Teleplace
IDC
"[Teleplace] 2.0 provides a rich 3D collaboration environment that makes virtual meetings, presentations, training sessions, and other interactions as real as possible without getting on a plane."
- Mark Levitt, program VP, Collaboration and Enterprise 2.0 Strategies at IDC from Teleplace press release 4/20/2009
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[Teleplace] Delivers Forums 2.0 for Application Collaboration
Enables Smart Rooms, Web browser access, and DVR features for virtual meetings;
New customers include U.S. Navy and Chevron
WASHINGTON – April 20, 2009 – [Teleplace] Inc., a leading provider of application collaboration
solutions, today released
[Teleplace]™ 2.0. The second-generation, secure virtual workspace platform
delivers innovative new collaboration features such as Smart Rooms, which automatically collate reports
from multiple applications, just in time for scheduled meetings. Forums 2.0 also delivers Web browser
access to workspace assets, as well as DVR functionality for recording and sharing virtual meetings. New
[Teleplace] customers include the U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) and Chevron.
"In today's economy, people are recognizing the need for innovative ways to stay connected even more with peers, partners, and customers, with even less travel costs," said Mark Levitt, program VP, Collaboration and Enterprise 2.0 Strategies at IDC. "[Teleplace] 2.0 provides a rich 3D collaboration environment that makes virtual meetings, presentations, training sessions, and other interactions as real as possible without getting on a plane."
[Teleplace] enables a rich environment for teams to share information, communicate, and execute real-time document editing and workflows. [Teleplace] vPresence™ technology securely combines multiapplication sharing, presence, VoIP, text chat, and webcam video. [Teleplace] Enterprise Servers can be deployed behind the corporate firewall, or organizations can use the hosted SaaS version for rapid deployment and third-party collaboration. [Teleplace] supports a broad range of applications and document formats, and integrates closely with enterprise identity and security infrastructure.
[Teleplace] has now surpassed 100 enterprise customers, in sectors including energy, semiconductors, education, manufacturing, and healthcare, and in military and civilian government agencies. The U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center is using [Teleplace] as part of its virtual Combat Systems experimentation to determine whether virtual spaces can be used to conduct Concept of Operations exercises and to remotely train sailors. Chevron has deployed Forums to support distributed teams and training.
"Enterprises are struggling to manage distributed teams and processes, and traditional web conferencing and conference calls are often ineffective," said Greg Nuyens, CEO of Teleplace. "Teleplace delivers a compelling environment for getting real work done, especially when multiple people and multiple data sources are involved. With the new capabilities in Forums 2.0, customers are telling us that virtual meetings can now be more powerful than face-to-face meetings."
Innovative Collaboration Features
The Forums 2.0 release delivers numerous features that align collaboration with existing business priorities and infrastructure:
Always Available
Forums 2.0 adds multiple access methods to bridge existing 2D and 3D workspaces, including:
- Forums Lobby: "Always on" IM-style toolbar enables drag-and-drop document transfer, private chat to users in 3D forums, and live updating previews of workspaces. Teams can now track progress and presence across multiple workspaces from their desktop.
- Forum Pages: Each Forum 2.0 workspace has its own Web page, secured by encryption, access controls and Forums Authentication, which can interface with Active Directory or LDAP authentication. The Web interface, which can also be accessed by smart phone browsers, provides real-time access to Forum workspaces for document uploading and downloading, RSS feeds for tracking document updates, and live previews. As a result, employees with no [Teleplace] software installed can use their standard Web browser to access and track results of teams working in virtual spaces.
Enterprise Workflow Integration
- Smart Rooms: These programmable Forums automatically collate reports from multiple applications, just in time for scheduled meetings. Data sources can include database application reports, documents, videos and process data. Each automated report goes to the appropriate display device and location in Forums, eliminating the time-consuming weekly collation and arrangement of business information.
- DVR for Virtual Meetings: The Meeting DVR feature enables one-click recording of full virtual meetings, including voice, text chat, virtual laser pointers, presentations, and user/application interactions. Users can record meeting summaries for bosses and employee onboarding, train other users on workflows with multiple live applications, and generate an organizational record of key decision meetings. Viewers can fast-forward to relevant meeting sections, eliminating wasted time in status update meetings.
- QRLs™: These Web links automatically launch the Forums client and navigate users directly to a particular room or object (e.g. document, application, virtual devices). QRLs allow integration of [Teleplace] virtual meetings and workspaces into existing tools such as calendars, emails, internal portals, and Wikis.
- Streaming Video: Forums 2.0 can stream high-quality MPEG4 video and AAC sound into workspaces, where multiple users can watch and discuss in real time. This capability is complementary to previously available webcam video features. By allowing organizations to leverage existing videos assets such as coursework and executive presentations, Forums presents an ideal vehicle for a variety of training and communication workflows.
[Teleplace] 2.0 is available immediately, with pricing starting at $60/month per user. Download the free 30-day trial at www.teleplace.com/trial.
About [Teleplace]
Teleplace, Inc. creates application collaboration solutions to help enterprises manage data-intensive projects and operations across multiple locations. [Teleplace] is a secure virtual workspace that combines voice, video and chat communications with multi-application and document sharing, enabling more efficient workflows among distributed teams, suppliers, and customers. [Teleplace] provides application collaboration solutions to over one hundred Global 500 and mid-size customers, including leading firms in the energy, semiconductor, education, manufacturing, financial, healthcare and government sectors.
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