Jan 2024 | Kanban, mobile, and Web improvements
Traction® TeamPage Release 6.2.70 contains Kanban and web styling improvements along with calendaring, Kanban, and Setup bug fixes, including one significant bug fix that addressed Admin problems that can occur when Server level groups are deleted. All Kanban columns and swimlanes can now be shown or hidden. New Kanban 'start fullscreen' and 'cancel fullscreen' icons make it easier to enter and exit Kanban fullscreen mode. This release also includes mobile and web styling improvements and developer support for asynchronous Proteus skin listeners. See TeamPage Change Log for a description of this release and the point releases it consolidates since Aug 2023 | Kerberos Authentication; Drag-and-Drop Permalinks; Configurable Content Security Policies; Security fixes. Please read on for a consolidated summary.
Aug 2023 | Kerberos Authentication; Drag-and-Drop Permalinks; Configurable Content Security Policies; Security fixes
Traction® TeamPage Release 6.2.66 includes support for Kerberos authentication with Microsoft Active Directory, new drag-and-drop support for creating TeamPage Permalink and User name references, and TeamPage administrator configurable policies relating to content security and shared resources. The release also includes FullCalendar improvements, a security fix for TeamPage, and integration of an updated Solr search engine which fully resolves its reported security vulnerabilities. The release includes over 135 bug fixes and improvements. See TeamPage Change Log for a description of this release and the point releases it consolidates since Mar 2023 | Improved Kanban, Social Media Sharing, Mobile Device Layout; New Supervised Signatures. Please read on for a consolidated summary.
Mar 2023 | Improved Kanban, Social Media Sharing, Mobile Device Layout; New Supervised Signatures
Traction® TeamPage Release 6.2.62 includes improved full-screen mode for sharing Kanban tables during meetings, improved presentation of content teaser when sharing TeamPage articles in social media, and improved mobile device layout for feeds, sections, task lists, status and similar views. The Signatures management page now includes a table of supervised signatures to help supervisors track the status of employee signatures due on requirements that the supervisor is responsible for. Supervised signature status also appears in the email digest customized for each TeamPage member. The release includes over 35 bug fixes and improvements, see TeamPage Change Log for a description. Please read on for a summary.
Jan 2023 | Improved Microsoft AD and Azure directory lookup; Support for Azure AD profile pictures; Security update
Traction® TeamPage Releases 6.2.59 - 6.2.61 deliver improved Microsoft AD and Microsoft Azure AD external directory performance. TeamPage now supports retrieving, storing and using profile pictures associated with external users and/or groups and roles. Improved Document view security. The releases include over 44 bug fixes and improvements, see TeamPage Change Log for a description of each update. Please read on for a summary.
Sep 2022 | Introducing Kanban; External User Directory Integration; Document view improvements; Security updates
Traction® TeamPage Releases 6.2.53 - 6.2.57 introduce Kanban for TeamPage. Other highlights include external user directory integration fixes, document view improvements, security updates, and Developer SDK additions. The releases include over 89 bug fixes and improvements, see TeamPage Change Log for a description of each update. Please read on for a summary.
Sep 2022 | Introducing Kanban for TeamPage, by Takashi Okutsu
Traction Software is happy to announce release of Kanban for TeamPage. This makes it simple to create a Kanban board as a TeamPage entry, and use colorful Kanban cards to plan activities and share progress by dragging and dropping cards in your browser window. The Kanban board automatically updates for you and for any other person looking at the same Kanban board. Kanban for TeamPage is a free plug-in that is automatically installed starting with the TeamPage 6.2.57 release. Takashi Okutsu of Traction Software's Japanese Business Office led the definition and development of Kanban for TeamPage, and announced it in his TractionSoftware.jp blog post. Please see the Google English translation of his post below. We'll post more about Kanban for TeamPage here, as well as on TractionSoftware.jp. If you'd like a personal introduction to Kanban for TeamPage, please contact us.
Dec 2021 | Improved External User Directory Integration; Developer improvements for Ordered Lists, Forms, and Widgets
Traction® TeamPage Release 6.2.52 is focused on improvements to external user directory integration, bug fixes, and Developer SDK improvements including support for implementation of upcoming Kanban plug-in capabilities. The release also includes over 60 bug fixes and improvements for TeamPage customers and developers. Please read on for the full list of changes.
Mar 2021 | Microsoft Azure AD Cloud support for cloud and on-premises authentication and user management; Impi! Coaching and Mentoring support
Traction® TeamPage release 6.2.49 introduces support for Microsoft Azure AD cloud-based identity and access management services. This new generation of Microsoft AD technology provides TeamPage single sign-on (SSO) that works along with other Azure AD compatible cloud and on premises resources. This release also includes: New coaching and mentoring use case support for Impi! Improvement Projects; Improvements to TeamPages' rich text editor, and many other improvements and bug fixes. Pleased read on for the full list of changes.
Aug 2020 | Core Project Management, email digest generation, and incoming email processing improvements
Traction® TeamPage Summer 2020 Release improves performance of queries that power TeamPage's core Project Management views and feeds. This also speeds up Data Tables used to embed project, task, milestone, and other interactive tables in TeamPage articles. The release improves rules for automatic cleanup of incoming email posted to TeamPage directly or as a reply to an outgoing TeamPage email notification. The release also makes outgoing TeamPage email digest generation more efficient, and improves external search engine synchronization used to automatically reindex modified articles or attachments. SDK improvements focus on changes related to sending and receiving email.
Jun 2020 | TeamPage uses Solr for faceted navigation and search
Traction® Software is an early believer in the value of scalable, permission aware, faceted navigation and search spanning all Traction® TeamPage content. Traction Software partnered with FAST Search starting in 2006, transitioning to Attivio in 2009, adding new search and navigation capabilities along the way. Traction Software now includes Apache Solr faceted navigation and search as a free capability for Cloud hosted and on premises TeamPage subscriptions. Learn how Solr supports TeamPage's unique work graph model for indexing, visualizing, and using work that crosses boundaries, linking customers, suppliers, partners and internal teams with different permissions to more public or more private business activities on the same TeamPage server.
Mar 2020 | Amazon Corretto Java VM, TeamPage Quality Management, Developer SDK, and general improvements
Traction® TeamPage Winter 2020 Release TeamPage installers now optionally install and configure the Amazon Corretto OpenJDK implementation of Java SE as the bundled Java Virtual Machine. This release also includes improved support for ISO 9001:2015 quality management and business process improvement solutions; improved requirement sign-off tracking; improved work in progress tracking performance; improved SDK support for Client forms, Client Actions, Database API's, and Queries; improved SDK for image and file resource management; new SDL tag support for Conditionals and Conditionals requiring resource management.
Jun 2019 | Pluggable Mailbox Protocols, Search performance improvements, new TeamPage plug-ins
Traction® TeamPage Summer 2019 Release includes support for pluggable mailbox protocols, refinements to TeamPage's handling of configuration or environmental problems, performance improvements for built-in search filtering, improved protection from cross-site forgery attempts, improvements to TeamPage's SDK, and many other bug fixes and improvements. This release also packages several TeamPage plug-ins for general use.
Mar 2019 | TeamPage release focuses on Performance, Quality Management, and Interactive Tables
Traction® TeamPage Winter 2019 Release focuses on TeamPage performance. It incorporates major improvements in query optimization, handling of search expressions, and caching. These improvements will be particularly significant for customers with large journals and for those who use TeamPage solutions and reporting views that make extensive use of search expressions in queries and interactive tables. Other changes include: additions and improvements to the Impi! Quality Management ISO 9001:2015 TeamPage solution; new ability to show Google calendar events in TeamPage Calendar pages; new PDF, Excel, CSV, and print export of for Data Tables; new Data Table filtering per column; improvements to PDF generation; improved temporary file management; improved background process task management; and improved statistics gathering.
Aug 2018 | TeamPage ISO 9001:2015 Solution adds integrated Risk and Improvement Project Management
Traction® TeamPage 2018 Summer Release. Traction® TeamPage's 9001:2015 Quality Management solution - developed in partnership with impi! Solutions - adds integrated Risk and Improvement Project management, tracking, and reporting capabilities. This release also adds: Advanced Japanese language search; improved type-ahead search; improved built-in search; many product and developer SDK bug fixes and improvements.
Mar 2018 | Question and Answer plug-in and other TeamPage improvements
Traction® TeamPage 2018 Spring Release includes a new Question and Answer plug-in that make it simple to add Q&A capabilities to any Traction® TeamPage solution. You can also introduce a dedicated Q&A space to support a forum connecting any combination of external customers, partners and internal team members.
Dec 2017 | FullCalendar adds list and schedule views, ability to show calendar events for selected groups
Traction® TeamPage 2017 Winter Release includes Traction® TeamPage integration with FullCalendar to add new calendar views and capabilities including: list and agenda views; the ability to display events from Google Calendars; the ability to show individual calendars for people who belong to a selected group. FullCalendar is a customizable and open-source JavaScript event calendar with many extensible capabilities and a popular API.
Nov 2017 | TeamPage 6.2 Major Release
Traction® TeamPage 6.2 is a major release which packages TeamPage changes and improvements that have been incrementally delivered to cloud-hosted and on-premises customers. In addition to bug fixes and improvements, highlights of this release are updates to API's used by developers to extend TeamPage, and substantial internal refactoring to improve the structure of the TeamPage code base.
Dec 2016 | Business Process Improvement with impi!, Plug-in extensions, TeamPage improvements
Traction® TeamPage Winter 2016 Release consolidates TeamPage point releases shipped since May 2016, adding numerous improvements to support business process, quality management, daily report, and other plug-in extensions. This release also includes new user experience and performance improvements, bug fixes, extensions of the TeamPage SDK, and architectural enhancements to extend the capabilities of the TeamPage platform.
Jul 2016 | TeamPage Real Time Daily Report 日報 (Japan)
Traction® Software's Japanese Business office launched a dedicated DailyReports.biz site and solution for the Japanese Daily Report 日報 practice. In some Japanese companies, at the end of each day employees are expected to write a summary of what they did and submit it to their boss. This is called a "日報" (daily report or daily journal) and is traditionally used to share information between employees and bosses. Rather than adding a chore at the end of each day, the new Daily Report solution makes it easy to share a short note after a talk with a customer, when a task is completed, or after some other noteworthy event. The note is easy to post using a phone, tablet, or desktop computer and is shared in with others in real time. The note is also automatically included in a summary email digest at the end of the day.
Jun 2016 | ISO 9001:2015 Requirements Met By impi! Solutions
Impi! founder Pierre Bienvenüe shares his analysis of ISO 9001:2015 requirements based on lessons learned working with one of his clients since July 2015 under the guidance of one of the contributors to the new version of the standard. He uses the impi! model to document mappings from sub-clauses of the impi! solution model to ISO 9001:2015 requirements, and from ISO clauses and sub-clauses to solution capabilities.
May 2016 | TeamPage Mobile App, Improved Document Management
Traction® TeamPage Spring 2016 Release introduces: the first release of a new Traction TeamPage Mobile App for iPhone and iPad; a new TeamPage Document Management user interface; the first release of a new JSON API for mobile devices, bots, and other external clients; improved external search engine integration; bug fixes, improvements, and other changes.
Dec 2015 | Quality Management, Signature Requirements
Traction® TeamPage Winter 2015 Release introduces a new TeamPage Quality Management option. The Quality Management module adds Feedback, Non-Conformance, and Corrective Action forms and dashboards to TeamPage's standard support for authoring, delivery, and tracking of quality and compliance documentation. The new Quality forms and dashboards make it simple to manage the full life cycle for manufacturing, operations, and other procedures based on ISO 9001 or other compliance standards. Signature Requirements is a new capability which lets you require people to sign TeamPage articles either once or on a recurring basis. Signature Requirements can be used to collect approvals for publication, confirm that a document has been reviewed or a process followed, or for any other situation where a set of users and groups must explicitly acknowledge that they have reviewed an article. Signature Requirements is included with the Quality Management option, and is also available as separately priced independent option, please contact us for details.
Nov 2015 | Traction continues to punch above its weight - Real Story Group
Real Story Group released the latest version of their Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Evaluations Report with updated reviews of Google, Igloo, Jive, Liferay Social Office, Telligent/Verint, and Traction® TeamPage on Oct 26, 2015. Real Story Group analyst Kashyap Kompella writes:
Nov 2015 | Teampage Plug-ins from Traction Software Japan
Takashi Okutsu, Director of Traction® Software's Japanese Business Office has been on a roll. His new Traction® TeamPage plug-ins include: a new Bootstrap3 skin; a new JQuery Mobile skin; Customer Support Request and Customer Quick Reference plug-ins. Takashi is also the author of Gantt Chart, Traction Poll, Mind Map, Pop-up Annotation, and other plug-ins, free to Japanese and International Traction customers.
Oct 2015 | Personal Worklists, Quick Forms
Traction® TeamPage Fall 2015 Release introduces Personal Worklists: Track and share what you plan to work on. It's easy to add, rearrange, organize, checkoff and share items on your personal worklist. New Quick Forms make common actions simpler using a right click action or keystroke. Traction TeamPage now automatically checks for updates and notifies your administrator.
July 2015 | TeamPage Live Task Lists
Traction® TeamPage Summer 2015 Release update introduces TeamPage live task lists: drag and drop to reorder tasks for a project or milestone, everyone sees the live update. Use shared task lists to keep everyone in synch on order of execution for tasks as well as planned start and end dates. A live Presence bar shows who else is watching the same page.
May 2015 | TeamPage Bookmarks, interactive filters, and Japanese search improvement
Traction® TeamPage Summer 2015 Release introduces a new TeamPage Bookmarks sidebar and interactive filtering. Interactive filtering makes it easy to focus on what interests you; bookmarks make it simple to return to any filtered or standard view with one click. The release also: improves searching and hit highlighting of Japanese text using the TeamPage native search interface; adds new classes to the TeamPage SDK; includes bug fixes, updated internationalization, and performance improvements.
March 2015 | TeamPage 6.1 Burn-up charts, interactive tables, SDK extensions
Traction® TeamPage 6.1 Spring 2015 Release focuses on improvements to the TeamPage Project Management suite, including a new "Burn-up Chart" for tracking progress; user-defined interactive tables to dynamically summarize activity; and better tools for understanding the big picture of a project or milestone. This release also includes major under-the-hood improvements to TeamPage's forms SDK to make it easier for developers to create custom forms, or customized variations of standard forms.
Dec 2014 | TeamPage @ Mentions
Traction® TeamPage Fall 2014 Release Introduces inline @ mentions. An @ mention makes it it easy to bring any TeamPage item to someone’s attention just by typing their name. Automatic inline completion makes @ name lookup easy. When a person is mentioned, TeamPage will automatically notify them of follow on comments. Reply to the inline or email notification to add a quick response from your smart phone, tablet, or a Web browser. This is a great way to bring someone into a conversation without sending a hand authored email, text message or other message. @ mentions extend TeamPage's Work Graph model using notation that's familiar from Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other Web services.
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
July 2014 | TeamPage Notifications
Traction® Traction Software Summer 2014 Release New features include inline-page push Notifications, extending TeamPage's email notifications. Notifications make it simple to focus on activity that's important to you. Get more details, or send a quick reply whether in your office or using your smartphone or tablet. Change what you watch when your priorities and interests change. Available now, contact us for more information or a free trial.
June 2014 | Traction TeamPage 6.0
Traction® Software is proud to announce Traction® TeamPage 6.0, a major release incorporating important new features, improvements, and internal updates, as well as consolidated capabilities from updates shipped over the TeamPage 5.2 baseline. Sign up for a free trial, or download a free TeamPage license for free access to Traction Software's Customer Support and Customer Forum TeamPage server, including installer links and detailed change log information.
Alcoa Tackles IT Projects and Compliance
The IT division of Alcoa Fastening Systems used Traction® TeamPage to reduce time spent on compliance activities by 61% and reduce time to deploy IT systems from sixteen months to seven.
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.
Dec 2013 | The Wiki Way - Jordan Frank at Gilbane 2013 Boston
What makes the public Social Web work so well? How is social software in the enterprise similar? How is it different? What does a path to success for enterprise social tools look like? Traction Software's Jordan Frank answers these questions in The Wiki Way - Towards Quality, Change and Risk Management as a Path to Enterprise Social Software Adoption (slides below). Jordan's model uses critical core content, critical record / exception management, and critical conversation to establish a base for enterprise social media success. His model shows how social tools can be put into the grain of work, take culture issues off the table, and drive creativity using specific examples. Jordan spoke on the Gilbane Boston 2013 panel, Driving Self Service and Support Through Social Collaboration moderated by Lynda Moulton, Principal, LWM Technology Services.
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
Decagon Devices: Plans, Products, Projects, Procedures and ISO 9001 Quality Management
Decagon Devices (Decagon.com) designs, manufactures and markets scientific instruments used to measure water, light and heat in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. Decagon devices are used by 80% of the top one hundred food companies to measure water activity in food; by farms to measure soil for water and nutrient use; and by NASA where Decagon devices were sent to Mars to measure humidity and wind. Decagon deployed Traction® TeamPage for project management, ISO certification of their procedure management, internal corporate communications and knowledge management.
Working Across Boundaries
In his Jun 2, 2013 blog post, Chess Media analyst and author Jacob Morgan asks: How Open is Too Open? He asks "Would you be comfortable working in an all glass building where people can see everything you do and every move you make?" Jacob outlines the benefits of transparency: "Keep everyone on the same page; Build trust and fostering better relationships; Allow employees (and customers) to contribute ideas and value when they see the opportunity to do so." Jacob recognizes that a balance needs to be struck, but not being transparent enough may do more harm than good. He ask: "How open is too open?" I agree with the benefits Jacob outlines, and believe the answer to Jacob's question depends on the answer to a critical question: "Transparency for what purpose?" I'll start the ball rolling in with this post, including some real-life customer examples.
June 2013 | Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software Industry Report, Redwood Capital
A new Redwood Capital Group industry report released the first week of June 2013 focuses on Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software. The thirty-two page report includes Market Trends, Competitive Landscape, M&A Activity, Private Financing, Valuation Trends, and Emerging Private Companies, including Traction® Software. You can download a free copy of this and related industry reports from the Redwood Capital Sector Focus page.
18-19 Jun 2013 | Traction Software E2 Boston 2013 Social and Collaboration Track Sponsor
Traction Software is happy to be a Social and Collaboration Track sponsor at this year's E2 Boston Conference. Please visit Traction Software at Demo Pavilion 38 to see how customers build better products and work better together using Traction TeamPage. Traction Software is a leader in social task management and a consistent innovator in delivering business value to demanding customers around the world. Learn how John Hagel of Deloitte documented and analyzed a TeamPage customer's 61% reduction in time required for compliance activity using TeamPage.
May 2013 | TeamPage listed as key product in Technavio's Global Enterprise Social Networking Market Report
Traction® Software Inc (along with its Traction® TeamPage product) has been recognized as a key player in TechNavio's upcoming report on the Global Enterprise Social Networking market 2012-2016. TechNavio analysts forecast "the Global Enterprise Social Networking Software market to grow at a CAGR of 51.94 percent over the period 2012-2016." They continue: "one of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increased requirement of intranet interactivity among multiple teams in an organization. The market has also been witnessing an increased use of mobile enterprise social networking for sales activities. However, the risk of confidential information leakage could pose a challenge to the growth of this market."
May 2013 | Getting Work Done with Social Task Management
Alan Lepofsky @alanlepo of Constellation Research coined Social Task Management last summer to describe a trend he saw in December 2011 as task management started to enter Enterprise 2.0 systems. Lepofsky's presentation at E2.0 Boston 2012 highlighted Traction® TeamPage as a social business platform with a native (versus integrated) task management (slide 34). Luis Suarez @elsua does a fantastic job of summarizing key points in Social Task Management - When Social Business Got Down to Work. Later in the year (October 2012), Constellation Research published Lepofsky's research as Getting Work Done with Social Task Management. The research speaks to problems with traditional standalone task management systems which create top down choke points, lose context, limit collaboration and create information silos. Lepofsky argues that collaboration is at the core of social task management while describing the many benefits.
7 May 2013 | Real Story Group's Updated Traction TeamPage Evaluation in Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Report
The Real Story Group's Kashyap Kompella @kashyapkompella posted an update describing RSG's new version of their Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Evaluations research covering twenty-five key software vendors. The new version includes a major update for the Traction® TeamPage section, including TeamPage project management, action tracking, TeamPage's ability to span and connect systems of record, and the ability to embed TeamPage discussions in other Web applications.
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 Oct 2012 | Applied Knowledge Company Ltd Brings Cloud-hosted TeamPage to Japan
Traction® Software partner Applied Knowledge Co, Ltd of Yokohama Japan today announced availability of cloud hosted Traction® TeamPage for the Japanese market. AKJ President Masayuki Kojima said: "TeamPage provides a new communication infrastructure for projects and multi-team organizations within your company - now available as a cloud service." TeamPage cloud pricing starts at 7,908 yen per month for ten spaces and twenty-five named accounts, see www.TractionSoftware.jp for price, ordering, and product details. TeamPage cloud options include Attivio Advanced Search and Social Enterprise Web. Traction Software offers cloud hosted TeamPage to customers outside the Japanese market, see TeamPage Pricing and Licenses.
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
15-17 Jul 2012 | SLA 2012 Annual Conference and INFO-EXPO
Traction Software's Jordan Frank will be speaking on Pharma Competitive Intelligence at this year's SLA 2012 Annual Conference in Chicago, Noon 16 July (see session summary below - and slides in Monitoring and Leveraging Social Media Chatter, on the Internet and in the Enterprise). You can also meet Jordan at the SLA 2012 McCormick Place INFO-EXPO Booth #4, Sunday through Tuesday. Follow @TractionTeam and @JordanFrank on Twitter, conference code #SLAChicago!
The Collaborative Organization - Free signed copy, Traction Software Booth 418 E2.0 Boston 2012
I've read an advance copy of Jacob Morgan's upcoming book, The Collaborative Organization: A Strategic Guide to Solving Your Internal Business Challenges Using Emerging Social and Collaborative Tools. I'm very happy that we decided to give Enterprise 2.0 Boston folk a chance to meet Jacob and get their own free, signed copy at Traction Software Booth 418 next week. Jacob says: "The purpose of this book is to act as a guide for executives, decision makers, and those involved with collaborative initiatives at their organizations". I believe he hits the mark with a book of lasting value, as do reviewers including Vivek Kundra, former Chief Information Officer of the United States; Erik Brynjolf, MIT Center for Digital Business Director, and others.
NHS Part 3: NHS Orkney Board gets TeamPage and £28,000 Annual ROI
The Board of Directors at National Health Service's Orkney hospital use Traction® TeamPage and iPads to eliminate paper at board meetings. The move saves £28,000 per year in printing and related costs, and was covered by both The Guardian and BBC News. This use case follows a history of NHS Orkney innovation with TeamPage. They first used the platform to address a failing grade in a communications audit (See National Health Service Orkney (NHS Orkney) and expanded its reach to integrate their legacy directory with TeamPage profiles (see NHS integrates Intranet 1.0 with Enterprise 2.0 to get Social with TeamPage 4.0).
19-20 Jun 2012 | Traction Software Enterprise 2.0 Boston
Traction TeamPage makes it easy for people to communicate, work together, and stay on top of what's happening anywhere in their business, including line of business systems and the public Web. Learn more about TeamPage, now with new Cloud pricing options. The first 30 days are free and you can start with a monthly plan at less than $2.50 per user per month for 25 user accounts. Traction Software will be at Enterprise 2.0 Boston Booth #418 on 19-20 June. Line up early for a free, signed pre-release copy of Jacob Morgan's new book, The Collaborative Organization.
Laser focused E2.0, without the risk? Get Traction!
I really like how Kashya Kompella from the Real Story Group offered a great dose of context for his E2.0 Marketplace Analysis Q2 2012: "Slightly modifying what the ancient Greeks said, you cannot dip your finger twice in the same (activity) stream." Simply said, there is not a lot of room for risk when an enterprise makes an attempt at an E2.0 effort, whether they are trying to build knowledge in a wiki, approach project management from a perspective managers actually like, or wrap up the whole effort with blogs, discussion, and a social networking layer on top.
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
8 Feb 2012 | CTOLabs - Traction Software: Connected Work
CTOLabs adds Traction® Software to its companies of note list, "firms we believe enterprise technologists should track": The future of work:
collaboration, conversation, identity, work product, action tracking and activity streams in context, coupled by permission-aware deep search, spanning systems of record and transactional business systems. Traction® TeamPage connects people, actions, what you create or find in TeamPage, the public Web, your company’s intranet and your line of business systems, simply and securely. » Read the full quote
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.
15-16 Nov 2011 | Traction Software Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara
Traction Software's Greg Lloyd and Jordan Frank will be at Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara Booth #208 15-16 Nov 2011. We hope to see you there! Traction Software will announce pricing and general availability of new Social Enterprise Web and Attivio Plus options, see Jacob Morgan's Chess Media Group review and Traction Software on Connected Work.
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."
7 Oct 2011 | Jacob Morgan - Emergent Collaboration Vendor Review: Traction Software
"I’ve seen the Traction product a few times now I have to say that I really like it and not just for small and medium size businesses. Traction offers an amazing search integration feature which many large vendors can’t even come close to replicating." Chess Media Group Principal and author Jacob Morgan just started a weekly series of concise, consistent, and even-handed public reviews of vendors in the emergent collaboration / Enterprise 2.0 space. Traction® Software is honored to chosen for the second review in Jacob's series. Jacob asks wide-ranging questions on overall direction, along with practical questions on integration, support, pricing, maintenance, time to go live, technology, focus, capabilities, customers, key differentiating factors from competition, along with Jacob's candid take.
Are Enterprise 2.0 & Web 2.0 Different? | KMWorld 2011 Panel, Thur Nov 3, 2011 Washington DC
KMWorld 2011 Panel C303 2pm-2:45pm Thur Nov 3, 2011. Join Traction® Software's Jordan Frank and a stellar panel from the FDA, Attivio, and Deloitte to discuss and debate the future of social software in the enterprise, how it relates to what you see and use on the public Web, and how it differs. Expect a lively discussion based on practical experience, research, and analysis. “We want Facebook for the enterprise!” That’s a call to action, but what does it mean, and why will it fail? There is a gulf of difference in the use case for 2.0 in the Enterprise vs. the Web. Deloitte research indicates the best starting point for E2.0 is exception management, not making friends. Permissions issues, incentives, and infrastructure differ enormously when you consider the enterprise vs. the web. Enterprise architects and decision makers need to look at the web to gather ideas but not to look in the mirror.
Athens Group - Traction® TeamPage for Quality Management, Training and Knowledge Base
Athens Group is an independent consulting firm based in Houston, Texas. In 2009, the company migrated their Athens Group Quality Management System (AGQMS), industry knowledge base, and training curriculum to Traction® TeamPage where the information is easily accessed, collectively edited, and the content can be moderated where necessary. TeamPage became their integrated Intranet. In 2011, the TeamPage Attivio Search Module was added to further improve information access with automatic page ranking and faceted drill down navigation.
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
3 Aug 2011 | Alcoa Fastening Systems: What were you doing at 7:15AM Saturday July 2, 2011? Joe Crumpler was working.
What were you doing at 7:15AM Saturday July 2, 2011? Sleeping? Getting ready for a Fourth of July weekend picnic or a trip to the beach? Joe Crumpler of Alcoa Fastening Systems (AFS) was reaching for his iPad to review status for the world wide roll-out of an Oracle upgrade scheduled for the holiday weekend. The story starts the night before. Joe writes in the Next Think Next blog that he co-authors with Brian Tullis:
29 June 2011 | AppGap Review - Traction Introduces TeamPage Attivio Plus and Social Enterprise Web
Bill Ives AppGap Review analyzes Traction® Software's E2.0 Boston 2011 Traction® TeamPage Attivio Plus and Social Enterprise Web announcement. Ives says: "Using search as a lever to span silos and system of record makes their native content addressable and actionable in place without import or conversion. This is similar to the way search loosely couples content across many sources on the public Web, but focused on a business intranet." Ives also reviews project dashboard and activity stream capabilities introduced with Traction TeamPage Release 5.2, saying: "I also like what they are doing with Activity Streams as I think this is one of the most important features of an Enterprise 2.0 platform." » 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.
21 June 2011 | Traction Software Introduces Social Enterprise Web
Discover, Discuss, Tag, Task, and Share Content stored in SharePoint, Documentum, File servers, Exchange, SQL Databases, and the Web Boston, Mass / Enterprise 2.0 Conference Booth #418 — June 21, 2011 — Traction® Software Inc, the leader in social software for work, today announced Traction® TeamPage Attivio Search Plus to index and search external sources, and Traction® TeamPage 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 » Full Release Download Traction TeamPage Social Web Handout (.pdf)
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
21-22 Jun 2011 | Traction Software Enterprise 2.0 Boston
Traction Software will be exhibiting at Enterprise 2.0 Boston Booth #418 on 21-22 June, and we hope to see you there! Learn about Traction's new TeamPage 5.2 release that combines the freedom of social software with action tracking for follow through. Traction Software customers in Deloitte's independent Social Software for Business Performance study show dramatic, measurable results. Learn more and position your organization for growth in 2011. We'll also be making a product and partnership announcements that you won't want to miss - stay tuned here, see us a E2.0 Boston, or follow @TractionTeam on Twitter. To pre-schedule a meeting with Jordan Frank or Greg Lloyd at E2.0 Boston, please email e20boston@tractionsoftware.com, use Traction's contact form or use Twitter. Update: see 21 June 2011 | Traction Software Introduces Social Enterprise Web
25 May 2011 | Attivio and Traction Software Help Power Borlaug Global Rust Initiative to a 2011 Computerworld Honors Program Nomination
Newton MA — May 25, 2011 — Attivio, Inc. announced that IDG's Computerworld Honors Program has acknowledged its work with the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) and Traction® Software to create a community portal developed to help fight the spread of wheat rust. As part of the award program, the BGRI has been named as a 2011 Laureate. The annual award program honors visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social, economic and educational change. The BGRI project organizers, led by Cornell University, selected Traction® TeamPage, a social software solution that combines wiki, blog, tagging, activity streams, discussion and social networking capabilities in a secure, scalable Enterprise 2.0 social software platform, as a basis for the portal. Additionally, Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine (AIE), was chosen to power search and information access, which are considered to be vital functions for the website. The Computerworld Honors awards will be presented at the Annual Laureates Medal Ceremony & Gala Awards on June 20, 2011 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. Read » Full Release See also BGRI UG-99 Video
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
10 May 2011 | Traction® TeamPage 5.2 Introduces Dashboards for Action Tracking, Project and Case Management
Providence RI — May 10, 2011— Traction® Software Inc, the leader in enterprise social software for work today announced Traction® TeamPage Release 5.2 with new capabilities to make it simple to track actions, show activity, watch status, and follow discussions embedded in the flow of collaborative work. TeamPage 5.2's new activity dashboards show actions, status and work in context using a format that's easy to read and reduces information overload. Activity dashboards allow people dive into and watch activity associated with projects or milestones they want to focus on, while also seeing, searching, exploring and connecting with others across a broad view of actions organized by business context as well as person. Read » Full Release and videos
Traction Software Co-sponsors PMI Mass Bay Chapter's Professional Development Day 30 April 2011
Traction Software is happy to co-sponsor the Project Management Institute Mass Bay Chapter Professional Development Day, Saturday 30 April 2011 at the Conference Center at Bentley University, Waltham MA. The event is open to PMI members and non-members - anyone engaged in or impacted by the Project Management profession, from Junior and Senior Project Managers to Managers and Senior Staff. Enjoy the keynote and breakout sessions and earn 6 PDU's toward the Project Management Institute's Professional Education Requirements. See and ask questions about Traction TeamPage's new integrated Action Tracking and Project Management capabilities at the sponsor exhibit during lunch and breaks. For more information, see the PMI Mass Bay PDD registration and program page.
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
28 Feb 2011 | テプコシステムズが社内システムのサポート業務にアプライドナレッジの企業向けコラボレーションツール「TeamPage」を採用
[TEPCO Systems Corporation adopts Traction® TeamPage for enterprise support services] 株式会社アプライドナレッジ(本社：神奈川県横浜市、代表取締役：小島 政行)は、東京電力グループの情報子会社である株式会社テプコシステムズ(本社：東京都江東区、代表取締役社長：平井 憲)が、社内システムサポート業務のプラットフォームとしてアプライドナレッジの企業向けコラボレーションツール「TeamPage」を採用したことを発 表します。テプコシステムズの総務部情報管理グループでは現在、約2,000名の社員からの社内IT基盤の利用に関する問い合わせに7名の専任者で回答業務を行って います。これまで主にメールシステムで業務を行っていましたが、グループ内での回答過程の共有や回答履歴の蓄積を徹底して業務品質を向上させる目的で 「TeamPage」を導入し、本年1月より本格運用を開始しました。 Read » full release (Japanese)
28 Feb 2011 | Attivio and Traction Software Bridge Worldwide Scientific Community With Enterprise 2.0 Technology
NEWTON, Mass, Feb. 28, 2011 -- Attivio, Inc. and Traction® Software today announced their work with the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) and Cornell University to create a community portal, bringing together scientists, biologists, universities and agricultural organizations from more than 45 countries to collaborate, educate and disseminate details on wheat rust research and best practices to prevent its spread. To date, the portal has been very successful and was recently honored with a 2010 Forrester Groundswell Award in the category of "Social Impact".
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.
The Future of Work Platforms: Like Jazz
Yesterday I read GigaOM analyst and editor Haydn Shaughnessy's Future of Work Platforms report (registration required, free seven day trial available). I commented: Haydn -- A very thoughtful and useful analysis – a combination that’s all too rare! I’m particularly happy to see your thoughts on observable work (see the full report for Haydn's excellent analysis).
Ever since Jon Udell coined the term, it struck me as good way to talk about practical benefits and a business purpose for collaboration. In my opinion it helps by pealing back issues of privacy in context and activity streams, along with subtleties required to support the social dance of getting things done, dealing with exceptions, and staying aware of what’s going around you without getting swamped. This is much closer to jazz than the world of canned business transactions. It requires a level of attention to ease of use and user experience that’s just as important but in many ways more challenging to do well in a business context than for the public Web.
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.
December 2010 | Gilbane Conference - Portal vs. Enterprise Social Software Panel
Jordan Frank writes: At the Gilbane Conference last month I stood in for Greg Lloyd in the Portal or Enterprise Social Software: Which Collaboration Environment to Choose? panel with David Seuss (CEO, Northern Light) and Jay Batson (Co-Founder and VP, Acquia).
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。
7 Dec 2010 | CTOLabs - The 75 Most Disruptive Enterprise IT Capabilities
Bob Gourley, CTOLabs writes: "This list reviews the companies regarded as having very high potential to change the way IT is done in large enterprises. For a company to be on the list they must have a currently shipping capability that appears to be a real game changer in enterprise IT." Traction® Software is listed as one of the Disruptive small to medium companies versus IT Powerhouses like IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. » Read the Full Story
2 Dec 2010 | AppGap Review - Traction TeamPage 5.1 Moves Forward with Project Management Capabilities
Bill Ives AppGap Review of Traction® TeamPage Release 5.1 focuses on Traction's new integrated action tracking and project management: "The action tracking concept is not old school project management with Gantt charts and resource allocation. It is allowing employees to manage their work tasks and make this management transparent to those who need to know...This is the action tracking part of project management for the regular employee, not the program management office. It brings this activity into the enterprise 2.0 world as every task is treated as an object for comments, RSS, and made searchable to those with the proper permissions. Traction has always had great granular security and this permission level technology is applied here, as well." » Read the Full Story
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
16-18 Nov 2010 | Showcasing Traction TeamPage 5.1 at KMWorld 2010 Washington DC
Meet Jordan Frank and see Traction® TeamPage 5.1 at Booth # 406, KMWorld 2010 at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel. 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. This clear and simple model is focused on the lightweight coordination of individual and team actions that drive collection, analysis and planning for knowledge management, intelligence analysis, and all business activities.
Borlaug Global Rust Initiative
Combating the Wheat Rust Pandemic: Bridging the Worldwide Scientific Community with Enterprise 2.0 Social Software -- Wheat rust is a serious fungal disease affecting wheat caused by the rust fungus Puccinia triticina. It is the most prevalent of all the wheat rust diseases, occurring in nearly all areas where wheat is grown. Thought to be all but extinct for more than 50 years, the world is now facing a new pandemic of wheat rust -- Ug99, a highly virulent stem rust variant. This strain could potentially be responsible for the destruction of more than a third of worldwide wheat production. Such a failure could be devastating as wheat is the world's most widely planted crop and accounts for a fifth of humanity's calorie intake (1).
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
9 Nov 2010 | Portals and KM - Traction Team Page 5.1 Integrates Project Management Capabilities
Analyst Bill Ives reviews Traction® TeamPage Release 5.1 new Action Tracking capabilities. Bill includes screen shots of task, milestone and personal profile views along with his analysis. He says: "The action tracking concept is not old school project management with Gantt charts and resource allocation. It is allowing employees to manage their work tasks and make this management transparent to those who need to know. This is where the observable work comes it. I have seen considerable improvement in employee and team performance when their work becomes transparent to the right others. The spot light does wonders when applied correctly. ... I think that this complete collection of new capabilities builds on the strong platform already established to take it further into the ideal of enterprise 2.0. Here the activities of an organization are accessible to those who need to know and this transparency operates at the task or action level." » Read the Full Story
9 Nov 2010 | Traction® TeamPage 5.1 Introduces Integrated Action Tracking For Improved Team Performance
Santa Clara CA / Enterprise 2.0 — November 9, 2010 — Bridging project management and the flow of work Traction Software, the leader in enterprise social software innovation, today 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 » full release
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
TUG 2010 Newport | Interviews
Paula Thornton followed up on a TUG tradition she started last year with a series of short and lively interviews of folk who participated in TUG 2010 Newport. This year Paula interviewed: Brian Tullis, Alcoa (preview below); Michael Wadsworth; Patrice Livingston and Masayuki Kojima, AKJ Ltd.
TUG 2010 Newport | Videos and Slides
TUG 2010 Newport was the best Traction® User Group meeting yet! For links to individual video and audio podcasts of the fifth annual Traction User Group 12-15 Oct 2010 sessions and slides, see the TUG 2010 Newport Agenda page. See Chris Nuzum, Traction® Software CTO and co-founder's TUG 2010 Traction Update below.
Follow TUG 2010 Newport on Twitter
If you can't make it to the fifth annual Traction User Group meeting on 12-15 October 2010 in Newport RI, you can still join the fun on Twitter! Use hash tag #TUG2010 to follow updates from Newport or ask questions. You can also follow folk attending TUG 2010 Newport with the TUG2010-Newport list
Jon Udell to give closing keynote and join TUG 2010 Newport Observable Workshop
Jon Udell - author, information architect, software developer and new media innovator - will give a closing keynote for the 2010 Traction User Group conference in Newport RI on 13 Oct 2010, bookending Jim McGee's opening keynote on Observable Work. Jon's 1999 book, Practical Internet Groupware, helped lay the foundation for what we now call social software. Udell was formerly a software developer at Lotus, BYTE Magazine’s executive editor and Web maven, and an independent consultant. He is now a writer and producer for Microsoft as well as a hands on organizer of the elmcity project, see Jon's blog and bio page.
Fixing Enterprise Search
A few days ago the Enterprise 2.0 Blog published Venkatesh Rao's excellent post The Real Reasons Enterprise Search is Broken. When he hears ironic jokes comparing search on the public Web versus internal enterprise search, Venkatesh notes: "People move on because they seem to think that this is incompetence at work. Search is soo 1.0 right? It's been solved and we're just fumbling the execution, right?" He says: "I have reached a radical conclusion: broken search is the problem, but fixing search is not the solution. Search breaks behind the firewall for social, not technical reasons... Let's start with the blindingly obvious, and then draw some weird conclusions." I think they are perceptive conclusions based on sound analysis, and agree with most, but come at the problem from a different angle.
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.
30 Aug 2010 | Borlaug Global Rust Initiative: Forrester Groundswell Award Nomination
The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative is a great example of Enterprise 2.0 technology used to support global collaboration aimed at finding and implementing a solution to a complex and urgent problem - as originally envisioned by hypertext pioneer Douglas Engelbart. How urgent? "90 percent of the world's wheat has little or no protection against Ug99 wheat rust. This plant disease could quickly spread and annihilate a crop that provides a third of the world's calories." The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative was formed to reduce the world's vulnerability to wheat rust diseases through a first-ever international collaboration in wheat research. We're happy the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative case has been nominated for Forrester's 2010 GroundSwell award. Please read the Groundswell page on The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative's Knowledge Bank - and add your own rating, comment and review for the BGRI case and others.
30 Aug 2010 | Alcoa Fastening Systems: Forrester Groundswell Award Nomination
Brian Tullis and Joe Crumpler of Alcoa Fastening Systems have done a great job speaking and writing about their experience using Traction® TeamPage to support their innovative approach to project work. A lot of people ask for Enterprise 2.0 examples which show measurable return and provide practical advice based on experience: Brian and Joe do exactly that. We're happy their Alcoa Fastening Systems case has been nominated for Forrester's 2010 GroundSwell award. Please read the Groundswell page on Observable Work Principles - and add your own rating, comment and review on their case and others. Here's their Groundswell page summary:
29 July 2010 | Enterprise 2.0 and Observable Work: Brian Tullis and Joe Crumpler, Burton Group Catalyst 2010 Santa Diego
Brian Tullis and Joe Crumpler did a lively talk on Enterprise 2.0 and Observable Work at the Burton Group Catalyst 2010 North America conference in San Diego. For those of us who couldn't be there in person, see their Abstract quoted below and the enthusiastic Twitter stream from 29 Jul 2010! I'll add a link to their speaker notes and slides when they become available. Update: Brian posted Enterprise 2.0 and Observable work slides and speaker notes, see inline Slideshare below. Sounded like a super session!
Jim McGee to Keynote TUG 2010 Newport
Jim McGee, Managing Director at New Shoreham Consulting, expert on organizational design and change management for Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media Technologies will deliver the Traction User Group 2010 opening keynote in Newport Rhode Island on Oct 13. Jim is also well known as the author of the popular McGee's Musings weblog on Knowledge Management, Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media technology. On Twitter follow Jim as @JMcGee.
Enterprise 2.0 and Observable Work
I really like Jim McGee's Jun 23, 2010 blog post Managing the visibility of knowledge work. Jim makes the excellent point that "Invisibility is an accidental and little-recognized characteristic of digital knowledge work." and points back to his 2002 post Knowledge Work as Craft Work to reflect on what Jim calls a "dangerous tension between industrial frameworks and knowledge work as craft work". Early in his 2002 post McGee says:
15 June 2010 | Traction TeamPage 5.0 Delivers Integrated Social Networking and Collaboration with New Generation Interface Technology
Enterprise 2.0 Boston MA — June 15, 2010 — A fresh look at how social networking and collaboration work for business Traction® Software, the leading developer of enterprise 2.0 social software for secure, scalable collaboration, today announced Traction® TeamPage Release 5.0. This release uses Traction’s new generation Proteus interface technology to deliver a look and feel that’s fast, easy to use, and looks great. TeamPage 5.0 leverages this technology to integrate extensible personal profile pages, Twitter style personal status, group live blog technology, a slick and simple Feed summary and more as natural parts of Traction's award winning Enterprise 2.0 collaboration platform. Read » full release
Traction TeamPage 5.0: Social Software for Work
Traction® TeamPage Release 5.0's new generation interface technology is fast, simple, and looks great. TeamPage 5.0 leverages this technology to deliver personal profile pages, Twitter style personal status, a flexible follow model with faceted navigation, a top down Feed view of activity and more as a natural part of Traction's award winning Enterprise 2.0 collaboration platform. TeamPage 5.0 puts social software to work for activities that matter most for your business including new product development, sales, life cycle product support, communication with clients and sales partners, collaboration with customers and key suppliers, tracking business issues, marketing and competitive intelligence.
14-16 June 2010 | Traction Software at Enterprise 2.0 Boston
If you plan to attend Enterprise 2.0 Boston 2010, be sure to visit Traction Software at Booth #515 between 11:30 am through 6:00 pm Tuesday and Wednesday for a major Traction TeamPage product announcement and demonstration! Jordan Frank will be at E2.0 Boston as a panelist for Monday morning's Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration Technologies Workshop run by Oliver Marks and Sameer Patel (8:30-11:45am). He'll also represent Traction Software for the Social Vendor Idol competition versus Blue Kiwi, Cubetree, Newsgator and Socialtext (3:30-4:30pm Tuesday) - be sure to watch and vote! Greg Lloyd will be a panelist on Mike Gotta's Expert Panel on Standards for Social Computing in the Enterprise (2:15-3:15pm Wednesday). To schedule a meeting, please email e20boston@tractionsoftware.com See you in Boston!
12-15 Oct 2010 | Fifth Annual Traction User Group Meeting, TUG 2010 Newport
Traction Software's Fifth Annual Traction User Group Meeting (TUG 2010) will be in Newport Rhode Island, 12-15 October 2010. Mark your calendars! Wed 13 Oct will feature an opening keynote by Jim McGee followed by a TeamPage update by Chris Nuzum CTO and co-founder of Traction Software, a talk by Attivio VP of Engineering Rik Tamm-Daniels, customer stories, and a closing keynote by Jon Udell. If you can't attend TUG 2010 Newport in person Follow TUG 2010 Newport on Twitter
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.
30 April 2010 | Traction TeamPage is AIIM E2.0 Community Buyer's Guide Featured Product
April 30, 2010 Traction® TeamPage is the top featured product of the AIIM Enterprise 2.0 Community Buyer's Guide. Read Traction TeamPage rating and reviews.
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.
19 Jan 2010 | Jack Vinson - Responsibility to collaborate - Jordan Frank
Business and KM consultant Jack Vinson follows Jim McGee's suggestion and posts his own thoughts on Paula Thornton's video interview with Traction Software's Jordan Frank Vinson says: "The idea behind "responsibility to collaborate" is that the world of work has shifted from my value being solely about I know, though that is still important. Now it is just as important to spread the word and bring together my ideas with those of others in a more open way. This also plays at a group level, where collective responsibility to work together and learn from one another can elevate the level of conversation for people the next time they have an official business meeting. Imagine having issues established and discussed in an easily-accessible way (instead of behind closed doors or even at the water cooler)." » Read his full Knowledge Jolt with Jack post and watch the video.
7 Jan 2010 | Jim McGee - Jordan Frank on ‘responsibility to collaborate’ – lessons in enterprise 2.0 implementations
New Shoreham Consulting Managing Director Jim McGee encourages readers to watch and reflect on Paula Thornton's video interview with Traction Software's Jordan Frank McGee says: "You need to develop a well-tuned design sense to take full advantage of the technologies intended to support collaborative and creative knowledge work. You need to be especially careful to avoid the temptations to over-engineer the technology or the process. The examples that Jordan shares are rooted in the augmentation philosophies of Doug Engelbart rather than the automation philosophies of Frederick Taylor." » Read the full 7 Jan 2010 McGee's Musings post and watch the video.
For more video interviews and Traction User Group talks see the Traction User Group channel on Blip.tv and 12-15 Oct 2010 | Fifth Annual Traction User Group Meeting, TUG 2010 Newport
22 Dec 2009 | the{app}gap - Traction Introduces New Capabilities and Partners with Team Page 4.2
AppGap Analyst Bill Ives reviews Traction® TeamPage Release 4.2 new capabilities, focusing on the Developer Release preview of Traction's Google Web Toolkit (GWT) based Proteus interface. Traction® Software President Greg Lloyd demonstrated Proteus using Traction's production TeamPage server and content. Bill includes screen shots of Proteus Feed views that make it easy to scan and navigate status, new content, edits, tag and moderation actions by space or person - including aggregate roll-up views. Proteus' use of GWT technology makes updates and navigation speedy using automatically compiled web-browser optimized updates that are delivered incrementally. This makes navigation, inline editing and animation effects fast, simple and attractive as well as extensible and developer friendly. Bill concludes: "I think these are all very smart moves and makes Traction more attractive to large enterprise. There is the greater flexibility of interface through Google Web Toolkit, more robust search through Attivio, and heavy duty data management through Oracle. I am looking forward to seeing what they do next." » Read the Full Story
See also Introducing Proteus (demo) for brief tour and Proteus GWT Tech talk slides and interviews.
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"?
Using Enterprise 2.0 to Get Work Done | Collaboration and Content Strategies Blog
Burton Group Analyst Larry Cannell on Traction® Software President Greg Lloyd's recent blog post: "This Enterprise 2.0 perspective is about bringing to bear the resources a company has to help people make the best decisions and improving the quality of their collective work. This is language even a pragmatic business manager can understand." Cannell would like to see more coverage of Enterprise 2.0 from a work based perspective. » Read the Full Story and more on Burton Group's Online Workplace Framework.
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
Nov 2009 | the{app}gap - Attivio Aligns with Traction and Releases New Features
AppGap Analyst Bill Ives interviews Attivio CTO Sid Probstein and VP of Marketing Maryanne Sinville on Traction® Software's selection of the Attivio Active Intelligence Engine™ to power Traction® TeamPage advanced search and content navigation. Sid explains how Attivio's early binding and query-side JOIN operator allows TeamPage to "link security with content that matches the users query and permissions". Sid provides examples using Traction TeamPage Release 4.2 screenshots showing Attivio powered TeamPage permission aware search, faceted navigation and tag clouds, and discusses Attivio's sentiment analyzer and Classification Module. » Read the Full Story
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
19 Nov 2009 | Ontologies & Tagsonomies at Taxonomy Boot Camp
While at KMWorld 2009, Jordan Frank, Traction® Software VP of Sales and Business Development led a customer panel titled What's Social About Software and co-led a talk with Christine Connors of TriviumRLG at KMWorld 2009's counterpart, Taxonomy Boot Camp. In the session, Ontologies & Tagsonomies: Linked Data, Web 3.0 Tag Mush! Christine addressed questions including: What do ontologies provide that taxonomies and thesauri lack? What is the big deal about the semantic web? What’s the difference between the semantic web, linked data, and Web 3.0 and what are the technologies that will power this next evolution of the web? Jordan explored how driven social tagging can work for or against you and then suggests tagging and search driven entity extraction strategies that can put tagging to productive work. » Click here for the PDF of Jordan's presentation.
17-19 Nov 2009 | What's Social About Software? | KMWorld 2009 San Jose
Jordan Frank, Traction® Software VP of Sales and Business Development will moderate a KMWorld 2009 panel What's Social About Software Wednesday Nov 18th 4:14 to 5:00PM: As "social software" is finding its way into the enterprise, people are wondering what's social about software and why it matters. These practitioners from leading organizations share their views on the realities of how interactions in social software platforms lead to productive work in the enterprise. Panel members include:
Carol Stickley, Manager, IT Knowledge Management - Avery Dennison
Joe Crumpler, IT Manager, ERP and Integration Projects - Alcoa Fastening Systems
Brian Tullis, Director, Information Services - Alcoa Fastening Systems
Enterprise 2.0 Schism
I have to confess that I've enjoyed watching recent rounds of Enterprise 2.0 discussion and mud wrestling. The fact that so many people enjoy debating definitions, values, doctrinal principals - even the existence of Enterprise 2.0 - makes me think that E2.0 might best be framed as a religious debate. With that in mind, I'd like to introduce a new and exciting element: schism.
2 Nov 2009 | Traction Software Showcases New Collaboration Capabilities at Enterprise 2.0 Conference
Traction® Software today showcased three major capabilities that build on the new Traction® TeamPage™ 4.2 release also announced today. “Traction TeamPage has always gotten high marks for its capabilities from analysts, independent reviewers and some of the most demanding and innovative customers in the world,” said Greg Lloyd, president and CEO of Traction Software. “We’re happy to be in this position to listen to our customers as well as the market. Today I’m happy to show Traction’s new Proteus Google Web Toolkit (GWT)-based Web interface and Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine™ (AIE) running on Traction TeamPage Release 4.2. These new capabilities combine Traction’s proven strengths with true innovation - delivering a simple, fast and beautiful user experience that leverages Google’s great Web user interface technology and Attivio’s track record for advanced search, and industry leading innovation in content analysis and navigation. The Oracle RDB backend for Traction TeamPage is a new option for customers with mission critical applications where the ability deploy and maintain all TeamPage data in an Oracle 10g or 11g server provides outstanding ease of use for a high-availability configuration on an RDB platform that’s the gold standard for enterprise IT.” All three new capabilities are available for evaluation and developer release of TeamPage R4.2 starting today, with customer qualified releases starting this quarter. Read » full release
2 Nov 2009 | Traction TeamPage Release 4.2 Adds Mobile Subscription, Notification, and Email Collaboration to Award Winning Enterprise 2.0 Platform
Traction® Software today announced Release 4.2 of its award winning Traction® TeamPage™ enterprise 2.0 social software platform. The software now includes flexible mobile subscription and notification allowing road warriors to easily post content and comments with simple, secure two-way e-mail based collaboration. “With Traction customers in consulting and professional services as well as the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, high tech and government industries, we often see people using BlackBerry and other mobile email devices as much or more than their desktop or laptop Web browsers,” said Traction’s CEO Greg Lloyd. “We defined and developed these capabilities by collaborating with TeamPage customers in professional service firms who love their BlackBerry email as much as they love TeamPage in their browser. These new subscription features bring Enterprise 2.0 collaboration to the road warrior, making it easy to get a clean and simple summary including automatically generated context.” Read » full release
14 Oct 2009 | Traction Software Selects Attivio to Power Information Access for Enterprise 2.0 Social Software
Traction® Software and Attivio today announced that Attvio's Active Intelligence Engine™ will power the Advanced Search and content navigation functions of its Traction® TeamPage Enterprise 2.0 platform. Traction evaluated several market-leading solutions before choosing Attvio's unified information access engine for its single, flexible API, full Java support as well as its sophisticated and secure permissioning model. “Traction Software’s award-winning social software enables enterprises and government agencies to share information and collaborate in a secure environment. We needed to partner with an information access company that would enable our users to securely capture and share data across entities from one central repository,” said Greg Lloyd, President & Co-Founder of Traction Software. “Attivio was the clear choice for a variety of reasons, including its ability to update information in real-time to ensure the most relevant and current results. AIE improves our users’ ability to find content quickly and offers a dramatically smaller footprint than our previous search engine solution.” » Read full release
What's being said about TUG 2009 on Twitter?
Can't attend the Traction User Group 2009 meeting in person? Follow what's being said and talk back on Twitter using tag #TUG2009 . The Main event starts at 9:00AM EDT Wed 14 October with Carmen Medina's opening keynote Enterprise 2.0 and the Context of Work, followed by Chris Nuzum CTO and co-founder leading the Traction Software Roadmap discussion at 10:45AM EDT. See TUG 2009 Providence | Keynotes by Carmen Medina, Chris Nuzum and Stewart Mader
2.0 Adoption Council | Neat Tweet!
Susan Scrupski (aka @ITSinsider) tweets Sep 22, 2009: reading a great preso by a Council member. great testimony for e20 vendor Traction Software @TractionTeam
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.
TUG 2009 Providence | Keynotes by Carmen Medina, Chris Nuzum and Stewart Mader
Traction Software's fourth annual Traction User Group Meeting - TUG 2009 13-16 October 2009 in Providence RI - will feature an opening Keynote by Carmen Medina, closing Keynote by Stewart Mader and customer talks by Alcoa, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a top tier management consulting firm, and others. For live updates see What's being said about TUG 2009 on Twitter?. Tune in for Carmen Medina's 9:00AM EDT opening keynote followed by a Traction TeamPage Product Roadmap session and other highlights listed below. [ Update: See links below for TUG 2009 videos and slides ]
TeamPage ハンズオン セミナー | Free Seminars in Yokohama
Traction® Software partner Applied Knowledge Company Japan announces free Traction® TeamPage seminars July 29, Aug 7, Aug 26 2009 at AKJ's Yokohama office. See CNET Japan announcement or AKJ Seminar Page for registration details.
2 July 2009 | 出展レポート｜製薬IT ソリューション Expo 2009 (INTERPHEX 2009)
Traction® Software partner Applied Knowledge Company Japan President Masayuki Kojima spoke and exhibited at the 2009 Tokyo IT Pharma Solutions Expo. Kojima-san's theme was use of Traction® TeamPage to support strategic management of internal and external information. See highlights (in Japanese) below, with more information at TractionSoftware.jp
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.
13-16 Oct 2009 | Fourth Annual Traction User Group Meeting
Traction Software's fourth annual Traction User Group Meeting will be in Providence Rhode Island 13-16 October 2009. Mark your calendars! This year we'll feature more customer stories and roundtable / birds of a feather discussions as well as an exciting keynote and TeamPage roadmap session. In addition to the customer and keynote sessions we'll offer an afternoon of basic to power user Training preceding the Conference, and two days optional days of advanced training with SDL/SDK and Advanced Platform Topic tracks. For agenda, training, travel and registration information see tug2009.TractionS….
24 June 2009 | Enterprise Wiki Software Guide | Future Changes
Stuart Mader's Future Changes publishes a new Enterprise Wiki Software Guide. Mader identifies key Enterprise Wiki features and capabilities including: Workspaces, Permissions, User Management/LDAP, Notifications, Discussions and more. His summary for Traction® TeamPage begins " Traction TeamPage is an enterprise wiki with the ability to host multiple workspaces, page level permissions, a rich text editor, threaded discussions, tagging, search, page and comment moderation, blogging, and templates... » Read the Full Enterprise Wiki Software Guide
Enterprise 2.0 2009 Conference & Presentation on What is Social About Software
This year's Enterprise 2.0 Conference was June 22-25. Traction® Software had a booth and Jordan Frank presented in the Market Leaders track on "What is Social About Software? And Why it Matters." Here's the presentation (PDF) and its abstract:
Bersin & Associates Enterprise Social Software 2009 Report Features Traction TeamPage
Bersin & Associates' analyst David Mallon included a profile of Traction® TeamPage in his report Enterprise Social Software 2009: Facts, Practical Analysis, Trends and Provider Profiles. The product profile shows "Complete or near complete functionality" in their Key Features Support, Collaboration, and Conversations score card. In the review of Traction TeamPage, the report says: "Traction also beats the odds when it comes to ability to innovate (the company is technologically at the top of the wiki field) and in providing customer support... Out of the box, Traction® Software’s TeamPage application is the most fully featured social software platform covered in this study. It has the security and permissions models required to meet IT’s standards. The interface is clean and user-friendly." » Read The Full Report (Bersin Subscription or Payment Required)
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
KMF2009 ワークショップでの講演のビデオを掲載！
2009年4月14日（火）に開催された日本経済新聞社 主催「ナレッジマネジメントフォーラム2009」ワークショップでの弊社小島の講演『KMに必要なものは戦略、ツール、評価、そして風土改革です！』の一部を You Tube にアップしました。是非、ご覧ください。 [ As posted on TractionSoftware.jp For English summary, please see April 2009 | Knowledge Management Forum Japan - grl ]
22-24 April 2009 | SCIP Conference booth and Presentation on Tagging Strategies for CI
The Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals SCIP 2009 annual conference will be held next week in Chicago - 22-24 April 2009. Come see Traction® Software at our booth and at Jordan Frank's Clinical Skills Track presentation, Tagging Strategies and the Information T, on Thursday 23 April at 11:35 AM. You can also register for the free Intelligence 2.0 Clinic on April 22nd hosted by AuroraWDC (SCIP 2009 registration is not required for the Clinic)
22 April 2009 | Intelligence 2.0 Clinic
If you're attending the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professional's annual SCIP 2009 conference next week - or happen to be in Chicago - join us from 2:00 to 5:00 PM on Wednesday April 22 for a free Intelligence 2.0 Clinic moderated by Arik Johnson of AuroraWDC and featuring CI Software and Systems from Traction® Software, Digimind and Comintell. SCIP registration is not requried to attend the Intelligence 2009 Clinic. The event will be held in the Lincoln Executive Boardroom at the Sheraton Chicago. Click Here to find our more and RSVP.
April 2009 | Knowledge Management Forum Japan
Traction® Software partner Applied Knowledge Japan launched Traction's Japanese website (tractionsoftware.jp) and brought Traction® TeamPage to a large audience this month at Knowledge Management Forum 2009 in Japan.
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:
Explaining Twitter - One of Three Places for People
Last week a friend who just signed up on Twitter said: "... just like Jon Stewart, I can't figure out how it works or why anyone would want to tweet or get anyone else's twitter. I had no idea what grunt and stalker is but I am assuming that is reality too. I put this all in the pocket with second life (stupid bulky awkward and totally useless)." So I reluctantly joined the crowd attempting to explain why people who have a job and have a life might be interested in Twitter. I decided to describe Twitter as one of three distinct places on the Web where I socialize every day: the public commons. The others two are my neighborhood and my workplace.
KUKA Systems
KUKA is one of the world's leading suppliers of robotics as well as plant and systems engineering. Their Enterprise Applications group deployed Traction® TeamPage in 2006 to support a process for collaborative Issue Tracking for their deployed enterprise information system.
9 March 2009 | Traction Software Announces Japanese Website, Free TeamPage5 Licensing and Customer Forum
We're happy to announce the launch of a Japanese version of Traction® Software's website and the extension of Traction's Free TeamPage5 Promotion and Forum to customers in Japan. The launch of the new site and customer Forum was done in partnership with Applied Knowledge Company Japan (AKJ).
9 March 2009 | Traction Software Named to KMWorld's "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management"
For the fifth consecutive year, KM World recognized Traction® Software's market leadership in Enterprise 2.0 Social Software by naming the company to their list of 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. "Each company embodies as part of its culture agile and limber execution of its mission, embracing a spirit of both adaptability and innovation." said Hugh McKellar, Editor-in-Chief of KMWorld Magazine. Read Full Release
3 March 2009 | TeamPage 4.1 Review at The AppGap
In his review of Traction® Software's recently announced Traction® TeamPage 4.1, Bill Ives focuses on how TeamPage puts social software to work: "I think these are all good additions enabling more of the social side of work to be transparent, measured, enhanced, and contribute to increased enterprise performance." » Read Full Review at the AppGap
Orient EuroPharma | 友華生技醫藥股份有限公司
Orient EuroPharma deployed Traction® TeamPage in the year 2005 to address critical communication issues within the company. The deployment is supported by our partner, Applied Knowledge Company, in Japan. As of the date of this case study, March 2009, the focus on internal communications, market intelligence and document sharing has thrived and spread from the IT department throughout the organization. This interview with Orient Europharma discusses their background, the problems which led them to deploy Traction TeamPage, and the benefits they’ve experienced as a result.
25 February 2009 | Traction TeamPage 4.1 Release, New Activity Metrics & Content Ratings Plug-In
Traction® TeamPage 4.1 Extends “Live Blog” Technology to Document Sharing, Enhances Content Through Ratings and Offers Collaborative Insight with Deep Metrics — Traction® Software, the leading developer of Enterprise 2.0 social software, today announced the release of Traction TeamPage 4.1 and new plug-ins for content ratings and user activity metrics. TeamPage 4.1 breaks new ground by making it easy to analyze user activity and rate TeamPage blog posts, comments or wiki pages to highlight and act on important information. These capabilities support “wiki gardeners” and help identify best practices or patterns that can build a stronger community and improve the content it creates. » Read More
Michael Sampson's Currents: "TeamPage - the One System to Rule It All"
Michael Sampson is a well-known and respected collaboration market analyst, consultant and author (of Microsoft Press's Seamless Teamwork: Using Microsoft SharePoint Technologies to Collaborate, Innovate, and Drive Business in New Ways), Michael speaks with authority when it comes to assessing collaboration platforms. Sampson's post this week, Traction® TeamPage: The One System to Rule It All, explains the threaded discussion and social tagging model in TeamPage. This post was one outcome of his investigation into E2.0 security and - in this case - how a strong security model can enable productive cross-workspace interactions. He concludes "The Traction team have done a fantastic job building security in from the ground up, and the level of configuration is fantastic. If you are in the market for a collaboration platform, check out what they are offering...[an example with screenshots followed by]... I think that rocks! " » Read More
18 February 2009 | Jordan Frank and Chris Nuzum to speak at Providence Geek Dinner
As T.F. Green’s now-under-construction Intermodal Facility attests, a lot of cool stuff is being built in the Ocean State. Some of it isn’t as easy to spot though. One very cool project is the work of Providence-based Traction® Software. Consistently recognized as a leader in social software for the enterprise, Traction’s award-winning Traction® TeamPage platform includes blogs, wikis, social tagging & bookmarking, and now, “live blog micro-messaging” (think real-time Twitter for business). At February’s Geek Dinner, Jordan Frank, VP Marketing & Business Development, and Chris Nuzum, Co-Founder and CTO, will present their insights into the nature and importance of social software, demo TeamPage, and answer questions from the audience. » Join at least 40 others from RI and the surrounding areas and RSVP Here. » Also, read Jordan's companion blog post on RI Nexus for this event.
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
Reinventing the Web
John Markoff wrote a really good Jan 11 2009 New York Times profile, In Venting, a Computer Visionary Educates on Ted Nelson and his new book, Geeks Bearing Gifts: How the Computer World Got This Way (available on Lulu.com). Markoff notes that Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, but: "Lost in the process was Mr. Nelson’s two-way link concept that simultaneously pointed to the content in any two connected documents, protecting, he has argued in vain, the original intellectual lineage of any object... His two-way links might have avoided the Web’s tornado-like destruction of the economic value of the printed word, he has contended, by incorporating a system of micropayments."
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)
21 November 2008 | Traction Software Introduces Live Blog Micro-Messaging and End-of-Year Discount
With new Live Blog technology for Traction® TeamPage™ 4.0, users can write brief notes from wherever they are and
share them instantly over Traction's award-winning TeamPage enterprise wiki platform. TeamPage 4.0
is the first enterprise 2.0 suite to incorporate micro-messaging
technology that's been made popular by web services such as Twitter and
Pownce. Traction Software also announced an end-of-year promotion featuring a 20% discount through the end of December. » Read Full Release
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:
Reviewers and Customers Praise TeamPage 4.0 - Cite breakthroughs in Enterprise 2.0 collaboration
Since Traction® TeamPage 4.0 was released in June 2008 we're happy to report that reviewers and customers have consistently applauded the innovation TeamPage 4.0 brings to the market. When you want to be able to use wiki-style collaboration on products, plans and projects - as well as free-form encyclopedia pages - it quickly becomes obvious that you need to be able to distinguish between the 'latest stable version' of a constellation of pages and the 'work in progress cloud' created through collaborative editing.
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:
24 September 2008 | Frank speaks on "Whither Documents - Putting Hypertext to Work" at KMWorld
Jordan Frank speaks on "Whither Documents: Putting Hypertext to Work on the KM 2.0 Path" at KMWorld 2008. Frank will provide context in terms of the history of communication and collaboration - then discuss how simple tools like wikis and blogs have put us on the precipice of a new era that will force us to rethink our fundamental document and content organization models. Frank will speak at 3:00 PM on Wednesday September 24 in the Enterprise 2.0 in Action track. » Read the Full Press Release » Read the Session Description at the KMWorld 2008 Conference Web Site
22 September 2008 | KMWorld names TeamPage 4.0 A Trend Setting Product of 2008
KMWorld recognizes Traction® Software's continued leadership in the Enterprise 2.0 market. Their 2008 Trend-Setting product award cites the new moderation-in-place, wiki page name management, and user profile features found in Traction Software's June 2008 release of Traction® TeamPage 4.0. » Read Full Press Release
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
Monash University - the Understandascope
Dr David Low of the Understandascope deployed Traction's TeamPage when his university-based research unit was founded in 2006. With only basic html skills, Traction TeamPage enabled him to quickly create a quality website and discussion blog:
6-8 October 2008 | Third Annual Traction Software User Group Meeting
Traction Software is happy to announce the Third Annual Traction User Group (TUG) Meeting to be held this year at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay October 6-8 2008. With customer presentations from the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, financial institutions and manufacturers, this year's TUG meeting provides one of the best forums of the year for in depth Enterprise 2.0 case studies, best practice sharing, and lessons learned. A TeamPage Developer Track also offers a terrific opportunity to learn how use Traction's Skin Definition Language and other extensions to make widgets, forms, interface tweaks, and completely customized user experiences. Click here to register now or learn more about TUG 2008 [ TUG 2008 registration closed ].
NHS integrates Intranet 1.0 with Enterprise 2.0 to get Social with TeamPage 4.0
The UK's National Health Service's Orkney region deployed Traction with great success in 2005 to address an unfavorable report about the state of internal communications. The original NHS Orkney Customer Story details how they used Traction for everything from wiki collaboration on policies and procedures to action tracking and even an internal blog to announce "stuff for sale." Since then, usage has only improved and Traction has also been deployed at the NHS Camden region. In June, David Rendall upgraded to the recently announced TeamPage 4.0 Release. I'm pleased to be able to share some of his notes and screen shots - to offer a glimpse into how an organization facing major Internal Communications deficiencies just three years ago is an Enterprise 2.0 leader today.
23 July 2008 | Virtual E2.0 Conference - Traction Sponsors Forrester Keynote
Register Now (free admission) to join in on the Enterprise 2.0 Virtual Conference on the 23rd of July. The Agenda kicks off at 12:00 with Gartner Analyst David Mitchell Smith's Keynote Innovating the Enterprise with Web 2.0 and ends with a Forrester Analyst Rob Koplowitz's Keynote Control vs. Chaos: The Enterprise Web 2.0 Effect.
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
Why Enterprise Search Sucks
Ron Miller of EContent wrote a very good article AIIM Study Finds Enterprise Search Still Lacking about an upcoming AIIM report on Findability and disappointed expectations for enterprise search. Ron's title is more polite than some of the words I've heard (and used) to characterize enterprise search. Bluntly - if we all agree that enterprise search sucks, what is to be done?
Borders, Spaces, and Places
One big problem for collaboration has been too many borders - technical or cultural - creating silos of information for no good reason - and many bad ones. There's also a big problem if you don't have a good way to mark borders that enable collaboration where there's a natural expectation of privacy.
25 June 2008 | Frank Speaks on Non-Subject Tagging at Boston KM Forum
Jordan Frank's presentation "Non-Subject Tagging in an Enterprise 2.0 World" was featured on the agenda of the Boston KM Forum's latest meeting titled "Categorization and Tagging - Where's the Beef?" » Read the presentation » Read the Meeting Agenda.
451Group Reviews TeamPage 4.0 | Traction Software tackles wiki complexity in 4.0
Kathleen Reidy of the451group wrote an update on Traction Software highlighting key new capabilities in new TeamPage 4.0 release. She wrote: Its TeamPage product is well respected on technical merits, and the latest release will continue to appeal to more-technical buyers that understand the complexity of maintaining and growing large wiki sites. » Read the full report » Read about What's New In 4.0
20 June 2008 | 『 Traction TeamPage 』の最新バージョン 4.0 をリリース - Traction TeamPage 4.0 Announced in Japan
Our Japanese Partner, Applied Knowledge, today announced availability of Traction TeamPage 4.0. This is the Japanese version of the 4.0 release announced by Traction Software on 2 June 2008. » Read the Japanese Press Release » Read What's New In 4.0 » Read the English Press Release.
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
10-11 June 2008 | Enterprise 2.0 Conference - Frank speaks on E2.0 in Action
Traction® Software is proud to be a sponsor again this year at the E2.0 2008 Conference in Boston. Jordan Frank speaks on "Putting Wikis, Blogs and Tagging to Work - Enterprise 2.0 in Action": How E2.0 applications can deliver on the content leverage and re-use goals that "1.0" CMS systems promised but never fulfilled. » Read More at the Conference Website. » Read Jordan Frank's Presentation (PDF)
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
2 June 2008 | Traction TeamPage Release 4.0
TeamPage 4.0 builds on Traction Software's award-winning secure, scalable and highly adaptable hypertext platform while adding new page and comment moderation, page name management, social networking, and e-mail notification capabilities that are simple to use and powerful. If you want to make your business work like the web, Traction TeamPage 4.0 is the best Enterprise 2.0 product to get the job done. » Read What's New In 4.0 » Read the Full Press Release » Read the Japanese Press Release
The Rise of Enterprise 2.0, Andrew McAfee | Video | Enterprise 2.0 Summit 2008 Tokyo
The Rise of Enterprise 2.0 - Professor Andrew McAfee, Enterprise 2.0 Summit Tokyo (2008) from Traction Software on Vimeo.
Traction TeamPage 4.0 Puts Hypertext to Work
Traction TeamPage Release 4.0 delivers a combination of wiki, blog, tagging and social networking capabilities that extend Traction's secure, simple and scalable hypertext platform to handle Enterprise 2.0 collaboration on the work that matters most to your business: developing products, communicating with customers and sales partners, collaborating with key suppliers, tracking business issues, and competitive intelligence.
17 April 2008 | Enterprise 2.0 Summit 2008 Tokyo
Traction Software is co-hosting the Enterprise 2.0 Summit 2008 Tokyo with over 325 people are registered to attend this event. Greg Lloyd, President of Traction Software, will present a video interview with Professor Andrew McAfee on The Rise of Enterprise 2.0. The interview questions came from attendees themselves, prior to the event. Other US keynote speakers include Joseph Nusum of McKinsey, speaking on Emergent Innovation and Enterprise 2.0, and Professor Andy van Dam of Brown University, speaking on a personal history of hypertext and a perspective on Enterprise 2.0 titled As We May Work. Andy van Dam is a pioneering computer scientist, credited with building HES, one of the first three hypertext systems built in the late 1960s. The Tokyo conference includes panels, papers and exhibits. See The Rise of Enterprise 2.0, Andrew McAfee | Video | Enterprise 2.0 Summit 2008 Tokyo for Professor McAfee's keynote.
14-17 April 2008 | SCIP 2008 Annual Conference
Please look for us in booth #412 at the SCIP 2008 Annual Conference and Exhibition in San Diego!
19 Feb 2008 | Greg Lloyd on "Enterprise 2.0 for Intelligence Analysts", FASTForward 08
Greg Lloyd spoke at FASTForward '08 Orlando in the Implementing Content-Based Collaborative Applications session on 19 Feb 2008. Abstract: It’s easy to store and find documents in folders if you know the structure by heart. FAST even makes it easy to search the content of your files, Web pages, and messages and navigate by content. What’s difficult to capture, search, and navigate is the context that makes content relevant for collaboration in a link-poor environment that exists in the typical enterprise. Enterprise 2.0 technology – specifically blogs, wikis, and social tagging – provide immediate value for collaborative work by creating an evolving record that connects external intelligence, internal dialog, and work product. This record can make enterprise search work and scale like the Web. Part 1 (Greg Lloyd, Traction Software) of this session examines how intelligence analysts in business and government are using Enterprise 2.0 tools to help manage this deep, broad, and challenging form of collaboration. Click here for a copy of the slides 7MB .ppt
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
28 November 2007 | Gilbane Conference - Jordan Frank on Text Mining
In the Text Mining / Text Analytics and BI - The End Game panel, Jordan Frank's presentation explains how enterprise blogs are critical infrastructure for text mining and enterprise search. The panel was moderated by Joyce Ward of LexisNexis. Frank was joined by Matt Kodama of Endecaand Steven Cohen of Basis Technology.
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
12 November 2007 | Traction TeamPage Release 3.8 Supports "Collaboration at the Edge"
Traction TeamPage Release 3.8 introduces page name history, cross-wiki page name aliasing, a best in class GUI for easy linking, and 'latest stable version' moderation for edits as well as new pages and comments. This collection of features takes Traction TeamPage another step forward in supporiing collaboration 'at the Edge' as groups recognize need to edit, publish and tag with selectable levels of read and author permission crossing many wiki and blog spaces. The new Page Name History feature aids 'fearless refactoring' while extending TeamPage's lead in providing best in class Audit Trail and Edit History » Read the Full Release
7 November 2007 | Frank on "E2.0 in Action" at KMWorld 2007
Jordan Frank’s “Tagging
Strategies for Enterprise
2.0 & Enterprise 2.0 in Action” presentation was
featured in the Enterprise of the Future: Strategies Track
at the KMWorld 2007 Annual Conference. Frank discussed blog and wiki
use cases within the enterprise, enterprise social tagging strategies,
and 6 enterprise and government customer stories including ShoreBank,
NHS, the US Department of Defense, and others. Click here for a copy of the slides presented by Frank.
24 October 2007 | Frank Speaks on Tagging Strategies at ASIS&T 2007 Annual Conference
Jordan Frank’s “Tagging
Strategies for
17 October 2007 | Greg Lloyd Presents "What's Next in Wikis and Weblogs" at NAC Fall 2007
Greg Lloyd speaks today at the Network Application Consortium's fall conference on Collaboration Technologies: What Works, Whose is Easier, What's Secure and Where's the Intersection.
National Health Service Orkney (NHS Orkney)
David Rendall of NHS Orkney (a regional health board of the UK's National Health Service) deployed Traction TeamPage and NewsGator Enterprise Server for a variety of use cases spanning the entire NHS Orkney staff. A year later, the use of the platform continues to gather momentum. NHS Orkney now has a single, central point of reference for internal communication and information as well as external news. Rendall says:
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.
11-12 September 2007 | Traction User Group Meeting
Our second annual Traction User Group (TUG) meeting was held last week in Newport, RI. The two day event featured twenty-six speakers including:
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."
Learn by watching - Then do
JP Rangaswami writes an excellent blog - Confused of Calcutta - where he shares his experience as an "accidental technologist" who moved from investment banking to the services arm of a telco. His post on Facebook and Knowledge Management tells a great story about what happened when he decided to open up his mailbox to his direct reports:
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.
Blogs and Wikis: Building Customer Connections
AIIM E-DOC Magazine Jul/Aug 2007 Issue - Greg Lloyd, Traction Software writes: Blogs get a lot of press when individual bloggers express their opinions on politics, news of the day, or anything that strikes their fancy and thousands of others quickly jump in to join the conversation. The Wikipedia project (www.Wikipedia.org) is a well publicized example of the use of wiki software to bring people from around the world together to collaboratively write, edit and correct an online encyclopedia of over four million articles - and growing - without centralized control. One common question from business people is: "Can I use blogs and wiki's to keep in touch with my customers?" The short answer is yes. Here are some practical examples.
ShoreBank
After their initial pilot period, ShoreBank achieved overnight adoption within their IT Department after adopting Traction® Software' TeamPage Enterprise Wiki and Blog platform for Milestone Centric Communication and Collaborative Content Management.
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).
19 June 2007 | E2.0 Conference - E2.0 in Action ShoreBank Case Study
The E2.0 in Action track's Enterprise 2.0: Case Studies of Excellence - Part 1 panel will feature Traction® Software's Jordan Frank who will show how Traction® TeamPage is used as a blog and wiki platform for Milestone Management at ShoreBank. The panel, moderated by Brian Gillooly (editor in Chief of CMP's Optimize) will also include presentations from iUpload, Denodo, Newsgator, and Smartsheet. See also Enterprise 2.0 Podcast interview with Mike Gotta.
4-5 June 2007 | Interdoc Symposium - Frank to Speak on Enterprise Wikis
Jordan Frank will bust 2.0 myths before bringing the relevance of Web 2.0 to the enterprise to light with enterprise case studies from finance, pharmaceutical, government and non-profit markets. He will finish off with best practices that all but guarantee real results. » Full Conference Schedule
31 May 2007 | Traction TeamPage a hit at LinuxWorld Japan
Congratulations to our Japanese partners SEL and AKJ on a great showing for Traction TeamPage at LinuxWorld Japan 2007. SEL was a gold sponsor and launched a Japanese TeamPage customer forum in advance of the event.
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)
22 May 2007 | Greg Lloyd on Interop 2007 Enterprise 2.0 Panel
Greg Lloyd (Traction Software Inc) joins Dion Hinchcliffe (Hinchliffe & Company), David Barnes (IBM), and Rod Boothby (Teqlo) for a discussion and demonstration of the latest Enterprise 2.0 products and trends. This is part of the Enterprise 2.0 track organized by Dion Hinchcliffe. To download Greg's PowerPoint slides - including a screenshot walkthrough of the demo = a big file! click here (15MB .ppt)
Enterprise 2.0 - Letting hypertext out of its box
In his Mar 26, 2006 post, Putting Enterprise 2.0 in Perspective, Mike Gotta agrees with Tom Davenport and Andrew McAfee that a balanced discussion of E2.0 should include "... how well an enterprise addresses the complex organizational dynamics that often inhibit change," not just "irrational exuberance regarding the technology."
26 March 2007 | Traction Announces Free 5 User Version, New Plug-In Architecture for Developers, and Release 3.7.3
Individuals and organizations may now download and use a free, perpetual Traction® TeamPage™ license. The Plug-In announcement introduces a simple mechanism for Traction developers and administrators to install, configure and manage plug-ins to create their own skins and widgets, as well as override or extended TeamPage features. The TeamPage 3.7.3 release announces the new Auto-Save feature, RSS subscription for Traction TeamPage FAST Search Module queries, new server ACLs, an improved Jabber notifier, and new section types to track active discussions and edit activity. Edit and Discussion sections, like other Traction Sections can be scoped to the server, any project, or even a given category label (like Requirements) in a project.
» Read the Release 3.7.3 and New Plug-In Architecture Enables Traction Users to Easily Develop, Manage and Share TeamPage Extensions release
» Read the Best Enterprise Wiki Software Now Free for Five Users release.
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
Information Foraging at FASTForward '07
I enjoyed FASTForward '07 last week in San Diego - an excellent conference and 60 degrees warmer than Providence Rhode Island! It featured great keynotes (particularly Andrew McAfee on Enterprise 2.0 the Next Disruptor), sessions, networking and entertainment.
7 February 2007 | FASTforward '07
Greg Lloyd will speak on the topic "Search Meet Blogs and Wikis" at FASTforward '07, the FAST Search & Transfer user group meeting.
23 January 2007 | SCIP Boston Chapter Meeting
The SCIP Boston Chapter hosted a meeting this week titled "Harnessing Web 2.0 For Competitive Intelligence." Greg Lloyd joined the panel to talk about the impact of Web 2.0 technologies including blogs, RSS and social tagging on the competitive intelligence process. An agenda is posted at the Knowledge is Power CI Forum.
23 January 2007 | CBI Predictive Intelligence Conference
At this pharmaceutical industry conference hosted by CBI, Jordan Frank, joined by Matt Cole of QL2 Software, gave a presentation titled "Synthesizing Data from Blogs for Future Projections and Pattern Assessment." The presentation discussed methods for data mining and visualization of content from internet blogs as well as capturing the breadth of data types to consolidate information in enterprise blogs, in support of further mining and content collaboration.
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.
Presenting at the December KM Forum Boston
I had the honor of speaking at the Boston Knowledge Management Forum on Monday. I was joined by Kathleen Gilroy of the Otter Group (who wrote a piece on the event
beforehand) , Susan Dobscha of Bentley College, and Kelly Drahzal of
IBM. I was also on an enterprise blog/wiki vendor panel led by Kathleen
(thanks Kathleen!).
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:
FAST-Enabled Search and Navigation for Traction TeamPage
On Dec 18, 2006 Traction Software Announces Release of Integrated FAST InStream™ Search Technology to Enable Secure Search, Entity Extraction and Drill Down Navigation. The module is an integrated and easily installed option that extends Traction's permissioned search model to over 370 document formats for files attached to TeamPage posts or stored in TeamPage web folders. FAST's advanced linguistic analysis adds relevance ranking and automatic entity extraction to support interactive permission-filtered drill-down by person, company, location and other attributes. "In the era of Enterprise 2.0, smart companies are leveraging tools like Traction TeamPage to empower individuals to create their own content," said John M. Lervik, CEO, FAST. "Now, by leveraging Traction TeamPage together with FAST InStream businesses can offer their employees a new and more powerful package of tools to help them produce, share and then intelligently search this collective intelligence, creating a smarter, faster-moving and more profitable workforce." » Read the Press Release, Read the Traction TeamPage Fast Search Module feature page
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."
Enel North America
Enel is a Global 100 company and was listed at #65 (as of 2005) on Forbes World's 2000 leading companies. Enel has one of the the largest global renewable energy portfolios in the world with over 19,000 MW of hydropower, wind, geothermal and biomass capacity worldwide. Enel North America, Inc. is a leading owner and operator of renewable energy plants in North America, with with over 70 plants in 16 U.S. States and 2 Canadian Provinces. With offices in the United States and Canada, Enel North America is active in a number of clean power sources, including hydro, wind, and biomass, as well as pursuing potential geothermal opportunities.
Greg Lloyd on "The Return of Interactive Hypermedia, or the Triumph of Ted Nelson" at Burton Group's Catalyst Europe Conference
Greg speaks at Burton Group's Catalyst 2006 Europe Conference, Barcelona 12 Oct 2006. His topic, The Return of Interactive Hypermedia, or the Triumph of Ted Nelson is part of the Collaboration and Content track in a session: Leveraging the Services Infrastructure
to Improve the User Experience.
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)
12 September 2006 | Beyond Blogs and Wikis: Traction Release 3.7 Announcement
New features added in this release include extensible widgets, edit history differences and version rollback, inline sections, flexible outputs to any WordML and PDF, and upgraded mobile device support. Traction® Software products combine the group editing of a wiki and simplicity of a blog while satisfying enterprise needs for secure, scalable, web-based working communication. more » Read Full Release » Read about Traction Features » Read Beyond Blogs and Wikis
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...
SITA | Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques
SITA is the world's leading service provider of IT business solutions and communications services to the air transport industry. SITA manages complex communication solutions for its air transport, government and GDS customers over the world's most extensive communication network, complemented by consultancy in the design, deployment and integration of communication services. SITA is a community of 600 airline and GDS members and 2,000 customers, including Air France, Air Madagascar, Air Malta, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Hapag-Lloyd, KLM, IATA, and Royal Jordanian.
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.
Jordan Frank leads IQPC Intranet Week Workshop
Jordan
ran a workshop at the International Quality & Productivity Center's
Intranet Week conference on July 24, 2006. The workshop, titled "Incorporating a Wiki and/or Weblog into Your Intranet,"
covered key value points for blogs and wikis on the internet, how the
use of blogs and wikis in the enterprise differs from typical internet
examples, 4 enterprise and government case studies, key factors for
deployment and best practices. We also ran an interactive workshop
where we broke up into teams and built up a Traction based intranet.
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
Greg Lloyd and Jordan Frank Join Collaboration Panels at CTC 2006
Greg and Jordan joined an incredible roster of speakers at the CTC 2006 conference this month. Greg Lloyd was on the Alternative Enterprise Collaboration Options panel on Tuesday. Click here for Greg's panel presentation. Jordan Frank was on the Collaborative Workspaces: Key Trends panel on Wednesday. Click here for all the presentations from Jordan's panel. Watch our blog page for reflections on the conference and dialogue that followed.
FAST and Traction partner to deliver answers in context
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) is a leader in high performance, scaleable content search and navigation (see FAST's position in Gartner's Magic Quadrant Report for Information Access Technology). Traction Software Inc and FAST are pleased to announce an agreement to offer a new FAST powered module to Traction TeamPage customers. The optional module extends Traction's standard search capability by adding permission-filtered search across over 370 formats of documents attached to TeamPage blog posts (or stored in TeamPage's built-in web folders). Just as significantly, the new module will offer navigation by topic and entity (company name, person, location, date) automatically extracted from blog post and document content based on FAST's deep analysis. This partnership will enable permission filtered content search and navigation across federated Traction TeamPage and other FAST indexed content stores, delivering analysis and answers in context to enterprises or networks of any size. » Read the Press Release
Jordan Frank Talks on Blogs and Wikis at Burton Group Catalyst Conference
I spoke yesterday, June 14, at Burton Group's Catalyst customer confence. The topic, Blogs and Wikis: Enterprise Examples, Real Results, was included in the Collaboration and Content track which is part of their newly announced practice in this domain. I started by defining the blog and wiki terms and then reviewed 5 Traction customer case study examples and a discussion of the qualitative and quantitative outcomes. The examples included non-profit, defense, pharmaceutical and finance organizations.
Traction announces x64 Sun Fire Support, Joins Sun at AIIM
Traction Software joins Sun in their AIIM Partner Pavilion today to preview Traction Release 3.7 and announce support for the Sun Fire x64 server platform in addition to already supported SPARC platforms. Stephen Borcich, vice president of Partner Marketing at Sun Microsystems said “There is an increasing demand for flexible, out-of-the-box and open-standard hardware and software solutions. Together with Traction Software, a leader in the quickly emerging enterprise blog and wiki market, we are enabling solutions that support this vision for customers." » Read the full release: Traction TeamPage Enterprise Blog Software to support the Solaris 10 Operating System Across Entire Sun Fire Servers Family
Thierry Barsalou, IPSEN CIO, Speaks at Gilbane Conference on Content Management
Rod Boothby wrote a great summary
of a presentation by Thierry Barsalou (CIO of Ipsen Phamaceuticals) on their Traction
driven Enterprise Blog system for Competitive Intelligence. At the 2006 Gilbane San Francisco conference, Thierry reviewed Ipsen's business requirement, technology
selection process, taxonomy planning, and path to adoption across all
their global offices. He concluded with remarks about using Traction
for other collaborative applications such as managing controlled
vocabularies (a wiki type application for compliance purposes), project
communication and other knowledge management related activities. » View PDF of the full presentation
Use of Weblogs for Competitive Intelligence | First International Business, Technology CI Conference, Tokyo Oct 2005
Abstract: Over
the past fifty years, the inspiration of hypertext systems has been the
challenge of dealing with an ever-increasing volume of information.
With the advent of the World Wide Web (WWW) as a near universal
platform for commercial and scientific information, it is now possible
to use the WWW as a platform for collecting, analyzing, disseminating
and receiving feedback on competitive intelligence and other valuable
business information. This paper will use examples of weblog deployment
for competitive intelligence in the pharmaceutical industry to examine
broader challenge of enabling enterprises to more effectively deal with
the ever increasing volume of critical business information in general.
QL2 and Traction - Drawing actionable intelligence from the deep web
Traction Software is happy to announce a partnership with QL2 Software. This comes after 9 months of working together and our first production deployment at a big pharma company last fall. QL2 and Traction bring intelligence from the deep web into Traction's Enterprise Blog where it can be analyzed, annotated and quickly brought to the attention of blog readers. Pharma users can track clinical trials, adverse events and DNA sequencing submissions. Every business can become better at competitive intelligence and quickly respond to events reported anywhere on the web. Combining QL2's WebQL and Traction's TeamPage supports better, faster, more market aware decision making. » Read the Full Release
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. ...
Lucent Technologies
Michael Angeles of Bell Labs explains how Weblogs are used at Lucent. In his presentation (20 May 2005 | Enterprise Weblogging: Using Weblogs for Communication and Information Management), he discusses a Traction® TeamPage based Training Weblog which was by a Program Management team to keep engineers and users of a new enterprise system up to date. The following narrative is paraphrased from Michael's PowerPoint presentation notes:
Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute (IJIS)
The Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute (www.ijis.org)
deployed Traction TeamPage for their public website, working committee
extranet which includes over 400 members, and staff intranet.
European Pharmaceutical Group
A pharmaceutical group based in Europe with world wide facilities and over 1 billion Euros in 2005 revenue deployed Traction® TeamPage enterprise blog software as a Competitive Intelligence platform. Traction enables a collective intelligence process spanning business functions and time zones. The system enables market and competitive information, analysis and commentary to flow more freely in order to support timely, informed decision making processes and increased market awareness.
TextWise - Delivering an automated, scalable, and contextual e-commerce solution on the web
Shortly after adopting TeamPage in the Spring of 2005, Rob Rubin (then CTO) of TextWise said "Since we've been using Traction® Software's TeamPage enterprise blog for our product development management, our culture has changed 100% to where our meetings and communications are totally driven by TeamPage. One day, our email system was down and not one engineer complained because they use Traction® TeamPage exclusively to track status and projects."
eCourier - The UK's Express Courier Company
eCourier, the UK's pre-eminent express courier service deployed Traction® TeamPage to accelerate technology development activities across three countries, report progress to investors, and conduct internal conversations. Full case study is provided here. Also see coverage in ComputerWorld, 25 May 2005 | Courier turns to blog tools to speed package-tracking, and ComputerWeekly, August 2006 | Harness the Power of Collaboration.
Traction Roots - Doug Engelbart
The source of the term Journal for the Traction TeamPage database is Douglas Engelbart's NLS system (later renamed Augment), which Doug developed in the 1960's as one of the first hypertext systems. Traction's time ordered database, entry + item ID addressing, and many Traction concepts were directly inspired by Doug's work. I'd also claim that Doug's Journal is the first blog - dating from 1969.
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
SITA Gets Traction with Enterprise Blog Software
SITA, the world's leading service provider of IT business solutions and communications services to the air transport community, deployed Traction® TeamPage for Sales Operations, Marketing, Training & Development, Communications, and other functions, enabling users to better categorize and filter content. Departments in Geneva, London, Rome, Montreal, Beirut, Paris, Singapore, Rio, Mumbai, are actively using it to centralize documents, share ideas, collaborate on projects and exchange feedback.
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).
Vantis PLC (Formerly Numerica Group)
"Don't dismiss blogs as disruptive - Use them to your advantage" contends Ross Mullenger of Numerica Group in InternetWorld UK's cover "Dear Diary" story, subtitled "Meet Joe Blog", referring to the Numerica case study.
7 February 2006 | Traction Software Expands European Distribution and Support
Adhena, VAR in Switzerland, is serving Switzerland, Austria, Germany and France. e-mediate, a VAR in the Netherlands, is serving the Benelux region. Both resellers are prepared to sell and support Traction TeamPage in their respective markets. Adhena and e-medate are focused on bringing the latest and best enterprise content management solutions to their customers in a variety of industries. » Read More
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)
26 January 2006 | Untying the Distribution Challenge
Building a Blog Driven Market Monitoring and Strategic Early Warning System. Jordan Frank delivered a session covering challenges faced by CI units, the importance and method for defining Key Information Topics, how to use internet blogs to trend-watch, and best practices for deploying enterprise blogs to support the intelligence cycle.
23 January 2006 | Early Warning Workshop
Arik Johnson and Jordan Frank led attendees through early warning methods and a hands-on mini wargame using Traction TeamPage. The hands-on portion involved three independent "companies" as they worked their way through objective definition and competitive response development in a constantly changing competitive environment.
14 December 2005 | Traction Customer IJIS Named one of Business Week's WebSmart 50
The deployment of Traction® TeamPage by IJIS, a membership organization representing information technology companies with the mission of improving information sharing in the Justice community, was recgonized as one of the 50 innovative uses of internet technology in business. Traction was deployed for the IJIS website, partner extranet and staff intranet. Paul Wormelli, Executive Director, said ". "Traction’s solution enabled us to meet all of our collaboration requirements by providing an easy, faster way to notify members, access information and save time working together." » Full Release
US Department of Defense - Rapid Acquisition Incentive-Net Centricity
The DoD CIO CIO office selected the "Liberty Project" as one of four out of 120 program proposals for RAI-NC funding. The program aimed to determine how best to deploy Traction® Software's Enterprise Blog platform in a net-centric environment with the goal of accelerating Test & Evaluation programs. The "Liberty Project" tested night vision technology and achieved significant improvements in communication effictiveness, tighter reporting cycles, improved information availability, and lower cost to the network.
Rice University - Carbon Nanotechnology Lab
The Carbon Nanotechnology Lab at Rice University deployed Traction® TeamPage to support information exchange throughout a research program team. The deadlines were very tight and reporting cycles to the sponsor, DARPA, occurred weekly. Traction enabled the program team to coordinate activities and allowed the program manager, Howard Schmidt, to both manage the team effectively and be accountable to his sponsor. The solution brought hard returns to execution time and quality.
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."
29 November 2005 | Gilbane Content Management Conference
Traction customer Ernest Kayinamura of Enel North America (Enel, based out of Italy, is a Global 100 firm and one of the worlds largest integrated energy companies) presented his case study in the Blogs & Wiki's @ Work session. Traction Software's Enterprise Blog software was featured in the Sun Microsystem's Partner Pavillion. » Full Release
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)
17 November 2005 | KMWorld & Intranets 2005
Mike Alsup led a panel on the Future of Content Management. He was joined by Jordan Frank, Todd Price, William Rogers and Mark Seamans as the panel looked out to the future and provide a vision for how their Enterprise Blog, Content Management, and Search technologies are and will be used.
7 November 2005 | CBI Decision Support & Analysis Summit
The 2nd Annual Decision Support and Analysis Summit focused on Product Positioning Strategies, Competitive Intelligence Techniques and the Latest Pharmaceutical Industry Insights for Strategic Decision-Making. Jordan Frank of Traction Software and Arik Johnson of AuroraWDC delivered their popular workshop: Building a Strategic Early Warning System — A Collaborative Model for Sustainable Visibility and Intelligence Alerting
26 October 2005 | Project Summit
Jordan Frank lead the Managing Programs, Projects and Products using Enterprise Blogs workshop at the New England Project Summit
27 September 2005 | InfoX Connect & Collaborate Conference
Jordan Frank of Traction Software and Dr. Peter Gloor of iQuest Analytics lead the Collaboration Tools Clinic at Information Today's InfoX conference.
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
US Department of Justice - Western States Information Network (WSIN)
The Western States Information Network is a member of the Department of Justice's Regional Information Sharing Service (RISS) Network. WSIN deployed Traction® TeamPage in the winter of 2003 for analyst groups, the watch center, and executive communications.
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.
Are Weblogs Really ECM Lite?
AIIM E-DOC Magazine, May/Jun 2005 - Greg Lloyd, Traction Software writes: Unless
you've been hiding in a cave, you've probably run across the term
"weblog" (or "blog") in the news. Perhaps you have a teenager who loves
LiveJournal (over 6 million free or very low cost blogs and growing) or
followed political controversies inflamed by bloggers during the 2004
campaign.
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 | Traction TeamPage named KMWorld "Trend Setting Product of the Year"
Traction Software receives KMWorld's award for second year in a row. KMWorld says TeamPage is "a robust blogging software that encompasses collaboration, document management and KM."
20 June 2005 | Supernova | Why Can't a Business Work More Like the Web?
Greg Lloyd from Traction Software joins the Connected Work session at SuperNova 2005. Hear and read notes from the workshop at ITConversations and Suw Charman's Strange Attractor blog.
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
2 June 2005 | e-Gov Web Enabled Government: Weblog, Portal and Wiki Panel
Greg Lloyd to speak on a panel led by Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The subject of the panel is The Evolution of Portals, Wikis, and the Blogosphere. The panel will discuss the impact of weblogs and wiki's on the way organizations share information, how weblogs and wiki's improve online collaboration, and the implications for portals.
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...
17-19 May 2005 | AIIM On Demand Conference and Exposition
Come see Traction Software and Newsgator Technologies at booths 3612 to 3614. » More About the AIIM Conference
17 May 2005 | Traction Software Announces TeamPage as ECM Alternative, Announces Traction Release 3.6 and new TeamPage Feed Reader product
Traction Introduces TeamPage as Disruptive Alternative to Electronic Content Management Software and Announces Release 3.6 and new Traction TeamPage Feed Reader. Traction Software attends AIIM to bring Enterprise Weblogs to the ECM marketplace, demonstrates new content publishing from RSS/ATOM, camera phones, and zero footprint rich text editor as well as enhanced security, authentication, and permission controls.
6 April 2005 | Early Warning Workshop
Led by Arik Johnson and Jordan Frank, this workshop led attendees through early warning methods and a hands-on mini wargame using Traction TeamPage. The hands-on portion involved three independent "companies" as they worked their way through objective definition and competitive response development in a constantly changing competitive environment.
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
22 February 2005 | Traction Software Named One of 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
24 January 2005|Early Warning Workshop
Led by Arik Johnson and Jordan Frank, this workshop led attendees through early warning methods and a hands-on mini wargame using Traction TeamPage. The hands-on portion involved three independent "companies" as they worked their way through objective definition and competitive response development in a constantly changing competitive environment.
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
7 December 2004 | Traction Software Named a Top 100 Innovator by Red Herring and one of 100 Companies that Matter by EContent
Enterprise Weblog Leader Recognized as One of the Most Innovative Companies Poised for Technology Leadership. » 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
18 November 2004 | The Possibilities, Promises and Pitfalls of Enterprise Weblogs
Jordan Frank speaks about the future of email and enterprise weblogs. The weblog becomes a backbone for threading comments, structuring knowledge, and even tracking actions while email returns to its roots as a communication channel.
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
25 October 2004 | Traction adds Distributed File Authoring And Versioning to Industry's Leading Enterprise Weblog Software
Traction TeamPage and Communicator Release 3.5 Adds WebDAV for best of class file attachment and document management, ATOM newsfeeds, and Personalized User Interface Enhancements. » 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
7 September 2004 | Traction TeamPage Recognized as a "Trend-Setting Product of the Year" by KMWorld
Review praises Traction TeamPage and Communicator as robust enterprise blogging software that encompasses collaboration, document management, and KM. » 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
5 July 2004 | Revelation Research and Traction Software Team to Bring Enterprise Weblog Solutions to the UK
Revelation Research LLP announced that it has concluded an agreement with Traction Software, Inc. to market and deploy Traction® TeamPage™ solutions in the UK. » Read More
1 June 2004 | Traction Software Announces Traction TeamPage and Communicator Release 3.1
Further Establishes the Traction Platform as the Backbone for Enterprise Working Communications. » Read More
1 June 2004 | Traction Software Geht Auf Den Deutschen Markt Mit Einer Lokalisierung Für Das Erste Betriebliche Weblog
Leistungsfähiges web-basiertes Informationsssystem rationalisiert die Kommunikation im Team. » Read More
1 June 2004 | Traction Software Enters German Market and Provides German Localization for Industry's First Enterprise Weblog
Powerful Web-based Information Sharing System Streamlines Team Communications. » Read More
1 June 2004 | Traction Software Names Jason Siegal Vice President of Sales
Public Relations Software Pioneer Joins Traction Team to Expand Sales Operations. » Read More
18-19 May 2004 | Frost & Sullivan: Competitive Intelligence 11th Annual Executive Summit, East
Jordan Frank, Traction's Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, spoke on the Software Applications to Manage Intelligence Products & Process panel.
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
5 May 2004 | CUTech Technology Research Consortium
Jordan Frank, Traction's Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, presented applications of Enterprise Weblog Software technlogy for Credit Unions at the TRC Annual Conference.
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
24 March 2004 | SCIP 2004 International Conference - Intelligence Technology: A Consumers' Showcase
Jordan Frank to speak about Traction Software in this panel moderated by Leondard Fuld of Fuld & Company Ltd. Click here to sign up for the conference and receive a 10% discount.
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
16 December 2003 | Traction TeamPage Launch in Japan
Applied Knowledge Company and Traction Software present and demonstrate Traction TeamPage with Japanese localization. Use cases presented by Asai-san of i-mam and Hashimoto-san of System Intec.
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.
17 November 2003 | Traction Software Internationalizes Enterprise Weblog Platform With Release 3.0
Traction Release 3.0 Delivers Internationalization, Authentication, Compatibility, Extensibility for Business and Government Customers around the Globe. » Read More
17 November 2003 | Traction Software Announces International Partner Initiative
Applied Knowledge and Netcore Solutions Leverage New Traction® TeamPage™ Release 3.0 Solution to Deliver Enterprise Weblog Technology into Asian Markets. » Read More
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
3 November 2003 | Department of Defense Selects Traction Software as part of Net-Centric Innovation Initiative
Traction TeamPage Enterprise Weblogs to Transform DoD communications, deliver simple, secure solution designed to accelerate test and evaluation programs. » 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
12 May 2003 | Traction Software Delivers Enterprise Weblog Solution to the Western States Information Network
Weblog Technology Enables Law Enforcement Network to Efficiently Capture, Share and Use Critical Information. » 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
8-9 April 2003 | Frost & Sullivan: Structuring Competitive Intelligence for Greater Bottom Line Impact
Jordan Frank, Traction's Director of Marketing and Business Development, will speak on the Software Applications to Manage Intelligence Products & Process panel.
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
16 December 2002 | Traction Software Introduces Enterprise Weblog solution for Competitive Intelligence and Market Research
Providence, R.I. - December 16, 2002 - Traction Software, Inc., leader in enterprise weblog software, today introduced the Competitive Intelligence (C.I.) and Market Research solution to its TeamPage™ Enterprise Weblog. » 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
13 June 2002 | In-Q-Tel signs expanded license agreement with Traction Software
Providence, Rhode Island, June 13, 2002 - In-Q-Tel, a venture group funded by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has recently signed an expanded enterprise software license agreement with Traction® Software, Inc., providing use rights for the latest version and multi-year upgrades of Traction's workgroup information-sharing software. » Read More
In-Q-Tel signs expanded license agreement with Traction Software
Providence, Rhode Island, June 13, 2002 - In-Q-Tel, a venture group funded by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has recently signed an expanded enterprise software license agreement with Traction® Software, Inc., providing use rights for the latest version and multi-year upgrades of Traction’s workgroup information-sharing software.
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)
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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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