Best Practice Collaboration for Business. Why, what and how...
Why?
Information management. Simplified. Personalised
Today managing your workflow - items in and items out - has become needlessly complex. Most of us are aware that...
the inbox is broken!
When email was invented it was designed to transmit brief messages. An electronic post-it note. It was something you checked, before you got on with your work - on the computer. Thirty years later - it has become the work you do on the computer!
As we embraced email, so did others. Spammers, family, friends and somewhere in the middle of that - the work you are meant to be doing. Managing this has become time consuming, productivity sapping and costly for your organisation.
Addressing this, along came enterprise solutions. First amongst equals was Lotus Notes followed by various others including Microsoft's Sharepoint. These platforms were labeled Document/Knowledge/Content Management Systems - heavyweight systems that required lots of investment in your time and your organisations money. And through their cost and complexity, the emails kept chugging along... Then along came Web 2.0...
People voted with their mice and started using Web 2.0 tools. First blogs, wiki's, then social network tools like Facebook and Twitter. But still, email is the defacto sharing platform...
We designed CORUS to address this
What's the Problem?
Let's ponder some typical work scenarios1. You manage multiple conversations on multiple topics with a variety of co-workers, clients and friends.
2. You work on multiple versions of documents, trying to keep track of which document version is current.
3. You share these files or wait for someone else to finish working on one. You spend time deciding where to file or which version to keep or delete.
4. Having finished you need to share the now 10Mb file. Then you have to track who read it and what comments/changes they may require.
5. You also spend time collecting information from the web on customers or researching topics or planning yourself a well deserved holiday. Along the way storing bookmarks or emailing links to others. Creating more items that need to be filed.
6. Finally you schedule a meeting to discuss all this. How many emails does that create?
Bottom line - we work in ways not supported by existing legacy applications
Read the McKinsey Quarterly's "How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0: McKinsey Global Survey Results"
How CORUS addresses it
At the heart of CORUS lies a simple concept - the topic.
Topic defn: Latin topica, and Greek ta topika, literally 'matters concerning commonplaces'.
It's simple
1. You create a topic. Says it's a project, a client job, a research topic. It's up to you.
2. You add contacts. An email is automatically sent. When clicked the topic opens in their browser.
3. Your collaborators then add messages, files, links and calendar events to the topic on CORUS.
Easy and intuitive. Most importantly, it's secure and private.
CORUS is designed to achieve Best Practice Collaboration by focusing on streamlining one critical thing - communications. It's no secret the success of FaceBook, Gmail, Twitter etc lies in their inherent simplicity. We took a leaf from their book.
What CORUS does
CORUS helps you manage the following
1. Activity feed - view your activity as a stream of incoming items
2. Email - access your emails from multiple web, office accounts
3. Calendars - create private and shared events
4. Files - upload and share easily - version management
5. Bookmarks - save and share web sites for research
6. Contacts - display all content you share on one page - presence aware
7. Projects - create, manage and assign To Do's and Milestones
8. Timetrack - manage budgets and your staff time easily
9. Mobile - access all the above via your Phone browser
All within your web browser. No download or installation. Fast and lightweight.
CORUS simplifies communications
With simplicity comes greater reach. And when you strip out complexity you slash costs. CORUS achieves this by consolidating your emails, files, links and calendar events around topics and people, everyone is literally on the same page... CORUS will help your people save time and lift your organisations productivity and accountability. And it's simplicity will deliver greater compliance.
The OptionsCORUS comes in 3 flavors and runs on...Open Source Software
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1. Hosted - we manage it
Best for a lightweight solution or if starting out to prove up a business case. You pay a small monthly fee and we host everything (in the cloud). No IT department required. Lower cost to start, faster time to value, lower cost for maintenance. |
2. Local - you manage it
We also offer a download and deploy version. Secured behind your firewall, accessible to your users via your LAN and the internet. This is our high performance version. 500Mb files can be uploaded and downloaded 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. |
3. Value Added Reseller
For a large or customised CORUS installation contact us and we can help or align you with a Value Added Reseller. Either way we can assist with implementation or customise the platform to suit your needs. Contact us for more info >> |