Simplifying Teamwork - Bingo!
June 8th, 2007 by Gil Heiman
Yesterday’s flattering review of Collanos Workplace on eWeek was more than just…flaterring. Tiffany Maleshefski, the author, highlighted the fundamental points that make Collanos Workplace one of the leading teamwork solutions in the market.
The review’s title:
Collanos Collaboration Software Simplifies Teamwork
hits right on the mark on Collanos’ main differentiator from other P2P solutions such as Groove (now Microsoft) and any of the many hosted solutions available these days. Collanos simplifies teamwork. Period!
Her opening line immediately addresses our main ‘competitor’, email:
no disputing that e-mail is, at best, a mediocre tool for conducting ad hoc collaboration.
‘Think Out of the Inbox’, our company’s tagline, was chosen for that same reason. We all fall to the trap of using team-unfriendly email even when we need a solution that is more in the context of teams and team projects.
But how do we simplify teamwork? We make it more accessible to the average Joe, Jane, Xian (Yes, also in Chinese language!), Christian and Jolanda. No servers, no IT support, no OS limitations as she states:
Companies out to find a better way to work together without having to roll out a server-based collaboration product or impose particular operating system requirements on potential team members may find what they’re looking for in Collanos Software’s Collanos Workplace 1.1….Collanos Workplace 1.1 can spell relief for IT managers too pressed for time to evaluate, deploy and maintain a server-based collaboration platform.
Simplification is more than just for IT managers (actually, no IT managers required with Collanos in most user settings). It’s the users who find an intuitive, easy-to-use and no training required experience once installing the application and accessing their workspaces:
Collanos Workplace 1.1′s capabilities for rounding up the files, folders and discussions that comprise collaborative projects into single, easily accessible and well-synchronized spaces…we found it much easier [than Groove] to get down to business with the core functionality that Collanos does offer. In our opinion, getting a solid grip on Groove requires a more rigorous employee training than what’s required for Collanos.
Just to be fair, I didn’t post here some of the few ‘less flattering’ comments Tiffany mentioned about the product but these were actually more constructive comments than critiques that we are already addressing in the coming releases.
Collanos provides enterprise-class team workspace solutions for non-enterprise users. Since you are reading this blog, I am confident that you can use something better than email to manage all team content. Next time you click on the “Send” button of an email, think twice if this could have been done differently…or perhaps more simplified.
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