Data management.

• Position: Technology Tools - Spreadsheet management software

KnowNow Inc., a provider of Publish-Subscribe technology for the Internet, addresses the important problem of tracking corporate data contained in Microsoft[R] Excel spreadsheets. Today's business processes feature the tight integration of employees, desktop computer devices, corporate data and personal productivity applications like spreadsheets. Getting control of this desktop data for workgroup collaboration and integrating it with back-end systems, however, can prove to be a nightmare.

KnowNow says its Publish-Subscribe technology improves the visibility of critical business information by publishing updates instantly to browsers, spreadsheets, desktop applications and mobile devices. This allows organizations to become more agile and better able to react to business demands.

With KnowNow's Internet-based technology, corporations can share spreadsheet data in real time. This enables collaborative workgroups in departments such as finance and sales to share spreadsheet data without the typical error-prone method of email and cut-and-paste. With a KnowNow-enabled spreadsheet, cells can be defined as either publish or subscribe; as new data is entered into a cell, data is immediately available to all subscribers to that cell.

Finance teams can now simultaneously share and...