15 June 2010 | Traction TeamPage 5.0 Delivers Integrated Social Networking and Collaboration with New Generation Interface Technology
Enterprise 2.0 Boston MA — June 15, 2010 — A fresh look at how social networking and collaboration work for business Traction® Software, the leading developer of enterprise 2.0 social software for secure, scalable collaboration, today announced Traction® TeamPage Release 5.0. This release uses Traction’s new generation Proteus interface technology to deliver a look and feel that’s fast, easy to use, and looks great. TeamPage 5.0 leverages this technology to integrate extensible personal profile pages, Twitter style personal status, group live blog technology, a slick and simple Feed summary and more as natural parts of Traction's award winning Enterprise 2.0 collaboration platform. Read » full release
Traction TeamPage 5.0: Social Software for Work
Traction® TeamPage Release 5.0's new generation interface technology is fast, simple, and looks great. TeamPage 5.0 leverages this technology to deliver personal profile pages, Twitter style personal status, a flexible follow model with faceted navigation, a top down Feed view of activity and more as a natural part of Traction's award winning Enterprise 2.0 collaboration platform. TeamPage 5.0 puts social software to work for activities that matter most for your business including new product development, sales, life cycle product support, communication with clients and sales partners, collaboration with customers and key suppliers, tracking business issues, marketing and competitive intelligence.
14-16 June 2010 | Traction Software at Enterprise 2.0 Boston
If you plan to attend Enterprise 2.0 Boston 2010, be sure to visit Traction Software at Booth #515 between 11:30 am through 6:00 pm Tuesday and Wednesday for a major Traction TeamPage product announcement and demonstration! Jordan Frank will be at E2.0 Boston as a panelist for Monday morning's Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration Technologies Workshop run by Oliver Marks and Sameer Patel (8:30-11:45am). He'll also represent Traction Software for the Social Vendor Idol competition versus Blue Kiwi, Cubetree, Newsgator and Socialtext (3:30-4:30pm Tuesday) - be sure to watch and vote! Greg Lloyd will be a panelist on Mike Gotta's Expert Panel on Standards for Social Computing in the Enterprise (2:15-3:15pm Wednesday). To schedule a meeting, please email e20boston@tractionsoftware.com See you in Boston!
12-15 Oct 2010 | Fifth Annual Traction User Group Meeting, TUG 2010 Newport
Traction Software's Fifth Annual Traction User Group Meeting (TUG 2010) will be in Newport Rhode Island, 12-15 October 2010. Mark your calendars! Wed 13 Oct will feature an opening keynote by Jim McGee followed by a TeamPage update by Chris Nuzum CTO and co-founder of Traction Software, a talk by Attivio VP of Engineering Rik Tamm-Daniels, customer stories, and a closing keynote by Jon Udell. If you can't attend TUG 2010 Newport in person Follow TUG 2010 Newport on Twitter
26 May 2010 | John Tropea - Software for agile ad-hoc processes
John Tropea writes May 26, 2010: A while ago I posted about using wikis to handle process failures, conversations around objects, and activity-centric collaboration; well these posts highly relate to informal processes and ad-hoc collaboration, which is something Jordan Frank know’s a lot about, and which the software firm he works for (Traction Software) can deliver in a way that really differentiates them from other players in the market like Jive SBS, Socialtext, Open Text Social Workplace, etc. See John's Software for agile ad-hoc processes blog post for Jordan's video clip, along with John's summary of key points, and analysis including:
19 May 2010 | Attivio Customer Spotlight: Traction Software
Attivio's customer portfolio features some of the most innovative and forward-looking companies in the technology and business sectors. See Attivio Customer Spotlight: Traction® Software for a video featuring Traction Software's Greg Lloyd, Jordan Frank and Chris Nuzum.
30 April 2010 | Traction TeamPage is AIIM E2.0 Community Buyer's Guide Featured Product
April 30, 2010 Traction® TeamPage is the top featured product of the AIIM Enterprise 2.0 Community Buyer's Guide. Read Traction TeamPage rating and reviews.
20 April 2010｜ナレッジマネジメント フォーラム2010 に出展
Traction® Software Partner Applied Knowledge Company Ltd will participate in the Knowledge Management Society of Japan's 2010 Knowledge Management Forum held in Tokyo, 20 April 2010. AKJ will demonstrate Traction® TeamPage at the Exhibition Showcase, and AKJ CEO Masayuki Kojima will lead a free Traction TeamPage workshop (registration required). See Knowledge Management Forum 2010 [ in Japanese ] for more participation and registration information.
1 March 2010 | Traction Software Named to KMWorld's "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management"
For the sixth consecutive year, KMWorld recognized Traction® Software's market leadership in Enterprise 2.0 Social Software by naming the company to their KMWorld 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. The list is compiled by KMWorld's panel of KM practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors and their customers and colleagues. "We're honored by KMWorld's recognition of Traction Software. I'm extremely happy to accept this award on behalf of Traction's outstanding employees, partners and customers. " said Greg Lloyd, Traction Software President and co-founder, "I believe that customer success using Traction® TeamPage is proving the business value of knowledge management by making KM part of the context of work, benefiting everyone in the organization, every day." » See the 2010 KMWorld 100 list
26 Feb 2010 | Great Wired Magazine story on Borlaug Global Rust Initiative
Read this Wired Magazine story Red Menace: Stop the Ug99 Fungus Before Its Spores Bring Starvation on the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative's leadership in a global collaborative effort to combat a critical threat to the world's food supply. Fighting Ug99 wheat rust requires a global response bringing together a diverse community in the US, Africa, Europe and Asia, including plant biologists, plant breeders, field agents, molecular biologists, NGO's, and BGRI sponsors. We're happy and proud that that BGRI is a Traction® Software customer, and that BGRI's globalrust.org site is powered by Traction® TeamPage, used as a hub for both public information on Ug99 wheat rust and for global collaborative scientific research.
19 Jan 2010 | Jack Vinson - Responsibility to collaborate - Jordan Frank
Business and KM consultant Jack Vinson follows Jim McGee's suggestion and posts his own thoughts on Paula Thornton's video interview with Traction Software's Jordan Frank Vinson says: "The idea behind "responsibility to collaborate" is that the world of work has shifted from my value being solely about I know, though that is still important. Now it is just as important to spread the word and bring together my ideas with those of others in a more open way. This also plays at a group level, where collective responsibility to work together and learn from one another can elevate the level of conversation for people the next time they have an official business meeting. Imagine having issues established and discussed in an easily-accessible way (instead of behind closed doors or even at the water cooler)." » Read his full Knowledge Jolt with Jack post and watch the video.
7 Jan 2010 | Jim McGee - Jordan Frank on ‘responsibility to collaborate’ – lessons in enterprise 2.0 implementations
New Shoreham Consulting Managing Director Jim McGee encourages readers to watch and reflect on Paula Thornton's video interview with Traction Software's Jordan Frank McGee says: "You need to develop a well-tuned design sense to take full advantage of the technologies intended to support collaborative and creative knowledge work. You need to be especially careful to avoid the temptations to over-engineer the technology or the process. The examples that Jordan shares are rooted in the augmentation philosophies of Doug Engelbart rather than the automation philosophies of Frederick Taylor." » Read the full 7 Jan 2010 McGee's Musings post and watch the video.
For more video interviews and Traction User Group talks see the Traction User Group channel on Blip.tv and 12-15 Oct 2010 | Fifth Annual Traction User Group Meeting, TUG 2010 Newport
22 Dec 2009 | the{app}gap - Traction Introduces New Capabilities and Partners with Team Page 4.2
AppGap Analyst Bill Ives reviews Traction® TeamPage Release 4.2 new capabilities, focusing on the Developer Release preview of Traction's Google Web Toolkit (GWT) based Proteus interface. Traction® Software President Greg Lloyd demonstrated Proteus using Traction's production TeamPage server and content. Bill includes screen shots of Proteus Feed views that make it easy to scan and navigate status, new content, edits, tag and moderation actions by space or person - including aggregate roll-up views. Proteus' use of GWT technology makes updates and navigation speedy using automatically compiled web-browser optimized updates that are delivered incrementally. This makes navigation, inline editing and animation effects fast, simple and attractive as well as extensible and developer friendly. Bill concludes: "I think these are all very smart moves and makes Traction more attractive to large enterprise. There is the greater flexibility of interface through Google Web Toolkit, more robust search through Attivio, and heavy duty data management through Oracle. I am looking forward to seeing what they do next." » Read the Full Story
See also Introducing Proteus (demo) for brief tour and Proteus GWT Tech talk slides and interviews.
3 Dec 2009 | Forbes.com - Andrew McAfee: What Enterprise 2.0 Really Means
MIT Center for Digital Business principle research scientist Andrew McAfee references Traction® Software President Greg Lloyd's Enterprise 2.0 Schism blog post in thinking about and responding to points raised in recent Enterprise 2.0 debates. McAfee does not believe that "... E2.0's tools, approaches and philosophies making managers, hierarchies, org charts and formal cross functional business processes obsolete," but does believe that "... ESSPs [ Emergent Social Software Platforms ] will have about as big an impact on the informal processes of the organization as large-scale commercial enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, Supply Chain, etc.) have had on the formal processes." A that's huge deal for organizations. » Read the Full Story
See also follow-on discussion: How big a deal is Enterprise 2.0? What do you mean by "Big"?
Using Enterprise 2.0 to Get Work Done | Collaboration and Content Strategies Blog
Burton Group Analyst Larry Cannell on Traction® Software President Greg Lloyd's recent blog post: "This Enterprise 2.0 perspective is about bringing to bear the resources a company has to help people make the best decisions and improving the quality of their collective work. This is language even a pragmatic business manager can understand." Cannell would like to see more coverage of Enterprise 2.0 from a work based perspective. » Read the Full Story and more on Burton Group's Online Workplace Framework.
Nov 2009 | CMSWire - TeamPage 4.2 Adds Mobile Features, Two Way Email Collaboration
CMSWire's David Roe says Traction® TeamPage Release 4.2 has added "... new features that gives users the ability to post content and comments on company wikis or blogs ‘on the road’ with simple, secure two-way email based collaboration." Roe characterizes this release as "... more than just an upgrade enabling collaboration using Blackberry or other mobile devices" with its use of a new internal architecture that enables Attivio search and an Oracle RDB backend demonstrated at Enterprise 2.0 San Francisco. » Read the Full Story
Nov 2009 | the{app}gap - Attivio Aligns with Traction and Releases New Features
AppGap Analyst Bill Ives interviews Attivio CTO Sid Probstein and VP of Marketing Maryanne Sinville on Traction® Software's selection of the Attivio Active Intelligence Engine™ to power Traction® TeamPage advanced search and content navigation. Sid explains how Attivio's early binding and query-side JOIN operator allows TeamPage to "link security with content that matches the users query and permissions". Sid provides examples using Traction TeamPage Release 4.2 screenshots showing Attivio powered TeamPage permission aware search, faceted navigation and tag clouds, and discusses Attivio's sentiment analyzer and Classification Module. » Read the Full Story
30 Nov 2009 | アプライドナレッジ、協 働作業を支援するエンタープライズBlog＆Wiki「TeamPage」の新バージョン 4.1をリリース
Traction® Software Partner Applied Knowledge Company Ltd announces availability of new Traction® TeamPage release with full Japanese language localization and support » Read the Full Story [ in Japanese ] See also www.TractionSoftware.jp for news on TUG 2009 Japan
25 Nov 2009 | Fierce Content Management - Traction Teams with Attivio for secure social search
Ron Miller of Fierce Content Management writes about a conversation he had with Traction® Software President Greg Lloyd and Attivio CTO Sid Probstein. Miller says: "This is an interesting partnership because, as I've written here before, Enterprise 2.0 collaboration technology has the potential to be an organic knowledge management engine." Combining search, collaboration, and a security model is important. » Read the Full Story
19 Nov 2009 | Ontologies & Tagsonomies at Taxonomy Boot Camp
While at KMWorld 2009, Jordan Frank, Traction® Software VP of Sales and Business Development led a customer panel titled What's Social About Software and co-led a talk with Christine Connors of TriviumRLG at KMWorld 2009's counterpart, Taxonomy Boot Camp. In the session, Ontologies & Tagsonomies: Linked Data, Web 3.0 Tag Mush! Christine addressed questions including: What do ontologies provide that taxonomies and thesauri lack? What is the big deal about the semantic web? What’s the difference between the semantic web, linked data, and Web 3.0 and what are the technologies that will power this next evolution of the web? Jordan explored how driven social tagging can work for or against you and then suggests tagging and search driven entity extraction strategies that can put tagging to productive work. » Click here for the PDF of Jordan's presentation.
17-19 Nov 2009 | What's Social About Software? | KMWorld 2009 San Jose
Jordan Frank, Traction® Software VP of Sales and Business Development will moderate a KMWorld 2009 panel What's Social About Software Wednesday Nov 18th 4:14 to 5:00PM: As "social software" is finding its way into the enterprise, people are wondering what's social about software and why it matters. These practitioners from leading organizations share their views on the realities of how interactions in social software platforms lead to productive work in the enterprise. Panel members include:
Carol Stickley, Manager, IT Knowledge Management - Avery Dennison
Joe Crumpler, IT Manager, ERP and Integration Projects - Alcoa Fastening Systems
Brian Tullis, Director, Information Services - Alcoa Fastening Systems
Enterprise 2.0 Schism
I have to confess that I've enjoyed watching recent rounds of Enterprise 2.0 discussion and mud wrestling. The fact that so many people enjoy debating definitions, values, doctrinal principals - even the existence of Enterprise 2.0 - makes me think that E2.0 might best be framed as a religious debate. With that in mind, I'd like to introduce a new and exciting element: schism.
2 Nov 2009 | Traction Software Showcases New Collaboration Capabilities at Enterprise 2.0 Conference
Traction® Software today showcased three major capabilities that build on the new Traction® TeamPage™ 4.2 release also announced today. “Traction TeamPage has always gotten high marks for its capabilities from analysts, independent reviewers and some of the most demanding and innovative customers in the world,” said Greg Lloyd, president and CEO of Traction Software. “We’re happy to be in this position to listen to our customers as well as the market. Today I’m happy to show Traction’s new Proteus Google Web Toolkit (GWT)-based Web interface and Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine™ (AIE) running on Traction TeamPage Release 4.2. These new capabilities combine Traction’s proven strengths with true innovation - delivering a simple, fast and beautiful user experience that leverages Google’s great Web user interface technology and Attivio’s track record for advanced search, and industry leading innovation in content analysis and navigation. The Oracle RDB backend for Traction TeamPage is a new option for customers with mission critical applications where the ability deploy and maintain all TeamPage data in an Oracle 10g or 11g server provides outstanding ease of use for a high-availability configuration on an RDB platform that’s the gold standard for enterprise IT.” All three new capabilities are available for evaluation and developer release of TeamPage R4.2 starting today, with customer qualified releases starting this quarter. Read » full release
2 Nov 2009 | Traction TeamPage Release 4.2 Adds Mobile Subscription, Notification, and Email Collaboration to Award Winning Enterprise 2.0 Platform
Traction® Software today announced Release 4.2 of its award winning Traction® TeamPage™ enterprise 2.0 social software platform. The software now includes flexible mobile subscription and notification allowing road warriors to easily post content and comments with simple, secure two-way e-mail based collaboration. “With Traction customers in consulting and professional services as well as the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, high tech and government industries, we often see people using BlackBerry and other mobile email devices as much or more than their desktop or laptop Web browsers,” said Traction’s CEO Greg Lloyd. “We defined and developed these capabilities by collaborating with TeamPage customers in professional service firms who love their BlackBerry email as much as they love TeamPage in their browser. These new subscription features bring Enterprise 2.0 collaboration to the road warrior, making it easy to get a clean and simple summary including automatically generated context.” Read » full release
14 Oct 2009 | Traction Software Selects Attivio to Power Information Access for Enterprise 2.0 Social Software
Traction® Software and Attivio today announced that Attvio's Active Intelligence Engine™ will power the Advanced Search and content navigation functions of its Traction® TeamPage Enterprise 2.0 platform. Traction evaluated several market-leading solutions before choosing Attvio's unified information access engine for its single, flexible API, full Java support as well as its sophisticated and secure permissioning model. “Traction Software’s award-winning social software enables enterprises and government agencies to share information and collaborate in a secure environment. We needed to partner with an information access company that would enable our users to securely capture and share data across entities from one central repository,” said Greg Lloyd, President & Co-Founder of Traction Software. “Attivio was the clear choice for a variety of reasons, including its ability to update information in real-time to ensure the most relevant and current results. AIE improves our users’ ability to find content quickly and offers a dramatically smaller footprint than our previous search engine solution.” » Read full release
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