We like to call Kerika the smarter alternative to email but Kerika is also the smarter alternative to team sites like SharePoint, eRoom and Lotus – and, we might add, the smarter alternative to hosted services.

Here's why Kerika is a better option than using a team site:

• When the team site server is down, everyone is out of luck. Kerika, on the other hand, works as a peer-to-peer network: there is no single point of failure – all of your project files, documents, notes, etc. are always on your laptop, and that's true for everyone on the project team. So, if nine out of 10 people on a project team crash their laptops, the team could still recover a complete set of project documentation from the sole survivor!


• You can work offline when you have to, like when you are 30,000 ft. above sea level. With team sites it can be painful making sure your laptop is properly synch'ed up with a central server.


• Team sites are little more than a big shared folder in the sky, which means they come with all the traditional hassles of using shared folders: if one person starts to edit a document, everyone else must make do with a read-only copy. That's never a problem with Kerika's distributed document management which automatically files every modifed version of every document on everyone's laptop!


• And, perhaps best of all, Kerika lets you share content in context: you can sketch out your project as a set of compelling, even visually stunning Idea Pages and embed your content – documents, emails, files of all sorts and shapes – directly onto these Pages. Which means that your colleagues don't just get your files, they get the big picture as well, just as if they were in the same room with you, looking at the same whiteboard...