Intranet and Collaboration

Provide a rich, interactive and secure environment for creating, sharing, editing, and discussing online information. Application examples include Intranets, Knowledge Management, eLearning, and Client and Project Extranets.

Benefits

Increase organizational efficiencies
Improve relationships
Streamline processes
Reduce time-to-market

CIGNEX Collaboration solutions help organizations achieve a variety of business goals, such as better sharing of business intelligence, improved performance, and higher levels of innovation. By providing a single, comprehensive environment that connects diverse users, legacy processes, and disparate content types, we help our customers create valuable collaborative relationships that were previously impossible due to technical limitations. We extend proprietary applications, and connect people with information and each other regardless of operating system, network, or content type.

Secure, Efficient, and Easily Managed

CIGNEX Collaboration solutions provide the infrastructure, integration points, and tools required for accessing, sharing, and distributing content among users or systems. Building upon industry-standard open source platforms, CIGNEX can quickly define and create collaboration environments for teams that will streamline processes, reduce costs, and improve time to market.

Users can manage and collaborate on documents, Web content, and forms within a single system through a consistent user interface. In many cases, the information being exchanged online is sensitive, and ensuring that it remains secure is critical. CIGNEX Collaboration solutions feature a comprehensive a highly granular security model based on individuals, groups, projects, and team spaces. These solutions leverage existing infrastructures such as LDAP or Active Directory for authentication and authorization.

Key Features

Full audit control
Ad-hoc security
Version-controlled content repository
High-availability, fault tolerance, and scalability
Business-process driven content management
Integration of enterprise systems

Simple, Powerful Interaction

Through CIGNEX Collaboration solutions, users have a rich, easy-to-use environment for distributing and discussing information. Discussion forums can be created with threads tied to content or interests. Users can subscribe to content and receive e-mail notifications when content is added or updated. And the solution supports both inbound and outbound RSS syndication to share content inside and outside corporate firewalls.

Interfaces such as CIFS (Common Internet File System), SMB, and WebDAV allow each team member or departmental system to map the collaboration folder on the server as a local network drive. This enables bulk transfer of files between local systems and the central server repository. Users can use their favorite editors to edit content, which is mapped in the local network drive.

A Web-based rules engine enables business users to define business and content rules without the help of IT. CIGNEX Collaboration solutions also include a graphical tool for defining workflow and business process management.

Key Features

Team spaces
Discussion forums
Message boards
RSS syndication
User-controlled routing
Full text search of various content items

Featured Applications: Knowledge Management and eLearning

Knowledge Management (KM) refers to a range of practices used by organizations to identify, create, represent, and distribute knowledge for reuse, awareness, and learning across the organization. CIGNEX Collaboration solutions enable organizations to quickly assess and implement KM processes that maximize operational efficiencies. In addition, CIGNEX LCMS (Learning Content Management System) applications can fundamentally change the value economics of eLearning content delivery with a scalable and affordable platform for delivering proprietary knowledge to individual learners.