OpenOffice.org / StarOffice Document Centric Collaboration

O3Spaces enables organizations to transform OpenOffice.org & StarOffice from stand-alone office suites into Web2.0 enterprise collaboration solutions. The O3Spaces functionality adds powerful collaboration and teamwork features to the OpenOffice.org & StarOffice suites, bringing them on par with the Microsoft Office stack.

The Workplace transforms your current 'collaboration processes' in order to assure that important documents and information do not become fragmented, lost, inaccurate or obsolete.

Integrated collaboration features

• Single click access to a managed, secure document repository
• Automated opening, locking, versioning and notification within OpenOffice.org / StarOffice.
• Integrated federated search
• Full ODF support

OpenOffice.org / StarOffice Template Management

By adding O3spaces template management module organisations can easily tackle the template management hurdles found in many environments.

O3Spaces template management extensions offers:

• A single controlled environment for both documents and document templates
• A single repository for managing OpenOffice.org / StarOffice macros and additional extensions.
• Automated creation of dynamic OpenOffice.org / StarOffice end-user menus
• Security, role based rights management governing the distriution, use and creation of templates, template structures and the personalized OpenOffice.org / StarOffice menu's.

O3Spaces Workplace Template Management
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Stacked Collaboration Solution

Open standards based SharePoint alternative

In many organisations the implementation of Microsoft SharePoint is perceived as another step deeper into the Microsoft stack lock-in. For those organisations O3Spaces offers a low-cost, open alternative. The O3Spaces Workplace provides the basic functions and a couple of extra’s needed to cover the key elements of SharePoint, while tackling navigation, and implementation issue’s found in SharePoint and it’s deployments.

O3Spaces Workplace benefits: 

• Integrates with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org / StarOffice, providing direct access to document collaboration functions
• Supporting mixed Office environments (Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org / StarOffice) for a seamless Office migration path 
• Automated check-in/ check-out, versioning and notification
• Integrated sophisticated Workspace navigation
• Integrated full text search engine
• Multiplatform
• Single step team creation based on LDAP standards (supporting Active Directory/OpenLDAP/Novell/Sun Directory Service)
• Full integration with e-mail calendaring solutions using open standards (roadmap 2008)
• Fast deployment

Integrated Corporate IP control

The O3Spaces Workplace software adds powerful document centric collaboration and teamwork features to offices suites making it possible to secure and control corporate IP found in documents.

• O3spaces Workplace transforms your current 'collaboration processes' in order to assure that important documents and information do not become fragmented, lost, inaccurate or obsolete.
• The Workplace makes teams aware of new documents being created and existing documents being changed
• The Workplace let's you secure documents using existing authorisation schemes
• The primary collobaration features are made available within your Office Suite, making large implementations possible by sticking to the familiar Office Suite environment and avoiding the need to train on another application.