 -- arrival of the platform

- Extensible APIs to facilitate data availability

- Integration capabilities to enable cross-component collaboration

- Areas of needed improvement

Dealing with email, multi-tasking and interruptions has become de rigueur in the workplace, yet this burden is negatively impacting workers' effectiveness and quality of life. Efforts are underway to gather leading experts from industry and academia to collaborate on introducing real-world improvements to this growing "infomania" dilemma.

Mr. Hazarika can also comment on email trends in the workplace, including:

- Email is how projects and responsibilities are now assigned in the workplace. Consequently, email has morphed from simple communications to time-intensive documents driving impromptu tasks and projects.

- A flood of new applications have surfaced to manage email automation from wikis to blogs to virtual email assistants to project management.

- Email the killer appCois killing productivity. Companies and people are adopting a range of approaches to manage this growing "occupational burden" of unrelenting email communiques. Users can employ a range of nifty email features from "email snooze buttons" to "unsubscribe buttons" to manage the overload.

For the past several years, Mr. Hazarika has been working with users and companies to seek improvements to email challenges. With this feedback, Mr. Hazarika and his team have expertly applied technology to introduce a new level of automation to the most widely-used email application, Microsoft Outlook, with his company's flagship product ClearContext. Mr. Hazarika is available to provide 3rd party perspective across a range of issues related to Microsoft Outlook 2007 and the rising infomania ordeal.