Feature List

Features that make community members happy

Personalization

  • Configurable views
  • Content filtering
  • Rich profiles
  • Rich-media plug-ins for YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and more

Locating Information

  • Powerful search cuts across all communities and people
  • Interfaces with existing systems ERP & CRM systems
  • Realtime notification tools

Documents

  • Co-created, living documents
  • Strong version history tools
  • Intuitive user comment and rating
  • Upload Word doc's, PDFs and more

Blogs

  • Individual and group blogs
  • Control the exact publishing date/time
  • Post using multiple types of blog authoring tools

Discussions

  • Ability to mark comment as a question
  • Answers can be rated
  • One click to convert to a document

Projects

  • Shared task creation and management
  • Customizable dashboard
  • Empower your teams to self-organize

These features are all part of a intuitive UI and unified platform built from the ground up to provide a consistent experience across all content. Users can choose from a rich or plain text editor and attach virtually any type of file (MSOffice, video, images, etc.) within any discussion, document, or blog. Also, if administrators allow, users can grant access of content to someone outside of the community with just one click.

Features that make administrators happy

  • Standard J2EE web application
  • Windows installer (optional)
  • Wizard-based setup
  • Web-based administration console
  • Multiple database options
  • Role-based administration
  • Role-based access control
  • Reporting
  • Clustering
  • Built with Open Standards (J2EE)
  • Pluggable user, group and authentication systems
  • LDAP and Active Directory integration (optional)
  • Open schema available for several SQL databases
  • Plugin architecture
  • Source code available
  • Rich theming system
  • Easily migrate your existing data into Clearspace from Jive Forums or Integrated Server (New)
  • Offered as either a licensed/self-hosted model or a hosted (SaaS) model

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