NewsGator puts hosted business RSS service online

NewsGator on Monday introduced a hosted version of its enterprise RSS product suite.

NewsGator Enterprise On-Demand is designed to let small and medium-sized organizations manage and distribute RSS feeds. The software also syncs up RSS feeds among different devices, such as desktop PCs and mobile phones.

The service can be set up without having to involve IT staff, said Dave Keller, the general manager of NewsGator's enterprise business. For that reason, the company expects that small companies or teams within a large corporation will use the product, he said.

NewsGator is well-known for its consumer RSS software, including NewsGator Inbox for reading RSS feeds in Microsoft Exchange and FeedDemon.

Consumer and business-related revenue is about the same, but the company expects that its enterprise group will grow faster this year, Keller said.