In business, our world generally revolves around files – the lifeblood of most organisations. As more people jump on the online bandwagon, file transfer has become one of the most common online activities.

For many years, email has been the most-frequently used medium for file transfer. It’s convenient, direct and private; and allows people to send word documents, images, spreadsheets and presentations.

But what about large files like videos and high resolution images? Most email systems limit the size of attachments allowed. People have managed to work around this using other options like USB sticks, CDs and memory cards. But these aren’t so useful now that we’re becoming a more mobile world.

Lately, we’ve seen the emergence of file-sharing applications hosted in the cloud, like DropBox and YouSendIt. While these applications solve the problem of sending large files, they are standalone applications that don’t provide integration between the message and the file (like email does).

So, what’s the solution?

A cloud-hosted, online collaboration application that combines email with file-sharing.

CORUS takes it one step further and integrates messages and files with topics, tasks and calendar events. It’s an online application that allows access from any web browser and from any device. And it keeps confidential items private. CORUS was built with the principles of seamless online collaboration in mind.