OpenTeams

OpenTeams LLC is a privately-held company based jointly in Houston and Austin, Texas that produces the OpenTeams web-hosted collaboration software. The browser-based software functionality includes wiki, blogs, discussions, file attachments, and tags in a 3-pane interface similar to email and newsfeed readers, including drag-and-drop functionality and WYSIWIG editing. In addition to project collaboration, social networking, community building, and knowledge management, OpenTeams is designed as a "innovative initiative development environment" where employees collaboratively seed and mature new ideas for additional revenue, productivity, and cost-savings.

The company's stated mission is to foster a new model of working inside organizations, which they refer to as "The Entrepreneurial Organization".

There are five primary concepts in OpenTeams:

# Initiatives - team folders which can also be used as blogs or blikis
# Collaborative Pages (or cPages) - wiki pages with their own version history, discussions, and file attachments (which also keep their own version history)
# Tags - for organizing content
# Briefing Outlines - formally ordered and structured sets of cPages with a narrative, similar to a table of contents or slideshow presentation
# What's New - a reverse time-sorted view of changes available for initiatives, cPages, tags, briefing outlines, users and their profiles

A list of some features: 3-pane drag-and-drop Ajax-based interface similar to email and newsfeed readers, private secure wiki spaces (including invitation-only and a domain security option based on validated email domains, i.e. "Everybody with [e-mail]"), tags, blog, bliki, "What's New" views, WYSIWYG editing, draft autosaving, discussion, attachments with version history, SSL, unlimited spaces, pages, edits, versions, storage, and bandwidth

ee also

* List of collaborative software
* List of wiki software
* Comparison of wiki farms

External links

* [http://www.openteams.com/ OpenTeams official website]
* [http://openteams.blogspot.com/ Company Blog, including discussion of The Entrepreneurial Organization]
* [http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/organization/entrepreneurial/prweb523473.htm Launch press release on The Entrepreneurial Organization, titled "“Work Doesn’t Have to Suck” – A New May Day Manifesto for the 21st Century"]
* [http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/05/10/openteams-offers-wikis-with-structure/ Product review at Web Worker Daily, May 2007]
* [http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199904347 Five Enterprise 2.0 Startups To Watch, Information Week, June 2007]
* [http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=573 OpenTeams does a good job taking the icky out of wiki (+ 8 min video), ZDNet, June 2007]
* [http://www.solutionwatch.com/587/reinventing-the-wiki-with-openteams/ Reinventing the Wiki with OpenTeams (in-depth review), Solution Watch, June 2007]