Archive-name: comp-groupware-faq/products2
Last-modified: 1994.5.4
Version: 2.1
Copyright: 1994 (c) David S. Stodolsky, PhD


Groupware Products - Part 2
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Mac Groupware Yellow Pages
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Updates and additions must go to: consensus@netcom.com

This is from the "PRODUCTS" section from the the August edition of the
"Mac Groupware Yellow Pages". I limit this list to shipping products that
are commercially available to any buyer. It is missing a few of the other
meeting scheduling packages, I hope to have a better list of these in the
next edition. If you know of other Mac products that you think should be
on the list, let me know.

I am also starting to collect information on MS-DOS, Windows, and OS/2
groupware software packages, for a listing the PC Groupware Yellow Pages,
to be released mid-fall. If you are a publisher of a product in this
category, please send me a 50 word description, price, phone, fax, email
and postal addresses.

The electronic version of the "Groupware Yellow Pages" are free, and are
a public service of Consensus Development. I have previously offered to
fax or send a paper edition of the "Groupware Yellow Pages" for free,
however, the number of requests I've had are making this cost prohibitive
(in particular international requests.) I'll try to work out some type of
distribution policy for fax and paper copies of the "Groupware Yellow
Pages" in the next few months.

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MAC GROUPWARE PRODUCTS
Copyright (c)1992 Consensus Development--All Rights Reserved.
Permission is granted to reproduce as long this notice is included.

*Aspects (Version 1.03) Aspects allows up to 16 people to work together
interactively whether they are in the same room or spread around the
world. Members of a work-group can bring documents from their own
Macintosh into the conference, everyone can see those documents on their
screen, anyone can make changes to them, and those changes are
immediately visible to everyone in the conference. Aspects has a complete
set of word processing, drawing, and painting tools built in. COST: $299
for a single user, $895 for 5 user pack. Group Technologies
(703)528-1555; f(703)528-3296 AL:Group.Tech AO:ReidLewis
IN:reidlewis@aol.com

*FirstClass (Version 2.0) FirstClass is an integrated email and
conferencing system with a graphical user interface(similar to America
Online or AppleLink.) FirstClass provides threaded conferences, unlimited
attachments, styled text in messages, a powerful search engine, and
gateways to other mail systems such as the Internet, Usenet News, and
CompuServe. FirstClass runs equally well over modem or AppleTalk network,
so employees on the road and customers can keep in touch. Non-Macintosh
users can access via the PC Interface Option. COST: 5 network users $395,
25 users $995, 100 dial-in only users $395, PC Interface Option $295, 4
additional modem ports $595, 4 modem ports with Hurdler card $896.
SoftArc Inc. (416) 299-4723; f(416) 754-1856; BBS (416) 609-2250
AL:CDA0674 AO:SoftArc IN:softarc@aol.com

*Inforum (Version 1.0 ) Inforum assists office communications and the
decision making process.Unlike EMail, it facilitates the on-going
communication between members of the office by organizing, streamlining
and documenting the meeting process. With Inforum, people use their
computers to participate in on-going subjects from their desktop. It
enables them to participate when they want to and in the privacy of their
own office. COST: $495 for admin & 5 users, $245 for additional 5 users.
MacVONK USA (215) 660-0606; f(215)668-4360 AL:MacVONK.USA
IN:macvonk@applelink.apple.com

*In/Out (Version 1.01 ) An electronic in/out board which allows users to
instantly know who is in or out, where they are, when they're returning,
and why they're gone. In/Out can also be used to track the availability
of company vehicles, conference rooms and other company resources. COST:
$299.95/10 user pack, $199.95/5 user pack. CE Software, Inc. (515)
224-1995; f(515)224-4534 AL:CESoftware AO: CESoftware CS:76136,2137
IN:cesoftware@aol.com GE:CE.Software MCI:CESoftware

*Instant Update (Version 1.0) Instant Update fills a gap between word
processing and electronic mail. The gap exists because static word
processing files can't keep up with evolving information, and electronic
mail is not built to consolidate replies. Instant Update allows an
exchange of information within the context of a document. Everyone sees
everyone else's additions and changes. It eliminates many of the
time-consuming steps as you struggle to turn fast-changing information
into group decisions and actions. With a live document, you know you've
got the latest version, whether you open it at nine in the morning or
five in the afternoon. COST: $495 per two-user pack and $995 per
five-user pack. ON Technology (617) 876-0900; f(617) 876-0391
AL:ON.Marketing AO:OnTech IN:ontech@aol.com

*Marco Polo (Version 2.0) Marco Polo is a group document management
system for archiving, retrieving and sharing documents. Reduce paper
clutter and manage your documents better. Quickly find and display all
documents relating to a given topic--even if they were created by
different applications. Marco Polo compresses and indexes documents to
facilitate rapid search and retrieval. COST: $395 per user. Mainstay
(818) 991-6540; f(818) 991-4587 AL:D0397 CN:Mainstay CS:76004,1525
GE:Mainstay IN:d0397@applelink.apple.com MCI:284-4985

*MarkUp (Version 2.0) MarkUp enables one or more people to simultaneously
comment on a document electronically--even if they don't have the
application that created it. Reviewers make their marks on an overlay on
each page in the document. When they are done, just merge the their
overlays to combine comments. MarkUp provides tools to rewrite,correct,
manage, approve, and annotate documents using text, voice or QuickTime
video, as well as editing tools for free-standing text, pop-up notes,
highlite, strike out, lines, arrows, ovals, rectangles, and polygons, and
proofreaders' marks. COST: $195 per user. AL:D0397 CN:Mainstay
CS:76004,1525 GE:Mainstay IN:d0397@applelink.apple.com MCI:284-4985

*Meeting Maker (Version 1.5 ) Meeting Maker is a network application that
helps you plan, schedule, and confirm meetings without leaving your
computer. You can schedule a time and date, select required guests,
reserve rooms and resources, and prepare agendas with co-workers. If
you're in a hurry, Meeting Maker's Auto-Pick feature will find the first
available time for all required attendees. The Proxy feature allows you
to designate other users to act on your behalf. Calendars can now be
exported to Sharp Wizard, Casio Boss, and HP-95LX personal organizers.
COST: $495 per five-user pack and $895 per ten-user pack. ON Technology
(617) 876-0900; f(617) 876-0391 AL:On.Marketing AO:OnTech
IN:ontech@aol.com

*Now Up-to-Date (Version 1.0.1) Now Up-to-Date is a calendar application
that lets individuals coordinate calendar events with their associates
over the network. Calendars can be moade up of a combination of both
Private & Public (shared) Events. Public events are stored both on the
server and on your Mac so you can access your calendar even when you're
not connected to the network. COST: $99 per user. Now Software (503)
274-2800; f(503)274-0670 AL:NowSoftware
IN:nowsoftware@applelink.apple.com

*PacerForum (Version 1.01) PacerForum is a network conferencing product,
enabling members of a group to easily share ideas and coordinate
activities. As a conferencing tool, PacerForum can be used to plan a
project or to brainstorm on a problem, reducing the need for meetings. As
a bulletin board, it can be used to build and maintain collective lists
or to distribute information and files. COST: $549/5 user pack, $1995/25
user pack. Pacer Software (508)898-3300; f(508)366-1356 AL:Pacer
IN:support@ pacersoft.com

*PersonToPerson (Version 1.0) PersonToPerson mirrors "traditional" office
interactions. You can send voice messages across the network, you can
check an electronic In/Out board, and send 'Post-it Notes' to another
persons screen. You can also tracking appointments, send files, and
electronically chat with other users. Person-to-Person does not require a
file server or network administrator, and when using a PowerBook it will
delay sending of messages until re-connected to a network. COST: $149 for
2 user pack, $399 for 10 user pack, $699 for zone pack Asante
Technologies (800) 662-9686; (408) 752-8388; f(408)734-4864 AL:D2766 IN:
D2766@applelink.apple.com

..Christopher Allen                  Consensus Development Corporation..
..<consensus@netcom.com>                         4104-24th Street #419..
..                                        San Francisco, CA 94114-3615..
..                                        o415/647-6383  f415/647-6384..
..Mosaic/World-Wide-Web Front Door:                                   ..
..ftp://netcom7.netcom.com/pub/consensus/www/ConsensusFrontDoor.html  ..


UNIX groupware applications
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From: garfinke@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Dan Garfinkel)
Subject: Re: Does groupware exist?
Date: 19 May 92 16:14:15 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA

There is an "application sharing" system available for HP workstations and
X terminals call HP SharedX.  It allows multiple users to interact with X
based applications over wide area networks (including serial lines and ISDN)
as though they were in the same office.  Only the "sender" of the application
need the HP SharedX software, "recievers" only need an X capable display.
A single user liscense lists for $495US with substantial discounts for multi-
user liscenses.

This system has been available for about a year and is in wide use in a few
companies, including within HP.  A good write-up on SharedX (and some other
groupware applications) appears in a special issue of UnixWorld, called
Interoperability 1992, page 33-37 (published in May, I believe).  Other
references on HP SharedX are available from me on request.

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A groupware spreadsheet called eXclaim! is available for many Unix boxes.
It lets several people edit the same spreadsheet simultaneously, without
stepping on each others' toes.  Please contact danm@qsp.com for more
info.  (Twin Sun helped implement it, so I'm not unbiased.)

eXclaim!'s groupware features were built using a groupware software
toolkit called COeX, which is intended for use by software developers to
build their own groupware, either from scratch or by ``groupwarizing''
existing applications.  Please contact request@twinsun.com for more info.

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Try XTV, which "taps" the connection between the client and the server
and therefore doesn't require source, special libraries, customized
servers, etc.  You'll find it on the R5 contrib-2 tape or it can be
FTP'd from xanth.cs.odu.edu:/wahab/xtv.r2.tar.Z.

: Mark A. Feit, Software Engineer : Internet: feit@era.com          :
: Engineering Research Associates : USENET: ...!uunet!era!feit      :

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From: tvv@ncsc.org (Terry Myerson)
Subject: Re: Experience with Communique from Insoft Inc. ?
Date: 15 Oct 92 15:59:38 GMT
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center

ShowMe is specifically a shared shetckpad application.  Shared X
allows user to share entire X sessions.

I prefer a public domain sketckpad to ShowMe, called Wscrawl.
Wscrawl is written by Brian Wilson of Apple Computer in his
free time.

I have placed binaries and source code for Wscrawl on the
International AVS Center anonymous ftp site :

ftp 128.109.178.23 ( avs.ncsc.org )
anonymous
email
cd pub/wscrawl
ls :

sgi.wscrawl.Z   SGI binary
hp.wscrawl.Z   HP 700 binary
ibm.wscrawl.Z   IBM RS 6000 binary
wscrawl.shar.Z   Source Code
apple.wscrawl.Z   AUX binary
wscrawl_tech_paper.ps.Z  Paper on the sketchpad implementation
sun.wscrawl   Sun binary

Likewise, we prefer a public domain shared X utility called XTV -
I can provide more info on this if someone requests it as well.
XTV runs on many different platforms.  It is developed by
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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From: sylvia@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Group editor for Suns
Date:   Fri, 5 Feb 1993 02:09:36 PST

There's also a set of tools (group editor, sketch tool, etc.)from Xtel
services of Nottingham.  They're a small company, but I believe their tools
are being used in the MICE project, so they might be available.  Contact
g.lunt@xtel.co.uk>

Sylvia Wilbur

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Fri Feb  5 15:40:44 1993
Date:   Fri, 5 Feb 1993 06:15:25 PST
From: Martin Beer <M.D.Beer@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Group editor for Suns

> >I am involved in a project of our psych dept in which the effectiveness of
> >business meetings in face-to-face vs. computer-mediated interaction will be
> >compared. They want to study joint document editing tasks in which all
> >participants can see and change the document, and communicate via a common
> >"talk" window.

> >Which CSCW software can you recommend for this purpose that run on Sun
> >Sparcstations (is it feasible to do it on IPCs)? The program should be
> >easily usable by computer novices.

The Andrew multimedia editor ez provides most of the functionality you require.

You can certainly concurrently edit documents, and there is a talk
feature somewhere.

It is reasonably easy to use, and customised applications can  be built
readily/.

It works well on Sparcstations.

Dr. Martin Beer,
Department of Computer Science,         Telephone 051-794-3672
University of Liverpool,                Fax: 051-794-3715
Chadwick Tower, P.O. Box 147,           EMail mdb@uk.ac.liverpool.compsci
LIVERPOOL.  L69 3BX. United Kingdom.

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        Also take a look at BBN/Slate from BBN (educational license around
US $100). For further details contact Pam Gazley (pazley@bbn.com).

 J C McCarthy, V C Miles, A F Monk, "An Experimental Study in
Common Ground in Text-based Communication", in Proc. of CHI'91,
ACM Press,pp209-217, New Orleans, 28 Apr-2 May 1991.

Tony Plant                    | BNR Europe Ltd, Harlow, Essex, UK, CM17 9NA
(aka T.A.Plant@bnr.co.uk)     | Tel : +44 279 402109 (ESN 742 2109)

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Date:   Fri, 5 Feb 1993 07:45:00 PST
From: Paul Dourish <Dourish@europarc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: Group editor for Suns
Organisation: Rank Xerox EuroPARC, Cambridge, UK
Phone: +44 223 341512

ShowMe is a shared paint-style program, rather than allowing text
editing. It provides a feature allowing bitmap images from elsewhere
on the screen to be captured and annotated, but only using paint
facilities.

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John Bazik: >window-sharing systems for X                       4 Feb 93 16:38
In article <1993Feb4.160703.10602@walter.bellcore.com>,
Tom Brinck <hammer@thumper.bellcore.com> writes:
|>
|> xmx:  Obtain it from wilma.cs.brown.edu

Xmx works with *any* window manager, *any* X client(s) and *any* X server(s).

John

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Virtual Notebook System
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A commercial groupware product is The Virtual Notebook System, sold by
 The ForeFront Group, Inc.
 1709 Dryden, Suite 901
 Houston, TX 77030
 Voice: 713-790-9051
 FAX: 713-798-4602
 EMail: groupwork@wilkins.bcm.tmc.edu

  VNS runs a server on a Unix (Ultrix, AIX, IRIS, NEWS-OS, SunOS) box,
and clients under Unix with X Windows (DECwindows window manager, NCD's
ncdwm, Solbourne's swm, Sun's OpenWindows, twm, or mwm), MS-DOS +
Windows, and Apple Macintosh.  Data is stored in a database: ndbm,
Sybase SQL Server, or Ingres.


VisionQuest
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From: eyu@hamlet.umd.edu (Ellen Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Need software for brainstorming and problem solving.
Date: 15 Oct 92 13:40:48 GMT

We use VisionQuest from CTC here at the University of Maryland.  We've used
parts of it in an academic setting and we've used it a lot for decision
making.  I find it to be very flexible.  There are 9 tools and I will try
to briefly describe their capability:

    brainwriting
      provides brainstorming capability.  everyone basically can "talk"
      at the same time by typing in their answers.  A collective group
      list is displayed in realtime.  Part of each participant's screen
      is their "private" area to type and the other part reflects the
      groups answers.
    comment cards
      This tool is similar to brainwriting except that you provide topics
      and then allow the participants to comment on them.  This is a good
      tool for getting feedback on things or gathering opinions.
    subgroup
      This tool allows you to define the number of items you can pick from
      a list.  You define their significance (most important, most significant,
      worst, etc.)
    point allocation
      You define the maximum number of "widgets" that can be allocated and
      the participants allocate those among the given alternatives.  This
      can be used as $ in a budgeting exercise (as an example).
    scoring
      This is a multi-criteria tool.  You define the criteria and weighting
      and then the participants score (the scale is defined by you) based
      on these criteria.  The score is then normalized.
    voting
      This is a yes, no, abstain tool.  You get a count of number of yes,
      number of no, and the number of abstain.
    rating
      The participants rate all alternatives listed in this tool.  You
      set the rating scale and what it signifies.  Group average is
      displayed.
    ranking
      You rank a list by physically moving items around in the list.
    compactor
      You set up categories and each participant puts each alternative
      in the category they feel it belongs in.  You get a frequency count
      of how many people put each item in each category.

This is my attempt to describe the tools (I did not go and dig out the
manual and type what it says in the manual).

One of the most important features of this tool is that all input is ANONYMOUS.

All the input from one tool can be imported (with various filter capabilities)
to another exercise.  All the people I've had use it love the tool.  It
handles the anytime, anyplace scenario although we use it mostly in the
same time, same place scenario.

Yes, there are some things I don't like about it (in regards to the
user interface), but I must say the company has listened to our comments
and are working on changes.  The basic functionality that this tool
provides is great.

It runs in DOS right now (or in a DOS session in Windows).  They are currently
working on a Windows version.

This is a hard tool to try and describe (any groupware tool usually is).
You have to really "experience" it in order to understand how it works.

If you want more information on the product, you can call CTC at
(512) 794-8858.

No - I do not work for CTC - I'm just a satisfied customer.

I'd be happy to correspond through email in more detail with anyone who has
specific questions about VisionQuest.

Ellen

--
    Ellen Yu, AT&T Teaching Theater         Phone: (301) 403-4623 office
    Computer Science Center, Univ. of MD           (301) 403-4628 Fax
    4321 Hartwick Rd., Suite 500            Internet: eyu@umd5.umd.edu
    College Park, MD  20740                 Compuserve: 71641,1764


From: kwlyon@aol.com (KWLyon)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Group Decision Support Products?
Date: 18 Mar 1994 13:31:05 -0500

[...]

VisionQuest is vended by Collaborative Systems Corp of Austin Texas, phone 800
856 MEET.  This product is simpler and easier to learn than GroupSystems, in my
opinion.  I think of this vendor as the new kid on the block, tho they've been
around now for 4 years or so, under various names.

Ken Lyon, consultant.


Date:         Sun, 22 May 1994 19:00:32 +0200
Reply-To: Group Support Systems <GSS-L@UGA.BITNET>
From: Jonathan Miller <JMILLER@UCTVAX.UCT.AC.ZA>
Subject:      Re: Users of VisionQuest for Windows.
To: Multiple recipients of list GSS-L <GSS-L@UGA.BITNET>

I have used VQ for Windows abit, but first reactions from some users are that
the DOS versions is much more friendly!

For everyone's info I spoke to Pierre at Intellect, who acquired CTC's assets
about three weeks ago. They appear to be committed to supporting and developing
VQ . Pierre claims that they will have a revamped VQ for Windows available by Ju
ne/July.

The CTC 800 number is now routed to Intellect.

Jonathan Miller
Centre for IS
University of Cape Town


Mac Brainstorming tools
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From: moseley@ra.csc.ti.com (Warren Moseley)
Subject: Re: Need software for brainstorming and problem solving.
Date: 15 Oct 92 21:28:15 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments

Check out two Macintosh tools.  One is Fair Witness and the other is
Inspiration. I have used both of these tools to capture and display the
results of a JAD.  I used these tools to scribe the JAD, and this allowed
interactive display of the results as we proceeded.  Inspiriation is
excellent for Mind Maps. You can obtain more information about these
tools from the FAX FACTS line at MacWarehouse. I have used them both
successfully, and I am pleased with both.  I dont work for either company.

Any more questions you can contact me at
moseley@ra.csc.ti.com      214-995-1641

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Fair Witness is put out by Chena Software, Inc. 905 Harrison Steet
Allentown, Pa. 18103.  215-770-1210.

Inspiration Software, Inc., POB 1629, Portland, OR 97207, USA.
Tel: 1 503 245 9011.

MORE, Euclid, and InControl also fit this category. 
See excellent reviews in TidBits. (DSS)

grapeVINE
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From: brookes@aix00.csd.unsw.OZ.AU (Prof Cyril Brookes)
Subject: grapeVINE: Request for expressions of interest in research or pilots
Organization: University of New South Wales
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1992 09:47:54 GMT


grapeVINE - A new "value-added" information sharing product for

            Unix, OS/2 and VMS servers on standard LANs with

         Windows, Macs, OS/2 workstations, and email terminals


    Call for Expressions of Interest in Research and Pilot projects.


grapeVINE is the result of a long running research project at the
University of New South Wales in Australia.  It is a new software product
which introduces novel groupware technology to support information
sharing across and within groups, with a focus on "different time,
different place" applications.  After substantial alpha and beta testing
it is now commercially available with a number of sites in Australia,
and one in the US.

grapeVINE is creating some of the first databases of soft information
discussions (ideas, opinions, news, suggestions, forecasts, problems,
etc. plus their assessments) as a by-product of normal business and
government agency professional and executive work.  Research areas we
are starting to canvass using these databases are related to:

     Improving issue escalation and the assessment process of news,
     ideas, opinions, rumors, etc. in an organization

     Linking related soft and hard information, in market intelligence,
     technology awareness, account management, etc.

     Incorporating soft information into EIS

     Understanding the "cultural impact" of introducing information
     sharing tools to different types of organization

     Reducing repeated problem solving through better communication.

University and other groupware research departments may be interested in
installing and evaluating grapeVINE and in working with the results we
will be developing over the next year or two as our customer sites gain
experience.

Research groups may want to compare this technology with others
available, and assess benefits of linking grapeVINE with conventional
conferencing, email and other products. Although we cannot offer the
software free, due to the support needed to make it effective, we do
offer special arrangements to Universities.

We also offer pilot installation opportunities to corporations,
government agencies and consulting groups that want to evaluate the
grapeVINE technology and its relevance to their operations.  This
service includes the necessary consulting to integrate grapeVINE into
their activities and with other products already installed such as
conferencing, email and library systems.  User groups can extend from 50
to several thousand.

Contact me, or Dave Wilkie in Atlanta, at the addresses below if you are
interested in one of these roles, or would like further details. Below
is an overview of grapeVINE.


Cyril Brookes

***********************************************************************


                          grapeVINE - Overview

grapeVINE is able to index, prioritize, selectively disseminate, and
store for retrieval a wide variety of information in text or document
form.  In addition, it supports commenting and other forms of added-
value items such as ideas, opinions and rumors.  A database with multi-
threaded links is created to associate related items.

Users maintain their own interest profiles, using keywords drawn from a
thesaurus that is also the basis of the indexing procedure.  Item
importance is also used as a parameter for profile building and
selective distribution.

The information items that can be automatically "seeded" into grapeVINE
for classification and distribution include news, Internet items,
email messages, questions, rumors, graphics, spreadsheets, CD-ROM
documents, reports and forecasts.  The comments and other items
originating direct from professionals using the system may include
assessments, suggestions and problems.  Delivery, and commenting,
escalation, etc. can be by workstation or electronic mail.

Application of these concepts can be valuable in many executive,
professional and decision support environments including market
intelligence, technology and current affairs awareness, problem
management and project coordination.  Automatic (ie undirected) message
routing is also valuable in large networks.

grapeVINE operates as a client server system on Unix, OS/2, VMS servers,
with Windows, Macs, OS/2 clients across standard networks.  The email
interface allows remote or unskilled users to have access.  A VAX
mainframe version with vt100 terminals, with or without ALL-IN-1,is also
available.

A multi-server capability selectively transfers items between LANS based
on common interests, avoiding the load impact of full replication, and
supports cross server alerting, discussions, and security.


In North America, please contact Dave Wilkie at:
               Office Express Inc.,
               PO Box 80646,
               Atlanta, GA 30366-0646
               Tel/Fax: (404) 977 3126
               Email: dwilkie@attmail.com

In Australia, please contact Cyril Brookes at:
               Institute of Information Techonology, University of NSW
               Level 15, Tower 1
               Bondi Junction Plaza, 2022
               Tel: +61 2 389 4800
               Fax: +61 2 387 8585
               Email: brookes@cumulus.csd.unsw.oz.au

EQUITY
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EQUITY from ICL.  It is commonly used for a variety of resource allocation
problems in decision conferencing.


Show Business
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From: morel@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Morel Fourman")
Subject: Show Business: interactive front end to edit/report/display Notes
information
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 12:37:06 GMT

People from COMP.GROUPWARE have asked for information on Show Business 
since my posting on EIS and Notes.  Here it is.

SHOW BUSINESS
THE INTERACTIVE FRONT-END FOR REPORTING AND DISPLAY OF LOTUS NOTES BASED 
INFORMATION
Show Business lets you build intuitive and powerful front-end 
applications to browse, edit, query and analyze Lotus Notes based 
information.  

Use Show Business to make information easy to use and understand.  
Monitor workflow and other information in Lotus Notes and other business 
systems including accounting, sales automation, contact management, 
databases, spreadsheets and multidimensional models.  Show Business is 
the systems integration tool to deliver your client/server Enterprise 
Information System (EIS).

INTUITIVE NAVIGATION 
The applications which you build in Show Business are easy to use.  
Training is often unnecessary.  Users click on icons, chart bars or text 
menus to move from screen to screen.  
[Picture of screen showing pictures as hot spots]

CLIENT/SERVER 
Create client applications which read from and write to Notes databases.  
Make textual and numeric information easy to understand and use.
[Picture of screen showing charted information from a single Notes 
document, together with fields which can be clicked on to modify the 
value of the data in selected Notes document]

DOCUMENT WORKFLOW
Document workflow processes using simple or complex diagrams.
[Flow diagram of workflow]

ANALYZE WORKFLOW
Analyze a sales pipeline by area or view any other workflow profile to 
show what is really happening in your business processes.
[Chart showing sales pipeline as workflow status by area]

SLICE AND DICE
Give users a simple intuitive way to answer their own questions - 
instantly.  Users can point and click to make ad-hoc queries onto a Notes 
database. 
[Screen containing above chart with dialog overlaid to allow sales 
pipeline to be seen by area, by year, or by project name]

BUSINESS DASHBOARDS
A single screen can contain multiple charts each showing different 
business information.  
[Dashboard screen showing three different charts each of which shows 
another dimension of a business situation]

INSTANT STATISTICS
Choose the right statistic for a cross tabulation table, or let your 
users point and click to perform their own analysis.
[Picture of dialog box offering choice of statistics]

DEFINE YOUR OWN CHARTS
Only Show Business lets you define charts graphically and then save them 
as style sheets.  Use charts from the Show Business library or design 
your own.
[Picture of sophisticated chart combining two line chart series with two 
overlay bar chart series - hard to describe, but very useful]

GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS
The Show Business chart library includes many options including the 
'bubble chart' used for analysis of marketing information.
[Picture of bubble chart]

PRESENTATION QUALITY
Show Business screens look great, so you can use them for electronic 
presentations, print them for overhead transparencies, or copy them for 
inclusion in a word processed report.
[Picture of 3d perspective bar chart with graduated background]

DESIGNING FRONT-END APPLICATIONS FOR LOTUS NOTES USING SHOW BUSINESS
With Show Business, you build applications graphically, so they are easy 
to prototype, build and maintain - without programming.  It's easy to 
make your applications look and feel good to users.  It's also easy to 
extend them beyond Notes information to include information from many 
sources including spreadsheets, SQL databases and multidimensional 
models.  You can even develop your own Dynamic Linked Libraries (DLLs) to 
make your Show Business application do just about anything!

AUTHORING - TO DEFINE THE INTERACTIVE STRUCTURE
The Authoring View of Show Business lets you structure the screens in 
your application into menus and submenus in a standard outliner. To 
change the position of a screen in the menu structure, you just drag and 
drop.

Using the Authoring View, you can design a menu structure of twenty or 
thirty screens in a few minutes.
[Picture of Authoring View which shows an outline (tree) of miniature 
screens from a Show Business application].

DESIGNING SCREENS
The Screen Editor View of Show Business lets you combine charts, text, 
annotations, pictures, images and even multimedia.  Charts and text 
objects can contain information from Lotus Notes.  Your Show Business 
application can even write back changes to a Notes database or add new 
documents to it.

Designing screens in the Screen Editor View is as easy as designing 
slides using presentation software.
[Picture of Screen Editor View which has a toolbar including chart, 
textchart, boxtext, annotation, picture,  box, circle, line and arrow 
tools etc.]

BUTTONS - MAKING YOUR APPLICATION INTERACTIVE
Any object in Show Business, from the bar of a chart to a bitmap picture, 
can be a button or hot spot.  

The Button Setup dialog for an object defines what will happen when the 
user clicks on that object.  For example, clicking on a button could 
print the current screen, copy it to the clipboard, or move to the next 
record of a Notes database and update the current screen.
[Picture of Button Setup dialog which allows user to set navigation 
property of object, script for object, etc]

Pricing: Show Business Developer License, version 2.1 $495.  

Show Business Software
1 Centerpointe Drive
Suite 210, La Palma
CA 90623, USA
Tel:    714-228-2294

Show Business Software          
73 Collier Street
London N1 9BE
UK
Tel:    011-4471-833-8041
Fax:    011-4471-833-8042

Morel Fourman (Morel@cix.compulink.co.uk)
Show Business Software




David S. Stodolsky, PhD      Internet: stodolsk@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Inst. of Political Science               Internet: david@arch.ping.dk
Univ. of Copenhagen, Rosenborgg. 15            Tel.: + 45 32 97 66 74
DK-1130 Copenhagen K, Denmark                   Fax: + 45 31 59 76 44
