Really Simple Systems announces integration with Google Calendar

First hosted application to link to Google's new offering

25th April 2006

Really Simple Systems, the UK based hosted CRM service designed to be simple to use and to run, today announced an industry first, built in support for Google's new web based Calendar product, available as from today.

Really Simple Systems is the first hosted product to offer this link and now all users will be able to automatically add tasks and appointments to their Google calendar with a click of a mouse, directly from Really Simple Systems.

"This new release allows users to share their calendars with any other Google Calendar user, not just those of our subscribers." said Really Simple Systems' CEO John Paterson, "Small companies want to share calendars over the web but don't want the complexity doing that with Microsoft Outlook."

Nick Hewson, managing director of Hewson Group commented "This is a very interesting example of how Software as a Service is developing. Many smaller companies don't have, or can't afford, the sort of infrastructure that allows the functionality they need. Really Simple Systems have demonstrated with its link to Google's calendar that a low cost alternative is viable"

The link between Really Simple Systems and Google Calendar uses industry standard iCal technology. The company will be broadening the interface to link to other iCal based web calendars such as Mozilla FireFox and Apple's iCalendar at a later date.

About Really Simple Systems
Really Simple Systems Hosted CRM is aimed at small and medium sized organisations with between 5 and 50 sales people who want a straightforward hosted CRM system. The hosted model will appeal in particular to companies with multiple locations and sales people who work remotely or at home. The complete system is available for a simple monthly fee of £35 per user. Users include the Royal Academy of Arts and the British Library as well as many small and medium sized companies.

About Hewson Group
Through both research and publications, Hewson Group became perhaps the best known CRM analysts in Europe during the nineties. In the last five years Hewson Group has re-enforced its reputation for accurate market size and trend information and has been involved with some of the worlds largest vendors for both strategic advisory work and for Merger and Acquisitions assignments.