Sept 2014 | KMWorld names TeamPage a Trend-Setting Product of 2014
On Sept 1, 2014 KMWorld recognized Traction® Software's TeamPage as a Trend-Setting Product of 2014. KMWorld editor Hugh McKellar writes: "This year, we looked at more than 600 products. Traction® TeamPage was selected by the panel because it demonstrates thoughtful, well-reasoned innovation and execution for the most important constituency of them all: the customer.” Traction Software is honored that KMWorld has again selected TeamPage as a Trend-Setting Product. TeamPage customers such as Alcoa and Athens Group show the value of integrated action tracking and collaboration in support of knowedge management, quality management, project management, and similar business activities. Read KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2014
Aug 2014 | Providence Business News - Social tools being adapted for Web-based QC tool
Writing in the 8 Aug 2014 Providence Business News, Staff Writer Patrick Anderson interviewed Traction® Software VP of Sales Jordan Frank and Thomas Cogdell, DTA quality manager for Houston-based firm The Athens Group. The oil-rig consulting firm purchased Traction® TeamPage to support its push for ISO 9001 certified rig inspection, verification and technology assurance services. Anderson quotes Cogdell: “The reason we chose it is because it is Web based with a good security audit and trail feature,” said Thomas Cogdell, DTA quality manager for Athens Group. “Every change to every document is tracked and reported on, and nothing gets lost. It gives us the flexibility to encourage employees to add to the knowledge base freely and the quality control we need.” » Read the full story
March 2014 | Traction Software Named to KMWorld's 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management
For the tenth consecutive year, KMWorld recognized Traction® Software, naming the company to their annual KMWorld 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. "Traction Software has proven to define the spirit of practical innovation by blending sparkling technology with a deep, fundamental commitment to customer success," says Hugh McKellar, KMWorld editor-in-Chief. The list is compiled by analysts, system integrators, and a select group of users along with KMWorld colleagues over a one year period.
Sept 2013 | KMWorld names TeamPage a Trend-Setting Product of 2013
On Sept 1, 2013 KMWorld recognized Traction® Software's TeamPage as a Trend-Setting Product of 2013. KMWorld editor Hugh McKellar writes: "The common thread running through all the products listed here is the unique value—and potential value—they offer the organization, its workers and their various constituencies." Traction Software is honored that KMWorld has again selected Traction® TeamPage as a Trend-Setting Product. TeamPage customers such as Athens Group show the value of an integrated Quality Management system, industry knowledge base, and training curriculum. TeamPage enables Athens Group to train and support a rapidly growing cadre of expert consultants helping customers design, construct, and operate safe, reliable drilling rigs and platforms around the world. Read KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2013
1 March 2013 | Traction Software Named to KMWorld's 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management
For the ninth consecutive year, KMWorld recognized Traction® Software by naming the company to their annual KMWorld 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. KMWorld’s list is compiled by KM practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors, their customers and colleagues. This is the 13th year of the list. "Criteria for inclusion varies, but all companies have things in common. Each has either helped to create a market, redefine one or enhance one, and they all share two things—the velocity of innovation and the agility to serve their customers" says Hugh McKellar, KMWorld Editor-in-Chief.
Greg Lloyd, Traction Software President and co-founder said: "We're honored that KMWorld consistently ranks Traction Software as a company that matters in Knowledge Management. Traction Software employees work closely with customers to build a stronger and more useful Traction® TeamPage platform." Lloyd continued, "Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter 2012 TeamPage releases introduced many user interface, performance, and Developer SDK additions and improvements to make it easier for customers to get work done. I thank Traction Software's employees and customers for earning this recognition." See the 2013 KMWorld 100 list.
25 Oct 2012 | ZDNET Japan on the TeamPage Cloud
A column in ZDNet Japan covered the release by Applied Knowledge Co, Ltd, Yokohama of the TeamPage Cloud in Japan. They wrote "The greatest advantage of TeamPage is that it provides the virtual space to aggregate any information concerning the business and progress in the work space." The column discusses how companies in Japan can take advantage of collaboration tools like Traction® TeamPage to produce business value. Japanese companies can get started with Cloud and Download options as of the first of October 2012.
1 Sept 2012 | KMWorld names TeamPage A Trend-Setting Product of 2012
KMWorld recognized Traction® Software's TeamPage as a 2012 Trend-Setting Product of 2012, citing Traction® TeamPage for "action tracking, Twitter-style status, threaded discussion, collaboration, social networking and deep search." KMWorld editor Hugh McKellar writes: "This year more than 700 products/product families were whittled down to the 89 listed in these pages. Each company whose products are listed below helped to define and enhance a market critically important to our readership by listening to and working with customers. They all represent a commitment to innovation and their customers." Traction Software is honored that KMWorld has selected TeamPage as a Trend-Setting Product for the fifth consecutive year. » Read KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2012
23 Apr 2012 | Traction Software Named Finalist for MIT Sloan CIO Symposium 2012 Innovation Showcase
Cambridge, MA – April 23, 2012 – The 9th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium has announced Traction® Software as one of ten finalists for the 2012 Innovation Showcase as its Traction® TeamPage product represents a cutting edge B2B solution that combines the strong value and innovation to enterprise IT. Traction Software will receive key exposure to many of the world’s most creative and influential IT executives at the Symposium on May 22, 2012.
7 March 2012 | Forbes - Social Business Is A More Moral Form of Business: Discuss
Forbes.com contributor Haydn Shaughnessey says: "Traction, for my money, is the best conceived collaboration suite for company’s that have a technical development requirement." He cites Traction® Software as an example of a business that successfully competes with large companies like IBM by retaining: "... close attention to client needs, a personal desire to explore changes in the work environment, and a desire to see those reflected in the platform." Thank you! Shaughnessy is co-author of a new ebook, The Elastic Enterprise an account of how some stellar companies are reinventing business. » Read the article.
1 March 2012 | Traction Software Named to KMWorld's 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management
For the eighth consecutive year, KMWorld recognized Traction® Software by naming the company to their KMWorld 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. The list is compiled by a team of judges including KMWorld editors, analysts, system integrators, theorists, practitioners and a few select users. "We're honored that KMWorld continues to rank Traction Software as a company that matters in Knowledge Management," said Greg Lloyd, Traction Software President and co-founder, "In 2011 Traction Software released Traction® TeamPage 5.2 introducing capabilities make live content in external documents, public or intranet Web pages, and even database records social objects seamlessly integrated with Traction TeamPage's action tracking, search, collaboration and communication. I thank Traction Software's employees and customers for earning this recognition, as well as KMWorld for awarding it." » See the 2012 KMWorld 100 list
11 Jan 2012 | Forbes - In Social Business, How to Prioritise a Successful Outcome
Forbes.com contributor Hayden Shaughnessy writes: "By moving social media practices into the enterprise we will change the way senior managers communicate, the way employees communicate with customers, and possibly people’s experience of work." He asked three platform vendors, including Traction® Software President and co-founder Greg Lloyd, to respond to three questions on how a company can make social a success, starting from Day 1 requirements, benefits to the employee and enterprise outcomes . Greg's advice includes: "“Social” use can informally open up a timeline of activity to make it easier for people working on the same activity – including people who may be from different parts of the organization or even customers, partners, suppliers. Jon Udell and Jim McGee call this “Observable Work” (on a personal basis “narrating your work” hits many of the same points). It’s very easy to do, and generally well accepted – people learn by example." » Read the article
21 Dec 2011 | エンタープライズソーシャル＋サーチで「知識管理」の課題解決
ITPro Active has published a white paper by Traction® Software Partner Applied Knowledge Co, Ltd on Social Enterprise Knowledge Management and Search. A Google English translation of the article begins: "Knowledge management is an eternal challenge for companies. Traditional knowledge management approaches are not quite accumulated knowledge and fresh content to help you develop your business even if the substrate is stressed not utilize excessive accumulation have also been organized, and there is a problem."
7 Dec 2011 | Tech Expert Offers Advice to British Company That Plans to Ban E-mail for 80,000 Workers
PRNewswire Dec 7, 2011: Leading unified information access company, Attivio, suggests alternate approach to all-out ban. "Visionary companies must find ways to change the way e-mail is used; not banish it," commented Sid Probstein, Chief Technical Officer at Attivio in response to widely reported news that a 'zero email' policy is underway at one of the world's largest IT companies. Thierry Breton, CEO of British-based Atos, wants to phase out e-mails over the next 18 months.
29 Oct 2011 | KMWorld - Rich options expand the collaborative horizon
Writing in KMWorld Magazine Judith Lamont quotes Forrester Analyst Rob Koplowitz: "Many companies are placing a big bet on collaboration to support their business activities. In particular, the workplace is moving toward one in which many business applications are integrated through collaboration and exposed through the social layer." Lamont chooses Traction® Teampage customer the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) as her first example. BGRI is an international research project funded by the Gates Foundation and others to organize and conduct research aimed at stopping the spread of crop disease that threatens a third of the world's wheat supply. "The organization selected TeamPage from Traction Software as the collaboration solution and the Attivio Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) to aggregate the many types of content on the website. TeamPage includes wiki, blog and social networking capabilities. "We chose TeamPage because it could be deployed very quickly and was simple to use," says John Bakum, webmaster for the site, which is hosted by Cornell. The site was up and running in just a few weeks, and has grown rapidly over the past several years."
1 Sept 2011 | KMWorld names TeamPage A Trend-Setting Product of 2011
KMWorld recognized Traction® Software's TeamPage as a Trend-Setting Product for 2011. Traction® TeamPage: "enables searching both external sources and TeamPage's Social Enterprise Web to discuss, tag, task, share and badge internal or external content." KMWorld's judging panel of editorial colleagues, analysts, system integrators and users evaluated over 800 products in reaching their decision for KMWorld's ninth annual list. Traction Software is honored that KMWorld has selected TeamPage as a Trend-Setting Product for the fourth time. » Read KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2011
23 Aug 2011 | Financial Times - Tapping the Full Power of Social Software as a Strategic Tool
Writing in the 23 Aug 2011 Financial Times, John Hagel and John Seely Brown of the Deloitte Center for the Edge advise CIO's how to improve performance, usually without increasing spending. They recommend that CIO's identify their biggest pain points, and adopt a Performance Improvement Funnel approach to leverage the unique, full value of social software. Hagel and Brown cite two examples from their Feb 2011 Social Software for Business study including: "Alcoa Fastening Systems reduced time spent on compliance activities by 61 percent using an internal collaborative platform provided by Traction® Software. Both companies targeted specific pain points and were able to deliver tangible improvement in performance that mattered to the senior executives of the firm." » Read the full story
27 June 2011 | Forbes - Reevaluating Performance Management
Forbes Connected Business blogger Rawn Shaw writes on the value of keeping a record of your work. This observable work practice documents your accomplishments, helps you understand your own performance, preserves knowledge, and provides context when you and others work on the same project, talk to the same customer, or you transfer to a new job. Shaw says: "The subtler psychological point is that it is easier to document and track a project or activity if you can do it in the flow of what you are doing, rather than returning after the activity is complete... In talking to Larry Hawes, analyst and consultant at Dow Brook Advisory Services, vendors like Traction® Software and IBM provide the tools to support managing a practice of observable work." » Read the full story
24 June 2011 | Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check - Marrying deep search and collaboration
Analyst Peter O'Kelly comments on KMWorld's Marrying deep search and navigation saying "...While it may not (yet…) be trendy to be the market-leading collaborative hypertext journaling platform, I believe that’s what the Traction team has created, and that TeamPages’s underlying architecture and flexibility, especially when used in conjunction with Attivio for faceted search and navigation, make it especially powerful for the various types of tools and services (workspaces, blogs, wikis, activity streams, tagging, tasks, etc.) now commonly associated with “social” software/services." » Read the full post
22 June 2011 | KMWorld - Marrying deep search and collaboration
Traction and Attivio team up for the enterprise Traction® Software has released TeamPage Attivio Search Plus to index and search external sources and Traction® TeamPage's Social Enterprise Web to discuss, tag, task, share and badge internal or external content. These TeamPage options connect TeamPage with structured data or unstructured content in sources including Microsoft SharePoint, EMC Documentum, Microsoft Exchange, file servers, SQL databases, intranets, and the public Web. » Read the full story
21 June 2011 | Asahi.com「TeamPage 5.2」を販売開始 ～タスクリスト機能を強化、プロジェクト全体の俯瞰的な状況把握を可能に～
Yokohama Japan, 21 Jun 2011 Applied Knowledge Company, Inc President Masayuki Kojima announces availability of Traction® TeamPage 5.2 in Japan. The newest release of TeamPage includes an enhanced task list, providing enhanced situational awareness and a birds-eye view of entire projects. TeamPage includes a fully localized Japanese user interface selectable as a default or personal preference as well as Japanese language search. » Read the Japanese language release or Google English translation.
15 June 2011 | The App Gap - Software Announcements at the Boston Enterprise 2.0 Conference
Bill Ives writes in The App Gap: The Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston this coming week is often a place for related new product announcements. That is certainly the case this year. Here is the list of companies making announcements leading up to or at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference that I received this week. I have also spoken to three of the firms this week, Adobe, NewsGator, and Traction, and more in-depth coverage of their new moves will follow on this blog. I am also scheduled to speak to a few others in the coming weeks. » Read the full story
14 June 2011 | Fierce Content Management - One on One with Greg Lloyd of Traction Software
Fierce Content Management editor Ron Miller interviews Traction® Software President and co-founder Greg Lloyd. Topics include: Enterprise 2.0 evolution, business benefits and barriers to wide-spread adoption; relationship between content management, enterprise collaboration tools, search and knowledge management; why Traction Software decided to introduce a project-driven metaphor for Traction® TeamPage collaboration: "GL: I believe the ability to link plans, actions, discussion and work product (in any system of record) in context is the key to unlocking the value of social software for businesses of any size." » Read the full story
20 May 2011 | CMS Wire - Traction Updates TeamPage to v5.2, Adds HTML 5
CMS Wire reporter Geoff Spick on Traction® TeamPage 5.2: "Having made a big play of tracking and collaboration in last year's 5.1 TeamPage release of its social enterprise tool, Traction makes reading what's going on easier with the introduction of slick-looking, context-based dashboards and activity feeds in the new 5.2 release." He says: "Able to view projects by tasks, people working on them, conversation threads, Traction TeamPage can be used by all parties, including teams, clients and other users with permission-based access to appropriate parts of a project and encourage collaboration and rapid solution of speed bumps or problems" » Read the Full Story
16 May 2011 | Fierce Content Management - TeamPage 5.2 adds dashboard and project tracking
Fierce Content Management editor Ron Miller describes Traction® TeamPage 5.2 as providing new tools to track different levels of project activity. The project dashboard tracks detailed actions, while also allowing you to step back to see the bigger picture. Miller says: "When you see something you like you can tag it or comment on it and help raise the visibility of the post for others who might be interested in it. Using the project metaphor as the basis for understanding information in the corporate social stream, the idea is to give you a hook on which to hang the information. » Read the Full Story
1 March 2011 | Traction Software Named to KMWorld's 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management
For the seventh consecutive year, KMWorld recognized Traction® Software's market leadership by naming the company to their KMWorld 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. The list is compiled by KMWorld's panel of KM practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors and their customers and colleagues. "We're honored that KMWorld continues to rank Traction Software as a company that matters in Knowledge Management," said Greg Lloyd, Traction Software President and co-founder, "In 2010 we brought Traction® TeamPage Release 5.0 and 5.1 to market, introducing a new generation of social software with integrated collaboration, communication, action tracking and exception handling along with a user interface that's fast, great looking and simple to use. I thank Traction Software's employees and customers for earning this recognition as well as KMWorld for awarding it." » See the 2011 KMWorld 100 list
23 Feb 2011 | Traction TeamPage customers Alcoa and Ensign Bickford featured in Deloitte "Social Software for Business Performance" report
Traction® TeamPage customers Alcoa Fastening Systems and Ensign Bickford Aerospace & Defense are featured in this independent Deloitte research report: Social Software for Business Performance (.pdf) - The missing link in social software: Measurable Business improvements by John Hagel III of the Deloitte Center for the Edge. See video interview with John Hagel and a Web version of the report, Metrics that Matter, published by Deloitte University Press.
15 Feb 2011 | GigaOM Pro - The Future of Work Platforms
GigaOm Pro analyst Haydn Shaughnessy writes "The enterprise collaboration space has entered an exciting new phase of collaboration. New software and applications are coming to market, as are new concepts for how to work and communicate in the knowledge age." Shaughnessy analyzes the new diversity of work, the human element, and provides key takeaways as well as reviews of hosted and E2.0 collaborative platforms. The free summary includes complete table of contents [ including Traction® Software in the E2.0 Platform space ]. A GigaOm Pro subscription is required to view the full report, with a seven day Free Trial available. » Read the summary see also The Future of Work Platforms: Like Jazz
15 Feb 2011 | Web Worker Daily - Looking Beyond the Features to Find Good Collaboration Tools
Simon Mackie of Web Worker Daily writes about the new GigaOm Pro report on The Future of Work Platforms (subscription required). Mackie highlights experience, driving new concepts in collaborative, work, ease of implementation, deep system integration, work process innovation, and stronger management oversight as potentially sustainable differentiators for companies [ including Traction® Software ] in a feature comparison table from the report. » Read the full story.
4 Feb 2010 | SFGate - New Research Benchmarks Best Practices in Mobile Marketing, Business Intelligence and Enterprise Collaboration
Gleanster today announced the publication of three new "Gleansight" benchmark reports, on Mobile Marketing, Business Intelligence and Enterprise Collaboration. Drawing from the experiences of more than five hundred companies, the reports offer a comprehensive look at how Top Performers are implementing each of these initiatives to achieve their desired business objectives.
14 Dec 2010 | TECH.ASCII.jp - プロジェクトの円滑な遂行をサポートする「TeamPage 5.1」 アプライドナレッジ、コラボレーションツールの新版を発表
12月13日、アプライドナレッジは、コラボレーションツール「TeamPage 5.1」を発表。同日より販売開始した。
1 Dec 2010 | KMWorld - Collaborate Completely
Traction® Software has announced new Traction® TeamPage capabilities to help teams work together more effectively. Traction TeamPage Release 5.1 makes it easy for individuals to see their own action plans, the status of shared projects, team workload, individual progress and team progress toward common goals--all within the context of the TeamPage collaboration and communication platform where the planned work can also be managed or done. » Read the full story
30 Nov 2010 | R&D Magazine | Borlaug Global Rust Initiative wins industry award
Cornell information specialists received a 2010 Forrester Groundswell Award Nov. 19 for the globalrust.org website, which provides wheat warriors the advantages they need to combat the virulent new diseases of wheat that threaten world food security... From the beginning, the project presented various communication challenges related to intranets and extranets that the DRRW Web team knew they would have to solve to engage all the project partners... "We wanted to engage wheat scientists and promote multidimensional engagement," said Nelson, former communications director for the DRRW and an extension associate at Cornell. "We were looking for the ability to mix social, mobile, multichannel and media to make it easier for these high-value scientists to work together."... A combination of Traction® TeamPage software and Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine enables the globalrust.org website to be user-friendly and deliver key content to more than 300 researchers daily » Read the full story
22 Nov 2010 | Traction Software named to EContent 100 Companies that Matter 2010-2011
Traction Software is honored to be named one of EContent Magazine's one hundred companies that matter most in the digital content industry. Traction was one of only ten companies named to the list in the collaboration category. Traction Software partner Attivio was named to the 2010 EContent 100 list in the search category. EContent Editor-in-chief Michelle Manafy said: "... this year our judging team was tougher than ever before. Few (if any) incumbents were kept on through mindshare and momentum alone; every company was held up to scrutiny in terms of innovation and meeting customer needs. It was a challenging year for voting—as it has been for the companies that made this list through their hard work, customer focus, and continued responsiveness to the changing digital content landscape. The need to leverage tools to effectively maximize the value of digital content has never been greater. Like the creation of this list, the process is a tough one, but it’s well worth it." » See the EContent 100 Introduction and Category Descriptions and the EContent Judging Team.
19 Nov 2010 | Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Wins 2010 Forrester Groundswell Social Impact Award
London, November 19, 2010 Forrester Research, Inc. honored the six final 2010 Forrester Groundswell Award winners for excellence in effective use of social technologies to advance an organizational or business goal. Winners of the fourth annual Forrester Groundswell Awards in the International Business-to-Consumer (B2C) division were honored at Forrester's Marketing & Strategy Forum EMEA in London. "We're thrilled by the diversity and quality of the entries in this year's International Forrester Groundswell Awards," said Nate Elliott, principal analyst at Forrester. "With consumers worldwide embracing social technologies, the Groundswell is now global. The finalists and winners we've recognized — including local efforts on four continents and a number of truly global programs — are among the leaders in using social tools to reach and serve their customers." » Read the Forrester Press Release
9 Nov 2010 | EContent - Collaboration and Knowledge Management Working Well Together
EContent's Marji McClure reports on how collaborative tools integrated with knowledge capture can streamline complex business processes while also providing valuable insights organizations for future use. She interviewed D. Craig McHenry, senior director of competitor insights of Pfizer Nutrition. “The big issue we found ourselves needing to address,” says McHenry, “was how do we really build over time a complete record of the different pieces of information gathered and analyzed and assessed and document it? How do we create a living history or a living document of that conversation?” McHenry and his team turned to Traction® TeamPage. McHenry cites benefits of the Traction solution including reduction in the amount of information being pushed through the company's email system, making it less burdensome to stay engaged and on top of what happens in discussion. » Read the full story
8 Nov 2010 | EContent - A Case of Life-Saving Collaboration
EContent reporter Kurt Schiller describes how the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) is marshaling a global response to a threat to world's food supply. Wheat rust is a virulent crop disease spread by the wind that can rapidly decimate crops leading to drastically reduced harvest and the threat of famine - currently endangering Africa, Asia and the Middle East. BGRI chose Traction® TeamPage and its Attivio powered advanced search capability to quickly stand up a hub for collaborative scientific research, planning and public communication of the latest research results to a global audience. See the Traction TeamPage powered BGRI site globalrust.org » Read the Full Story
1 Sept 2010 | KMWorld names Traction TeamPage a Trend-Setting Product of 2010
KMWorld recognizes Traction® Software's continued leadership in the Enterprise 2.0 market, naming Traction® TeamPage a KMWorld Trend-Setting Product of 2010. KMWorld Editor in Chief Hugh McKellar says: "This year, more than 600 products were assessed by our judging panel which consists of editorial colleagues, analysts, system integrators, vendors themselves (sometimes even competitive ones), line-of-business managers and users. The products selected all demonstrate clearly identifiable technology breakthroughs that serve the vendors’ full spectrum of constituencies, especially their customers." » Read the September 1, 2010 KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2010 announcement.
26 May 2010 | John Tropea - Software for agile ad-hoc processes
John Tropea writes May 26, 2010: A while ago I posted about using wikis to handle process failures, conversations around objects, and activity-centric collaboration; well these posts highly relate to informal processes and ad-hoc collaboration, which is something Jordan Frank know’s a lot about, and which the software firm he works for (Traction Software) can deliver in a way that really differentiates them from other players in the market like Jive SBS, Socialtext, Open Text Social Workplace, etc. See John's Software for agile ad-hoc processes blog post for Jordan's video clip, along with John's summary of key points, and analysis including:
19 May 2010 | Attivio Customer Spotlight: Traction Software
Attivio's customer portfolio features some of the most innovative and forward-looking companies in the technology and business sectors. See Attivio Customer Spotlight: Traction® Software for a video featuring Traction Software's Greg Lloyd, Jordan Frank and Chris Nuzum.
20 April 2010｜ナレッジマネジメント フォーラム2010 に出展
Traction® Software Partner Applied Knowledge Company Ltd will participate in the Knowledge Management Society of Japan's 2010 Knowledge Management Forum held in Tokyo, 20 April 2010. AKJ will demonstrate Traction® TeamPage at the Exhibition Showcase, and AKJ CEO Masayuki Kojima will lead a free Traction TeamPage workshop (registration required). See Knowledge Management Forum 2010 [ in Japanese ] for more participation and registration information.
1 March 2010 | Traction Software Named to KMWorld's "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management"
For the sixth consecutive year, KMWorld recognized Traction® Software's market leadership in Enterprise 2.0 Social Software by naming the company to their KMWorld 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. The list is compiled by KMWorld's panel of KM practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors and their customers and colleagues. "We're honored by KMWorld's recognition of Traction Software. I'm extremely happy to accept this award on behalf of Traction's outstanding employees, partners and customers. " said Greg Lloyd, Traction Software President and co-founder, "I believe that customer success using Traction® TeamPage is proving the business value of knowledge management by making KM part of the context of work, benefiting everyone in the organization, every day." » See the 2010 KMWorld 100 list
26 Feb 2010 | Great Wired Magazine story on Borlaug Global Rust Initiative
Read this Wired Magazine story Red Menace: Stop the Ug99 Fungus Before Its Spores Bring Starvation on the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative's leadership in a global collaborative effort to combat a critical threat to the world's food supply. Fighting Ug99 wheat rust requires a global response bringing together a diverse community in the US, Africa, Europe and Asia, including plant biologists, plant breeders, field agents, molecular biologists, NGO's, and BGRI sponsors. We're happy and proud that that BGRI is a Traction® Software customer, and that BGRI's globalrust.org site is powered by Traction® TeamPage, used as a hub for both public information on Ug99 wheat rust and for global collaborative scientific research.
3 Dec 2009 | Forbes.com - Andrew McAfee: What Enterprise 2.0 Really Means
MIT Center for Digital Business principle research scientist Andrew McAfee references Traction® Software President Greg Lloyd's Enterprise 2.0 Schism blog post in thinking about and responding to points raised in recent Enterprise 2.0 debates. McAfee does not believe that "... E2.0's tools, approaches and philosophies making managers, hierarchies, org charts and formal cross functional business processes obsolete," but does believe that "... ESSPs [ Emergent Social Software Platforms ] will have about as big an impact on the informal processes of the organization as large-scale commercial enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, Supply Chain, etc.) have had on the formal processes." A that's huge deal for organizations. » Read the Full Story
See also follow-on discussion: How big a deal is Enterprise 2.0? What do you mean by "Big"?
Nov 2009 | CMSWire - TeamPage 4.2 Adds Mobile Features, Two Way Email Collaboration
CMSWire's David Roe says Traction® TeamPage 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
30 Nov 2009 | アプライドナレッジ、協 働作業を支援するエンタープライズBlog＆Wiki「TeamPage」の新バージョン 4.1をリリース
Traction® Software Partner Applied Knowledge Company Ltd announces availability of new Traction® TeamPage release with full Japanese language localization and support » Read the Full Story [ in Japanese ] See also www.TractionSoftware.jp for news on TUG 2009 Japan
25 Nov 2009 | Fierce Content Management - Traction Teams with Attivio for secure social search
Ron Miller of Fierce Content Management writes about a conversation he had with Traction® Software President Greg Lloyd and Attivio CTO Sid Probstein. Miller says: "This is an interesting partnership because, as I've written here before, Enterprise 2.0 collaboration technology has the potential to be an organic knowledge management engine." Combining search, collaboration, and a security model is important. » Read the Full Story
28 Aug 2009 | KMWorld names Traction TeamPage a Trend-Setting Product of 2009
KMWorld recognizes Traction® Software's continued leadership in the Enterprise 2.0 market, naming Traction® TeamPage a KMWorld Trend-Setting Product of 2009. KMWorld Editor in Chief Hugh McKellar says: "[These products]... represent what we believe are the solutions that best exemplify the spirit of innovation demanded by the current economy, while providing their customers with the unique tools and capabilities to move and grow beyond the recession." » Read the August 28, 2009 KMWorld Trend-Setting Product announcement.
23 June 2009 | Enterprise 2.0 2009 Boston: Red Couch Interview with Greg Lloyd
Traction® Software President and Co-founder Greg Lloyd was invited to a video interview on the Level 3 Red Couch at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2009 Boston - see below.
18 May 2009 | Open Enterprise 2009: Interview with Jordan Frank, Traction Software
Enterprise 2.0 Blog - Stowe Boyd writes May 18, 2009 I interviewed Jordan Frank, of Traction® Software, recently, an old friend that I haven’t spoken to in several years. Jordan and Traction have been working with companies applying social tools for quite a long time — almost ten years — and his insights are quite interesting, and detailed. >> Read More [ video below ]
11 May 2009 | Collaborative problem solving at KUKA
KMWorld quotes Tom Woodman, enterprise applications manager at KUKA Systems on use of Traction® TeamPage to track, manage and report on issues across project groups. Woodman says: “TeamPage helped us document what wasn’t working, collaborate around potential solutions and turn on a dime to fix them. Then, it helped us spread the word about those improvements to the rest of the company very quickly. As a byproduct, we are also able to meet compliance requirements, because auditors can easily review the issues and determine if there are any that would need further scrutiny from a financial reporting point of view.” » Read More
30 March 2009 | CMS Wire - Track and Rate Your Documents with Updated TeamPage 4.1
David Roe of CMSWire reviewed the latest Traction® 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
23 March 2009 | DestinationCRM - Who's on Your Team
DestinationCRM published Traction® Software President Greg Lloyd's Who's on Your Team which highlights the importance of using wiki-style collaboration and social networking to make team boundaries fuzzier. These fuzzy boundaries, Professor Andrew McAfee says, makes it "easier to convert potential ties to strong or weak ties, and stay on top of what's happening in an extended network of connections you otherwise would not have made." Possibilities emerge to leverage weak ties and potential ties for productive work. Lloyd talks in detail about the nature of strong, weak, and potential ties, as well as the hub and spoke collaboration model that is essential to business communication » Read Full Story
March/April 2009 | Intranets - TeamPage at KUKA Systems as Solution for Managing (and Maximizing) Change
Carolina Reid's Solution for Managing (and Maximizing) Change is a case study covering KUKA Systems deployment of Traction® TeamPage as a means to track and collaborate on process improvement. She wrote:
29 January 2009 | Top Enterprise 2.0 Tips for Improving Workforce Collaboration in 2009
David Booth's four part CEO series quotes Traction Software's Greg Lloyd offering top Enterprise 2.0 tips for improving collaboration in 2009 and thoughts on where Enterprise 2.0 technology is heading. » Read More
December 2008 | the{app}gap reviews TeamPage Live Blog
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
Forrester Research | Social Computing Changes the Enterprise Collaboration Landscape
Rob Kopolowitz states that "wikis are providing a valuable piece of the overall (Social Computing) strategy" in his April 2008 report titled "Social Computing Changes the Enterprise Landscape." The report profiles Traction® TeamPage customer Enel North America and their use of Traction for collaboration and corporate communication on their Intranet. Get on the bandwagon, Koplowitz explained that 64% of enterprises surveyed have already started to invest in Wikis. » Read the full report (fee required)
13 November 2008 | Computerworld - Wikis that work: Four IT departments get it right
Beth Stackpole's article examines Enterprise wiki technology moving into IT Departments. Two of her four case studies are Traction® TeamPage deployments at Enel North America and Shorebank. Comparing Enterprise Wikis versus other technologies for discussion and collaboration, Stackpole says:
Fuld & Company Intelligence Software Report - 2008/2009 Edition
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.
3 November 2008 | Web Worker Daily: Traction TeamPage Goes Beyond Blogs & Wikis
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."
November 2008 | EContent - Web 2.0 Security: Getting Collaborative Peace of Mind
Marji McClure writes: "Most companies don't want to inhibit the collaborative flow that Web 2.0 has brought to the marketplace; don't want it to hinder their overall operations and they want to continue to build on their Web 2.0 platforms. Yet as the use of these collaborative applications becomes integrated into business processes, the need for them to be secure becomes imperative. [The problem as, Traction® Software's Jordan] Frank points out is that some people trust such systems just because their friends do, and because sites such as Facebook haven’t let people down—yet. He cautions that a breach could cause a backlash against such networks. 'Ensuring success in Web 2.0 means that trust doesn’t get broken,' says Frank." » Read Full Story at EContent. Subscription is required for on-line access. Another version of the story is published at CIO Today.
24 October 2008 | Intranet Journal -- Putting Hypertext to Work for You
Paula Gregorowicz wrote a thorough review of Traction® 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:
6 September 2008 | LinuxInsider - Wikis Within the Enterprise: Serious Collaboration
In Wikis Within the Enterprise: Serious Collaboration, Vivian Wagner of LinuxInsider explains how "New features are giving wikis the business chops to thrive as an indispensable enterprise solution." About Traction® TeamPage, she says "Traction TeamPage uses a wiki model, complete with tags, revision history, and other features that wiki users have come to know and love. But it also gives businesses the ability to organize, sort and categorize the information in creative and unique ways." Jordan Frank, VP of Marketing and Business Development, Traction® Software says: "It's a new cognitive model. It's not just the features across the board, though all of those in Traction are best in class. What makes this product do exceptionally well is the way these features work together to solve business problems."» Read Full Story
9 July 2008 | SC Magazine - Web 2.0: Sign up for Enterprise 2.0
Barry Mansfield's article Web 2.0: Sign up for Enterprise 2.0 argues "Simply blocking applications means disgruntled staff and missed opportunities. Businesses need to change tack." His article reviews the motivation for organizations to adopt rather than eschew E2.0 applications. It also profiles the UK's National Health Service (NHS Orkney) Traction® Software Customer. » Read Full SC Magazine Story » Read NHS Customer Story
10 June 2008 | Bill Ives Reviews Traction TeamPage 4.0 | AppGap
In his review of Traction® Software's recently announced Traction® 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
4 June 2008 | eWeek - Traction Digs in for Enterprise Wiki Control
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
2 June 2008 | GCN Lab Review: Traction TeamPage 4.0
Traction® 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
22 Feb 2008 | Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check - Traction TeamPage goes "Beyond-the-Basics" with Hypertext Collaboration
In a post congratulating Traction® Software for its fourth consecutive selection as one of KMWorld's "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management," Burton Group Analyst Peter O'Kelly writes: "I consider TeamPage the market-leading beyond-the-basics collaborative hypertext solution; it's a compelling example of the power of moving beyond files, to a world of hypertext information items/content components." » Read Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check Blog Entry. » Read Full KM 100 Press Release
21 February 2008 | Traction Software Named to KMWorld's "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management"
For the fourth consecutive year, KM World recognized Traction® Software's market leadership by naming the company to their list of 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. "Traction Software continues to demonstrate leadership in delivering Enterprise 2.0 wiki and blog software that matches enterprise IT realities," said Hugh McKellar, Editor-in-Chief of KMWorld Magazine. "Their unique social tagging model, discussion threading technology, deep audit trail and permission filtering capabilities demonstrate a clear focus on meeting customer requirements in the real world." » Read Full Release
24 January 2008 | Projects@Work - Micro to Macro PM: the Wiki Way
Jordan Frank's article published in Projects@Work this month describes how Wikis fit in the center of project management collaboration, or alongside a traditional group scheduling and resource management system. Within the article, he points to two sites ( ShoreBank
and National Health Service Orkney who have reached exceptional success in using the Traction® TeamPage to do project management the wiki way! » Read Full Story
13 November 2007 | eWeek - Google Wiki, Where Art Thou?
Clint Boulton's column asks "What happened to Jotspot?" since they were bought by Google in October 2006. Traction Software's Jordan Frank is quoted: "The large volume of Google account holders, and the ease
with which consumers and professionals can use Google Apps for informal
file sharing and calendaring, would put wiki technology into the hands
of many user groups who wouldn't have considered trying to use one for
day-to-day information management... The result would greatly expand the prosumer market (Company employees using Wikis and other internet tools outside the firewall) and, as a result, put more pressure on enterprises to deploy best of breed Enterprise Wiki and Blog offerings such as Traction TeamPage." » Read Full Story
12 November 2007 | CMS Wire - TeamPage 3.8 Weds Blogs to Wikis and Other Dubious Enterprise Stuff
Angela Natividad offers a synopsis of the 3.8 features and benefits. She points out that Release 3.8 "makes it easy to blog in the same context at which you conduct
wiki-style page editing. Your blog and wiki can live under the same
name space, or you can create unique spaces for each." She also discusses the easy linking GUI, draft moderation, compliance and page name history features. » Read Full Story
November 2007 | The 451 Group - Can Traction Software gain traction with latest wiki release?
Senior 451 Group analyst Kathleen Reidy published her second review of Traction Software and Traction TeamPage (first report published Feb 2007). Reidy's November 9, 2007 report describes Traction Software's new TeamPage 3.8 release, the implications of the release, and Traction Software's position in the market. » Read Full Story (Subscription Required)
12 November 2007 | EWeek - Wiki Maker Looks for 'Traction' in Software Market
Clint Boulton reviews Traction TeamPage Release 3.8: Traction is jazzing up TeamPage Release 3.8, a piece of software that
is used to help businesses collaborate on projects in an online
workspace, with new draft moderation and linking utilities. » Read Full Story
2 October 2007 | Building a Culture of Collaboration
Bill Roberts' article in CIO Today investigates the culture challenge to collaboration, even when Enterprise 2.0 software is used as a platform. He interviewed a Senior Product Manager from Saba, where Traction® TeamPage was deployed at Centra Software (later acquired by Saba) to harness collective intelligence about customers and competitors. Saba reached 70% adoption across the relevant group of 200 employees. Furthermore, they've proven that the platform and process around it is durable, as it was sustained for over 2 years and through the acquisition process when Saba bought Centra Software. It's a great start, though they are looking to do better. » Full Story
19 September 2007 | Chris Nuzum Presents Traction at Providence Geeks Dinner
From Providence Geeks, Digital Innovators in the City-State: This Geek Dinner was a heavily-attended double header (RI Nexus and Traction Software). Chris Nuzum, CTO of Traction Software, spoke about their award-winning enterprise wiki… it’s actually much more than a wiki.
22 August 2007 | KMWorld: Traction TeamPage a Trend Setting Product of the Year
Recognizing Traction Software's consistent technology leadership in the enterprise wiki and blog software market, for the 4th consecutive year KMWorld recognized Traction TeamPage as one of their selected 2007 Trend Setting Products of the Year. Hugh McKellar, Editor-In-Chief, and his team of analysts, integrators, editors and users selected the trend setting products from a list of more than 650. » Read More
August 2007 | Gilbane Group Interview: New solutions for a multilingual world
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Kaija Poysti of the Gilbane Group's Globalization Blog interviews Traction Software's Greg Lloyd. Kaija says that in companies the "multilingual environment is not only about translation, but about working with customers and colleagues whose native language is different from one's own. That can lead to a lot of miscommunication, and I think that nobody has even started to measure the real costs or missed sales arising from it."
30 July 2007 | IntranetJournal - Traction, Newsgator Weave a Web that Works | NHS Orkney
This case study, authored by David Rendall (Computer Programmer - NHS Orkney) and Jordan Frank (Traction® Software), explains how Traction® TeamPage and NewsGator Enterprise Server form "a Web That Works," seamlessly integrating Enterprise Wiki, Blog and RSS technologies at NHS Orkney. NHS Orkney is a branch of the UK's National Health Service, the 4th largest employer in the world.
July 2007 | Podcast Interview: Overcoming Fear of Blogs | Mike Gotta
Collaborative Thinking - Mike Gotta writes Jul 5, 2007: At the Enterprise 2.0 conference, I had the opportunity to interview Jordan Frank from Traction® Software. The podcast can be listened to, or downloaded, here at the Burton Group Inflection Point site (along with other analyst podcasts).
May 2007 | TechScore - 住友電工情報システムとアプライドナレッジが社内情報共有の分野で連携
English Abstract: Sumitomo Electric Information Systems Co., Ltd and Applied Knowledge Co., Ltd have partnered to integrate “QuickSolution Portal” and “Traction® TeamPage” in order to promote more effective and efficient utilization of the TeamPage Enterprise Blog and Wiki platform.
May 2007 | Computerwoche.DE - Enterprise Wikis erlauben zwanglose Teamarbeit
English Abstract: Hearing the term Wiki most contemporaries think just of the success of
the free encyclopedia Wikipedia. While almost nobody doubts the
benefits of these tools for Web Communities, still skepticism prevails
over the advantages for enterprises the tools can offer in the
professional areas. Wikis are still considered as primitive tools,
promoting an anarchic way of working: Since each coworker can change
existing documents even from his superiors. Whereas the analysts of
Gartner prognoses that Wikis will develop to a commonly used tool for
collaboration and up to 2009 more than 50 percent of all companies will
use them. This article contains a german version of the Wiki comparison in the InfoWorld Wiki Roundup » Read Full Story (in German)
12 March 2007 | BusinessWeek - No Rest for Wiki - Highlights Traction Customer Enel North America
The CEO Guide to Technology's "No Rest for the Wiki" story by Rachael King says that that these online tools for building collective info banks are making deeper inroads in corporations and rewriting the rules of collaboration. Within the article, she points to the Wiki success at Enel North America, a Traction® TeamPage Customer. Enel North America is a subsidiary of their parent company Enel (EN), is utilities company with a focus on renewable energy. Enel is a Global 100 company with about 56,000 employees worldwide.
March 2007 | Traction Software named to KMWorld "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management"
For the third year in a row, Traction® Software was included in KM World's list of 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. Hugh McKellar notes that the companies listed "distinguished themselves to our panel of judgets because of their role in creating, enhancing, or defining a market." » Read More
January 2007 | InfoWorld Wiki Roundup | Wikis Evolve as Collaboration Tools
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
January 2007 | Blogs and wikis: ready for prime time?
January 1, 2007: Judith Lamont of KMWorld writes about corporate use of blogs and wikis for knowledge management, content management and collaboration. The article profiles ShoreBank's use of Traction® TeamPage to communicate and organize information about 75 IT projects at any given time.
January 2007 | Traction TeamPage: Best Enterprise Wiki | InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year Award
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.
December 2006 | Test Lab: Traction Juices Up Collaboration
December 18, 2006: P.G. Daly of Intranet Journal's Test Lab wrote a terrific and comprehensive review of Traction® TeamPage. The full review is worth reading, but here are a few quotes:
October 2006 | Traction Software named a KMWorld KM Promise Award Finalist
Traction Software goes beyond blogs and wikis to deliver technology and best practices supportive of work process, and ensure customer success. KMWorld describes the award criteria: This award is given to the organization that is delivering its promise to customers by providing innovative technology solutions for implementing and integrating knowledge management practices into business processes. The award-winning organization demonstrates how it goes beyond simply delivering technology to working with clients to ensure that both the technology and knowledge processes are embedded into the work processes. In other words, it helps organizations realize positive business results. » Read More
December 2006 | Berlind (and Frank) on Wikis and Blogs at the Gilbane Content Management Conference
David Berlind writes about the impact Wikis and Blogs will have on the enterprise, and conducted a video interview with Traction Software's Jordan Frank along with others from various corners of the Content Management industry. Berlind wrote:
October 2006 | Burton Group Report - Hypertext and Compound/Interactive Document Models
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."
November 2006 | EContent 100 Companies that Matter 2006
For the third year in a row, Traction Software is named to the blogging category in the EContent Magazine list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry. In the 2006 EContent Announcement, Michelle Manafy says "We carefully reconsidered last year's list members and kept only those companies who we agreed continue to lead the industry. For some this means market share, but for most it means thought- and technology-leadership, innovation, and even experimentation."
September 2006 | Collaboration Loop | Traction TeamPage Releases v3.7 for Blogs and Wikis
September 12, 2006 By Collaboration Loop Staff: Traction Software today announced Traction TeamPage Release 3.7. New features added in this release include extensible widgets, edit history and rollback, inline sections, flexible outputs to any format, and upgraded mobile device support. Traction's TeamPage software combines the group editing of a wiki, the interface of a blog, and a access control and comment model to provide secure, scaleable web based communication to business and government customers. ...
October 2006 | SITA: A Case of Limitless Collaboration
Marla Misek wrote an EContent case study on SITA's deployment of Traction® TeamPage for collaboration across a group of 100 employees on a virtual team, and to build a knowledge base. Raj Vardhan, head of SITA's Sales and Business Development said "We have increased empoyee participation, recognition, and social networking and we've broken hierarchical barriers. Interestingly, its also generated a strong viral effect: we have a number of departments now clamoring for their own access to the platform to foster collaboration. For us, it's real evidence that there was a need for this." » Read SITA Customer Case Story » Read Full Article (Subscription to EContent Required)
August 2006 | Traction TeamPage named a KMWorld Trend-Setting Product of 2006
KMWorld magazine recognized Traction TeamPage as a "robust enterprise blog
platform" in their Trend-Setting Products of 2006 review. Having
received this award for the third consecutive year confirms Traction
Software's continued innovation and leadership in the blog and wiki
market. » Read More
September 2006 | Fuld & Company Intelligence Software Report 2006-2007
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...
August 2006 | Harness the Power of Collaboration
By Miya Knights, 15 August 2006 - The market for enterprise social networking software tools is growing, with suppliers such as Traction® Software joining the likes of Socialtext in providing purpose-built tools for organizations that want to replace unstructured communication tools, such as e-mail, with something more sophisticated. They offer the granularity of control and the permissioning and workflow structure of other enterprise-scale software products...
August 2006 | Blogging Your Project
Elizabeth Harrin, a senior project manager and writer describes how blogs enable project communication and includes two Traction® TeamPage case studies, August 3, 2006 The ability to share views in real time can also help combat the silo mentality that grows up around projects. A blog is a level playing field, owned by the project, and easy enough to use for everyone to feel they can get involved... early signs are that blogs are a low-cost solution for project managers to improve communication and collaboration on projects. That alone should make them worth investigating further.
June 2006 | Wikis und Blogs für "Enterprise 2.0"
Writer and consultant, Detlef Schmuck met us at the Collaborative Technologies Conference and wrote an article in Germany's heise online discussing enterprise fit for team focused blog and wiki applications like Traction® TeamPage. » Read More
April 2006 | Wikis and blogs transforming workflow
by Shamus McGillicuddy ... Where e-mail and enterprise
content management systems fall short, enterprise blogs and wikis shine
as indispensable communication tools. Experts say CIOs should be
looking at these Web-based tools not as renegade applications but as
lightweight liberators that boost productivity throughout an
organization. ...
April 2006 | Red Herring Short Lists Traction Again
Red Herring short listed Traction® Software as one of 200 of the most innovative technology firms in North America. Criteria include financial performance, technology innovation, execution on strategy, management quality, and integration into their ecosystem. This assessment allows Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the
list an invaluable instrument for discovering and advocating the
greatest business opportunities in the industry. Red Herring's Spring 2006 event is themed The Pursuit of Disruption. Traction was selected to the Red Herring 100 for 2004 and we're pleased to be recognized as a leader this year by Red Herring and others including eContent and KM World. » Read Red Herring's Full Release. » link 'Read Traction Software's Full Release' public641
March 2006 | Traction Named to “100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management” By KMWORLD Magazine for Second Year
Hugh McKellar, KMWorld's Editor-in-Chief said "Traction® Software is included again this year because of its continued work to bring knowledge management innovation and collaboration to companies throughout the world and in a variety of industries. They continue to take an innovative lead with enterprise blog technology that fits the needs of knowledge workers and will form an essential part of the enterprise intranet." » Read KMWorld 100 Companies Page » Read Greg Lloyd's View from the Top in KMWorld » Read Full Press Release
January / February 2006 | Collaborative Early Warning
By Jordan Frank and Derek Johnson (COO - AuroraWDC), printed in the January/February edition of Competitive Intelligence Magazine, a publication of the Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP).
December 2005 | Managing the Knowledge Workforce
Jonathan Spira's inspiring new book provides a fresh view of the challenges facing today's knowledge worker and practical strategies to outfit them with tools they need. One case study covers the story of a competitive intelligence group in a Fortune 500 company. They deployed Traction® TeamPage enterprise blog software to effectively put "CI in context for decision making" and "provide easy access to information across the business." The system supports collaboration between 25 people involved in the intelligence process and over 100 decision makers. (Page 141-144)
December 2005 | Analysis: A "Green" Utility Chooses Blogging for Business
by Doug Henschen. The company [Enel North America] initially took advantage of the [Traction® TeamPage] software to deliver basic intranet-type information, including HR policies and benefits, company news and even a monthly company update from the CEO... Work is now underway on a collaborative application for some 30 employees in the business development group who handle due diligence on potential acquisitions. » Read More
December 2005 | EContent 100 Companies that Matter
For the second year in a row, Traction Software is named to the EContent Magazine list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry. "Our goal was to be sure that those who make the list again and again don’t do so out of habit or mindshare, but rather because they continue to innovate and deliver products and services that further the evolution of digital content."
November 2005 | Business Week names Traction Customer IJIS to Web Smart 50
This year's Web Smart 50 Named Traction® Software customer Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute (www.ijis.org) as a pacesetter in Collaboration. IJIS uses Traction® TeamPage for their website, partner extranet, and staff intranet. BusinessWeek Reports: The Project: This consortium of tech companies, which supports the Justice Dept., set up a series of blogs to share information among its 16 commitees. The Payoff: About 400 people working on 37 projects now collaborate virtually. One committee cut by half the number of phone and in-person meetings it holds. » Read More (go to Slide 9)
October 2005 | ミラクル Linux でイントラ Blog
ミラクル・リナックスは2005年10月20日、 イントラ Blog のアプライドナレッジと、
アプライドナレッジの企業向けイントラ Blog「TeamPage」によるナレッジマネジメント分野での協業を発表した
現在、情報入手や各種プロジェクトの進捗管理/可視化手段、 また社内ナレッジ共有手段として、 インロラ Blog が注目され始めている » Read More
October 2005 | A Review of Traction
Traction [TeamPage] 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...
September 2005 | Blogging Grows Up
By 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.
August 2005 | IT Execs Face Need to Link Dispersed Developers
Microsoft Delays Team Tool as Users Look to Collaborate - Some users, meanwhile, are ramping up other tools to better manage development teams. TextWise LLC, a builder of text-processing tools in Rochester, N.Y., began using an enterprise blogging tool in April from Traction® Software Inc. to replace e-mail threads for collaboration.The Traction® TeamPage blog software allows the company's development teams in Rochester, Baltimore, Boston and Syracuse, N.Y., to post design notes and status reports, said Rob Rubin, TextWise's chief technology officer. To date, the company has had 1,200 blog postings, and this month it was able to avoid a 30-day setback to the development cycle because one group noticed a planned testing duplication on the blog, Rubin added. » Read More
20 August 2005 | KMWorld names Traction TeamPage Enterprise Blog software a Trend Setting Product of 2005
For
the second year in a row, TeamPage was named one
of KMWorld's Trend Setting Products of the year.
KMWorld wrote: We have long contended that KM
is an attitude, not an application, and the flexibility
of the software on the list further proves it...
The common thread running through all the products
listed below is the unique value-and potential
value-they offer the organization, its workers
and their various constituencies... As we have
in years past, we considered usability, flexibility,
adoption rate and total cost of ownership. » Read More
1 August 2005 | Order from Chaos Via RSS
The Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute, whose members are IT companies that support law-enforcement and Justice Department operations, uses RSS and Atom feeds that came built into its blogging software from Traction® Software Inc. to keep committee members up to date on recent developments. 'Some of our more technical committees that had some familiarity with RSS saw immediately how they could use that inside their workspace to provide a publish-and-subscribe capability so they don't have to rely on going hunting to see if there's something new in their committee work,' executive director Paul Wormelli says. » Read More
18 July 2005 | IJIS Institute Gets Traction - Collaboration and Information Sharing-the Next Frontier
The Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute (www.ijis.org) deployed Traction® TeamPage for their website, working committee extranet, and staff intranet. IJIS Executive Director, Paul Wormelli wrote: There are powerful features of enterprise class blogging software tools that go beyond Machrone's observations and begin to build the basic collaboration and information sharing capability that members of any particular community of interest seek. At the IJIS Institute, we adopted a secure enterprise blogging software package made by Traction® Software which we use for multiple important purposes. » Read More
27 June 2005 | Dark blogs a bright spot for Providence's Traction Software
Traction Software on Waterman
Street in Providence, earlier this year named
one of the 100 companies that matter in knowledge
management by KMWorld Magazine, has built a solid
business selling tool to corporations incorporating
blogging into their operations. Traction's President
and co-founder Greg Lloyd recently chatted with
Providence Business News about enterprise blogging.
» Full interview available in Technology Monthly
section for subscribers of www.pbn.com
20 June 2005 | Dark Blogs and Voices in the Wilderness
Business
would love to harness the buzz potential of blogging.
But the biggest benefits may be found behind the
firewall, according to experts at Supernova, an
emerging technology conference co-sponsored by
the Wharton School of Business. » Read More
13 June 2005 | Dark Blogs Case Study #1 - A European Pharmaceutical Group
From Suw Charman, writer of the Strange Attractor blog on Corante: I'm pleased to announce the arrival of the first Dark Blogs Case Study (pdf), examining the use of Traction® Software's TeamPage enterprise weblog software for a competitive intelligence project within a large European pharmaceutical group. The case study examines the reasons why blogs where chosen, project planning, implementation, integration with other business systems, editorial process, launch and promotion, training and adoption.
7 June 2005 | TeamPage Enables Easy Enterprise Blogs
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
25 May 2005 | Courier turns to blog tools to speed package-tracking
eCourier used the tools to coordinate work among developers in different countries. 'At a cost of roughly $1,000 for a five-person license, the blogging tools from Traction® Software more than paid for themselves in travel savings alone,' said Bregman. 'And instead of playing a massive game of telephone [tag] between these [developers], this gave us a source of record between what was being done,' he said. » Read More
23 May 2005 | Blogs Now Mean Business
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.
20 May 2005 | Enterprise Weblogging: Using Weblogs for Communication and Information Management
Slides from Michael Angeles of Lucent / Bell Labs talk at the American Society for Information Science and Technology New Jersey Chapter Meeting. The case study example starting at slide 17 features use of Traction® TeamPage to support world-wide rollout of a major IT initiative. Angeles says (in PowerPoint slide notes): "[Traction] is one of the most full-featured blog systems you’ll find. My client is hoping to convince employees of the effectiveness of this tool compared to the current set of systems with the goal of expanding its use so that communities will start recording and sharing information using blogs." Read More
5 May 2005 | New Corporate Mediums
Today, most corporations still do little, if anything, with blogs, wikis and social networks, but that will change quickly over the next few years as more companies integrate these technologies into their daily routines. And if early signs are any indication, the evolution will lead to blogs replacing blast e-mails, wikis strengthening collaboration software and social networks taking conversations around the water cooler to a metalevel never envisioned by the most enthusiastic evangelist of the Internet boom...
16 March 2005 | Blogs, Wikis, and Beyond: New Alternatives for Collaboration and Communication
(Full Report Requires Burton Group Login for Access) By Peter O'Kelly - "Blogs and wikis represent important opportunities for communication channels and collaborative workspaces... Because they are simpler to create and use than traditional enterprise-oriented alternatives, blogs and wikis are very effective for relatively basic communication/collaboration scenarios, and they’re also very well suited to address inter-enterprise needs..."
March-April 2005 | The Rise of Blogs and Wiki's in Business
One of the key takeaways from the (Gilbane) report is that the growth in business blogs/wikis is for internal use, rather than customer-facing applications. Gilbane singles out two software vendors, SocialText and Traction Software, as leading the charge with enterprise offerings that combine both blog and wiki technologies with added features such as full audit trails and version control. » Read More
March-April 2005 | Blogs & Wikis: Technologies for Enterprise Applications
The outward-facing uses of blogs typically need few features whereas using blogs or wikis internally (whether on an intranet or extranet) often requires a different feature set...
March-April 2005 | [Traction TeamPage] Weblog Technology for Acquisition Program Management
In today’s acquisition environment, rapid sharing of formal project documents and project-related material is necessary, but the bulk of the project life cycle communication currently relies on nothing more than e-mail, corporate or capital knowledge of the project, and an exceptional memory of the progressive information shared at any given time period...
February 2005 | KMWorld's 100 Companies that Matter In Knowledge Management by KMWorld
Hugh McKellar, KMWorld's Editor in Chief, said "Traction Software's innovation in Weblog technology uniquely fits the needs of knowledge workers and will form an essential part of the enterprise intranet." » Read More
January / February 2005 | En Guarde! The Art and Practice of CI
By Jordan Frank, printed in the January/February edition of Competitive Intelligence Magazine, a publication of the Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP). The swordsman must be trained to find the right balance of source information and interpret that information into actionable intelligence. » Read More
7 December 2004 | Red Herring 100 Innovators
After a long and rigorous process of evaluating more than 1,200 entries from more than 900 companies, the Red Herring editorial team named Traction Software among the 100 Top Innovators. Traction Profile: The system is designed to communicate more information in greater context, while allowing dynamic control of permission-protected spaces. This makes it possible for clients to consume and share more information in a secure environment with effective controls. » Read More
30 November 2004 | eContent 100: Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industy
eContent Magazine names Traction Software to the new Blogging category in its annual top 100 list. » Read More
October 2004 | Fuld & Company - Intelligence Software Report 2004-2005
(report is available for $250) Traction® Software has harnessed this basic concept and added a considerable amount of functionality to provide a unique enterprise-level solution for gathering and sharing information throughout an organization... Traction’s TeamPage is a novel approach that represents a drive to design software around how people work, as opposed to forcing people to conform to the requirements of the software. A major benefit to implementingTeamPage is that it is applicable to not just the competitive intelligence function, but the entire organization as well. While several CI technology solutions are fundamentally designed for the CI team and may be harnessed for other uses,TeamPage is the other way around. It’s a solution designed to support any project requiring collaborative effort, and it just so happens that competitive intelligence is one of them. » Read More
27 October 2004 | Traction Bolsters enterprise Weblogs
New in Release 3.5 is built-in support for WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) document-handling capabilities. This feature adds support for creating, editing, and versioning files attached to Traction articles or shared in project and server level Web folders. » Read More
12 October 2004 | Burton Group - Communication and Collaboration: Compelling Convergence or Continued Chaos?
(Document Requires Burton Group Login for Access) - Peter O'Kelly lays out a vision of well integrated workspaces for collaboration and channels for communication. O'Kelly comments: Traction is as simple as a wiki (defined and described in “The Details”) in terms of getting started with a new workspace, but the depth of its metamodel makes Traction more robust for a wider range of collaboration needs as workspaces evolve. » Read More
20 September 2004 | eWeek Review - TeamPage System Blogs On
Traction® Software's TeamPage 3.5 is a solid tool for creating useful intranet sites for team collaboration. TeamPage is extremely easy to set up and can be implemented with a minimal amount of training. New WebDAV and Atom support improve the reach and functionality of TeamPage 3.5. Excellent for Usability. » Read More
September 2004 | KM World: Trend-Setting Products of 2004
KMWorld recognizes 56 companies for trend-setting products. They listed Traction TeamPage and Communicator 3.1 as robust Enterprise Weblog software that encompasses collaboration, document management and KM. Additional coverage of TeamPage and Communicator 3.1 found in KMWorld's article: Enterprise Blogging and Beyond. » Read More
August 2004 | Enterprise Weblog Software - Technology Audit, Traction Software
(Document Requires Butler Group Permission for Access) The Technology Audit finds Traction® TeamPage as an innovative solution for collaborative working and recommends Organisations and groups that are involved in market intelligence, program and product development, projects, business, and government communication will benefit from Traction TeamPage. » Read More
12 July 2004 | Traction offers advanced Web logging
FCW gives Traction® TeamPage top ratings for Usability, Performance, and Security - Agency officials who specifically want to explore advanced Web-logging solutions that can securely serve the entire enterprise and business partners will want to add Traction Software Inc.'s Traction 3.1 enterprise Web logging solution to their short list... We had no trouble installing Traction 3.1 on several Linux-based servers, and within minutes, we were accessing the browser-based administrative interface... Once logged in, the software's power becomes evident immediately. It was easy to add content using a Web form, and we published content to both private and public projects. Published content can be read, edited, classified and erased by authorized users, all from the convenience of a Web browser... Agencies with dense information sets will find Traction 3.1's labeling and search capabilities first rate. by Maggie Biggs. » Read More
8 July 2004 | Revelation Brings Enterprise Weblog Solutions to UK
UK agency Revelation Research has this week announced that it has concluded an agreement with Traction Software to market and deploy Traction TeamPage solutions in the UK. Traction promotes Enterprise Weblog software as a dramatically more efficient and consistent framework for business relevant communication, collaboration and knowledge management. » Read More
May/June 2004 | Intelligence Blogs in the Enterprise - Traction 3.0
In 1996 Providence, Rhode Island-based Traction® Software evolved Engelbart’s hypertext journaling concept to develop the first Enterprise Weblog software... As an interactive webbased journaling system, weblogs reduce the pain of managing source information and automate much of the dissemination activity currently plaguing CI teams which prevents them from focusing on the core analysis task. Given more time to conduct situational and impact analysis, weblogs also furnish an excellent vehicle to inject analysis into source documents. by Arik Johnson » Read More
May 2004 | Weblogs Weave a New Communication Hub: U.S. Defense Department tests Web technology for program management tasks
Kowalczyk compares the weblog to the introduction of e-mail. “E-mail crossed all venues and is now an integral part of program management,” he says. But the weblog may be a better tool, he adds. “The weblog is a systematic, time-ordered way to look at information from e-mail and from Web sites, with a particular focus on what you are trying to do as an individual. I think it has a lot of power.”
May 2004 | Aurora WDC 2004 Enterprise Competitive Intelligence Software Portals Review: Intelligence Portals as the Next Generation for Broad-Spectrum CI Applications
Focused on an in-depth and open examination of the top six CI software portals vendors (Including Traction® TeamPage) and providing an updated functional comparison, plus screen shots of user interface and other benchmarking data, the Review is available free-of-charge to qualifying intelligence practitioners and other Aurora customers and partners. » Read More
20 April 2004 | Social Computing: Getting Ahead of the Blog
Bottom Line: Innovative decision makers and early adopters will avoid the mistakes of the past (underestimating the impact of the Web) by allocating discretionary funding in 2004 for blog pilots as part of an iterative effort to construct a broader business case for social computing. By Mike Gotta, META Group. » Read More
April 2004 | Looking Beyond Windows
Given corporate Canada’s growing reliance on Windows-based server technology, many people are concerned with the rising cost of their office communications infrastructure, particularly as licence fees continue to increase... Linux can also be used to build a heavy duty team-based knowledge management tool. For that purpose, I’ve settled on Traction® TeamPage... It has become one of my most important tools, helping me master the vast volumes of information that are the core of my professional skills base. By Jim Carroll. » Read More
26 March 2004 | The Social Enterprise
From expanding social networks to building group memory, social software creates new possibilities for workflow... Whatever the mode of communication, the primary goal, Hertz says, is to create group memory. Chris Nuzum, CTO and co-founder of Traction Software (infoworld.com/1054), echoes that theme. Traction describes its offering as “enterprise Weblog software,” but Nuzum says that a typical Traction project is more of a group effort than an individual journal. As such, a lot of the social interaction that would otherwise occur in e-mail moves into the comments and discussions attached to the project. By Jon Udell. » Read More
25 March 2004 | Nikkei Advantage covers Applied Knowledge Co, Ltd's release of Traction TeamPage in Japan
(the link here connects to the March online edition where only an abstract is provided, refer to printed edition for full edition) - According to IMAM, TeamPage offers "Quality Up by Openness." TeamPage brings teamwork into one place on the net and drives mutual communication and learning. The result is higher team performance. IMAM's Tokyo Director Obayashi-san adds that TeamPage is a tool for capturing and sharing knowledge in the working process. By Tomoko Akiyama of Nikkei BP and Key Asai of IMAM. » Read More
3 March 2004 | Business Logs on to Blogging
TeamPage is a true enterprise ready package, "designed to be deployed by business and government teams to create an information sharing system that works like the web." ... With financial backing from the CIA-funded In-Q-Tel venture fund and a recent contract with the Pentagon, the Providence-based company is already making waves. Financial Times technology feature by Paul Taylor. » Read More
16 January 2004 | Panorama des outils pour bâtir un weblog en entreprise
[Traction est un] Véritable solution professionnelle - la catégorie au-dessus de celles des autres solutions du panorama ; en Java ; l'outil sans doute le plus riche. » Read More
30 December 2003 | Blogging for Business
Crime fighters are turning to weblogs to keep a closer eye on illegal activity - from narcotics to national security....Within a few months, the system [Traction® TeamPage] was installed and proving its value. "Instead of e-mailing separate individuals," says Aumond, "we simply publish the information, whether it's drug arrest news or new Drug Enforcement Administration bulletins, in a single, searchable location." » Read More
15 December 2003 | Traction Software Gains Ground on Weblog Front
Outside tech circles, blogs have a reputation of being just for self-indulgent geeks or young technophiles. But Traction Software knows better. With financial backing from CIA-funded In-Q-Tel and a recent deal with the Department of Defense, the Providence company’s blogs are receiving military honors. By Elizabeth Dinan. » Read More
3 December 2003 | Keeping Up!
Someone admitted to me in e-mail today that they "have finally begun to feel like I might not be able to keep up!"... I've been working with Traction® TeamPage for just a few weeks, but the more I use it, the more I discover it to be an extremely powerful knowledge tool. » Read More
17-21 November 2003 | Traction Release 3.0 Coverage
EContent: Traction Software Releases TeamPage 3.0. PC World: Blogs Get a Security Boost. Innovation Tools: Traction Software announces release of Traction TeamPage 3.0 team blogging and collaboration application. The Gilbane Report: Traction Releases TeamPage 3.0; Announces Partners in India & Japan. Coverage from Japan includes Japan Industrial Journal and Nikkei Online.
4 November 2003 | Traction to Provide Defense Logs
The Defense Department selected the Traction® TeamPage software as part of an initiative to accelerate communication within the DOD Test and Evaluation programs...This particular project will be led by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, with additional participation from the Office of Naval Research, Marine Corps, Army Night Vision Lab, Defense Acquisition University, Ford Motor Company, Epsilon Systems and the New York City police. » Read More
3 November 2003 | Navy team evaluates weblogs
Long popular with Internet surfers, weblogs are getting a review by Defense Department users for project management... the Rapid Acquisition Incentive-Net Centricity initiative has chosen the pilot as a basis for a business case for a project to evaluate the usefulness of blogs throughout DoD. The initiative evaluates IT that can significantly help in procurement and program management. » Read More
20 October 2003 | Blogging for Business
Until recently, weblogs (a.k.a. blogs) were primarily the domain of a tightly knit community of personal bloggers offering their insight and opinions on a variety of topics... Many companies will want to use the blog not only to communicate with customers, but also to communicate with one another internally within a group. Traction Software's Lloyd sees blogs as a meaningful alternative to email. » Read More
13 October 2003 | Better Blogging
The Western States Information Network uses Weblog technology to foster information sharing. » Read More
4 August 2003 | A Better Way for Businesses to Blog
Traction® Software bends the blog to the needs of business. By Rafe Needleman. » Read More
4 August 2003 | Notiva uses Traction Enterprise Weblog as Portal for Internal Company Communication
Traction® TeamPage was a clear success within two months as team members began to browse it for support information before bothering with externally published information. Eight months after initial deployment, Traction has spread throughout the organization. Use cases range from product management to human resources. » Read More
21 July 2003 | Multistate network adds blogging app
Web logging technology has gained a foothold of respectability in the government sector... The Western States Information Network in Sacramento, an agency of the Justice Department-funded Regional Information Sharing System, has adopted an upgraded Web logging system from Traction® Software Inc. of Providence, R.I., as a knowledge management tool to promote information sharing. » Read More
21 July 2003 | Tech Success: Weblogs help Justice take a bite out of crime
Weblogs are now used in multiple places around the network, Karen Aumond [Of the US Department of Justice's Western States Information Network] said. Analysts post reports, research and other materials for law enforcement officials to read. Justice Department personnel respond to inquiries posted by outside law enforcement agencies. In-house system personnel use a Weblog to create polices and procedures for their programs. » article taken off line as of January 2009, see PDF version attached.
10 June 2003 | Weblogs in enterprise IT
Adam Gaffin abstracts Rock Regan (State of Connecticut) and Paul Perry's (Verizon Communications) comments about weblogs in IT organizations. Perry comments that it took three to four months to get his organization fully into blogging. And he made sure to get his CIO onto the system. » Read More
9-10 June 2003 | ClickZWeblog Business Strategies Conference
Greg Lloyd, Traction CEO, spoke on the Strategies and Tips for Business Blogging Success panel. Traction customer Paul Perry, Verizon Communications, spoke on the Using Weblogs in Large IT Organizations panel. The links to the panel transcripts are from Heath Row's Media Diet weblog.
May 2003 | Traction - Weblogs grow up
Clay Shirky's writes about Traction in the May 2003 issue of Esther Dyson's Release 1.0 titled Social Software: A New Generation of Tools. Abstract: "Taking their cue from people’s actual behaviors rather than some idealized projection, a number of startups are designing tools that help people get what they want from group interaction." » Read More
12 May 2003 | Blogs play a role in homeland security
Criminal-intelligence analysts are using Traction® TeamPage to create access-controlled weblogs, or blogs, as repositories for research data collected for further analysis. The WSIN watch center in Sacramento, Calif., uses them to share user tips, training schedules and articles that are of interest to law-enforcement task forces. » Read More
24 April 2003 | Enterprise Weblogs - The Next Instant Messaging
Web logs are another instance of P2P technology that looks set to follow the path of Instant Messaging - from private use to an essential enterprise tool...[Traction] TeamPage allows users to update and enrich content, inserting comments, cross-links, topic labels and action flags so a team can share, organise and discuss the latest information. In this way, TeamPage takes the Weblog approach and makes it more powerful by adding a team working capability. » Read More
1 April 2003 | Homeland Investment
The CIA's venture fund seeks technology for government use but with private-sector market potential. » Read More
March/April 2003 | Organize, Analyze, Distribute: The Enterprise Weblog
By Jordan Frank, printed in the March/April edition of Competitive Intelligence Magazine, a publication of the Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP). One of the principal competitive intelligence (CI) functions is to develop quality information sources and provide analysis, but often much of a CI professional’s time is spent juggling information and managing outbound communication. Enterprise weblog technology and quality analysis can provide relevant competitive and market information to the right stakeholders in a timely manner. The result is a high performance, real-time competitive intelligence function that puts information at the fingertips of your stakeholders. » Read More
21 March 2003 | Business Weblogs help companies collaborate, share ideas
Within the last year, a growing number of savvy businesses have started using Weblogs to streamline project communications, maintain stronger relationships with key customers, capture knowledge on the fly, and a host of other bottom-line business benefits...Traction® Software's TeamPage solution makes it easy for project managers to collect information from e-mail messages, Web sites, Microsoft Office documents and other sources into a central repository. It also enables content authors to embed links between postings, to emphasize the connections between ideas. » Read More
14 March 2003 | Technical trends bode well for KM
The challenge was and is to make more of the routine communication flowing through the enterprise available — for data mining, social network analysis, and general awareness. There's no silver-bullet solution, but current technological and cultural trends provide clues that point toward a brighter future for KM (knowledge management)....The Traction toolset makes it easy for project managers to collect e-mail and documents, to inject them into the system, categorize them, and to publish summarized views to intranet Web pages, e-mail subscribers, and the RSS (Rich Site Summary) feeds preferred by a small but growing number of k-loggers. » Read More
23 February 2003 | Project Weblogs
One characteristic of virtual teams is the physical distance between the participants. The challenge for the project manager is to make sure that the physical distance doesn't transform into psychological distance... [Traction®] TeamPage combines the ease-of-use of a weblog with functionality to organise and analyse the stored information... Use TeamPage if you are working in an enterprise context or want to have a product that combines weblogs with portal/KM functionality. » Read More
7 February 2003 | Post Modern Knowledge Management and Social Enterprise Blogging
...or "the promotion of information publishing / exchange within an organization, with an eye towards the problem of censorship" - The issue is: how can large organizations which manage vast amounts of information, handle the growing load of formal and informal organizational "wisdom" while sharing it and making it available in an effective way? » Read More
1 February 2003 | Traction digs in with Traction TeamPage
[Traction® TeamPage] is sub-positioned as an enterprise Weblog... Traction includes templates for categories and views within the portal that correspond to specific projects or information that users are interested in tracking... The latest edition is targeted at competitive intelligence professionals who track information on an ongoing basis and need to create a durable archive of this intelligence. » Read More
30 January 2003 | Blogs Refine Enterprise Focus
(Original InfoWorld article, reprinted in Ecommerce Times and CRMDaily.Com.) [Traction] includes a permissioning structure that moderates access to content, rich search capabilities, archives, and bi-directional linking to show relationships between ideas... Notiva uses Traction Weblog software for a variety of efforts, such as project management, competitive intelligence, intranet search and knowledge management.
10 January 2003 | Blogs Refine Enterprise Focus
Building on the success of Weblogs for personal Web publishing, enterprises are starting to tap into blogs to streamline specific business processes such as intelligence gathering or to augment traditional content-and knowledge-management technologies. » Read More
9 January 2003 | Software firm turns blogs into business tools - Company tailoring format to provide easy internal communication
Today, Web Logs, or blogs, have become a key method of keeping communities of people -- from artists to scientists -- in touch and up to speed on their interests. That's a far cry from where they began… Traction is selling its blogging software to companies, tailoring the format to provide easy internal communication among colleagues or external communication with clients.
20 December 2002 | Blogging Goes Mainstream
We know blogging has hit the mainstream for sure when companies are trying to make a profit on what started as a grass-roots effort. This week a Providence, R.I. company called Traction Software unveiled new versions of Web log software for businesses, designed for marketers to conduct market research online. » Read More
19 December 2002 | In Short: Information on Track
Traction Software is trying to move Weblogs into the corporate collaboration corner with its announcement of a new version of its TeamPage Enterprise Weblog server. » Read More
17 December 2002 | Traction Software Introduces TeamPage, Enterprise Weblog Solution
The automated ExecutiveSummary enables busy executives to remain peripherally aware of market activities without the burden of trying to make sense of random email messages. » Read More
17 December 2002 | Traction Extends Enterprise Blogging
Traction Software Inc. is trying to bring the wildly popular Internet technology known as Weblogs, or "blogs" as they're better known, to the enterprise as a content management and collaboration tool. » Read More
16 December 2002 | Traction taps Weblogs for information gathering
Traction Software is taking the trendy publishing concept of Weblogs and providing companies with a way to glean useful information from them by collecting, presenting and analyzing content for competitive and business gains. » Read More
16 December 2002 | Traction tailors Weblogs for business process
Using time and topic as organizational themes, Weblogs allow users to collect and link information from e-mail, the Web, Microsoft Office documents, and other sources in an organized format designed to bolster collaboration and information sharing. » Read More
16 December 2002 | Weblogs and Patches
On the surface, Enterprise Weblog looks a lot like any blog tool, but Traction has added some features to help them make the case to corporations. » Read More
16 December 2002 | Traction Introduces Enterprise Weblog
[Traction's] hypertext journaling system can label, cross-link and deliver relevant portions of editable content gathered from disparate sources and plug into an existing web infrastructure. » Read More
16 December 2002 | Blogging for eBusiness: Traction Software releases enterprise weblogging for competitive intelligence, market research
Beyond the multi-user and permission capabilities of Traction, the software provides granular editing through metadata, which allows flags and labels for annotation at the paragraph level. » Read More
1 December 2002 | Blogged Down at the Workplace
Michael Cohn discusses the need and use cases for the "corporate blog." The article is available on Page 10 of the December print edition. » Read More
November 2002 | Knowledge Retention
Capturing the knowledge in your firm means better distribution of information and less knowledge lost through 'leakage' (retirement, resignations, promotion, etc.)... The types of knowledge needing protection from leakage include project knowledge, business knowledge, and even office procedures... There is a very interesting low-cost package from Traction® Software (tractionsoftware.com) which mixes ease-of-use features of web logs with the collaborative and organizational aspects of the wiki. On top of those, Traction adds several types of email connectivity. By Michael Hogan. » Read More
November 2002 | AuroraWDC's Recon Competitive Intelligence News
This month's newsletter features a new article on the Role of Weblogs in Optimizing Market Monitoring Systems, plus Aurora's profile of one particularly well-suited partner of ours, Traction Software, to provide the blogging infrastructure to succeed. » Read More
11 October 2002 | Capital Not Venturing Out
Local startups are having a tough time attracting financing: One local software start-up, Providence-based Traction Software, was able to line up several hundred thousand dollars in financing last quarter - Andrea Stape, Providence Journal. » Read More
23 August 2002 | Blogging for Dollars
Businesses are starting to use weblogs as powerful tools for knowledge management and communications - Dylan Tweney, Business 2.0. » Read More
12 July 2002 | Traction's enterprise Weblog gets a grip on corporate KM
Jon Udell's InfoWorld product review and "Deploy" recommendation with 10 ratings for Innovation and Interoperability. He writes: "THERE IS STILL NO sure-fire recipe for KM (knowledge management) success, but the ingredients must include the staples of the knowledge worker: e-mail, the Web, and Microsoft Office. With Traction® Software's KM solution, content flowing through all these channels is easily captured by the Java-based Traction Server, which can be best described as an enterprise Weblog system...Traction can be regarded as an ultrasophisticated PIM (personal information manager). That's just the quality you need in a KM product to get people to actually use it." » Read More
6 June 2002 | 25 area start-ups hope their pitches will be hits
Twenty-one Rhode Island and four Massachusetts start-ups have been picked to present their business plans at the fourth annual Rhode Island venture-capital conference next week in Warwick. » Read More
27 May 2002 | Venture Capitalists Prowl R.I. Looking for bright ideas, stable plans (from Providence Business News)
The link to this article is retired.
18 January 2002 | Mission possible: The CIA is increasingly dependent on its fledgling venture capital arm
In-Q-Tel's pre-investment screening process (also known as due diligence) is more rigorous than that of most corporate customers, which some companies appreciate. "In-Q-Tel's core value is due diligence on the technology," says Mahendra Vora, chairman and CEO of Intelliseek, an advanced search-engine developer that took a $1.4 million investment from In-Q-Tel in May. "They're not just doing it for government purposes. They want to make sure it works for corporate customers, too." » Read More
1 January 2002 | Twisted Systems Changes Name to Traction Software
Reflecting a change in focus from research and development to commercialization of the Traction product line, Twisted Systems, Inc. has officially changed its name to Traction Software.
3 September 2001 | A New Twist on E-mail Overload (Network World)
Michael Osterman's article on how Traction can help reduce email overload. » Read More
1 November 1997 | The Godfather: The Manhattan Project, Silicon Valley, The World Wide Web
Wired Magazine, 1 November 1997 G. Pascal Zachary writes: "Wherever you look in the information age, Vannevar Bush was there first... Some ambitious efforts to tame the Web's chaos are avowedly inspired by Bush. At Twisted Systems Inc. in Providence, Rhode Island, engineer Gregory Lloyd is designing better ways to record a user's associations between different Web sites. "There are Web tools that manage bookmarks, that help you find your place," Lloyd says. "Bookmarks are a start. But then the problem is managing your bookmarks. They can degenerate into a slush pile, which is not what Bush wanted." Lloyd is tight-lipped about his work toward a solution, but says flatly, "I'm building a memex, the holy grail." » Read More
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