Beyond Blogs and Wikis: Traction TeamPage Release 3.7 Delivers Secure and Scalable Web Collaboration

New Features Include Extensible Widgets, Secure Group Editing, Inline Sections, Flexible Output Formats, and Mobility

Providence, RI, September 12, 2006 - Traction® Software, the leading developer of products for secure, scalable, web-based collaboration, today announced Traction® TeamPage™ Release 3.7. New features added in this release include extensible widgets, edit history and rollback, inline sections, flexible outputs to any format, and upgraded mobile device support.

“Traction’s products combine the group editing of a wiki, the simplicity of a blog, and a unique access control and comment model to provide secure, scalable web-based working communication and collaboration,” said Greg Lloyd, Traction Co-Founder and President. “TeamPage 3.7 adds new capabilities to link, edit, discuss, and deliver web content securely to customers, suppliers and external stakeholders as well as groups within a single enterprise. These new capabilities are based on feedback from leading Consulting, Pharmaceutical, Finance and US Government customers.” » Read More on Greg's Blog

Linking, Widgets and Mashups

Wikis and blogs create value by allowing users to make links to resources all around the web. Traction 3.7 makes it simple to create widgets that show, list or link to internal and external web resources. TeamPage widgets can be inserted into any TeamPage blog post or page. Widgets include: inline sections to show lists of links or content driven by any Traction query; mashup style widgets that to show text and graphics from any external source (e.g. a live weather report for any zip code); and live text widgets that turn a text pattern into an automatically live link. An example of Traction’s new live text widgets include a widget that recognizes the text pattern of a UPS tracking code, and turns it into a live link to UPS's status page for that shipment. Customers or partners can program Traction live text widgets to recognize invoice numbers and link to an ERP page, or recognize a customer code and show it as a customer name that automatically links to sales history in web-addressable CRM system. » Read More

Export Anything to Anywhere

Whether you are using Traction to document requirements or capture intelligence information, exporting to print, PDF, Word, and email is critical for enterprise information flow. New designed views in Traction make it simple to select any set of content and export to the desired format. » Read More

Traction on the Go – Equal Access for Mobile Users

Traction detects mobile devices and delivers a stripped down “skin” on the fly. This skin is supports current Blackberry, Treo and Pocket PC browsers. The interface extends secure search, navigation, page publishing and commenting capabilities to mobile users. » Read More

Group Publishing and Editing

Traction has historically supported permission based edit history (for pages, comments and, via WebDAV, attached files), and full audit trails (with time-line annotation of label changes, edits, emails sent, and comments). Traction 3.7 adds Wikipedia style display of differences between any two page versions to support group editing, review, and one click roll-back functions. » Read More

Automated Email Digest

A pharmaceutical company CIO said: “the TeamPage email digest is one of the most popular features.” Although Traction supports secure, dynamic RSS / ATOM feeds, the email digest continues to be the most popular medium for notification in the enterprise. Release 3.7 brings control of the digest formatting and content to each user. Users can now choose which projects to include in their digest, and how to format the digest content using inline sections. » Read More

Section Display on Front Page, Project Page and Single Page Views

Server and project administrators can easily configure Front Page and Project Pages to display query driven sections, making it easy to show permission filtered lists of status reports, meeting notes, open issues, or any other content to readers. Blog users don’t have to navigate page trees or reverse chronological listings to find what’s important to them. Wiki users don’t have to manually update and maintain pages of links that provide access to a list of pages that are related for some important reason (e.g. customer suggestions, open issues). » Read More

About Traction TeamPage

Traction's TeamPage software combines the group editing of a wiki, the simplicity of a blog, and a unique access control and comment model to provide secure, scaleable web based communication to business and government customers. TeamPage software can be installed in an hour, is easy to learn for non-technical users. TeamPage makes it simple to link and comment on any web content and securely syndicate the result, addressing audiences within or across the firewall. This makes it easy to collaborate with key customers, suppliers and partners—as well as internal teams—when defining, designing, marketing and supporting a new product or service, and tracking issues that are critical to business success. Global 1000 and government customers deploy Traction products for mission critical applications including product development, program management, marketing, competitive intelligence, and client, supply chain or sales force communication.

About Traction Software

Traction Software Inc provides business and government organizations with secure, scalable, web based communication and collaboration software that enables groups to work together over time. Traction Software has been named one of the 100 Companies that Matter by KMWorld and is a winner of the RedHerring 100 and eContent 100 awards. The company distributes its products directly and through global partners. Based in Providence, Rhode Island, Traction Software is a privately held corporation with financing from investors including In-Q-Tel and Slater Interactive. For additional information and to read our blog, visit Traction Software at tractionsoftware.com.

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