Title: TRACTION CUSTOMER IJIS INSTITUTE NAMED ONE OF BUSINESSWEEK’S WEBSMART 50
IJIS Institute Cited by BusinessWeek as One of 50 Innovative Uses of Internet Technology in Business Providence, RI, December 14, 2005
—Traction Software, Inc, the leader in Enterprise Blog software for
business, today announced that The Integrated Justice Information
Systems (IJIS) Institute was selected as a BusinessWeek “WebSmart 50”
organization, in the November 21, 2005 issue, based on IJIS’s
deployment of Traction TeamPage™ enterprise blog technology for its
Website, Partner Extranet, and Staff Intranet. You can read about the
Web Smart 50 by going to: http://www.businessweek.com.
IJIS
is a membership organization representing information technology
companies that provide systems, products and services to the justice
community. The IJIS mission is to improve information sharing among
government agencies. IJIS deployed Traction’s TeamPage™ Enterprise Blog
technology as its central communications hub for the organization in
early 2005. Using TeamPage, The IJIS Institute has created and
implemented an interactive knowledge management intranet, available to
members and other justice community participants, as well as a
TeamPage-based public web site.
With over 120 participating organizations and 16 committees working on
various technology issues, the IJIS Institute needed to improve the way
participants communicate, report back to other members, stay abreast of
developments within committees and in the industry, and collaborate to
draft policies and standards. The organization was communicating “the
old fashioned way”, through long e-mail threads, teleconferences, and
passing around Word documents to track changes with dozens of people
involved.
To that end, TeamPage enables IJIS members and committee participants
to easily post articles and comments in permission-based project spaces
for each committee. Posted items are published immediately and
interested participants can receive daily or weekly Executive Digests
in their e-mail that consolidate and summarize the previous day's new
content, keeping them informed and up to date. Members can use RSS and
ATOM feeds to get immediate update of new postings and subscribe to
applicable industry news that may affect committee work. Committee
participants can access policy and standards drafts and comment at the
paragraph level, allowing leaders to quickly and much more easily
assimilate comments in context and publish final documents to the
member community instantly.
"With the large quantity of information needed to be shared among our
members and within specific committees, it was a daunting task to keep
everyone in the loop," said Paul Wormeli, Executive Director, IJIS
Institute. "Traction’s solution enabled us to meet all of our
collaboration requirements by providing an easy, faster way to notify
members, access information and save time working together."
Creating a backbone for working communication in an enterprise,
Traction’s TeamPage is the industry’s most robust and easy-to-use
Enterprise Blog software. It is a dramatically more efficient and
secure framework for business communication, collaboration and
knowledge management. Traction’s enterprise-class blog software and
user-friendly newspaper-style interface provide web-based project
spaces to collect, organize, disseminate and link information. Using
TeamPage, enterprises are able to add context, intelligence and
dialogue to internal communications so that employees and management
have real-time and accurate information to respond quickly to changes
in the business environment.
About Traction Software
Traction Software has been named one of the 100 companies that matter
in the digital content industry by eContent Magazine, for the second
year in a row. Traction provides business and government organizations
with Enterprise Blog software that allows groups and teams to
communicate more effectively. Traction’s easy to use TeamPage™ software
creates a secure communications hub for business information and
working communications that collects, organizes, links and shares
sources of information in context over time. TeamPage is used for
business applications ranging from product development and project
management to marketing field communication, competitive intelligence,
and sales. The company distributes its products directly and through
global partners. Based in Providence, Rhode Island, Traction Software
is a privately held corporation with financing from investors including
In-Q-Tel and Slater Interactive. For additional information, visit
Traction at www.tractionsoftware.com.
Traction is a registered trademark and Traction TeamPage is a trademark of Traction Software, Inc.
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Contact: Jen Revis Snider Red Javelin Communications, Inc. 617-795-0798 jen@redjavelin.com