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MindTouch Partners With Dachis Group to Release New Social Intranet Suite

Simon Mackie — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:00:44 +0000

MindTouch, a provider of open-source enterprise collaboration and intranet tools, has teamed up with Dachis Group, a social business consultancy, to release a new product, the bit-of-a-mouthful MindTouch Social Intranet, with Workforce by Dachis Group. It’s an app that builds on MindTouch’s existing intranet software with a suite of custom collaboration applications, including a Yammer-like enterprise microblogging tool, a project management app, and a custom issue-tracking app.

The Workforce by Dachis Group Application Suite includes:

Workforce Projects. A project management application that enables user to manage and and track status, timelines and related documents.
Workforce Issue Management An issue management application that’s useful for a help desk or support staff. It can manage help desk tickets, issue tracking and feature requests.
Workforce Comments An enterprise microblogging tool. With Workforce Comments users can start a conversation, follow a particular project or issue and collaborate in real time with team members.

Interestingly, these add-on tools were originally developed by Dachis Group to use internally, who then worked with MindTouch to bring them to market so that other businesses could use them. With many products now open source, and many applications now being extensible through the use of open APIs, we may see more organic partnerships happening like this in the future.

MindTouch Social Intranet, with Workforce by Dachis Group is available today.

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MindTouch's Open-source Collaboration Platform Sits on the Cloud

Sebastian Rupley — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:26:26 +0000

MindTouch, an open-source provider of enterprise collaboration software, announced today that its platform is now available in the cloud. You can find a video on how the platform, dubbed MindTouch Cloud, creates “a federated collaboration network” here. MindTouch competes with Microsoft’s SharePoint, but can eliminate many of the inflexibilities of proprietary collaboration software, and MindTouch Cloud’s prices are being kept low. A 10-user group can use it for $10 per month per user, 30 users can for $8 a month per user, and 50 users can for $7 a month per user, with lower costs for larger businesses.

MindTouch Cloud incorporates desktop productivity tools, database adapters and more, as OStatic notes. “What sets it apart from other collaboration systems is the ability to use other popular enterprise systems atop this platform,” OStatic says. Web applications, ERP frameworks, Salesforce.com usage and so on can be integrated with MindTouch. Intel, Cisco, Mozilla and many other companies use MindTouch’s platform.

This has been a busy week for hosted collaboration tools, with Salesforce announcing its Chatter collaboration solution yesterday. You can read more about MindTouch Cloud here, and the company’s CEO, Aaron Fulkerson, did a guest column for OStatic on the future of collaborative networks here.

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Social Media in the Enterprise

Tue, 12 May 2009 17:30:55 +0000

The enterprise social software market is emerging as one of the fastest growing areas of enterprise applications. As a young market it is full of small and dynamic players but existing enterprise vendors in the content management, communications, and CRM markets are taking notice. Social software is poised to not only disrupt existing enterprise application markets but also organizations and markets by flattening information flows.

As users shift to new modes of communicating on the open web, they are pulling these new models into the enterprise and ushering in cultural and organizational change. This report covers the underlying technological trends, the market and its drivers, and a competitive overview of the vendors.

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