EMC recently updated us on its teamspace product, eRoom. The main features it provides are:
- Shared folders
- Project planner
- Shared calendar
- Version control and checkin/checkout
- Integrated web conferencing
- Integration with email for alerts, notifications
- All clients run a browser
- Optional Windows browser plug-in, providing thingslike drag and drop
What struck us is that this is a really usable product. It's been bashed into shape in real customer environments for several years. There are now perhaps 2 million users. The latest features include:
- Unified views of an individual's many different workspaces
- Better scalability, as workspaces grow and sprout other workspaces
- Good integration with ECM/Documentum's enterprise content management--providing for things like regulations compliance, policy control over documents, workflows, and shared non-redundant file stores
This is a product to include in your teamspace evaluation shortlist.
... David Ferris