Clearspace Features
Features that make community members happy
Personalization
- Configurable, widgetized personal homepage
- Content filtering
- People filtering (new!)
- Rich profiles
- Rich-media plug-ins for YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and more
Locating Information
- Dynamic search across spaces, people, content, and attachments (new!)
- Interfaces with existing systems ERP & CRM systems
- Realtime notification tools, including system-wide and local announcements
- Widgets for popular and related content
Documents
- Co-created, wiki documents
- Robust version control tools and change history
- Intuitive user comment and rating system
- Upload Word docs, PDFs, and more
Blogs
- Individual and group blogs
- Control the exact publishing date/time
- Post using multiple types of blog authoring tools
- RSS feeds for all blogs (in addition to all content types)
Discussions
- Mark threads as questions or general discussions
- Notification system for unanswered questions
- Answers can be rated
- Conversations can be threaded or flat
- One click to convert to a PDF or wiki document
Projects
- Shared task creation and management
- Customizable dashboard
- Empower your teams to self-organize
- Integration with enterprise project management tools
People/Profile
- Rich profiles include accomplishments and expertise
- Dynamically created organizational charts
- Status updates (new!)
- Build reputation by creating content
Groups (new!)
- Build dynamic groups around user-defined areas of focus
- Different levels of privacy and membership permissions
- Empower end users to self-organize
Connections (new!)
- Create personal networks of fellow employees
- Follow co-workers and create feeds of their activities
- Create multiple networks based on interests / relationships
- Label connections based on relationship type for easier organization
- Send email notifications to your filtered lists of connections
Conversation Everywhere (new!)
- Create new content of all types by email
- Receive instant updates via e-mail, RSS, dashboards, and more
- Embed dynamic discussions in other web pages and applications
- Leverage work within existing systems (like SharePoint)
These features are all part of an intuitive UI and unified platform built from the ground up to provide a consistent user experience across all content. Users can create and edit content just like they would in common word processing applications and attach virtually any type of file (MS Office, video, images, etc.) within any discussion, document, or blog. Also, if administrators allow, users can grant access to content to someone outside of the community with just one click.
Features that make administrators happy
- Ease-of-use - familiar enterprise authoring experience for end users (new!)
- Windows installer (optional)
- Wizard-based setup
- Web-based administration console
- Multiple database options
- Role-based administration
- Role-based access control
- Advanced moderation
- Rich theming system (new!)
- 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
- Modify language / nomenclature for content types (new!)
- Plugin architecture
- Source code available
- Easily migrate your existing data into Clearspace from Jive Forums or Integrated Server
- Offered as either a licensed/self-hosted model or a hosted (SaaS) model
Resources
Business Benefits
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