The Office 2.0 Conference is a fun event to attend with many interesting web-based apps to explore. Ismael Ghalimi is a very passionate conference host, who boasts 100% use of web/SaaS-based applications to run the event. Ismael has also taken a firm stand on the use of paper and signage at his conference with nary a pulp-based product in sight. I got quite a few demos while attending the conference today, but a few of them stood out for me.

Topping my list is Yuuguu, a mostly web-based, real-time collaboration tool. What makes Yuuguu cool is the way it trivializes web-based desktop sharing. The application supports up to 30 users sharing desktops with the simple click of a button.

I was also impressed with a storage application from Egnyte. The designers of Egnyte built a web-based file server, back-up and collaboration application with a key distinction - it looks a lot like a Windows Explorer interface. Their application is simple but elegant.

The big buzzword at the conference this year was “the cloud.” There’s been a lot of news lately fueling the frenzy around cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service. Many of the exhibitors at Office 2.0 were eager to share their vision for everything the cloud has to offer. One such company was Appirio. Appirio offers enterprise-grade business solutions based on the Salesforce.com and Google Apps platforms. Calendar and contact sync, document search and CRM dashboards are some of the products Appirio offers.

I was also impressed with the demo from 3tera. 3tera provides data center infrastructure on-demand. What impressed me with the 3tera product is the drag and drop provisioning of services. Adding servers, load balancers, firewalls with a simple, web-based interface- changes that would take days and weeks to address in a physical data center.

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