SiteScape Announces Availability of Its ICEcore(TM) Integrated Collaboration Environment as an Open Source Project and an Enterprise Software Suite
The Industry's First Fully Integrated Open Source Collaboration Suite Unifies Team Workspaces, Real-Time Conferencing, and Social Networking Tools in a Single Web-Based Platform
MAYNARD, MA--(Marketwire - October 24, 2007) - SiteScape, Inc., a premier provider of
integrated, web-based team collaboration and real-time conferencing
solutions, today announced the immediate availability of its
next-generation ICEcore Open Source project, ICEcore Enterprise
collaboration software suite, and ICEing add-on modules.
Open Source and Enterprise Versions
ICEcore is the first Open Source project to fully integrate team workspaces
and real-time conferencing in a single, integrated collaboration
environment. It provides all the tools knowledge workers demand most --
blogs, wikis, discussion threads, workflow, document management, file
stores, RSS feeds and more -- in one place to help small teams, large
departments, or entire organizations achieve true collaboration and
transform enterprise social networking into a competitive advantage.
"By moving to Open Source for the foundation of our products, users will
reap the benefits of a dynamic developer community that's larger, more
diverse, and more creative than any single company," notes Andy Fox,
SiteScape Chief Technology Officer. "We expect to see product innovation --
both for our Open Source and proprietary Enterprise offerings -- at a rate
unprecedented among integrated collaboration vendors."
ICEcore, based on open software standards, leverages SiteScape's eight
years of enterprise collaboration experience, while addressing the latest
market demands. ICEcore's approach uses familiar social networking to
enable users to create a personal workspace that can be exposed to more
people over time, thereby providing a comfortable on-ramp to team
collaboration and encouraging high rates of user adoption. Users have the
flexibility to view and interact with information and content in new and
useful ways, such as viewing wikis as blogs to see a record of their
evolution. In addition, by taking advantage of ICEcore's "presence"
feature, team members can check if people are available, then meet on the
fly via phone or VoIP (Enterprise version only) or web to examine content,
discuss issues, and reach consensus. ICEcore is available for download free
of charge at www.icecore.org and through SourceForge.
ICEcore Enterprise is a seamless migration from the ICEcore Open Source
project. In addition to the Open Source advantages of lower acquisition
costs and speed of innovation, ICEcore Enterprise provides responsive
support from SiteScape's experienced team of technical experts, rigorously
tested reliability and scalability, and third-party software
indemnification. Visit www.icecore.com/enterprise_home.html to obtain a
free trial version of ICEcore Enterprise.
ICEcore's ICEing supplements the capabilities of ICEcore Enterprise with
add-on modules for advanced workflow and telephony support in addition to
standard VoIP.
Benefits to Real-World Users
In February 2007, Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) signed an OEM agreement to
distribute SiteScape's ICEcore collaboration software under the name Novell
Teaming + Conferencing to round out its offerings in the workgroup
productivity market. A number of organizations have been using beta
versions of Novell Teaming + Conferencing for several months and have
started realizing the benefits of a truly integrated collaboration
environment.
Chad Israel, technical account manager for the State of Louisiana, points
out that "Some of our people like wikis, some like blogs and others prefer
discussion forums. People who have been here a while are used to shared
file servers. The problem is that none of those address all the different
ways people need to work together. Actually, you need them all. Novell
Teaming + Conferencing gives us that in a single environment with a common
interface that keeps training costs low."
A Commitment-Free Way to Experience ICEcore
SiteScape built areas of the ICEcore web site (www.icecore.org) using a
streamlined configuration of the product -- optimized for first-time users
-- to give the development community a unique opportunity to collaborate
via ICEcore. As a result, anyone can visit or log into the web site and use
the ICEcore tools to work with a select group of peers or the entire
ICEcore Open Source community.
"In order to thoroughly evaluate and make a valid judgment about a
collaboration solution, prospects have traditionally had little choice but
to contrive a team and collaborative environment within their own
organization -- an undertaking they may not be ready for day one," said Tom
Witkin, vice president of marketing at SiteScape. "When you log into
www.icecore.org, however, you're presented with an actual instance of the
ICEcore product. You can use the integrated tools to actively collaborate
with peers -- creating and exposing a personal workspace, joining
discussion threads, reading blogs and wikis, and more -- to experience
firsthand the power of ICEcore collaboration with lots of knowledgeable
community members."
Pricing and Availability
ICEcore, the Open Source project, is available for free download under the
OSI-certified Common Public Attribution License (CPAL), an Open Source
Initiative (OSI) certified license that improves upon the widely accepted
Mozilla Public License (MPL) by addressing the distribution of software as
a service and its use over a network. For more information, please visit
www.icecore.org.
ICEcore Enterprise Team is available at a cost of US $55 per user license.
For more information, please visit www.icecore.com/enterprise_home.html.
ICEcore Enterprise Team + Conference is available at a cost of US $90 per
user license. For more information, please visit
http://www.icecore.com/enterprise_home.html.
ICEing -- Advanced Workflow and the Telephony Interface are sold as US $20
add-on modules. Additional flavors of ICEing will be available later in
2007. For more information please visit
http://www.icecore.com/enterprise_iceing.html.
ICEcore Team open source software is also available for download at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/icecore/.
About SiteScape
SiteScape, Inc. is committed to helping business, government and military
organizations discover the benefits of team collaboration. Our integrated,
web-based solutions -- from the widely installed SiteScape Forum®
products to our new ICEcore™ and ICEcore Enterprise collaboration suites
-- meet the communications and program management needs of even the largest
distributed teams. Combining highly configurable workspaces,
workflow-driven collaboration capabilities, real-time or asynchronous
communication, and the latest social networking tools, SiteScape solutions
bring together people and content in a single, easy-to-use environment that
drives increased efficiency, enhanced productivity, and more successful
project outcomes. Leading organizations such as Lockheed Martin, Shell
International, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the
European Space Agency, and Starwood Resorts and Hotels have chosen
SiteScape as their preferred collaboration solution. For more information
please visit www.sitescape.com.
SiteScape, SiteScape Forum and ICEcore are registered trademarks of
SiteScape, Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their
respective owners.
Contact Information: CONTACTS:
Tom Witkin
SiteScape, Inc.
Office Phone: 978-450-2237
Email: twitkin@sitescape.com
Victor Cruz
media PR.net
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