• Extends Traction's current Attivio Active Intelligence Engine technology partnership to index, analyze, search, and navigate external sources and content repositories.
• Permission-aware, unified information access spanning TeamPage and external Microsoft SharePoint, Documentum, file servers, Microsoft Exchange, SQL databases and other sources.
• The TeamPage user interface makes permission-aware search and navigation over content from TeamPage and external sources simple and fast.
• Search and navigation can be faceted using selected sources and source-specific metadata, including author, data type, status and more.
• Search and navigation can be faceted using automatically extracted keyphrase, location, sentiment and other attributes from Attivio's deep content analysis of structured and unstructured data.
• External sources and access rules can be continuously and incrementally indexed.
• Simple to install, deploy and maintain.
• Pricing and packaging are designed to make Traction Attivio Search Plus an affordable and attractive option for small to mid-size organizations.

• Use TeamPage to discuss, tag, task or share internal or external sources using search, TeamPage Badges or bookmarking.
• TeamPage Attivio Plus provides the ability to index, share and use content from siloed systems and SQL databases that have no Web addressable interface.
• Indexing TeamPage tags, discussion and tasks associated with external content improves relevance ranking for search by adding social business context.
• New TeamPage Web browser bookmarklet can be used to discuss, tag, task, share and index selected pages on the public Web or a private intranet.
• New TeamPage Badges can be added to any Web page to provide a one-click action to discuss, tag, task or share that page.
• TeamPage Badges shows a live count of the number of social actions associated with that page, with one click to open and see the actions in context.
• TeamPage Badge counts and navigation are permission aware – including only what you have permission to see based on TeamPage access control rules.
• TeamPage search results and activity streams include avatars to show who has discussed, tagged, tasked or shared that internal or external content.
• One click expands any search result or activity item inline to quickly review details without leaving the page.
• One click opens external documents or records in a Web browser or native client (depending on the source).
• Metadata shown for each source type, styling and behavior of source-specific detail shown with search results and in activity streams can be easily customized using the Traction's Skin Definition Language plug-in for that source.

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One of the first steps taken was to provide the community with information that had been scarce or expensive. "We arranged with the publisher of the Wheat Rust Atlas to put a PDF version of the book on our site," Bakum says. "The book was out of print but was a valuable resource, and now it's available to all the researchers."

The website helps expedite the administrative aspects of conducting research. Forms to request screening for wheat rust or dispatching seeds that may be resistant to the disease are available on the website, for example. "If a lab in Canada has a variety of wheat that may be resistant, researchers can send it to nurseries in Ethiopia and Kenya, where it can be grown and tested. Our website acts as a central place for that data, benefiting researchers around the world," Bakum explains."

Because members upload files into collaboration workspaces via e-mail, some content arrives in the form of attachments. "Attivio searches Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other types of files, even if they are attachments," Bakum says. Much of the site is public, but TeamPage allows for the creation of internal spaces that are password protected, to enable private virtual meetings.