Collabra Software announces major new release of Collabra Share; breaks new ground in group conferencing.PALM SPRINGS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 1995--Collabra Software Inc. announced Monday at Demo '95 a major new release of the company's industry-leading Collabra Share(TM) information sharing See data conferencing. and group conferencing software. Collabra Share allows companies to leverage their existing e-mail infrastructures to make teams more effective, collaboration more affordable and organizational learning Organizational learning is an area of knowledge within organizational theory that studies models and theories about the way an organization learns and adapts. In Organizational development (OD), learning is a characteristic of an adaptive organization, i.e. automatic. Today's announcement of Collabra Share 2.0 extends the product's recognized leadership by providing customers with breakthrough tools to manage information overload A symptom of the high-tech age, which is too much information for one human being to absorb in an expanding world of people and technology. It comes from all sources including TV, newspapers, magazines as well as wanted and unwanted regular mail, e-mail and faxes. , a new client/server architecture An environment in which the application processing is divided between client workstations and servers. It implies the use of desktop computers interacting with servers in a network in contrast to processing everything in a large centralized mainframe. See client/server. , support for remote users, plug and play e-mail integration and even lower total cost of ownership, all with an even easier user interface than its award-winning predecessor. The company also announced today new Information Agents that provide users with easy and secure access to Internet Newsgroups This is a list of newsgroups that are significant for their popularity or their position in Usenet history. As of October 2002, there are about 100,000 Usenet newsgroups, of which approximately a fifth are active. and Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. . "With Collabra Share 2.0, we have dramatically extended the product's collaborative features with exciting new tools to gather, manage and act on group information," said Eric Hahn Eric Hahn is an American entrepreneur who founded an early e-mail-based groupware company called Collabra Software in 1992. Netscape acquired Collabra in 1995, and in 1997 Hahn became Netscape's CTO. , president and chief executive officer of Collabra Software. "At the same time we've made the product even easier to use and have developed new ways to reduce Collabra Share's already low cost of ownership. Best of all, we've accomplished this by building on the customers' existing e-mail investments." "Today's knowledge worker is faced with an enormous task of dealing with information -- from managing the volume, frequency and content of information from disparate sources to then communicating, acting on and sharing this information with other team members across the enterprise," said Kevin Hall, enterprise messaging manager at Wells Fargo Wells Fargo armored carriers of bullion. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1147] See : Protectiveness Wells Fargo company that handled express service to western states; often robbed. [Am. Hist. Bank. "Collabra Share is unique in that it helps users organize and act on this wealth of information, not just provide access to it -- all over the existing messaging infrastructure." Winning the Battle of Information Overload Collabra Share 2.0 adds a rich new suite of tools to more productively manage and access a wide variety of information sources. Collabra Share's new InfoNavigator helps users work with large volumes of information quickly. Bookmarks, QuickLinks and QuickViews allow users to organize information in new ways, and easily create hypertext documents at their desktop. Read Later and Ignore are also new features with Collabra Share 2.0. They allow users to work with information at a time of their choosing: now, later or never. Collabra Share 2.0 also helps teams make and communicate key decisions more easily with a new Thread Summary. Also new in Collabra Share 2.0 are the abilities to post contributions anonymously and to establish moderated discussions. These new features extend the usefulness of Collabra Share in Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. and other applications that work with sensitive information. "Information at your fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. and ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode. workgroups have underscored the need for better tools to integrate, organize, share, and act on the huge amounts of information that are available internally and externally," said Dan Cullan, manager of information systems at Varitronics. "Collabra Share is at the forefront of information sharing applications that help today's knowledge workers become more productive." First Collaborative Computing Offering to Provide Workgroup and Enterprise Scalability Collabra Share 2.0 is the first collaborative computing product to offer true enterprise scalability, allowing customers to choose the right architecture for their needs. Collabra Share 2.0 is available in both file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. and client/server editions. The new client/server edition, which runs on Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. servers, is ideal for wide-area enterprise deployments, for those customers requiring remote access, and for customers who have existing investments in Windows NT-based servers. The file sharing version of Collabra Share is ideal for those customers without NT servers and for individual workgroups or branch offices. Remote Access The new Collabra Share 2.0 Client/Server Edition can be configured to serve dial-in laptop users or users at remote sites using any of the popular protocols including IPX (Internetwork Packet EXchange) The network layer protocol in the NetWare operating system. Similar to the IP layer in TCP/IP, it contains a network address and allows messages to be routed to a different network or subnet. , TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. , NetBeui or others. Collabra Share 2.0 is the ideal tool for mobile workers who need to stay in touch with their co-workers and their projects, even when they are on the road. Plug and Play E-Mail Integration Collabra Share is unique in its support for heterogeneous e-mail environments, allowing the more than 50 million e-mail users to easily reap the benefits of collaborative computing. Collabra Share 2.0 further extends the integration with e-mail to include Mail directory integration and a single e-mail log-in. In Collabra Share 2.0, Mail Shortcuts See Win Shortcuts. , Mail Hooks and Notification make it quick and easy for users to move information from interpersonal messages to group discussions and to use e-mail messages to link users into discussion documents. For administrators, there is direct access to e-mail directories for membership, administration and authentication. Collabra Share 2.0 is also tightly integrated with the in-box functions of Microsoft Mail An earlier and simple messaging system from Microsoft that runs on PC and AppleTalk networks. Gateways are available to a variety of mail systems including X.400, PROFS and MHS. Microsoft Mail-enabled applications are written to the MAPI programming interface. See Microsoft Exchange. and Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. to provide a unified user interface for all communication. Lowest Total Cost of Ownership By using a company's existing e-mail system rather than requiring an additional infrastructure, Collabra Share minimizes the total cost of ownership. Collabra Share 2.0 further lowers the operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales for group collaboration See collaborative software. and also eases the administrative burden of managing a forum by providing central administration from any desktop. Administrative functions such as starting and stopping replication, adding or removing users or obtaining new usage reports can be performed by any authorized user authorized user Radiation physics A person who, having satisfied the applicable training and experience requirements, is granted authority to order radioactive material and accepts responsibility for its safe receipt, storage, use, transfer and disposal without leaving the Collabra Share application. Many new automatically managed policies have been added to Collabra Share's unique Policy Based Administration. New Capabilities also assist users in the setup of Collabra Share's Information Agents. Unparalleled Ease of Use As with Collabra Share 1.0, Collabra Share 2.0 continues to set the standard for ease of use. The result of extensive customer testing, more than 20 new usability features are found in Collabra Share 2.0, such as new Tool Bars with simple and advanced modes, enhanced "3D" visuals, a new set of icons and a smart composition window. Users can also choose from among a variety of editing, sorting, mailing, printing and document notification tools that further extend the usability of Collabra Share 2.0. New Internet and Lotus Notes Information Agents The new Internet Newsgroup newsgroup Internet forum for discussion of specific subjects. Newsgroups are organized into subjects (e.g., automobiles); each typically has several subgroups (e.g., classic cars, Formula One racing cars). Agent turns Collabra Share 2.0 into the ideal tool for tapping into and managing the vast resources available on the Internet, while continuing to provide unmatched levels of security, administrative control and robustness required by corporate users. Using Collabra Share's powerful navigation, management and full-text search tools, the new Internet Newsgroup Agent provides easy access to the more than 6,000 Internet Newsgroups. Also new in Collabra Share 2.0 is the ability to utilize Collabra Share's unique message-based replication services over the Internet, allowing customers to easily create "virtual corporations." Collabra Share 2.0's new Agent for Lotus Notes provides access to Notes databases, allowing companies to easily leverage Share's advanced information sharing and group conferencing features with existing Notes databases. Pricing and Availability Collabra Share 2.0 for Windows-based systems will begin shipping during the second quarter. Pricing for the file sharing version remains at $69.95 per user for a 100-user license. Pricing for the client/server edition is $99.95 per user for a 100-user license. Pricing for the Collabra Share Server for NT is $995. Agents are priced per 100 users as follows: Collabra Share Internet Newsgroup Agent: $995, Collabra Share Mail Agent: $995, Collabra Share Replicator See port replicator. replicator - Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or Agent: $495, Collabra Share Agent for Lotus Notes: $1,995. Volume pricing is also available. Customers of Collabra Share can upgrade to the file sharing version of Collabra Share 2.0 for $30 per user and to the client/server version for $50 per user. The product will be available directly from Collabra Software and through Collabra Certified Resellers. About Collabra Share Collabra Share is th first collaborative computing product to make teams more effective, collaboration more affordable, and organizational learning automatic. Collabra Share accomplishes this by building on a company's existing e-mail system. Collabra Share allows workgroups to easily integrate, organize and discuss group information through forums, or electronic discussions, which enable workgroups to view information, respond to the contributions of others and locate information quickly. Since its debut in March last year, Collabra Share has quickly moved to the forefront of group conferencing applications by sweeping every major award made, including: PC Magazine "Editor's Choice;" PC Week "Analyst Choice;" and Byte Magazine "Award of Distinction," among others. About Collabra Software Inc. Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., Collabra Software develops and markets collaborative computing applications to increase workgroup productivity and improve communication within and between organizations. Collabra Software was cited by Fortune Magazine for its revolutionary approach to solving the information sharing need of groups within organizations. Collabra has strategic partnerships with Novell, Banyan Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., RSA (1) (Rural Service Area) See MSA. (2) (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) A highly secure cryptography method by RSA Security, Inc., Bedford, MA (www.rsa.com), a division of EMC Corporation since 2006. It uses a two-part key. and Verity. For more information or to purchase Collabra Share, customers and resellers can contact Collabra Software by phone at 800/474-7427, fax at 415/940-6440 or e-mail at info@collabra.com. -0- Note to Editors: Collabra Software is at Demo '95, Booth No. B17. CONTACT: Collabra Software Inc., Mountain View David Jones, 415/254-4403 E-Mail: djones@collabra.com Stirling & Cohan Inc., San Mateo JoAnn Johnston, 415/513-0978 E-Mail: stirling@applelink.apple.com |
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