iNovem Team Initiative™

Effective collaboration is becoming more and more difficult as the amount of information increases together with the number of communication channels and the complexity of IT infrastructures. iNovem Team Initiative addresses these challenges by providing an integrated package of features designed to improve communication and the ability to find and share information. It can integrate with existing infrastructures and is robust and flexible enough to adapt to changing business needs.

Team Initiative includes:

 Group Email

• System manages recipients and format preferences - no distribution of out-of-date contacts lists.
• Threaded view for easy navigation.
• Subscribe and un-subscribe.
• Flexible membership control
• Automatic email management - emails are automatically filed under the right project as you carry out email conversations right from your inbox!
• Searchable. Just type keywords to find any email.

 Document Management

• Storage and retrieval of any type of documents, presentations, drawings,etc.
• Anytime, anywhere access to any document.
• Email alerts when new versions are available.
• Document search for contents of popular document types.
• Check-in & check-out based version control and change history.
• Over-write detection and warning.

 Calendar

• Shareable Group calendar.
• Daily, weekly and monthly views.
• Repeating events and reminders.
• Meeting arrangement and ability to check intrest in events
• Export calendar events to Microsoft Outlook™

 Web Links

• Storage of web links in folders.
• Searchable keywords per web link.
• Indexed web link content - like having a personal search engine.

 Questionnnaires

• Gather team opinion.
• Flexible question types.
• Graph based presentation of results.
• Provide complete privacy for answers.

 Task Management

• List tasks, each with owner and deadline for easier management and tracking.
• Email notifications of online status updates, and when tasks and projects are started and due.
• Assignment of tasks to individual users, coupled with "My Tasks" personalised view.
• Import tasks and projects from Microsoft Project™

 Devolved Group Management

• Allow poject managers to control the access to their project information.
• Remove procedural red tape.
• Capable of handling cross border communication to partners and clients, yet controling what they can see by project, rather than opening the floodgates to your whole system.
• Administrators can control policies at site level.

 Pictures

• Share visual and graphic information.
• Automatic thumbnailing and presentation.

 Search

• Unified interface - one interface to search everything.
• Searchable all forms of data stored in the groups.
• Related links in search results for quick navigation.

 Notes

• Post-it like notes available on all object - comments without clutter!
• Free-form text.

 Security

• Flexible object based access privileges.
• Flexible yet easy to share what you can, hide what you must.
• Organization default global security policy.

The component based design helps stability by providing clear breaks between different areas of server functionality. This allows Team Initiative to be easily scalable, both horizontally and vertically from a single machine running all the components to a selection of clustered subsystems.

A range of third party applications and systems are supported for providing the database and file store back ends to the system. Additionally a fully featured API layer is included in Team Initiative to allow custom integration with other systems on the client's site.

Security and detailed access control are built in at all levels, providing safety for corporate data, but without making the control too complicated and too restrictive for end users.