VTU chooses Sabeer Bhatia's online office suite 'Live Documents'

The Visvesvaraya Technological
University (VTU) has announced that it has chosen Live Documents, the
online office suite developed by Sabeer Bhatia-founded InstaColl for
its 187 engineering colleges and more than 2 lakh students. VTU's Vice
Chancellor, Dr Maheshappa
signed an agreement to this effect with Sabeer Bhatia at an event,
which was attended by MN Vidyashankar, Principal Secretary-Governance
Department, Government of Karnataka, and Dr DS Ravindran, CEO,
Center for e-Governance.

Speaking at the event, Dr Maheshappa
said, “VTU always looks forward for creating a culture of
innovation in engineering education and research. We are looking
forward to working with Internet pioneer and globally acknowledged
technology innovator, Sabeer Bhatia to roll out the next-generation
office productivity suite that his company has developed within our
colleges. I am confident that our students will benefit immensely
from using this solution.”

Sabeer Bhatia remarked, “Live
Documents will do for documents what Hotmail did for e-mail-free it
up from confines of the desktop and open up new vistas of
collaboration and accessibility. Live Documents is a 'Made-in-India'
software product that was conceived and developed right here in
Bengaluru and it gives me great pleasure to see progressive
institutions like VTU adopt it and support the case for developing
more world-class products in India.”