Traction TeamPage is a proprietary enterprise 2.0 social software product developed by Traction Software Inc. of Providence, Rhode Island.
Traction release 1.0 shipped in 1999.
Traction TeamPage is a collaborative hypertext platform built to support working communication within and between groups. It is modeled on Douglas Engelbart's On-Line System (the first hypertext journaling system) and influenced by the work of other hypertext pioneers including Andy van Dam's Hypertext Editing System and Ted Nelson's Xanadu.
Releases and features The initial 1.0 Release of Traction TeamPage shipped in December 1999 and included features for web-based journaling, collaborative editing, and permission-based project workspaces.
Traction TeamPage is known for features including permission-filtered bi-directional linking, paragraph-level addressability, inline comment threads, and a journaling model that records time-stamped label changes as well as "wiki-style" content history. The platform includes a sophisticated permission model that aggregates multiple weblog/wiki spaces into a Front Page, e-mail newsletter, and search views.
With TeamPage Release 3.5 in March 2005, it became the first blog/wiki-type product with integrated WebDAV.
Traction TeamPage Release 3.7.2 first shipped in December 2006 with support for widgets, export-to-PDF or -WordML briefing books, and mobile skins. It also included wiki-style edit history views with a roll-back option plus an optional FAST Search module, providing automatic entity extraction and drill-down navigation as well as integrated attachment search.
Traction TeamPage Release 4.0 first shipped in June 2008 with support for moderation, page name history and management, and user profile pages. Moderation allows for typical publish and reject operations for comments but also makes it possible for authorized users to work in and fully experience the Draft version of the wiki or flip to the Published version to compare. Page Name management is the first to introduce page name history, the ability to alias page names across wiki projects, and the concept of a global page namespace from which names can be applied to any wiki project space.
Traction Software's Live Blog Micro-Messaging plug-in, announced in November 2008, is the first implementation of micro-blogging on an enterprise social software product. Live Blog interface can be deployed as an interface to a single workspace or across the server. It leveraged all the linking, tagging, threading, and permission controls available throughout the rest of the product. In TeamPage Release 5.0, the Live Blog interface evolved into a pervasive capability, present in each space and in a server Front Page roll-up which could display status posts from all users or those you are following.
Traction TeamPage Release 4.2, first shipped in November 2009, brought subscription features into the interface, introduced the ability to reply to comment on subscription notifications, added Table of Contents navigation from root articles for each space down to their child articles, and bundled the Metrics plug-in into the installed software. Subscription features allow for an easy subscription (via Jabber or Email) to a space, a user, a document, or a tag. Metrics reports provide an overview and detail on user read, author, edit, comment, tag, and search activity.
Traction TeamPage Release 5.0 first shipped in June 2010 with Traction's "Proteus" user interface based on Google Web Toolkit (GWT) technology along with integrated Twitter-like asymmetric follower model, integrated microblogging in each space, activity streams, extensible user profiles, incorporation of profile information into search, TeamPage Microsoft Outlook Social Connector, and other social networking extensions. Attivio (which is the name of the outsourced company used) replaced FAST Search as the provider of optional Traction TeamPage advanced search capabilities.
Traction TeamPage Release 5.1 first shipped on 14 Dec 2010 with action tracking integrated as part of Traction's social software platform. Release 5.1 also incorporates Attivio with Advanced Japanese Linguistics for Japanese language content analysis and faceted navigation as well as international search over mixed Latin, Cyrillic, Middle Eastern, and Asian language content
Traction TeamPage Release 5.2 first shipped on 10 May 2011, adding activity dashboards. Activity dashboards show consolidated status, actions, related documents, and discussion centered on any project or milestone, drawn from the flow of collaborative work. Reporter Ron Miller summarized this: "Using the project metaphor as the basis for understanding information in the corporate social stream, the idea is to give you a hook on which to hang the information."
Traction TeamPage 6.0 release first shipped 9 Apr 2014 with styling and performance updates for the Proteus skin; improved rich text editor; Jetty Web server to support session tracking, improved DDoS defense, compatibility with SPDY and WebSocket protocols; smaller memory footprint; redesigned setup interface; and security improvements including updated cryptographic algorithms including use of PBKDF2, and recording and optional login display of most recent failed and successful login attempts.
TeamPage Summer 2014 release New features include push notifications. Notifications focus on activity selected by each user using an article's Watch menu, or using automatic notification rules to watch actions on articles created, discussed, or mentioning that user. The in-page notifications menu expands to allow users to read, flag, or clear their notifications. Added password strength and revocation/expiration policy controls. Other changes include TeamPage SDK updates; and internationalization updates.
TeamPage Fall 2014 release New features include: support for @ style user "mentions"; updated popup profile card, profile page, and unified search to make @ user names more visible; interactive @ name auto-completion works in TeamPage articles, comments, and status posts; a new combo-box control for entry forms that supports type-ahead completion for spaces, projects, and milestones; moving entries between spaces. Other changes include TeamPage SDK updates; internationalization updates; performance improvements and bug fixes.
TeamPage Summer 2015 release adds two new interactive features: Live Task Lists and Presence. The list of Tasks shown in a shared Task view can now be reordered by drag and drop action to express the planned order of execution, rather than being limited to start date order. When a change is made, everyone viewing that Task List sees the same live update. Task views include a new Presence bar that shows the name and avatar of each person who is currently viewing the same Task. The release also introduces a new Bookmarks sidebar and improves Japanese language search hit highlighting.
TeamPage Fall 2015 release introduces Personal Worklists: Each person can track and share what they plan to work on, including their individual planned work on shared team projects. The release also includes the ability to edit, assign, close, or delete the current selected Task with a right-click action or keystroke; improvements to the Project Management, and List Management user interface; new Blank Slate guides to provide inline help and examples; bug fixes, SDK extensions, updated internationalization, and performance improvements.
TeamPage Winter 2015 release introduces Quality Management as a new TeamPage option. Quality Management extends TeamPage's content editing and action tracking capabilities to also handle Feedback, Non-Conformance, and Corrective Action tracking and reporting, based on the ISO 9001 process model. Quality Management also includes a new Signature Requirement capability that can collect signatures to approve documents and verify that documents have been read, or that a documented process has been followed. An electronic signature records the exact version signed, the date and time, who signed it, and the date when the document must be re-signed (for documents that have recurring signature requirements, e.g. annual review). The Signature Requirement capability includes reporting and reminder capabilities for upcoming or overdue signatures. The release also includes improved unified search, improved password management, new Developer SDK capabilities as well as bug fixes and performance improvements.
TeamPage Summer 2016 release introduces a new TeamPage mobile app for iPhone and iPad and an improved TeamPage Document Management user interface that includes the ability to move files and folders and add authored descriptions. The release also includes an improved Section Table widget used to embed summary reports in TeamPage articles; improved password management, and new Developer SDK capabilities as well as bug fixes and performance improvements.
TeamPage Winter 2016 release introduces a family of business process improvement solutions using TeamPage. These solutions were developed in partnership with Impi Business Process Solutions PTY, a South African firm. Impi! solutions use the ISO 9001:2015 model for defining, auditing, and improving core business processes with TeamPage as an integrated framework for documentation, communication, and action tracking. Each solution includes TeamPage templates, process outlines, forms, and guidance on how to introduce and adapt the solution to specific customer needs. Impi offers mentoring and expert ISO process assistance using Impi accounts on their client's TeamPage system. Impi can then use TeamPage to answer client questions, recognize problems or opportunities for improvement, track follow-up actions, respond to notifications, and make suggestions in the context of daily work. This is intended to make expert guidance more effective and affordable than a traditional consulting model. Other highlights include the new Daily Report and other plug-in extensions developed by Traction Software's Japanese business office, Traction SDK additions, and search engine integration improvements.
TeamPage 6.2 release is a major release that packages many improvements to the structure of the TeamPage code base that have been incrementally delivered to cloud-hosted and on-premises customers. Highlights include a new Quality Management Threat and Opportunity module, improved document relevance scoring for unified search, new plug-ins, and TeamPage SDK additions to support new discussion types, dynamic updates to form fields, and other capabilities.
TeamPage Winter 2017 Release integrates the open-source FullCalendar JavaScript library to add new calendar views, show Google Calendar events, and add extensible capabilities. Other highlights include a new Copy entry action, updated NTLM and Adobe Derby JDBC connectors, and improved type-ahead completion for unified search and external search engine integration improvements.
TeamPage Spring 2018 Release adds a new Question and Answer capability that can be used as either a standalone solution or as an embedded Q&A space to support other TeamPage solutions running on the same server. Other highlights include section editor improvements, caching improvements for large Journals, and integration of updated versions of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and Tiny MCE rich text editor libraries used by TeamPage.
TeamPage Summer 2018 Release adds ISO 9001:2015 Risk and Improvement Project management to the TeamPage / Impi! ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management solution. This replaces the earlier ISO 9001:2008 concept of Preventative Action. Risks are identified, analyzed, and scored within TeamPage, leading to related improvement projects tracked as part of the TeamPage solution. Other highlights include Japanese language and type-ahead search improvements.