Brazilian Web Portal UOL Launches CM4all OnlineDrive

CM4all, provider of web-based applications, announced that UOL has launched the fully branded, English and Brazilian Portuguese versions of the CM4all OnlineDrive.

Since its launch in 1996, UOL has been the main Brazilian portal in the Internet. It has the world’s broadest range of content in Portuguese, attracting seven out of every ten Brazilian Internet users. UOL has achieved this extraordinary standing thanks to its record of reliability and innovation. During its 13 years in existence, UOL has become synonymous with the Brazilian Internet by offering the best news, sports and entertainment content in addition to services and products tailored to the needs of the growing web public.

With the CM4all OnlineDrive, UOL can now offer state-of-the-art online file storage enabling scalable fulfillment of the market’s need for online file sharing and storage space. The CM4all application includes file management, and file viewing and sharing options with data center levels of file protection that can be used to access, store, back up and edit digital documents, music, and photos anywhere in the world on any computer with Internet access.

"We took great care in evaluating the market for a technology that meets our requirements and are pleased to have found a trusted partner in CM4all who supports our business with exciting value-added services," states Mauro Amaral, Jr., UOL’s Product Portfolio Director.

In addition to a Web 2.0 file management system featuring familiar drag-and-drop operation, the CM4all OnlineDrive offers value-added features such as an ActiveX uploader enabling fast upload of multiple image files or ZIP archives and a Backup Client for advanced file security and synchronization for both PCs and Macs. It also includes an image editor, comprehensive file views, extensive file searching options, as well as advanced file sharing and user management capabilities.

Released with a UOL-branded Backup Client, the CM4all OnlineDrive allows UOL’s customers to conveniently and automatically back-up their digital resources according to simple and intuitive rules they can easily define. With advanced scheduling, file synchronization, WebDAV access and the creation of multiple profiles and filters, users can be sure that the latest versions of their photos, videos, music, e-mails, documents and project files are always available and safe.

"Flexibility is fundamental for SaaS models. The installation of the CM4all OnlineDrive at UOL shows once more how easily our products can be tailored, implemented and integrated into existing systems so that our partners can concentrate on their main business without neglecting value-added services," explains Robert Schovenberg, CEO of CM4all.

Complete integration is based on redundant cluster architecture with multiple servers and is scaled to ensure efficient service for hundreds of thousands accounts, even in grid-failure situations.