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Groove 3.0's Enterprise Management Server, the component that handles authentication, synchronization, and so on it is setup in-house or used as a hosted service. On the back end, I saw notable changes to I also successfully tried some of the tools for developing more advanced forms, which let me employ JavaScript to combine data from several Microsoft Access databases and present summary results in one concise form. The finished form, which can give an executive overview of sales figures, is then added to a workspace. Nontechnical users, such as financial planners who know Microsoft Excel, can take a Groove Forms template and modify it with the built-in graphical designer. The aforementioned functions take fewer steps and work faster than Groove 2.5, but the Forms tool received special attention in this release and thus should be of interest to businesspeople.

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From Windows Explorer I merely used the Folder Sync button to make folders available to others. As a result, users don't need to create a workspace or change their daily habits. The result: I had local copies of critical documents at hand, even when I was not connected to any network - and document changes were synchronized with the portal once I reconnected.ДЄdditionally, many Groove 3.0 services are exposed to the Windows file system. However, I easily added information from SharePoint to my Groove workspace. For example, normally you'd need a live connection to the portal to access remote documents. The SharePoint workspace exercised yet another Groove 3.0 strength: Users have the ability to work offline. In one case I combined contacts and workspaces in a single Launchbar view, then dragged and combined items in the order I wanted. This type of customization is easy to do. After subscribing to various workspaces, I customized alarms, such as a spoken message that will sound when a document related to a top-priority job gets updated. In the first case, beyond being able to share files on my PC, the workspace included a discussion board, workflow, listing of members who were part of the workspace and their presence status, a chat window, and common tasks such as setting alerts.ДЄlerts are very helpful, especially if you're juggling multiple projects. For instance, I extensively tested Document Workflow and Mobile Workspace for Microsoft SharePoint workspaces.

That a user can be productive without much training speaks to how well Groove Virtual Office's UI presents and integrates its many features. Just pick a workspace design, invite users, and you're soon ready to interact with far-flung colleagues. This version includes 13 prebuilt templates, ranging from documentation review and virtual meetings to status reporting. Next, I created various workspaces, which are Groove's central containers for organizing tasks along with tools needed to accomplish them. In about 30 minutes I'd added contacts from 's public directory server and categorized them into different folders and groups. The tabbed Groove Launchbar provides quick access to contacts and workspaces. Right away, Virtual Office 3.0 is useful. And this utility grows the more you use the software.

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Here's just one small example: After I created a Groove-enabled folder on my desktop PC with critical documents, the information was automatically synchronized with my laptop when I connected at an off-site meeting. The developers turned their obvious deep understanding of the virtual workplace into a solution that defines a new way of working.

Out of the box, the solution helps users share documents, track issues, hold ad-hoc meetings, and access legacy-system data.Д«ut my testing showed something larger: Groove Networks hasn't simply repackaged existing collaboration technology. Groove Virtual Office 3.0 sidesteps this costly customization.

Unfortunately, in order for remote workers to share information, companies need to invest in expensive infrastructures and extensive alterations to enterprise groupware applications. In large organizations it's common to find projects performed by people at widely separated locales.

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