Synacor, Inc. unveiled its Zimbra Cloud collaboration suite for small and medium businesses and prosumers, via Zimbra Gold Partner XMission, at ZimbraCloud.com. Zimbra Cloud is based on the Zimbra platform. Zimbra Cloud is designed to improve productivity and effectiveness by supporting multiple collaboration modalities from a single, familiar, email-centric workspace. It allows users to toggle between tools like videoconferencing, file sharing, cloud storage, calendaring and chat, right from email. At $2.95 per mailbox per month and a 30-day free trial, the Zimbra Cloud SaaS offering is aimed to meet demand for secure and robust email and collaboration for less than other vendors. Zimbra Cloud features an easy-to-use interface, admin tools, customer support and domain registration from XMission, integrations with apps like Dropbox, Zoom, Slack, Jitsi and Webex, and is instantly available at ZimbraCloud.com. It is available via a web client and supports third-party clients like MS Outlook, MacOS Mail, iOS Mail and Android Mail. Admin tools include domain, user, distribution list and billing management.
Category: Collaboration and workplace (Page 24 of 95)
This category is focused on enterprise / workplace collaboration tools and strategies, including office suites, intranets, knowledge management, and enterprise adoption of social networking tools and approaches.
Arria NLG introduced Arria for Excel, a Microsoft Office add-in that brings natural language generation (NLG) functionality to users of Microsoft Excel. Arria for Excel gives you the ability to instantly narrate Excel spreadsheets and export directly to Word or PowerPoint, and adds natural-language summaries and report automation within the worksheet, turning volumes of data into narratives. Users can tailor narratives to specific audiences, providing contextual commentary and explanatory analyses like those created by subject matter experts. Arria augments existing Excel workflows with:
- Consistency and accuracy. A next-generation report writer that dynamically automates data-driven financial summaries.
- Timeliness of reporting. Financial reports can now be published quickly after the end of the reporting period.
- Team sharing. Provides insightful information delivery across the enterprise.
Qumu released a new functionality extension for Zoom. Available at no charge as part of all existing Zoom corporate licensing plans, the app allows Qumu and Zoom enterprise clients to stream live events exceeding 100,000 attendees—with no loss of video quality and no negative effect on internal networks. The app is called Qumu Stream, Record and Manage, and is available now in the official Zoom Marketplace.
Qumu Stream, Record and Manage is designed specifically for organizations looking to deliver video events securely and at scale. Once the Qumu app is installed, streaming can either be initiated automatically or via a button click directly in the Zoom interface. The extension also supports global attendee bases, unlimited presenters and any browser-based end-user device—as well as virtual event management features like event registration, transcription, translation, user analytics, compliance tracking and attendee reporting.
Smartsheet announced that it has agreed to acquire digital asset management (DAM) vendor Brandfolder. Combining Brandfolder’s DAM capabilities with Smartsheet’s collaborative work management platform to create a solution that manages workflows around content and collaboration. With Brandfolder, Smartsheet customers will be able to manage, track and discover all content within their workflows reducing the creation of repetitive assets. Internal teams will be able to gain insights into their content and make strategic asset decisions with Brandfolder’s performance data features through brand-specific tags that track where the content is being used and how it’s performing. This tagging also enables external contributors to identify and utilize assets through Brandfolder’s identification and categorization search capabilities.
Otter.ai announced the launch of Otter for Events – a new collaboration service. With Otter Live Notes’ AI technology capturing event conversations and turning them into interactive, collaborative transcripts in real-time. It is targeted at any organization hosting a virtual, live, or in-person event – no matter the audience size. Otter for Events is now included as a feature for Otter for Teams customers, at no additional cost. A premium version of Otter for Events is available for much larger enterprise-level virtual or in-person events. Features include:
- Public and private group: Organizers can create a branded one-stop-shop hub of recordings and content for their event that can be shared both during or after the event.
- Zoom Webinars: Otter for Teams subscribers will be able to launch Otter Live Notes directly from the Zoom webinar.
- Live transcription: Event hosts can transcribe multiple sessions at once, enabling attendees to access Otter Live Notes from all sessions.
- Live collaboration: Attendees can view a live interactive transcript and can raise questions during an ongoing virtual event or webinar.
- Embedded Otter.ai player: Otter.ai’s embedded player means virtual event organizers can share a live stream of a transcript as it is captured in real-time.
Sony Electronics’ cloud-native professional media management and collaboration platform, Ci, is expanding its feature set to include enterprise asset management. The debut of Ci Catalog enables enterprises to build and securely manage centralized libraries of rich media and make them easily accessible to stakeholders across teams, departments, divisions, or companies.
The new Ci Catalog offering integrates with Workspace, Ci’s solution for production, and postproduction workflows with remote acquisition, media processing, and collaboration. With the addition of Catalog, Ci provides content owners, studios, production companies, broadcasters, sports leagues, music labels, and large corporations with a comprehensive system that supports content management. Ci provides accelerated file transfer, collaboration/review and approval, digital asset management, transcoding, and archive with a single SaaS subscription. Ci’s REST APIs enable integration with third-party systems and workflows.
SDL announced the launch of SDL Trados Studio 2021, a dynamic translation solution offering flexibility for translators and project managers. The latest version of the Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tool combines SDL’s desktop software with access to the cloud-based translation and project management capabilities of SDL Trados Live – offering a new way of working to boost productivity and stay connected. SDL Trados Studio 2021 new features include:
- SDL Trados Live: Powered by SDL Language Cloud, this new translation productivity cloud from SDL works seamlessly with SDL Trados Studio to bring you an online translation editor, with a web-based project management and revision experience, to strike a balance between working online and offline.
- SDL Trados Live mobile app: Available to download for free from the Google Play and the Apple App Store, the SDL Trados Live app provides the ability to create new projects, track your translation progress, check project due dates and more while on the move.
- Improved productivity: For users with a focus on desktop ways of working, SDL Trados Studio’s Translation Memory (TM) engine has been enhanced to deliver better results, faster, with greater accuracy. Quality Assurance (QA) checks are also improved due to the new intelligent TM technology. SDL Trados Studio 2021 also helps to complete jobs faster with enhanced display filtering.
- Personalize the experience: SDL AppStore is now accessible directly from within SDL Trados Studio 2021. Offering 200+ apps.
- Subscription-based licensing: You can now buy an annual subscription to SDL Trados Studio 2021 for both the Professional and Freelance editions, instead of paying upfront for the perpetual license.
https://www.sdl.com/about/news/2020/SDL-Launches-SDL-Trados-Studio-2021.html
WordPress.com publicly launched an all-new version of its remote work collaboration tool P2 — the “secret sauce” behind Automattic’s 15-year success as a fully distributed company, with over 1,200 employees working from 77 countries. It’s the first time that P2 has been released as a standalone product for small and large teams to collaborate. Automattic has built a refined version, which focuses on communication that is asynchronous, accessible across time zones, and allows teams to organize plans, projects, and big picture ideas, communicating across the entire company.
P2 is a companion to real-time tools like chat and videoconferencing. P2 can be used as internal blogs that move teams and organizations away from siloed email inboxes, and it helps minimize things “getting lost” in real-time chat. Teams working on any type of project together can write and post regular updates. Through comments on posts, teams can come to a consensus and decide together what to do next. They can share photos, videos, GIFs, and charts, or they can take a poll, and share quotes and summaries from the day’s work. P2 can be more broadly used as external team blogs to organize communities and events. P2 teams see updates on the web, via email notifications, and in the WordPress mobile apps. P2 is the glue that gives your team an identity and coherence. This current version of P2 is free for users, who can create as many P2 sites as they need. More premium features are coming soon.
Subscribe to the Gilbane Advisor
