Siena Hill and GroupWorX Announce Product Development Partnership.DANVILLE Danville. 1 City (1990 pop. 33,828), seat of Vermilion co., E Ill., on the Vermilion River at the Ind. line; inc. 1839. It is a commercial and industrial center in a dairy, farm, and coal area. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 1996--Siena Hill, a 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. + Professional Developer and Premium Business Partner, and GroupWorx, Knowledge Architecture consultants and Lotus Business Partner, today announced an agreement to jointly develop a version of Siena Hill's Piazza piazza Open square or marketplace, surrounded by buildings, in an Italian town or city. It was equivalent to the plaza of Spanish-speaking countries. The term became more widely used in the 16th–18th century, denoting any large open space with buildings around it. product tailored for knowledge management within organizations. Piazza is a Lotus Notes product for automating all types of business processes. The core Piazza product is customized to accommodate each customer's specific business process by Rapid Morphing the application. "The Piazza product is designed to knit an organization's strategic and tactical business processes into one compelling application", said Hildy DeFrisco, Siena Hill's President. "Once GroupWorX helps an organization define its knowledge architecture and supporting management process, Piazza provides a technology bridge from conceptual design to a working tool. The combined skills of Siena Hill and GroupWorX provide our clients with a complete knowledge management solution." "We are excited by the opportunity to combine GroupWorX skills in strategic analysis and business driven knowledge management process design with Siena Hill's ability to translate business issues into technology solutions", said Ellen Hongo, GroupWorX Co-Founder. "We see the client's issues from complementary angles with enough overlap o·ver·lap n. 1. A part or portion of a structure that extends or projects over another. 2. The suturing of one layer of tissue above or under another layer to provide additional strength, often used in dental surgery. v. that we can understand one another, and collaborate with our two very different sets of skills to solve the client's problem. We share an exciting and fun vision of the future." Piazza as a framework provides: A Knowledge Base of accumulated ac·cu·mu·late v. ac·cu·mu·lat·ed, ac·cu·mu·lat·ing, ac·cu·mu·lates v.tr. To gather or pile up; amass. See Synonyms at gather. v.intr. To mount up; increase. corporate experience - Template (1) A pre-designed document or data file formatted for common purposes such as a fax, invoice or business letter. If the document contains an automated process, such as a word processing macro or spreadsheet formula, then the programming is already written and embedded in the Documents - How To guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. - Roles and responsibilities Work Process management - Task assignment and tracking - Meeting Management and history - Status reporting - Issue discussion and resolution Outcome Analysis - Customer Feedback - Lessons Learned - Process improvements - Project archives The Knowledge Base is where corporate experience from all the past projects is stored. This information can be referenced and used throughout the corporation to help create a true "Learning Organization". For each ongoing project, Piazza manages the work process including scheduling team meetings, providing a forum for discussing and resolving issues, issuing and monitoring project tasks, and creating and storing project documents. From the work process database, lessons learned by the project team are collected and analyzed an·a·lyze tr.v. an·a·lyzed, an·a·lyz·ing, an·a·lyz·es 1. To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations. 2. Chemistry To make a chemical analysis of. 3. . Relevant experiences and lessons are then fed back into the corporate Knowledge Base, continuing the learning cycle. Current Piazza customers include Fortune 500 companies in industries such as entertainment, electronics, software licensing and process consulting. Further information can be obtained by contacting Siena Hill directly. GroupWorX helps businesses learn to manage their unique and growing funds of knowledge - today's essential platform for competitiveness. We are a steadily growing team of highly experienced knowledge management professionals who combine a unique set of skills and focus only on the benefits and problems of implementing knowledge management systems and processes in real businesses for real competitive advantage. Siena Hill, a Lotus Premium Business Partner, is a leading provider of Workgroup Computing computing - computer and Business Process Automation solutions. We bring a true world understanding of business processes and extensive technical expertise to address the business needs of our customers. Notes based products include Project and Process Management and Sales Force Automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists. . All products are available for Notes V3 and V4 on Windows, Windows 95, Mac OS, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and OS/2. -0- Note to Editors: Piazza is a trademark of Siena Hill Inc. Lotus and Lotus Notes are registered trademarks and Notes is a trademark of Lotus Development Corp. CONTACT: Siena Hill Mike Vargas, 415/673-2039 mike@sienahill.com or GroupWorx Gordon Stone, 800/234-7889 gstone@groupworx.com |
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