A Guide to Finding, Removing and Preventing Online Pests
Online pests can range from the annoying to the downright dangerous. This Intranet Journal guide takes a step-by-step approach to diagnosing, removing and preventing spyware infestations.
Corporate Compliance
Intranet Journal introduces a new section covering corporate compliance issues. Learn more about how records and document management can help your company comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and any number of other state and federal regulations. Visit http://www.intranetjournal.com/compliance/
As networks continue to grow in size and complexity, so too do security threats. Viruses, worms, hackers and diminishing resources pose an increasing burden to IT pros. This series looks at some of the latest security challenges.
ProMail will archive your IM and e-mail conversations, as well as flag suspect content, without installing anything on your servers. It's not foolproof protection, but it's easy to use and relatively inexpensive.
WebEx Makes Meetings Easy and (Almost) Fun
P.G. Daly has been using WebEx to conduct meetings lately, and finds it an easy, affordable, and secure way to share documents and Web content and collaborate on projects.
Workshare 3.5 Makes Word and E-Mail Work as One
With people and offices scattered among time zone and continents, e-mail has become the way to deliver documents. But it sorely lacks as a collaboration tool.
Groove 3.0 Targets 'Occupational Developer'
Peer-to-peer collaboration pioneer Groove Networks has taken the wraps off a public beta of Groove 3.0, a product upgrade that adds a new forms tool that help non-technical users create project applications.
VoIP Can Give Your VPN a Voice
When you take the renewed interest in VoIP and mix in the existing VPNs used by many companies, the result is an opportunity for organizations to dip their toes in the pool of VoIP before it's feasible for them to make the big leap to an all-IP network.
Authentica Unlocks Software for Securing Office Docs
With its latest release of the omnipresent Office applications, Microsoft has emphasized collaborating with Office content as well as securing it. But Microsoft is not the only player offering rights management for Office documents.
Intranets.com Adds Conferencing to Its Collaboration Web
Intranets.com, which provides hosted collaboration products for more than 150,000 users around the world, is adding Web conferencing to the mix, and will also unveil enhanced features for its calendar application in the near future.
Treating Messaging as Critical
The need for security and rising volumes of both email and instant messaging are taxing IT organizations like never before.
E-Mail Management Emerging as Critical Corporate Need
With a majority of business users relying on e-mail more than the telephone for business communications, it's no longer enough to filter out spam and viruses and remind users to delete old messages. E-mail must be archived, organized and searchable.
Collaboration is King
with Workshare 3
With Workshare 3, clients who use Microsoft Office products along with Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Domino Server gain an easy way to send documents for review, then collect the changes.
Content Management and Collaboration Converge on E-Learning
Whether it's in a strict e-learning environment or an informal information session, content management and collaboration technologies have all in a sense become solutions to facilitate learning.
Video May Be Finding a Home on the Network
Video has been left locked out of most corporate networks in favor of e-mail when it comes to communicating to a large number of employees. But as desktop PCs, networks and rich media creation software evolve, video is becoming a viable option.
It's Getting Crowded in Collaboration
Collaboration technologies are all the rage right now. But now that Microsoft has released its newest version of Office loaded with collaborative features, are content management vendors going to wish they never got involved?
Microsoft Adds Collaboration to the Office Suite Mix
The newest version of Microsoft's Office suite goes beyond Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. It also includes document management and collaboration capabilities, but it does so at a price.
Taking the 'Project' Out of Project Management
Sensing that much of the project collaboration done in business is not done at the enterprise level, Enact has simplified its enterprise software to appeal to groups of five to 25 people and bundled the database and servers to boot.
A Secure Twist for the E-Meeting Market
As more tools for collaboration enter the workplace, the security risks they present to the enterprise increase. Viack's VIA3 e-meeting application not only incorporates several collaboration technologies, it wraps them in a secure package using SSL and AES.
Collaboration Software Gets 'Portalized'
Collaboration software never attained critical mass on its own. But that's changing as it is increasingly being built into enterprise portals.
Instant TeamMessenger Marries Outlook and Lotus IM
Instant TeamMessenger brings Outlook and Lotus IM together, so you can see who's online when you're in Outlook and can start real-time conversations off of e-mail messages and calendar entries.
Instant Messaging, Part IV:
IM in the Real World
We close out our series on instant messaging by examining one company that has made IM an integral part of its communications structure and speaking to an IM software provider that powers IM for one of the largest ISPs in the United States.
Striving For IM 'Presence' in Enterprise Apps
There is a movement afoot in the software world to take the main benefit of instant messaging — being able to see if someone is available online and then messaging them — and incorporate it into software applications used by enterprises.
Oracle Upgrades Collaboration Suite, But No IM Yet
Targeting Microsoft's and IBM's dominance in the enterprise collaboration market, Oracle this month trumpeted the immediate availability of Oracle Collaboration Suite Release 2, which boasts new real-time Web conferencing capabilities — but not instant messaging, as had originally been expected.
Documentum Gives eRoom an Enterprise Makeover
In its first major release since acquiring eRoom in December of 2002, Documentum has added pre-packaged applications for compliance and project management, a federated architecture, and enhanced security to eRoom 7.
Groove and Microsoft Take Office Out of the Office
Groove Networks is getting its groove on with Microsoft's SharePoint in a pairing that brings big benefits to mobile intranet users. Separately, each product has a lot to offer, but together they offer an ideal solution for mobile professionals that neither alone can provide.
Instant Messaging, Part III: Choosing an Instant Messaging System
The third part of Intranet Journal's series on instant messaging examines the criteria you should consider when specifying an IM solution for your business and also takes a look at some of the IM offerings on the market.
Instant Messaging, Part II: Does IM Have a Place in Your Business?
While some companies have embraced IM as a key business application, many more have simply let IM become a part of day-to-day business, with its use and implementation going unchecked. How do you ensure IM becomes a communications solution, not a communications problem?
Akiva's New Offerings Focus on the New Face of Collaboration
Akiva has released an upgrade to its venerable ChatSpace Community Server, but the trend in online collaboration is toward online meeting applications, according to the company's CEO.
Instant Messaging, Part I: Corporate Productivity Tool or Cool Toy?
Building on a base of IM use on home computers, IM now represents a revolution in corporate communications. Gartner Group forecasts 70 percent of all enterprises will use IM in 2003, and that by 2005 IM will represent 50 percent of all business-to-client communication.
How Communicator Collaborates
With the heavyweights in enterprise applications these days looking to merge instant messaging with other apps and portals, we take a look at Hub IM — an early mover in the integration trend.
Creating Community Within Your Organization
Since an intranet is just a microcosm of the Internet that exists within our organizations' walls, P.G. Daly proposes that the same compelling reasons that attracted us to the Internet should drive our intranets: the opportunity for creating connections between people as part of a virtual community.
CYA Unveils Secure Collaboration for the Enterprise
Enterprise content management systems, when implemented properly, are good for getting content into the hands of those who need it. Where the content goes once it's in those hands is another issue, one that CYA Technologies hopes to solve with its Secure Collaboration Platform.
WebEx Bundles Its Applications for Enterprise Edition
The latest addition to the offerings of WebEx is not so much a new service as a new way of organizing existing services. Enterprise Edition groups Meeting Center, Support Center, OnStage, and Training Center into one unified tool, which is easier to implement and manage.
SiteScape Moves Toward Total Collaboration with eMeeting
After launching version 7.0 of SiteScape Enterprise Forum in late 2002 and adding its eMeeting module in January of this year, about the only form of collaboration SiteScape doesn't handle is flying you to satellite offices.
Convea 5.0: Bridging the Groupware Gap
Software makers have been trying for years to solve collaboration and knowledge management problems by developing, with mixed results, what is known collectively as "groupware." Convea 5.0, released in January, possesses all of the technological advantages of a Web-based system while maintaining a desktop application look and feel.
Product Review: Taurus Groupware Appliance
The Taurus Groupware C360 comes replete with a full set of network functionality and also includes the Cybozu Share360 Office Collaboration Suite, an intranet-based groupware application.
Collaborating with Office X for Mac
When you get down to it, adding new features wasn't even the primary goal of the Office v. X team. Its top priority was recoding the entire Office suite, so that it would perform under Apple new operating system, OS X.
P2P and its Impact on the Enterprise
The recent success enjoyed by software based on the peer-to-peer architecture model has sparked off debate as to whether such a model is viable for enterprise applications.
Working Together with Microsoft Office XP
Office XP offers a variety of compelling, time-saving reasons to upgrade, especially for teams. The slew of document management and collaboration tools that it contains promise to make your daily tasks a lot easier.
Found Software for Virtual Teamwork
What happens in a Technographed meeting (see "Technography Defined") is as different from a conventional meeting as writing on a computer is as different from a typewriter.
When Your Colleague No Longer Sits Next Door
Because of the dangers of being cut off from the rest of their co-workers, information portals that unite "insiders" and "outsiders" under one virtual roof have become crucial enablers of this new business culture.
Review: GroupWise 6
Since version 4.1, subsequent GroupWise releases have added features and functions by the bucketload to the point where you start to wonder what else could be added.
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