Market Study


                                                                                              

This study includes resources with summary descriptions from competitive markets researched during the build-out of Everyday Projects phase one design.

Findings

Findings reveal a significant software design trend towards integrating team collaboration capabilities to include; instant messaging, text, photo, and video file sharing, notification services, poll taking, voice activation, status report generation, and personal and business user-process definition within emerging digital software solutions. These findings illustrate a specific trend toward integrating e-communications strategies and technologies within traditional and emerging business processes in an effort to reach out and engage users by designing interactive features supported by the Internet, digital television, and portable e-communications devices such as cell phones and PDAs. 

 

Findings do not show communications aspects at the center of the majority of project management and project tracking design strategies. Most communications aspects are peripheral to core functionality are included as features or plug-in tools within complex software solutions. In addition, few products in this study featured Internet and desktop-synchronized personalized views, and there were no comprehensive project-tracking solutions identified that serviced the at-home consumer market.

 

The following list was complied during research performed during the Spring of 2003. This list is comprehensive and not inclusive of all market research performed:

 

Resource

Summary

Online and Desktop Collaboration Solutions

Documentum eRoom

www.documentum.com

Documentum eRoom is the first name in extended enterprise collaboration. eRoom can be combined with Documentum’s enterprise content management solutions, or eRoom can be deployed as a traditional digital workplace solution.

Groove

www.groove.net

Groove Networks, Inc. provides desktop collaboration software that accelerates business activity both within and across company boundaries by providing a 10X improvement over email alone for getting work done.

WebEx

www.webex.com

WebEx powers online meetings and web conferencing services for today's enterprise. With WebEx MediaTone™ meeting and conferencing services, you can add compelling rich media, including application and data sharing, live video conferencing, and integrated teleconferencing to business communications.

Community Zero

www.communityzero.com

CommunityZero™ is an interactive website that allows a group of people to communicate and exchange information over the Internet in their own private and secure area. Within each area, called an online community, participants are provided access to a suite of powerful tools that enable a group to effectively get organized, share knowledge and communicate.

Mindjet

www.mindjet.com

The most comprehensive edition increases productivity for business professionals during brainstorming, planning and meeting management. This edition features customizable wizards and templates and unique collaborative features that save time and money. Integrates with Microsoft Project and Microsoft Office Suite.

Microsoft’s 3°

www.threedegrees.com

3° connects people into a small group so you can do fun things together, including chat, and sharing music and animations.

Click2Learn

http://home.click2learn.com

Click2Learn’s enterprise software and value added services combine to provide the most comprehensive learning solution offered in the industry today, to help organizations improve productivity and boost business performance through e-learning.

Blackboard

www.blackboard.com

Blackboard offers a complete suite of enterprise software products and services that power e-Education programs in primary markets including Higher Education, K-12, Corporate/ Government and International. Blackboard solutions deliver the promise of the Internet for online teaching and learning, campus communities, campus commerce services, and integration of Web-enabled student services and back office systems.

WebCT

www.webct.com

WebCT, is a leading provider of e-learning solutions to higher education. WebCT's e-learning systems deliver advanced educational technology to support a full range of teaching and learning styles.

Horizon Live

www.horizonlive.com

HorizonLive enables colleges, government agencies, and corporations to teach live online seminars, regardless of  location, bandwidth, operating system, or physical disability.

Meridian Project Systems

www.mps.com

Meridian Project Systems is a software and application service provider specializing in comprehensive project management tools. Products give project teams the ability to collaborate, purchase, schedule, budget and control documentation with technologically advanced applications.

Interwise

www.interwise.com

A Web-based Enterprise Communications Platform, Interwise ECP fuels profitability delivering impactful eLearning, web meetings and web casting in a single platform.

Microsoft’s bCentral

www.bcentral.com

Web Collaboration with SharePoint Team Services: Create a security-enhanced online workspace where employees and customers work together.

Microsoft SharePoint

www.microsoft.com

SharePoint Team Services is a new web site solution that enables teams to instantly create ad-hoc workspaces on their corporate intranet or on the Internet where collaborate and share information.

Celoxix

www.celoxis.com

Celoxixis is an easy to use, flexible and feature-rich collaboration platform that can scale from a few users to a geographically dispersed enterprise. Be it for an ad-hoc virtual meeting place, projects or structured processes and workflow.

Microsoft Project Server

www.microsoft.com

Microsoft Project Server enables project teams to collaborate, access and update project information through its Web portal, called Microsoft Project Web Access.

iTeamwork

www.iteamwork.com

 

iTeamwork.com is a free, online, web-based team project management application that you use with a web browser. Once a project is created, tasks are assigned to team members who are solely responsible for that task. Each member can, in turn, convert the task to a sub-project to break it down to more detailed steps or for delegating to an extended team.

Saba

www.saba.com

Saba Collaboration supports informal collaboration and knowledge sharing between communities of practice through chat rooms, threaded discussions, and document sharing. Communities of practice are organized by job type, certification, role, and competencies.

Telnet

www.telnet.org

Telnet is an application based on the Telnet protocol used throughout the university system to connect to remote computers, usually via the telnet port (23). 

Virtual Teamworks

www.virtualteamworks.com

Virtual Teamworks builds virtual teams and trains electronic facilitators using a unique brand of internet experiential learning and online communication technologies.

ExpoQ

http://expoq.unisfair.com

ExpoQ is a live online conference and exhibition venue dedicated to e-business integration. Each event is archived for up to 60 days in the Conference Hall. ExpoQ broadcasts two types of events: webinars and audio broadcasts.

Enact

www.enact.cc

The Enact Enterprise System is an easy-to-use, internet-based solution for enterprise project collaboration and communication. Enact offers ease of use, scalability and powerful features for real-time, enterprise collaboration.

Business Process Automation Solutions

Nobilis
www.nobilis.com

Nobilis provides the world's first ProcessWriter for the business desktop, patent-pending software that empowers business users to create and automate business activities from within Microsoft Excel. Unlike traditional business process management (BPM) software, Nobilis' solutions combine simplicity at the desktop and scalability across the enterprise.

Metastorm

www.metastorm.com

Metastorm provides a comprehensive framework for automating people-intensive processes, and integrating legacy and packaged applications into everyday operations.

Active Process

Framework Technologies

www.frametech.com

ActiveProcess™ templates enable the fusion of product and project management principles within a single Web-based workspace. ActiveProcess supports any product introduction process. With ActiveProcess, team leaders have access to all project information against the backdrop of a timeline, within a single, dynamic web-based workspace

Collaborative Project Management and Project Tracking Solutions

TempoTM

www.legadero.com

TempoTM is a management suite for organizations where multiple projects and initiatives must be executed with precision and prioritized in alignment with organizational goals.

ProMax

www.replicon.com

ProMax provides real-time color-coded graphical views and analysis of company, project and individual productivity levels to enable actions that impact bottom line results. It is an add-on-module to Web TimeSheet to improve productivity for both consulting and project-based businesses.

Niku 6

www.niku.com

Niku 6 is a web-native, collaborative business-management software that enables on-time, on-budget control of strategic initiatives, automates delivery of work at all levels from tasks to projects to programs to portfolios, and enables visibility into and alignment of company resources, capital, and expenses.

Copper

www.copperproject.com

Accompanying or replacing MS Project, Copper 2003 can transform any organization with a simple interface and powerful features that make it easy for teams to collaborate freely.

Microsoft Project

www.microsoft.com

Microsoft® Project Professional 2002 is the new Microsoft Office project management program intended to be used with Microsoft Project Server 2002 for enterprise project management. It has all the core project management features found in Microsoft Project Standard to manage your project plans, communicate project status, and report project information quickly and efficiently.

Project.net

www.project.net

Information within Project.net is organized into several workspaces that make it easy to organize, administer and share project information and status. Utilizing Workspaces, users have ready access to the data they need. Project.net includes: Personal Workspace, Project Workspace and Business Workspace

Ace Project

www.freetaskmanager.com

For a more in-depth look at project completion, the all tasks report displays all tasks for all projects. All tasks report is also available on a project-by-project basis to help managers administer workloads and priorities efficiently.

Consumer Online Communications Solutions

AOL

AOL is a consumer online portal providing personal information and communications technologies including; email, maps, weather, instant messaging, reminders, shopping, and e-communication peripheral device integration.

MSN

MSN is a consumer online portal providing personal information and communications technologies including; email, maps, weather, instant messaging, reminders, shopping, bill paying, and virus protection.

Hotmail

www.hotmail.com

With Hotmail, anyone can read and receive e-mail messages from any computer in the world connected to the World Wide Web with an Internet connection and a web browser. Hotmail eliminates differences among e-mail programs by adhering to the universal Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) standard and storing messages in a central location.

E-Communication Peripheral Services

Instant Messenger

http://messenger.msn.com

MSN Messenger is an Internet plug-in that shares text messages, photos, files, and video over the Internet with individuals and groups. IM can be integrated into other applications.

Wink

www.wink.com

Wink enables interactive television. Wink is a free service that allows you to interact with television shows and advertisements that you are watching.

Remedy Link HP

www.remedy.com

Remedy Link for HP OpenView Network Node Manager is an integration product which enables Remedy Help Desk to seamlessly work with an industry-leading network management product from Hewlett-Packard.

Remedy Link MS

www.remedy.com

Remedy Link for Microsoft Project 2000 is an integration product that enables Remedy Change Management to seamlessly link with the industry-leading project management product from Microsoft Corporation.

WBMPcreator

www.messaging-software.com

Convert images into WBMP on the fly, perform image-processing operations with WBMP images, and draw charts basing on your data.

PageGate

www.messaging-software.com

PageGate is a network paging gateway that allows text messages to be sent to cell phones, pagers and PIMs from any combination of six different interfaces (e-mail, web, GUI, TAP-in, Serial and command line).

EZwap

www.messaging-software.com

EzWAP micro-browser offers easy and secure access to relevant Internet/Intranet information over wireless networks.

PySoftware

www.pysoft.com

PYSoft Broadcaster is a powerful tool for delivering live audio and video content in real time to client computers. Users can view content with Microsoft Windows Media Player.

LanTalk.NET

www.lantalk.net

LanTalk.NET division develops software for Local (LAN) and Wide Area Networks (WAN, Internet) of all sizes for a home or small office to mid- or large-scale organizations.

E-Communication Devices

PocketPC

www.microsoft.com

PocketPC allows you to store and retrieve addresses and phone numbers, maintain a calendar, create to-do lists, run word processing, spreadsheet, money manager, games and electronic book reading programs and provide email and Internet access.

T-mobile

www.t-mobile.com

With T-mobile, your phone morphs into an e-mail sending, picture-taking, music-making, game-playing, score-updating machine. And, of course you can call people with it too.

ClearPhone

www.clearphone.com

ClearPhone is a personal video communications system for your computer. The ClearPhone software allows you to see and hear your friends and family using a web camera, headset and microphone, and your computer via the Internet.

Smartphone

www.microsoft.com and
www.orange.com

SPV Smartphone is powered by Microsoft Windows. Share photos with friends, play games and keep updated with information that’s important to you. You can also link to your PC, connect to the web and check your emails and diary dates.

E-Communication Device Software

Project Punch

www.freewarepalm.com

Project Punch is a personal project management program for the Palm handheld computer. It is a personal project manager with an integrated task punch clock.

My Projects

www.giglmon.net

My Projects is a planning and project management tool for the Palm handheld computer.

VoiceGenie

www.voicegenie.com

VoiceGenie is the leading VoiceXML Gateway solutions company, enabling organizations around the world to deliver powerful voice-enabled services to their customers and employees, anywhere, anytime

Wildfire

Virtual Personal Assistant
www.wildfire.com

Wildfire™ has proven the value of providing an emotionally evocative user experience while delivering flexible and rich functionality that users rightfully associate with human assistance (as opposed to computer applications).