Shared workspace - Technology review
Technology review
RFI responses
A Request for Information (RFI) was issued in August 2002, reviewing the technology market for shared workspaces. A request was made by a company, for access to the information provided in response to the RFI. The following responses were received. (Note: 9 other agencies responded, but have not been listed, as they either failed to provide permission or did not wish their information disclosed, as COMMERCIAL: IN CONFIDENCE.)
Disclaimer
The State Services Commission is not responsible for the content or reliability of the responses. Listing shall not be taken as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that the links provided will work at all times.
In order received:
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Contact Name |
Company |
Contact |
Offering |
Further reference |
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Thorsten Engel |
Deloitte Consulting |
Suggests look at E-rooms |
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Roger S Walker |
Vignette |
Vignette - Enterprise Application Portal |
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Cliff Teasdale |
SeeBeyond NZ |
EBusiness Integration Suite |
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Nick Davies |
IPM International Pty Ltd |
Balanced Scorecard Performance Measurement |
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Chris Bulman |
iTools Online Limited |
Tools@work : Project Control - Shared projects |
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Dr Peter Stevens |
Standards New Zealand |
SPEX: shared standards development workspace |
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Andy Sheats |
Portera |
Portera ServicePort: Project Collaboration Environment |
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Paula Daysh |
iKnow NZ Limited |
SilentOne, iRecord, Onstream Trapeze and Microsoft Sharepoint Server |
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M Ramesh |
InfoKall |
Lotus Toolset |
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Malcolm Hanson |
Gen-i |
OpenText Livelink |
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Wayne Forgesson |
Intergen |
Customised web development - Intranet shell |
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Graeme Partridge |
Computer Associates |
Jasmine Portal |
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Anna Wells David Pirie |
IBM - e-government Lotus |
Lotus Toolset / Whitehall Knowledge Network |
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Doug Cockroft |
Corechange |
Personalised user access |
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Doug Cockroft |
Stellent |
Xpedio Content Management |
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Georgina Muir |
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young |
Customised web development |
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Bruce Monk |
Nota Bene Ltd |
IBM Websphere Portal/Toolset |
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Andrew Watson |
Microsoft Ltd |
Microsoft Toolset |
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Rachael Staples |
Certus Consulting Ltd |
PlumTree Corporate Portal |
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Alastair MacCormick |
UCC Technologies Pty Ltd |
NETdelivery |
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Paul Grealish |
SolNet |
IPlanet Portal Server and other iPlanet products |
The "RFI"
Shared Workspace Technology Review
Mike Pearson, Technical Adviser for the Shared Workspace Project, is surveying the technology market, to prepare a technology review. You are invited to provide a one page summary of your technology, if your organisation has met three or more of the following requirements:
- Implemented a secure, electronic shared workspace,
- for government project and policy development,
- across multiple organisations,
- using the Internet, with
- typical workspace functions (see below).
The closing date is 29th August. mailto:mike.pearson@ssc.govt.nz?subject=workspace. Submissions are acceptable in MS Word, RTF, or text format. Please include contact details, and any relevant URLs.
What is a shared workspace?
An electronic shared workspace is a software application that allows a group of authorised users to securely access to a common set of information (e.g. databases); common functions (e.g. shared calendars; project management); and carry out a range of interactive transactions (e.g. e-mail; collaboratively editing documents).
Typical workspace functions
Such a workspace will typically feature:
- Security (LDAP, PKI, access control
- Research tools (links, shared sets of information, search facilities)
- Analytical tools (summarisation, templates)
- Collaborative tools (realtime: chat, whiteboard & non-realtime: noticeboard, bulletin board)
- Communication tools (web publication, e-mail, chat, alert)
- Personalisation tools (profiling, alerts)
- Project management
- Document management
- Records management
- Content creation/management
- Work process management
- Integration to common desktop products (e.g. MS Office, Notes, Groupwise)