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Communications management services of GroupWise 5 facilitate the movement of information among members of a workgroup without corrupting or compromising the information. Common administration and management of GroupWise 5 reduces the cost of ownership and leverages the existing network services by letting organizations manage their groupware applications and their network from a common point of administration.
GroupWise 5 reduces the cost of ownership and leverages the existing network services by letting organizations manage their groupware applications and their network from a common point of administration. GroupWise 5 empowers both the individual and the team or workgroup. Specifically, GroupWise 5 enables the following:
GroupWise 5 can be used to solve a wide variety of information and communication challenges an organization might face, including the following:
The first components of GroupWise 5 were available in the second half of 1996; however, the foundation of GroupWise 5 is available today in the following products that are market-tested: GroupWise, InForms, SoftSolutions, MHS, and Collabra Share for GroupWise. In fact, current customers of these products have driven the requirements for GroupWise 5 described in the following sections.
The GroupWise 5 Desktop gives users new tools to help them more efficiently collaborate with others, manage information, and make decisions. These new tools include a Universal In Box, a Universal Out Box, and shared folders. The revolutionary GroupWise 5 Desktop will be available on a variety of client platforms, including MS Windows, Windows 95, Macintosh, Power Macintosh, and UNIX.
At the heart of the GroupWise 5 Desktop is the Universal In Box. This in-box replaces the many competing in-boxes a typical user manages (e.g., voice mailbox, E-mail in-box, fax machine, pager) with a single in-box for all types of information. As a result, users spend less time processing in-box contents and only have to learn one interface to manage all types of incoming information. The GroupWise 5 Desktop provides a framework for how work gets done in an organization.
GroupWise 5 can help users effectively manage day-to-day work, as well as automate multistep business processes. The GroupWise 5 Desktop provides streamlined access to a complete set of groupware features (e.g., messaging, calendaring and scheduling, information storage and retrieval, and custom groupware applications). The GroupWise 5 Universal In Box accepts E-mail messages, schedule requests, delegated tasks, voice mail, faxes, pages, electronic forms, and many other types of data. The GroupWise 5 Desktop is truly unique because of the various forms of information that the Universal In Box can handle. For each of these data types, GroupWise 5 does the following:
Users can apply GroupWise 5s message-handling functions and server-based rules not only to E-mail but to all data types supported by the Universal In Box (e.g., a voice message can be sorted, delegated, routed, and copied). The GroupWise 5 Universal Out Box provides complete message tracking and user accountability. GroupWise 5 Shared Folders lets members of a team or workgroup easily share information related to a particular topic or project. At any time, users can see if messages have been received, opened, deleted, or delegated. They can even retract messages that have not already been opened. The message tracking offered with GroupWise 5 is especially important as groupware solutions are expanded to transport delegated tasks, appointments, and other workgroup activities.
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