OpenText Social Workplace

OpenText Social Workplace is a new type of the social corporate application which is intended as for use by the principle of SaaS (software as service), and for direct installation on computers of the organizations. It helps dispersed teams to form quickly and to interact effectively with the minimum training costs or technical support, says OpenText. New major version includes a number of developments, including optional integration with OpenText ECM Suite 2010 for integrated management of records and standards of office-work, a chat and also important additions to the wiki-editor and other improvements.

"In the organizations which are engaged in target business, commands are not limited to geography, functions, hierarchy or a management structure. They form by collecting of the corresponding people in appropriate time for the corresponding reason. New ways of interaction and performance of work are necessary for such commands" — James Lethem, the marketing director of OpenText company said. Lethem also mentioned what support of Social Workplace he will give to the target organizations: "The new version of OpenText Social Workplace is suitable for maintenance of flexible model of interaction even more that will allow commands more quickly to work and consider experience of each person for achievement of goals of a command".

According to developers, the user interface of the Social Workplace application is developed from scratch for reflection of how people — starting with personalized a dashboard which increases performance want to work and provides easy access to a profile, the status and the blog by any participant. Communities of users integrate different commands on appropriate level of access. New opportunities of microblogs allow employees to monitor activity of all organization in real time. Now in microblogs function of a chat is also available to simplification of communication between members of different commands.

The Social Workplace application can use, for example, by connection of communities Social Workplace to OpenText ECM Suite 2010. It allows to archive automatically content accumulated during the project according to requirements of each specific enterprise and also to manage completely records and to control work of archive of the given enterprise at the minimum intervention of technicians, emphasized in OpenText.

In each community the Social Workplace application offers tool kit for creation of content by means of wiki, information channels and management of documents and also storages of images and videos. In the latest version of the program of wiki-function are improved by support of tables and a possibility of comparison of versions. Work with documents includes enhanced capabilities of commenting, editing and comparison.

As flexible access to content is necessary for modern personnel, access to Social Workplace can be provided via any browser, including from mobile devices. The built-in applications are also available to iPhone and BlackBerry with support of the new version of the program which allow users to be connected to Social Workplace where they were, to check the course of accomplishment of tasks, to browse parts of projects, to update the statuses and to find the necessary information, reported in OpenText.

The new version of OpenText Social Workplace 2.0 is available to downloading or in the form of a cloud solution. The Fast Start program offers fast and safe start of work with the application and includes the license to use of the complete version of Social Workplace within 60 days for 950 users. Besides, OpenText will organize the open community Social Workplace Sandbox allowing users to get acquainted with a product at any time.