CARLSBAD, Calif., Jan. 20, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Akiva, a leading developer of collaboration technology, announced today the immediate availability of a new version of WebBoard(tm) , the company's popular Web-based collaboration server. WebBoard 7.0 updates WebBoard 6.1 with features that track recent trends in online collaboration including blogging, RSS/XML feeds (inbound and outbound), calendaring, polling, message ratings, and a SOAP (Web Services) interface.
Other key WebBoard features include Web-based discussion forums, email discussion lists, News (NNTP) discussions, instant messaging, chat rooms and whiteboards. WebBoard has tightly integrated all of these tools into one easy-to-administer, Microsoft Windows-based server, which provides access control, moderation, reporting, searching and customization across all of the tools. By integrating all the common collaboration tools into one platform, WebBoard significantly reduces the costs and time required to establish a collaboration solution.
WebBoard is used extensively within education and corporate environments to create virtual classrooms, for internal project collaboration, for establishing standards and best practices and for customer support applications. The new XML and SOAP interfaces enable tighter integration of the product into other enterprise applications. These strengths, and the standards-based customization features, have made the product popular with integrators, value added resellers, software developers and IT managers.
Pricing for WebBoard starts at $3,995 (USD) for a single server license that supports up to 500 concurrent users. Akiva offers free standard support and optional premium phone support and upgrade protection. Upgrade pricing from previous versions of WebBoard is also available. WebBoard was among the very first web-based collaboration products when first introduced to the market in 1994 and remains one of the most feature rich online collaboration products available today.
About Akiva(r)
Akiva's technology and services enable organizations to collect ideas from employees, customers, partners and suppliers to dramatically improve business performance through rapid innovation. The company's ideaCenter(tm) enterprise software product enable teams to successfully contribute, share and track ideas that produce revenue or reduce expenses. The company also publishes the WebBoard(tm), WebMeeting(tm)and ChatSpace(r) products and provides professional services to assist organizations in deploying effective online collaboration solutions. The company's clients include major corporate customers in financial services, manufacturing, technology and online media as well as major educational institutions and non-profit organizations. For more information, visit www.akiva.com.
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