August 2006 | Traction TeamPage named a KMWorld Trend-Setting Product of 2006
KMWorld magazine recognized Traction TeamPage as a "robust enterprise blog
platform" in their Trend-Setting Products of 2006 review. Having
received this award for the third consecutive year confirms Traction
Software's continued innovation and leadership in the blog and wiki
market. » Read More
Jordan Frank leads IQPC Intranet Week Workshop
Jordan
ran a workshop at the International Quality & Productivity Center's
Intranet Week conference on July 24, 2006. The workshop, titled "Incorporating a Wiki and/or Weblog into Your Intranet,"
covered key value points for blogs and wikis on the internet, how the
use of blogs and wikis in the enterprise differs from typical internet
examples, 4 enterprise and government case studies, key factors for
deployment and best practices. We also ran an interactive workshop
where we broke up into teams and built up a Traction based intranet.
Greg Lloyd and Jordan Frank Join Collaboration Panels at CTC 2006
Greg and Jordan joined an incredible roster of speakers at the CTC 2006 conference this month. Greg Lloyd was on the Alternative Enterprise Collaboration Options panel on Tuesday. Click here for Greg's panel presentation. Jordan Frank was on the Collaborative Workspaces: Key Trends panel on Wednesday. Click here for all the presentations from Jordan's panel. Watch our blog page for reflections on the conference and dialogue that followed.
FAST and Traction partner to deliver answers in context
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) is a leader in high performance, scaleable content search and navigation (see FAST's position in Gartner's Magic Quadrant Report for Information Access Technology). Traction Software Inc and FAST are pleased to announce an agreement to offer a new FAST powered module to Traction TeamPage customers. The optional module extends Traction's standard search capability by adding permission-filtered search across over 370 formats of documents attached to TeamPage blog posts (or stored in TeamPage's built-in web folders). Just as significantly, the new module will offer navigation by topic and entity (company name, person, location, date) automatically extracted from blog post and document content based on FAST's deep analysis. This partnership will enable permission filtered content search and navigation across federated Traction TeamPage and other FAST indexed content stores, delivering analysis and answers in context to enterprises or networks of any size. » Read the Press Release
Jordan Frank Talks on Blogs and Wikis at Burton Group Catalyst Conference
I spoke yesterday, June 14, at Burton Group's Catalyst customer confence. The topic, Blogs and Wikis: Enterprise Examples, Real Results, was included in the Collaboration and Content track which is part of their newly announced practice in this domain. I started by defining the blog and wiki terms and then reviewed 5 Traction customer case study examples and a discussion of the qualitative and quantitative outcomes. The examples included non-profit, defense, pharmaceutical and finance organizations.
Traction announces x64 Sun Fire Support, Joins Sun at AIIM
Traction Software joins Sun in their AIIM Partner Pavilion today to preview Traction Release 3.7 and announce support for the Sun Fire x64 server platform in addition to already supported SPARC platforms. Stephen Borcich, vice president of Partner Marketing at Sun Microsystems said “There is an increasing demand for flexible, out-of-the-box and open-standard hardware and software solutions. Together with Traction Software, a leader in the quickly emerging enterprise blog and wiki market, we are enabling solutions that support this vision for customers." » Read the full release: Traction TeamPage Enterprise Blog Software to support the Solaris 10 Operating System Across Entire Sun Fire Servers Family
QL2 and Traction - Drawing actionable intelligence from the deep web
Traction Software is happy to announce a partnership with QL2 Software. This comes after 9 months of working together and our first production deployment at a big pharma company last fall. QL2 and Traction bring intelligence from the deep web into Traction's Enterprise Blog where it can be analyzed, annotated and quickly brought to the attention of blog readers. Pharma users can track clinical trials, adverse events and DNA sequencing submissions. Every business can become better at competitive intelligence and quickly respond to events reported anywhere on the web. Combining QL2's WebQL and Traction's TeamPage supports better, faster, more market aware decision making. » Read the Full Release
April 2006 | Red Herring Short Lists Traction Again
Red Herring short listed Traction® Software as one of 200 of the most innovative technology firms in North America. Criteria include financial performance, technology innovation, execution on strategy, management quality, and integration into their ecosystem. This assessment allows Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the
list an invaluable instrument for discovering and advocating the
greatest business opportunities in the industry. Red Herring's Spring 2006 event is themed The Pursuit of Disruption. Traction was selected to the Red Herring 100 for 2004 and we're pleased to be recognized as a leader this year by Red Herring and others including eContent and KM World. » Read Red Herring's Full Release. » link 'Read Traction Software's Full Release' public641
SITA Gets Traction with Enterprise Blog Software
SITA, the world's leading service provider of IT business solutions and communications services to the air transport community, deployed Traction® TeamPage for Sales Operations, Marketing, Training & Development, Communications, and other functions, enabling users to better categorize and filter content. Departments in Geneva, London, Rome, Montreal, Beirut, Paris, Singapore, Rio, Mumbai, are actively using it to centralize documents, share ideas, collaborate on projects and exchange feedback.
March 2006 | Traction Named to “100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management” By KMWORLD Magazine for Second Year
Hugh McKellar, KMWorld's Editor-in-Chief said "Traction® Software is included again this year because of its continued work to bring knowledge management innovation and collaboration to companies throughout the world and in a variety of industries. They continue to take an innovative lead with enterprise blog technology that fits the needs of knowledge workers and will form an essential part of the enterprise intranet." » Read KMWorld 100 Companies Page » Read Greg Lloyd's View from the Top in KMWorld » Read Full Press Release
7 February 2006 | Traction Software Expands European Distribution and Support
Adhena, VAR in Switzerland, is serving Switzerland, Austria, Germany and France. e-mediate, a VAR in the Netherlands, is serving the Benelux region. Both resellers are prepared to sell and support Traction TeamPage in their respective markets. Adhena and e-medate are focused on bringing the latest and best enterprise content management solutions to their customers in a variety of industries. » Read More
26 January 2006 | Untying the Distribution Challenge
Building a Blog Driven Market Monitoring and Strategic Early Warning System. Jordan Frank delivered a session covering challenges faced by CI units, the importance and method for defining Key Information Topics, how to use internet blogs to trend-watch, and best practices for deploying enterprise blogs to support the intelligence cycle.
23 January 2006 | Early Warning Workshop
Arik Johnson and Jordan Frank led attendees through early warning methods and a hands-on mini wargame using Traction TeamPage. The hands-on portion involved three independent "companies" as they worked their way through objective definition and competitive response development in a constantly changing competitive environment.
14 December 2005 | Traction Customer IJIS Named one of Business Week's WebSmart 50
The deployment of Traction® TeamPage by IJIS, a membership organization representing information technology companies with the mission of improving information sharing in the Justice community, was recgonized as one of the 50 innovative uses of internet technology in business. Traction was deployed for the IJIS website, partner extranet and staff intranet. Paul Wormelli, Executive Director, said ". "Traction’s solution enabled us to meet all of our collaboration requirements by providing an easy, faster way to notify members, access information and save time working together." » Full Release
29 November 2005 | Gilbane Content Management Conference
Traction customer Ernest Kayinamura of Enel North America (Enel, based out of Italy, is a Global 100 firm and one of the worlds largest integrated energy companies) presented his case study in the Blogs & Wiki's @ Work session. Traction Software's Enterprise Blog software was featured in the Sun Microsystem's Partner Pavillion. » Full Release
17 November 2005 | KMWorld & Intranets 2005
Mike Alsup led a panel on the Future of Content Management. He was joined by Jordan Frank, Todd Price, William Rogers and Mark Seamans as the panel looked out to the future and provide a vision for how their Enterprise Blog, Content Management, and Search technologies are and will be used.
7 November 2005 | CBI Decision Support & Analysis Summit
The 2nd Annual Decision Support and Analysis Summit focused on Product Positioning Strategies, Competitive Intelligence Techniques and the Latest Pharmaceutical Industry Insights for Strategic Decision-Making. Jordan Frank of Traction Software and Arik Johnson of AuroraWDC delivered their popular workshop: Building a Strategic Early Warning System — A Collaborative Model for Sustainable Visibility and Intelligence Alerting
26 October 2005 | Project Summit
Jordan Frank lead the Managing Programs, Projects and Products using Enterprise Blogs workshop at the New England Project Summit
27 September 2005 | InfoX Connect & Collaborate Conference
Jordan Frank of Traction Software and Dr. Peter Gloor of iQuest Analytics lead the Collaboration Tools Clinic at Information Today's InfoX conference.
20 August 2005 | Traction TeamPage named KMWorld "Trend Setting Product of the Year"
Traction Software receives KMWorld's award for second year in a row. KMWorld says TeamPage is "a robust blogging software that encompasses collaboration, document management and KM."
20 June 2005 | Supernova | Why Can't a Business Work More Like the Web?
Greg Lloyd from Traction Software joins the Connected Work session at SuperNova 2005. Hear and read notes from the workshop at ITConversations and Suw Charman's Strange Attractor blog.
2 June 2005 | e-Gov Web Enabled Government: Weblog, Portal and Wiki Panel
Greg Lloyd to speak on a panel led by Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The subject of the panel is The Evolution of Portals, Wikis, and the Blogosphere. The panel will discuss the impact of weblogs and wiki's on the way organizations share information, how weblogs and wiki's improve online collaboration, and the implications for portals.
17-19 May 2005 | AIIM On Demand Conference and Exposition
Come see Traction Software and Newsgator Technologies at booths 3612 to 3614. » More About the AIIM Conference
17 May 2005 | Traction Software Announces TeamPage as ECM Alternative, Announces Traction Release 3.6 and new TeamPage Feed Reader product
Traction Introduces TeamPage as Disruptive Alternative to Electronic Content Management Software and Announces Release 3.6 and new Traction TeamPage Feed Reader. Traction Software attends AIIM to bring Enterprise Weblogs to the ECM marketplace, demonstrates new content publishing from RSS/ATOM, camera phones, and zero footprint rich text editor as well as enhanced security, authentication, and permission controls.
6 April 2005 | Early Warning Workshop
Led by Arik Johnson and Jordan Frank, this workshop led attendees through early warning methods and a hands-on mini wargame using Traction TeamPage. The hands-on portion involved three independent "companies" as they worked their way through objective definition and competitive response development in a constantly changing competitive environment.
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