Enterprise Collaboration, Idea Management, and Knowledge Management with the WebBoard Collaborate family of products.

All large organizations face the challenge of connecting their people. It could be for business – as in the case of an R&D team designing a new product – or pleasure – as in a company-wide online community for announcing important events, birthdays and corporate milestones. In fact, the specific result sought by bringing your people together can be just about anything and depends mostly on your organization’s purpose, but it usually boils down to getting groups of people moving in one direction and achieving a unified goal.

There are many tools that claim to be a silver bullet able for idea management, knowledge management or sometimes enterprise collaboration, but in truth a tool is just that – a means to an end that must fit within an existing system, policies and procedures. The fact is, every organization’s systems of facilitating group collaboration is somewhat unique and so no one-size-fits-all approach probably can work. That is one of the big advantages of a platform product such as WebBoard Collaborate family of products.

Comprised of a suite of secure tools including message boards, chat, blogs, and file sharing/tracking, and infinitely customizable to just about any look or feel, WebBoard can augment your organization’s group collaboration systems in any number of ways:

• Creating secure and private virtual offices or rooms for team members to work together and discuss sensitive projects or a group-specific assignment
• Enabling remote users to work and talk together in real time in an organized environment capable of capturing and organizing their knowledge, content and communications
• Collecting, moderating and organizing discussions and files so that your groups’ knowledge is stored and searchable
• Controlling access to critical files using a “checkout” system to ensure organized, trackable changes.
• Ensure users actually use your online collaboration system by integrating with existing email accounts – something everyone uses every day already – discussion continues via email but organized and stored within the message board framework

Backed by Akiva’s personalized technical support, the WebBoard Collaborate family offers a solution for any organization looking to manage the knowledge and ideas of its people. With highly secure and automated integration directly to your internal user database, and an unparalleled level of ease it is no surprise that for 10 years, WebBoard has powered online collaboration and communities for a diverse clientele of Fortune 500 corporations, renowned academic institutions and prominent government agencies including: Duke University, UCLA, Dartmouth, US Army, United Nations, Centers for Disease Control, American Bankers Association, AT&T, IBM, Pfizer, Raytheon, and more.

Follow the links above to a solution targeted to your organization’s type and needs, or call/email now to schedule a discussion about how WebBoard Collaborate Family can help you connect your people!