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Cim v2.1 Overview: Social Business Software on SharePoint 2010 June 21, 2011 -- It's that time again. We've been heads down on CorasWorks Cim v2.1, the next release of our Social Business Software solution on SharePoint 2010. In this article, I'll cover some of the key aspects of this release...
CorasWorks Releases PPM 3.0 SharePoint 2010 Latest Release Includes Demand Management, Native Integration with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project 2010, Outlook June 20, 2011 -- While at the Gartner PPM and IT Governance Summit today, CorasWorks Corporation, a global leader in business solutions and applications on the Microsoft SharePoint collaboration and social platform, announced the release of CorasWorks PPM 3.0 for SharePoint 2010. PPM 3.0 is a flexible, fully customizable project and portfolio management solution designed to accommodate a wide variety of project, portfolio and program management scenarios.
"CorasWorks PPM 3.0 is a robust, enterprise-ready project portfolio management solution," said Gary Voight, President and CEO of CorasWorks. "SharePoint - especially SharePoint 2010 - is a natural platform for project, portfolio and program management. It is the one app that everyone on SharePoint seems to be interested in. There are others who offer project management on SharePoint, but no one else has true enterprise capabilities or offers the flexibility that we do with PPM3.0."
PPM 3.0 is comprised of many integrated modules, including Social Project Management, Portfolio and Program Management, PMO/Demand Management, resource Management and Portal/Communities. The unique architecture of the solution allows a user to select and use only those modules that are pertinent to their organization. As needs change, the other modules can easily be added to the solution.
CorasWorks Launches New App Showcase for SharePoint 2010 App Showcase Replaces App Store as Primary Promotion Vehicle for CorasWorks Solutions June 16, 2011 -- CorasWorks Corporation, a global leader in business solutions and applications on the Microsoft SharePoint collaboration and social platform, today announced the launch of its new App Showcase for SharePoint 2010. The App Showcase is intended to highlight the solutions from CorasWorks and its partners that leverage CorasWorks software on the Microsoft SharePoint 2010.
"Our new App Showcase gives us more flexibility in what we can show and make available to the market in terms of end-user solutions," said Gary Voight, President and CEO of CorasWorks. "The App Store provided a solid venue for 'plug and play' apps for the Microsoft SharePoint platform, but we increasingly discovered that our customers want more comprehensive solutions. With the new App Showcase we will be able to bring new solutions to the market much faster, as it significantly reduces the burden required to get a solution into the Showcase. This is good for CorasWorks, our partners, our customers and the market in general."
R3 Knowledge Factory for Cim: Ideas to Knowledge Products July 13, 2010 -- A very common business process, particularly for the SharePoint community, is creating knowledge used by the organization or external communities. R3 Business Solutions, has created the Knowledge Factory add-on for CorasWorks Idea Management, that leverages social features of Cim to improve the process of transforming ideas and questions into knowledge that is interactive and dynamic. This is a very interesting solution for Cim, in that it highlights the fact that the output is a knowledge product. This solution really helps you to start thinking of knowledge in a product management context and giving you the means to get there. Here is a discussion of this business scenario and a walkthrough of their add-on solution.
I recently met with Michael Friedenberg, President of R3 Business Solutions, who told me of another ripe area to improve HR ROI: the knowledge base.
One of the challenges Human Resource departments face is the inability of their employees to quickly and easily locate HR information such as forms or procedures. Having an employee go to one central place and know that the HR information posted is accurate and relevant, saves not just time and money, but reduces risk by having everyone working off of the latest policy.