Once again HyperOffice has proven that they can reclaim their status as a pioneer and a leader. We’ve talked about some of their breakthroughs previously – but their new conferencing technology – HyperMeeting – fills a real gap in the web conferencing marketplace.

Here are the the biggest breakthroughs from HyperMeeting in our opinion…

There are a lot of incredibly useful features that none of the confercing solutions we’ve used offer, but the core gap that HyperMeeting has filled is the ability to share applications, documents or even your entire desktop with meeting participants in real time.

Also incredibly useful is the ability to transfer files to all of the participants. How many times have you needed to discuss a document in a meeting and had to email the document to everyone and then wait for them to retrieve it to get the meeting started? HyperMeeting makes those days obsolete.

Are you doing business globally? Then you know that the entire world is not on broadband. In fact there it was not until July of 2008 that Broadband penetration in Australia exceeded the number of dialup users there. In other words this is not an issue that only affects developing nations.

So how does HyperMeeting solve this problem? Caching is fine and they do that, but they go behind the basic caching of other services and display fixed dimension slides when slow connections are detected.

The other thing HyperMeeting offers that is quite unique is “control-passing” which allows participants to take control of presenting which allows everyone to participate. Another gap they’ve filled in the traditional conferencing marketplace.

For those of you who have used systems that require a software download, you’ll be happy to know that HyperMeeting has eliminated that step which can sometimes be a hurdle for meeting participants.

Click here for more about HyperMeeting. HyperMeeting also offers a free trial with no credit card required.