Out with the Old, in with the Nuospace –
BrightSide Launches Beta Version of Business Wiki for Everyone
Nuospace Makes Tech Beginners Feel Like Experts, Challenges Email
as New Standard of Collaboration
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (Business Wire EON) March 18, 2008 --
BrightSide Software launched its beta version of Nuospace
– a business wiki for everyone –
offering a new form of office collaboration at the Web Ventures
conference in Silicon Valley today.
Nuospace is a Web-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) collaboration tool
for small-midsize companies enabling team members to publish and share
all forms of business content in a secure community environment.
Nuospace is designed with technology beginners in mind as a
simple-to-use, cost-effective alternative to corporate intranets and
shared hard drives. The low cost and ease of use also come with a new
level of functionality, as Nuospace goes beyond current wikis, which
support only documents and comments, to also include social content such
as blogs and e-newsletters as individual wiki pages.
“If you asked most businesses what they use to
collaborate, store and share information, the overwhelming answer would
be email,” said Dimitri Lisitski, CEO and
co-founder of BrightSide. “As a result,
inboxes are unmanageable and information is stored ad hoc, becoming
inaccessible to most team members. Nuospace offers a secure community
environment to store and share business content, turning information
into a company asset instead of a liability. Nuospace’s
simplicity encourages widespread team adoption, while the added
functionality of supporting all business content as a wiki will delight
our users.”
Analysts have offered their outlook on Nuospace and the increased
business adoption of Web-based collaboration tools:
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Chris Shipley, Guidewire Group:
"Nuospace enters a busy, competitive market. Yet its focus on the
needs of small businesses – a focus that
drives a clear feature set and superior usability - gives Nuospace a
strong advantage in the market. Using Nuospace, work groups can
quickly, and at no initial cost, create shared workspaces, share
documents and engage with one another. Nuospace fills a gap between
business wikis and content-management sites, delivering just the right
and focused tools to help teams get their work done."
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Forrester: Expect the adoption of social-networking solutions for
businesses to accelerate dramatically in 2008, with many firms looking
for internal social-networking solutions.*
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Forrester: CIOs will concede that they cannot quell passionate
employees' use of consumer-oriented or software-as-a-service Web 2.0
tools and will mitigate risk by deploying enterprise-class tools in
their stead.*
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AMI Partners - The number of small- to midsize companies using
software as a service in 2007 doubled over 2004.**
The Nuospace beta is offered for free at http://go.nuospace.com.
Nuospace will launch in June 2008, and will be free up to 200 megabytes
with an unlimited number of users. For added memory, Nuospace will cost
$50 per month. Nuospace is a Web-based, software-as-a-service
application with an installed server version coming this fall.
* Top Enterprise Web 2.0 Predictions for 2008, Forrester
** 2008 U.S. Small and Medium Business Applications &
Solutions Market Overview, AMI Partners
About BrightSide Software
Founded in June 2007, BrightSide Software focuses on the Web office and
the enterprise software market shift toward user-driven
software-as-a-service (SaaS) products. BrightSide’s
new breed of Web-based products brings large scale enterprise solutions
to small-midsize businesses (SMBs). BrightSide products are rooted in
user interface simplicity, a SaaS service model, minimum administration
and configuration effort, simple workflow models and "plug-and-play"
integration with other SaaS solutions and existing IT infrastructure.
The Nuospace wiki implements this vision addressing the core need of
SMBs to have a single shared corporate workspace that facilitates
collaboration and makes information a company asset.
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