Collaboration solution is affordable for SMBs

CoCreate Software reckons that small and mid-sized businesses are choosing OneSpace.net as an affordable way to meet the collaboration needs of dispersed workgroups.

CoCreate Software reckons that small and mid-sized businesses are choosing OneSpace.net as an affordable way to meet the collaboration needs of dispersed workgroups.

SMBs such as Applied Tech Products, Jatco, Edslev, Merath Metallsysteme, Smito and Uhlmann Pac-Systeme use OneSpace.net to support their distributed product development teams.

They face the same collaboration needs as large enterprises when delivering goods and services to customers or managing networks of external suppliers and manufacturing partners.

CoCreate's OneSpace.net provides an affordable solution to the SMB market, allowing them to overcome the complexity of distributed project teams.

The OneSpace.net hosted service fits naturally within the SMB IT environment, providing an easy way for workgroups to start project collaboration.

CoCreate maintains all the hardware and software that are part of the OneSpace.net infrastructure, eliminating the need for companies to have internal IT skills or resources.

Companies also receive automatic upgrades and full product support as part of the monthly subscription fee.

Because OneSpace.net is built as a scalable solution, it grows as the customer's needs grow and can support companies of all sizes, from SMBs to the large enterprise.

This approach has positioned CoCreate to take advantage of this year's IT spending growth, which is forecast to be strongest in the SMB market.

"IT budget growth in SMBs outpaces that of enterprises".

"On average, 2004 IT budgets of SMBs are 6.6% higher than what they spent in 2003, a growth rate well above the modest 1.7% increase projected by the North American large enterprises surveyed at the end of 2003", notes Nicholas Wilkoff, Forrester Research.

In his March 2004 report, "Better prospects ahead for SMB spending", he adds: "Even though they have less of it, SMBs still need to make sense of their structured and unstructured data through investments in software like business intelligence and content management".

"OneSpace.net proves that project collaboration doesn't have to be a massive investment for small and mid-size businesses".

"While SMBs share the same issues as large enterprises with design processes that stretch across sites, contractors, or outsourced teams, they don't share the same level of IT budget and resources to address the obstacles", said William M Gascoigne, CoCreate CEO.

"No other solution on the market can touch OneSpace.net for value, ease of deployment, and ease of use".

OneSpace.net is an engineering collaboration toolset designed specifically for product development teams and their contributors.

It includes a secure project workspace, an integrated meeting centre for web-based meetings, application sharing, instant messaging, decision and task tracking, and a 3D model explorer for evaluating product designs.

OneSpace.net can be purchased as either a hosted service for $120 per user per month, or as a licensed product for $995 per user.

Built on Microsoft .NET technology, OneSpace.net is designed for small- and medium-size businesses and workgroups.

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