SiteScape Forum ST

Product Features

Team Collaboration:

Threaded discussions keep topics organized.
View calendars for yourself, your team, or the entire Forum. Trade calendar entries using Microsoft Outlook.
Secure team workspaces offer private discussion forums, calendar, and web file system metaphor.
Organize information hierarchically by division, department, project, etc. via individually configured workspaces.
Simple reports and graphical summaries help examine and manage the status of workflows, tasks, and entries in discussion forums and calendars.

Personalization Features:

Bookmark key documents, discussions and calendars for quick access.
Personalize your color and font settings.
Edit discussion entries using rich text features like font, style, color, etc.

Project Management: Manage complex projects efficiently with top-down, at-a-glance visibility into deliverables, action item status, decision histories and other key data. Easily share meeting logistics and materials and capture meeting results. Automatically receive notification of key events.

Document Management: Simplify document review and editing with automated check-out/check-in and versioning, "edit-in-place" revisions, HTML file viewer, centralized document storage, multi-file upload/download, graphical views of document folders, and more.

Knowledge Management: Leverage information assets effectively to "discover what you know." Powerful search technology works across all Forum content. Site map provides a high-level view. Bookmark documents, discussions and calendars for quick access. Windows file system metaphor simplifies information management.

Workflow: Streamline routine processes in a few quick steps — no programming required. Check task status at a glance or use e-mail notifications to alert you automatically to important events. Quickly create electronic forms for engineering change orders, expense reports, etc. Graphical "trees" make it easy to chart complex processes. Built-in workflow templates help automate contact management, Help Desk, resume tracking and more, right out of the box.

Simplified Administration:

Flexible security: Optionally enable DMZ server locations, PKI support, single sign-on through tools like Netegrity, NT domain authentication and challenge/response, roles-based access to Forum content, and more.
Easy configuration: Rapidly customize look-and-feel right from the Forum menu, or by editing HTML templates.
Rapid customization: An object-oriented Developer's Toolkit enables full customization.
Distributed administration: Delegate administrative tasks, including relevant access controls, to workspace owners. Workspace owners can create and configure workspaces, discussions, calendars and chats; and invite new users.
Automated backup: Easily specify what and when you want to backup or archive.
Portal-friendly: Forum can be integrated with a number of off-the-shelf portal products, including WebSphere, Plumtree, Oracle, Citrix, and Viador. For more details please contact SiteScape Sales.
LDAP support: Synchronize Forum accounts with LDAP directories, and automatically create Forum accounts using LDAP information.
Database support: Choose from Forum's built-in FrontBase SQL database or use your existing Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or Oracle 8i systems. Access ODBC databases programmatically via built-in, object-oriented commands.
Mobile support: Access Forum solutions via PDAs with HTML browsers.
Accessibility support: Forum and its Help system are coded for increased accessibility per Section 508/W3C WAI.
CAD support: Forum optionally supports a wide range of CAD and other engineering files through specialized viewers, removing the need to own expensive CAD licenses in order to examine a file.

System Requirements:

Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux 8.0, 9.0, or Enterprise; Sun Solaris 8.0 or 9.0 on Sun SPARC®; Windows 2000, 2003 or XP.
Clients: Any desktop, laptop or PDA that can run a popular Web browser.