Corechange Forms Alliance with Groove Networks To Enhance Collaboration Capabilities of Its Portal Software.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2002 Joint Solution Improves Customers' Ability to Innovate, Solve Problems and Work Together in Real-time Corechange, Inc., a global provider of enterprise portal See corporate portal. framework software, today announced an alliance with Groove Networks Groove Networks is a software company based in Beverly, Massachusetts. Founded by Ray Ozzie, the creator of IBM's Lotus Notes application, the privately held company specializes in productivity software that allows multiple users to work collaboratively on computer files Inc., the leading provider of decentralized de·cen·tral·ize v. de·cen·tral·ized, de·cen·tral·iz·ing, de·cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To distribute the administrative functions or powers of (a central authority) among several local authorities. software for secure business collaboration. As a result of this partnership, Corechange customers will benefit from a portal's ability to foster highly interactive real-time and offline communication and collaboration within work groups, project teams and communities. "Increasingly, companies are realizing the advantage of offering collaborative tools through a portal - both for the benefit of employees, but also for external users, such as customers and suppliers," said Matt Cain Matthew Thomas Cain (born October 1 1984 in Dothan, Alabama) is a starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. He is ft in ( m) tall and weighs lb ( kg). , senior vice president, Web and Collaboration Strategies at META Group. "The portal understands the identity and group memberships of a user and can offer context - in the form of documents, web content and reports - making the experience of team membership tangible and accessible." The alliance between Corechange and Groove Networks includes integration between their products. Now, users of Corechange's enterprise portal framework software, Coreport, can view, manage and access Groove software's collaborative shared spaces from within their portal. At the same time, Corechange's unique role-based access mechanism, built on Microsoft's Active Directory, allows Groove users to target specific roles, groups and communities for participation in a Groove shared space. The product integration creates a unique center-edge approach, with the portal and its enterprise assets serving as the central delivery point for content and documents, while Groove software facilitates small team interaction around the content, documents and applications presented in the portal. "Our alliance with Corechange is further evidence that the market requires new ways to interact across departments and organizations from an enterprise portal," said Deb Bannon, director of business development, Groove Networks. "While portals can target information, content and applications to users, the integration with Groove extends the capability and value of portals by fostering interaction and decision-making around the information available to users." Groove software plays a significant role in Corechange's Multi-mode Collaboration Services, announced today (see related release: "Corechange Introduces New Multi-mode Collaboration Services for Coreport Enterprise Portal Framework," June 24, 2002). "Our aim in creating this alliance with Groove Networks is to give our customers the ability to engage in highly interactive, intensive work among peers," said Charles Kane, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Corechange. "The Groove mode of collaboration can take the form of a team editing a document in real-time, reviewing contracts together, or sharing knowledge about product innovation or a customer problem. We believe that the Groove product is unique in the industry and will help our customers accelerate decision-making and get products and services to market more quickly." Corechange's Connectors for Groove are available now. About Groove Networks Founded in October 1997 and headquartered in Beverly, Mass., Groove Networks Inc. provides software and services that enable organizations to increase their return on connection by extending critical business processes, projects, and meetings across time, space, and organizational boundaries. For more information about Groove Networks, visit http://www.groove.net. About Corechange Corechange, Inc. delivers infrastructure software to develop, deploy and manage enterprise portals on a global scale. The company's Coreport product provides a "no-compromise" approach to integrating existing documents, content, applications, components, and services to deliver a best-of-breed portal solution. Coreport, the secure, scalable Microsoft-powered enterprise portal framework, provides a rich, highly personalized, role-based user experience. Corechange has a worldwide customer base, including American Electric Power American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) is a major investor-owner electric utility in various parts of the United States. It is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. It serves parts of 11 states, and is currently the largest electricity generating utility in the United States. 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The company's strategic partners include Microsoft, Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony , GE Medical Systems Information Technologies, and Aether Systems. Corechange is headquartered in Boston, with offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. |
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