Nov 28, 2007
FatWire TeamUp Delivers Web 2.0 Collaboration and Enterprise-Scale Content Integration
Company Also Unveils Roadmap for Complete, Integrated Web Experience Management

Mineola, N.Y. – November 28, 2007 – FatWire Software, a leading web content management provider, today announced the launch of FatWire TeamUp, a new solution that offers enterprise 2.0 collaboration capabilities  including simple to use wikis, blogs and social tagging, plus an advanced content integration platform.  FatWire also unveiled its strategic roadmap for Web Experience Management, an integrated set of capabilities that enable organizations to deliver a personalized, interactive web experience to users.

Organizations need a way to easily enable project teams to work across administrative, geographic, and system boundaries.  At the same time, businesses need to offer their customers and partners the ability to interact with one another and with the company online.  Web Experience Management – the combination of web content management with web 2.0 technologies – is the solution.

“The Web is a participatory medium and users require this type of interaction online, whether at home, at work, or as an online consumer,” said Lou Latham, Principal Research Analyst, Gartner. “Organizations must offer an online experience to their employees and customers that meets their needs for collaboration and community. This is no longer a nice to have – it is a business requirement.”

FatWire TeamUp is a powerful solution for facilitating internal and external, enterprise-scale collaboration and is the result of FatWire’s recent acquisition of Infostoria. FatWire TeamUp offers the following key capabilities:

  • Instant internal collaboration:  Enables non-technical users with a single click to set up a wiki, blogs and more, invite participants from within the enterprise or partner organizations to join, and start working together and sharing content of all types. 
  • External site community: Facilitates user-generated content and community-building among customers and other site visitors. Site owners can enable blogs, wikis, and content tagging on any part of the site, thus creating the participative and collaborative experience that builds customer loyalty and increases purchase rates.
  • Content integration and reuse:  Enables sharing of rich media via a peer-to-peer enterprise-class content integration platform. This mechanism delivers a fast and powerful search capability, combined with high performance and scalable delivery of content.
  • Digital asset management: Delivers capabilities to centrally store and manage terabytes of videos, images, and documents. Media plug-ins automatically convert these assets to formats suitable for delivery over the Internet and to mobile devices.
  • Enterprise-class deployments: Offers sophisticated role-based workflow capabilities and an enterprise-class security infrastructure including access control, authentication, single-sign-on and more.  FatWire TeamUp enables the addition of web 2.0 collaboration capabilities while maintaining the security and integrity of business processes and assets.

"Businesses need to harness Web 2.0 capabilities to make their organizations more effective, and they need to do it within their existing web content management deployments," said Dion Record, IT manager with the Meyer Corporation.  "We are getting tremendous benefits from our FatWire web content management deployment, and we are excited to see FatWire taking this important next step to help us meet our business needs.”  

Today, FatWire also unveiled a roadmap for rapid integration of FatWire TeamUp with FatWire Content Server, the industry-leading web content management solution, which helps hundreds of organizations globally to offer an effective web presence. The roadmap supports the company’s vision to deliver the most complete Web Experience Management solution.

The roadmap for integration includes:

  • Internal Collaboration/Content Generation – This integration enables content produced in FatWire TeamUp wikis, including rich media and digital assets, to be published to FatWire Content Server with a single click.  In FatWire Content Server, these assets proceed through the normal web publishing process for a Content Server site.
  • Live Site Community - FatWire Content Server visitors can link to a branded wiki that offers collaborative features for community and user generated content around an organization’s products and services.

“Companies need to use the capabilities offered by the web to increase customer loyalty and sales and to make their organizations more effective,” said Loren Weinberg, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at FatWire. “With the addition of the FatWire TeamUp product line, FatWire has an unmatched portfolio to help meet our customers’ needs for facilitating creativity and driving increases in their top lines."

About FatWire Software

FatWire Software provides industry-leading web content management (WCM) solutions that enable organizations to deliver compelling online experiences to users and to drive business growth.  FatWire is headquartered in Mineola, N.Y. and serves over 450 customers from offices in over 10 countries. For more information, please visit http://www.fatwire.com.

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