I was curious about 'TRACTION', when heard from friend about the features do tried to explore it in some details. his may be just start toward it.
Traction Software's Enterprise Weblog software is deployed by business and government teams to create an information sharing system that works like the web. Traction provides a dramatically efficient communication, collaboration and knowledge-sharing medium that presents business information and working communications in context, over time.
Enterprise really a striking concept. Till now i have seen only use of weblog for marketing of enterprise and making new contacts and partners for organisation.
But Traction makes something different.
Traction Software introduced enterprise Weblog technology targeted at the competitive intelligence and market research industries.
Traction C.I. (competitive intelligence) is designed to help facilitate research processes common to marketing and competitive intelligence gathering, such as collecting, organizing, sharing, linking, and retrieving strategic information from multiple sources.
one development team uses the Weblog software as a common knowledge management tool that can be used to convey changes to an application or new information that would be helpful to product development.
Weblogs offer enterprises an alternative to e-mail or traditional content management by providing easy-to-use publishing tools that create a unified repository of shared information for quick dissemination, according to Tim Simonson, CEO of Traction Software in Providence, R.I.
"Weblogs take highly unstructured, fragmented information and put structure around and send it out to users through the Internet," Simonson said.
Traction's server products are built on 100% Java technology.
Traction can be integrated into the enterprise environment with the use of the Solution Developer Kit, Customizable permission based RSS 2.0 feeds, XML-RPC, and the SOAP protocol. Traction has an optional pluggable authentication mechanism, to allow for integration with your Active Directory (including NTLM), LDAP, or other directory interface. Login authentication can be augmented by SSL/TLS and other security extension.
Will keep continuing about the information management stufffs more.
