collaborative software

[DancingGeek]

Greetings,

I know this has been asked before, but I'm hoping to get into more specifics.

I'm looking for software that will allow project information sharing both internally and with clients, preferably web-based for convenience.

My primary goals are document sharing, contact list and keeping an updated project plan where all can see/edit as necessary/allowed. I would like something like an "internal" page for miscellaneous in house stuff, but also something clients can go to (via password) to view specifics about their projects. Also perhaps a generic documentation area.

I am just now installing SharePoint to give it a try - read on this forum it is good, but not any specifics. If you use it and like it, what do you use/like? If you recommend another tool, that would be great too. We are a software shop and could write something, but I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if possible.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Cheers!
Sheri

 

[trez]

There are a couple of web-based collaboration tools out that would provide document sharing, contact lists, discussion forums, issue and action item databases, etc. Documentum's eRoom (

http://www.documentum.com/products/glossary/eroom.htm)

and IBM - Lotus Workplace (

http://www.lotus.com/products/product3.nsf/wdocs/ltwhome)

are two examples

 

[jfrost10]

We tested out Microsoft Project Server about 6 months ago...internally it looked like a great tool...and since its webbased, there *may* be some way of sharing project data with your clients.

It all depends on what level of data they need to see I guess...but maybe something worth a look.

D'Arcy

 

[lucasnevant]

You might find eGroupWare useful for that. It is open source:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/egroupware/

Lucas Rodríguez Cervera

http://www.nevant.com

 

[planetant]

Dancing Geek, I have similar questions and wondering what size shop you are? How is the SharePoint working for you? What was cost like in the end?

Thanks!

 

[DancingGeek]

Hey planetant,

I was with a small company - about 25 people. I didn't love SharePoint or anything else I played with, but honestly didn't put a lot of effort into them - they seemed too time-consuming for what I was trying to achieve.

And I'm now out of the software industry entirely (!), so don't have a clue of what else is new.

But good luck to you!
~geek