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 AppGap Analyst Bill Ives reviews Traction TeamPage Release 4.2 new capabilities, focusing on the Developer Release preview of Traction's Google Web Toolkit (GWT) based Proteus interface. Traction Software President Greg Lloyd demonstrated Proteus using Traction's production TeamPage server and content. Bill includes screen shots of Proteus Feed views that make it easy to scan and navigate status, new content, edits, tag and moderation actions by space or person - including aggregate roll-up views. Proteus' use of GWT technology makes updates and navigation speedy using automatically compiled web-browser optimized updates that are delivered incrementally. This makes navigation, inline editing and animation effects fast, simple and attractive as well as extensible and developer friendly. Bill concludes: "I think these are all very smart moves and makes Traction more attractive to large enterprise. There is the greater flexibility of interface through Google Web Toolkit, more robust search through Attivio, and heavy duty data management through Oracle. I am looking forward to seeing what they do next." » Read the Full Story
See also Introducing Proteus (demo) for brief tour and Proteus GWT Tech talk slides and interviews. |
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 CMSWire's David Roe says Traction Software Release 4.2 has added "... new features that gives users the ability to post content and comments on company wikis or blogs ‘on the road’ with simple, secure two-way email based collaboration." Roe characterizes this release as "... more than just an upgrade enabling collaboration using Blackberry or other mobile devices" with its use of a new internal architecture that enables Attivio search and an Oracle RDB backend demonstrated at Enterprise 2.0 San Francisco. » Read the Full Story |
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 AppGap Analyst Bill Ives interviews Attivio CTO Sid Probstein and VP of Marketing Maryanne Sinville on Traction Software's selection of the Attivio Active Intelligence Engine™ to power Traction TeamPage advanced search and content navigation. Sid explains how Attivio's early binding and query-side JOIN operator allows TeamPage to "link security with content that matches the users query and permissions". Sid provides examples using Traction TeamPage Release 4.2 screenshots showing Attivio powered TeamPage permission aware search, faceted navigation and tag clouds, and discusses Attivio's sentiment analyzer and Classification Module. » Read the Full Story |
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 Bersin & Associates' analyst David Mallon included a profile of Traction TeamPage in his report Enterprise Social Software 2009: Facts, Practical Analysis, Trends and Provider Profiles. The product profile shows "Complete or near complete functionality" in their Key Features Support, Collaboration, and Conversations score card. In the review of Traction TeamPage, the report says: "Traction also beats the odds when it comes to ability to innovate (the company is technologically at the top of the wiki field) and in providing customer support... Out of the box, Traction Software’s TeamPage application is the most fully featured social software platform covered in this study. It has the security and permissions models required to meet IT’s standards. The interface is clean and user-friendly." » Read The Full Report (Bersin Subscription or Payment Required) |
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 David Roe of CMSWire reviewed the latest TeamPage 4.1 release and the plug-ins for Metrics and Ratings. About the new Metrics plug-in, he says "Traction is pin-pointing interactive learning by community members, administrators and managers about the document as one of the key advantages... With the new tools, it will be possible for Wiki administrators to build the Wiki around identified needs rather than building on information that is often out of date and inaccurate." » Read the Full Story |
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 In his review of Traction's recently announced TeamPage 4.1, Bill Ives focuses on how TeamPage puts social software to work: "I think these are all good additions enabling more of the social side of work to be transparent, measured, enhanced, and contribute to increased enterprise performance." » Read Full Review at the AppGap |
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Michael Sampson is a well-known and respected collaboration market analyst, consultant and author (of Microsoft Press's Seamless Teamwork: Using Microsoft SharePoint Technologies to Collaborate, Innovate, and Drive Business in New Ways), Michael speaks with authority when it comes to assessing collaboration platforms. Sampson's post on TeamPage this week, Traction TeamPage: The One System to Rule It All, explains the threaded discussion and social tagging model in TeamPage. This post was one outcome of his investigation into E2.0 security and - in this case - how a strong security model can enable productive cross-workspace interactions. He concludes "The Traction team have done a fantastic job building security in from the ground up, and the level of configuration is fantastic. If you are in the market for a collaboration platform, check out what they are offering...[an example with screenshots followed by]... I think that rocks! " » Read More |
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 Bill Ives recaps a conversation about revenue growth records and offers a quick review of the new Traction TeamPage Live Blog interface. Ives writes "Because the interaction is supported in Traction, conversations you might otherwise have in IM or Twitter can take place securely within a TeamPage context with a robust content, tagging and discussion model." » Read the Full Story |
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 Since TeamPage 4.0 was released in June 2008 we're happy to report that reviewers and customers have consistently applauded the innovation TeamPage 4.0 brings to the market. When you want to be able to use wiki-style collaboration on products, plans and projects - as well as free-form encyclopedia pages - it quickly becomes obvious that you need to be able to distinguish between the 'latest stable version' of a constellation of pages and the 'work in progress cloud' created through collaborative editing. |
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 When it comes to Collaborative Intelligence, Traction TeamPage makes the grade. Traction TeamPage stood apart in Fuld & Company's Intelligence Software Report which rated TeamPage's support as Very Good or Excellent in four out of five stages of the intelligence cycle. Fuld's Intelligence Software report offers insight into the CI process and technology preferences of "CI Super Tech Users" and then rates 13 software platforms that are used most often by Competitive Intelligence teams. |
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 Scott Blitstein's review of Traction TeamPage 4.0 says: "TeamPage incorporates all of the standard features you would expect from a wiki / blog like linking, journaling, edit history, tagging and categorization, threaded comments and moderation. (But) It’s the advanced features that make it stand out though...The challenge for Traction is to balance a very powerful feature set with ease of use, and for the most part I think they pull this off." |
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 Paula Gregorowicz wrote a thorough review of TeamPage 4.0. Gregorowicz leads off the review by presenting the challenge E2.0 systems face in an effort to provide emergent freedom while also offering control and structure: |
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In his review of Traction's recently announced TeamPage 4.0, Bill Ives says: "TeamPage has been a highly rated Enterprise 2.0 platform for some time... The upgrades with Team Page 4.0 will only make it better." » Read Full Review at the AppGap |
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 Clint Boulton's review of Traction TeamPage 4.0 highlights the benefits of moderation and page name history: "Another area where the more discerning enterprise users will take pleasure in TeamPages 4.0 is in the software's enhanced moderation tools... These moderation tools create what is essentially an audit trail that shows a great deal more than the edit history in most wikis. Now that's what we call control." The article also quotes the UK National Health Service's use of TeamPage 4.0 to allow them to "work collaboratively and to fine-tune your posts before letting everyone else see them." » Read the Full Story |
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 TeamPage 4.0 earns top grades for Performance (A), Ease of Use (A-), Features (A), and Value (A-) in John Breeden's GCN review: A tool for smart sharing: TeamPage Helps You Manage and Make Good Use of Wikis and Blogs. After rating the new 4.0 release with A's in all categories, Breeden concludes that TeamPage is just the kind of wiki platform which can make an impact in Government: "Beyond the important matter of permissions, TeamPage's ability to
handle data is impressive. If more wikis were designed this way, they
probably would be more widely used in government, either as internal
tools or for public comment." » Read the Full Story |
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 Mike Heck's January 5, 2007 review ranked Traction TeamPage #1 in an InfoWorld Test Center roundup including TeamPage, Confluence, SocialText and Near-Time. The ranking earned TeamPage the "Best Enterprise Wiki" and the "InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year" award. The review concludes: Traction TeamPage clearly placed above the others with its superior ease of use and query ability that presented each user with just the knowledge they need. Traction TeamPage received an overall rating of Excellent with a 9.0 score. » Read the full InfoWorld Review |
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Best Enterprise Wiki InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year Award, Jan 1, 2007: "Traction TeamPage, built on 100 percent Java technology, combines the group editing of a wiki with project blogs. Labels organize posts within users' projects, and robust permissioning ensures that pages are delivered dynamically based on a user's rights. Maybe best of all, widgets can present links or content driven by any Traction query." » See InfoWorld Award page and Enterprise Wiki Roundup | InfoWorld Test Center Review. |
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 December 18, 2006: P.G. Daly of Intranet Journal's Test Lab wrote a terrific and comprehensive review of Traction. The full review is worth reading, but here are a few quotes: |
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 Burton Group's Peter O'Kelly's report titled Hypertext and Compound/Interactive Document Models: Collaboration and Content Management Implications
goes a long way towards explaining the benefits of and drive towards
hypertext (a platform for blogs and wikis and more) as a backbone for
collaborative work and communication. In the report, Burton Group says Traction TeamPage... "...comes
closest to bringing the visions of hypertext pioneer Doug Engelbart to
fruition, and that it is also a very useful leading indicator in terms
of features other vendors will eventually add." |
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Register for a free copy of the Report In its latest survey of 17 competitive intelligence software packages [including Traction TeamPage], Fuld & Co. urges executives to match packages based not only on their features, but also on how they fit with a company's approach and progress in utilizing competitive intelligence techniques... |
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Traction
is a web-based platform for sharing and aggregating information across
an enterprise. It includes sophisticated tools to enable blogging,
information sharing and interactive communication and these tools make
it well suited to an organisation serious about how it stores and
accesses information... |
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John Breeden II - Collaboration tools can benefit almost any
organization. But what can you do if your users are spread far and wide
and are not all techies? TeamPage 3.6 from Traction Software may
provide the answer. Technically, TeamPage is enterprise-level blogging
software... TeamPage puts your entire organization into the
content-sharing mix. The end user does not have to be technically savvy
to use TeamPage... anyone - from your security guards to your database
engineers - can use the system, but each interacts with TeamPage at a
different level. |
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 Version 3.6 was recently released, bringing with it new features that let users communicate more effectively...Traction TeamPage's new rich text options make it easy to format comments... new to version 3.6 is an RSS feed reader, letting you easily add RSS feeds to your TeamPage pages. You'll also get hybrid authentication with 3.6, via multiple directory servers including LDAP, Active Directory, and Traction's own directory. » Read More |
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 Blogs are not just for blowhards anymore. We review five blogging packages that can suit a range of business sizes and budgets... Traction is designed as a communication environment, and as such has various security levels to separate groups and their projects. This makes Traction a good fit for companies with multiple projects and multiple groups because Traction allows each to be defined with its own privileges. |
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| Scott Blitstein's review of Traction TeamPage 4.0 says: "TeamPage incorporates all of the standard features you would expect from a wiki / blog like linking, journaling, edit history, tagging and categorization, threaded comments and moderation. (But) It’s the advanced features that make it stand out though...The challenge for Traction is to balance a very powerful feature set with ease of use, and for the most part I think they pull this off." |
| Even with the powerful feature set, Blitstein had the system up and ready in less than an hour. He says: "Even though it is marketed as an Enterprise Wiki, the system isn’t inherently enterprise. It doesn’t require extensive infrastructure and has a low to moderate bar for deployment." This simplicity is just what you need to get any system deployed, whether you're Fortune 10 or fortunate to have 10 employees. » Read the Full Review at Web Worker Daily. |
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