Access SharePoint 2003 Data Offline, For Free!

Last week Colligo Networks has released beta 3 of a cool product called Colligo for SharePoint (see Anthony's post). Basically it allows you to take SharePoint data offline (just like you will be able to do in Outlook 2007).

Created to deliver rich functionality in an uncomplicated way, the Colligo SharePoint product family is the easiest solution to deploy, install, learn and use. These products require no server components and are compatible with all shipping versions of Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server. They provide a new level of SharePoint feature support in a client-only implementation, including document and InfoPath form libraries with custom metadata and views, custom lists and many standard lists including events, issues, links, contacts, announcements, tasks and agendas.

There are two versions: Colligo Reader and Colligo Contributor for SharePoint. The first one only allows you to read offline data, while the second one also enables you to modify data offline, and synchronize the changes. And the good news is that Colligo Reader for SharePoint is free!