The Collaboration Server allows your organization to gain the benefits of the latest in digital workspace technology. With the Collaboration Server you will be able to:

• Bring your team together
• Keep all team members up to speed
• Keep information organized
• Exchange ideas and identify issues
• Put your information in context
• Follow the development of a document
• Organize your team's activity
• Canvass opinion within the team
• Keep information secure
• Make information easy to find
• Automatically keep team members up to date
• Have teams manage their own workspaces
• Not make a major investment

The Collaboration Server provides a shared workspace where your teams can exchange information and ideas regardless of where they are geographically located or what time zones separate them. The Collaboration Server allows teams throughout the company to work together with greater effectiveness by removing the barriers to their collaboration and thus speeding project completion.

Keeping all members of the team up to speed and being able to quickly add additional members speeds project completion and efficiency. With the Collaboration Server you can reach important decisions faster and bring products to market more quickly through more effective collaboration. Your team can be working at full speed from the very beginning of the project avoiding lost time that can not be recovered.

You can keep information organized by creating a workspace for each project within your organization; appropriate discussions, events, documents, notes, web pages, and videos can be added and managed within each workspace.

Your team can exchange ideas and identify issues in discussion with each other. The Collaboration Server's discussion groups enable other participants to follow the discussion and contribute at any point. The multi-threaded discussion facility allows you branch off on related issues without impeding the main topic of discussion.

Put your information in context by using the Collaboration Server's notes and links. Team members can see not only the information but also the source and the logic behind the information.

You can follow the development of a document with the Collaboration Server's versioning facility. The integrated versioning keeps an audit trail of the changes so you can see who did what and when or back out and restore an earlier version of the document. The Collaboration Server prompts users to describe their changes so the next user spends less time finding the change and more time considering the implications of the new information.

Organize your team's activity by using the Collaboration Server's calendar; this enables events to be highlighted and discussed.

Canvass opinion within the team by asking them to vote on an issue.

Your information is secure as only users with sufficient privileges are allowed to enter a workspace. The Collaboration Server's object level permissions enable different levels of access to be configured for each workspace. SSL encryption can be used to back up the Collaboration Server's username and password security.

Information is easy to find as each workspace has its own search capabilities that enables you to full-text search the files and objects within that workspace. The workspace navigation displays the contents of each workspace in a familiar and easy to use windows explorer style expandable outline.

Team members can automatically be kept up to date by email-based notification that summarises the changes that have occurred within the workspace. If particular issues are critical you can request to be informed the moment there is a change. The summary provides instant access to updated or changed material by providing links directly into the workspace.

Teams manage their own workspaces; a single click can create a new workspace without the involvement of outside specialists. This drastically reduces the total cost of ownership as hard-pressed IT departments do not need to manage the creation and organization of workspaces.

A major investment is not required to gain the benefits of the Collaboration Server; suitable for departmental use, you can grow your implementation by adding additional licenses to meet your growing corporate needs.