FAQ's

CORUS Features

Multiple applications - one place


1. Activity feed - view activities as a stream
2. Calendars - private and shared calendars
3. Files - cloud based or locally hosted
4. Bookmarks - save and share sites with our bookmarklet
5. Contacts - consolidated view of shared items
6. Projects - one page project view
7. Tasks and Milestones - Assign and manage tasks
8. Mobile - access via your phone or iPad

All in your web browser. Fast and lightweight.

The Options

CORUS comes in 2 flavors and runs on...Open Source Software
Frontend - CSS and Javascript jQuery library
Backend - PHP ZEND Framework
Storage - MySQL or equivalent
SaaS version hosted at US based data centers

1. Hosted - we manage it

Best for a lightweight solution or starting out. For a monthly fee we host everything (in the cloud).

No IT department required.

Lower cost to start, faster time to value, zero maintenance.

2. Local - you manage it

We also offer a download and deploy version. Secured behind your firewall, accessible to users via LAN and the internet.

Our high performance version. 500Mb files can be shared in seconds.

Your data sits behind your firewall - secure and backed up to your specifications.

An Enterprise Service Level Agreement guarantees our obligations and your rights.

Best Practice Collaboration for Business. Why, what and how...

Why?

Managing workflow has become needlessly complex.

The inbox is broken!

Email, designed to transmit brief messages, was something you checked before you did your work. Today it has become the work!

Managing work via email is time consuming, productivity sapping and costly.

We designed CORUS to fix this. Information management. Simplified. Personalised

The Problem

Working from the inbox

Email is a great tool to send one message or one file. No argument there.

However working from just your inbox on projects can quickly become overwhelming. Information is stored in multiple places. Disjointed and unorganized. To address this, enterprise systems then Web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, file sharing, discussion boards) have been deployed to help teams work together. Some are costly and difficult to implement, others free but lacking mission critical features. In the end - just more information to manage locked away on silos.

Our secret sauce is to achieve Best Practice Collaboration by making sharing, simple and fast. To deliver this, we designed CORUS to perform 8 distinct Web 2.0 tasks. In one place.

Investigate the real costs of email and the ROI of collaboration.

How CORUS addresses the problem

Move beyond email

Most of what we work on usually revolves around a topic. We designed CORUS around that simple concept.

Topic defn: Latin topica, and Greek ta topika, literally 'matters concerning commonplaces'.

It's surprisingly simple

1. First create a topic. A project, a client job or a research topic.

2. Next invite contacts with their email address. Notifications are sent containing a link. When clicked the topic opens in their browser. No complicated signup.

3. Collaborators then share messages, upload files, save bookmarks, set tasks and calendar events within the topic on CORUS.

Easy and intuitive. Secure and private.

Explore in depth, how CORUS helps manage collaboration.

Who uses CORUS?

People who want to work smarter

Our customers are businesses who perform a range of economic activities around the application of knowledge and information. They work in marketing, advertising, hospitality, education, architecture, publishing, accounting, banking, technology and range from small consultancies through to very large enterprises.

Read some case studieson our blog.