Traction rolls out TeamPage 4.0

PROVIDENCE – Traction Software, a developer of secure, scalable software for hypertext collaboration, today unveiled TeamPage 4.0, the latest version of its award-winning blog and wiki package.
The new version expands the enterprise blog and wiki package “to handle Enterprise 2.0 collaboration on the work that matters most to business: developing products, communicating with customers and sales partners, collaborating with key suppliers, tracking business issues and competitive intelligence,” the company said.
New features in TeamPage 4.0 include:
• Personal profile pages that ease social networking and gather content by author.
• Enterprise-level moderation capabilities to allow collaborative or formally-controlled approval of page edits and comments, as well as new comment.
• Wiki-style collaborative editing that enables users to maintain works-in-progress in their “draft” and “latest stable” states, as well as published versions ready to share with internal or external audiences.
• New workspace permissions that grant rights to read, edit, reject or publish drafts to any individual or group, and are incorporated into the moderation model. Access to the moderation history is also controlled by the workspace permissions granted to individuals or groups, so participants in a draft discussion can see the full draft history, discussion and content, while others can only see the history and content of published versions, Traction said.
• Page-name management and name-history functions to ease linking across draft and published content. “This makes name linking simple for everyone, and works seamlessly with the TeamPage 4.0 moderation model to support parallel draft work-in-progress versus latest-stable version requirements, as well as challenging wiki refactoring scenarios,” the company said.
• Immediate e-mail or IM notification of new posts or edits, with rules allowing users to select the kind of events that interest them.
• Page and article templates and forms to enable new users to launch TeamPage more quickly.
• Annual subscription pricing for the flagship TeamPage Server configuration, designed for collaboration with customers, suppliers and across large numbers of internal groups; and the new TeamPage Workgroup, designed for internal collaboration at smaller enterprises. TeamPage Server, starting at $7,000 per year, supports an unlimited number of blog-wiki workspaces, while Workgroup, starting at $3,750 per year, supports up to 10 blog-wiki workspaces.
“TeamPage 4.0 addresses all the requirements of Enterprise 2.0,” said Traction President Greg Lloyd, “and adds the ability to work just as easily with many external stakeholders – such as customers or supply chain partners – across secure permission boundaries that are invisible to internal stakeholders.
“Traction Software’s unique hypertext technology enables businesses to gain the advantages of Enterprise 2.0 collaboration: seamlessly weaving together facts and discussions that cross projects and organizations, as well as general, behind-the-firewall collaboration.”
Traction Software recently been ranked by KMWorld magazine among its 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management, for the fourth year in a row (READ MORE). The company also is a winner of the RedHerring 100 and eContent 100 awards, and last year, its TeamPage software was honored by InfoWorld as its 2007 Enterprise Wiki of the Year. (READ MORE)
Traction Software is a developer of enterprise blog and wiki software to allow groups and teams to communicate more effectively. Its products are distributed both directly and through global partners. Traction is a privately held corporation; its investors include In-Q-Tel and Slater Interactive. For additional information, visit www.tractionsoftware.com.