December 2006 | Test Lab: Traction Juices Up Collaboration

December 18, 2006: P.G. Daly of Intranet Journal's Test Lab wrote a terrific and comprehensive review of Traction. The full review is worth reading, but here are a few quotes:

About the platform: [Traction] combines the best of blog and wiki technologies and packages them into an enterprise-ready package with their Traction TeamPage and Traction Communicator products... In this juiced-up hypermedia platform you get the advantages of blogs (ease of posting and distributing content to the web), wikis (power of collaborative authoring), web applications, and document management rolled into one.

About discussion support: All commenting uses rich text format and is placed directly within the subsection [paragraph] of the content you wish to contribute. This differs from the big "comments" section at the bottom of a page you typically see on blogs. No more trying to untangle the spaghetti of comments at the bottom to follow a particular thread and discern which part of the article it relates to.

About ease of use and social tagging: Because the structure is blog-based it is easy to manage and easy for users to contribute regardless of their technical savvy. Add to that the power of social tagging where users can label other user's content in a way that suits their own workflow and you marry the synergy of team with the autonomy of the solo-worker

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