News for Today, Apr 16

Here's what going on around the world in the shared spaces arena:

• Video Guidance announced a partnership with Centra, for the resale of Centra's Web collaboration solution as a managed hosted service. Video Guidance is a video, voice and Web conferencing services provider. Video Guidance (PDF)


• Open Text introduced an online community of practice "for government customers, giving them an always-open forum to share ideas and best practices for applying Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software in government. The community, which is based on Livelink, allows Open Text to use its own technology and expertise in collaboration to establish closer relationships with customers .... Open Text hosts the forum in a Livelink community workspace which provides rich collaboration tools, such as a Weblog and community polls, so members can share opinions and ideas. Using the browser interface or e-mail, community members can easily share documents, articles, presentations, URLs, media files and other materials of interest to members. The community contains a wealth of information on new technology, training and user adoption, government IT standards and requirements, government technology events and webinars, and Livelink product updates. Other tools allow users to rate content shared in the forum and receive e-mail alerts when new information is added to the site." Open Text


• Citadon offers solutions to "enable the management of and collaboration on all organizational and project documents, automate and streamline business processes and communications within and across enterprises, and provide comprehensive action item tracking and audit trails". Products include Citadon CW (aimed at the enterprise), Citadon BPD (a design tool for CW), Citadon DM (a collaboration and document management solution), and ProjectNet (an out-of-the-box solution offering document sharing and forms processing). Citadon


• Wainhouse Research thinks that Cisco is going to become a major player in the Web conferencing market. SearchNetworking


• InfoStrength announced that its web-enabled knowledge, project and document management collaboration tool is verified for Windows Server 2003. InfoStrength


• Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) is using a Web-based workspace / distributed decision-making portal for a variety of projects. The tool was developed in-house using an open source approach. The upcoming Version 3.0 will add time management functions, among other things. itbusiness.ca