Remindo: Enhancing Communication

Remindo.com which belongs to the Orios group was founded by Rehan yar Khan (CEO, Flora2000.com). Rehan who sits on the board for Druvaa another VC backed IT product firm, is also the founder of the Mumbai chapter of the Indian Angel Network. Ashok Kurien, the Co-founder for Remindo, has also founded Ambiance Advertising, Hanmer Partners Communications and Zee TV. He currently serves as Chairman Publicis India and Director Zee TV.

Remindo.com is a SaaS Intranet with a project collaboration flavor. Using Remindo.com, businesses can help their team and clients connect, communicate better and work efficiently. Remindo uses a freemium model for its pricing. It is currently free for up to 3 GB of storage for every company intranet. An enhanced and paid subscription based version will be released soon.

This is how it works:

If a user from companyX signs up, a free online intranet is automatically created for companyX. He then invites his team and clients to the intranet. Now once these invitees sign up, they are automatically added to the same intranet. They get a shared project calendar, an IM (for chatting) and a Facebook-like share area for communication and sharing information.

Companies can also brand their intranet with their logos and even get a customized web address like https://intranet.mycompany.com. There is no limit on the number of users, projects or clients. Clients can only see activities that they are authorized for. On Remindo, users can upload and share files of up to 200 MB each with their clients and team. Every intranet gets 3 GB of free storage and VeriSign SSL security (used by 94 percent of Fortune 500 companies)

Remindo takes care of three key problems for businesses:

1. Senior managers are often not able to gauge the progress of projects. Teams often don't know what else is happening in their company and silos are created. Remindo helps break this mould and increases visibility of work and project progress by bringing them in a loop

2. Email was never designed as a project management tool but that's how it is being used and abused. Managing projects through email invariably leads to multiple threads that break down; files that get lost and important people that are not copied in. Remindo consolidates all project related communication and archives them systematically in a way that managers and teams find useful. It can save several hours of a manager's time that he wasted digging through email every day.

3. Project Management software doesn't click with users because they are often hard to use and no one wants to learn anything new. Remindo has taken cues from Facebook and Twitter to learn how people really like to interact. This means that users find themselves in a familiar and comfortable environment inside Remindo that leads to rapid adoption and productivity boosts for companies.

4. The personalization features allow businesses and freelancers to create a formal presence on the internet that can help them appear professional and organized.

Remindo's interface puts people at ease and therefore reduces rejection rate. It doesn't place any limit on the number of users, clients or projects - and it is all for free. Also, users can share files of up to 200 MB each with their teams and clients using Remindo. No email or project collaboration service supports this so users that need to exchange big files in their line of work (like designers) find this to be a great plus. Most importantly, Remindo's support is 365x24x7 and is already getting rave reviews from its users.