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New Toolkit Aims to Broaden User Adoption through Seamless Integration with Popular Desktop Applications and Tools
Orlando - June 9, 2004 - Citadon, the leader in Web-based collaboration, document management and business process management solutions for project-oriented organizations, previewed a major new product extension to users and partners gathered in Orlando for the 2004 Collaboration Summit. This optional toolkit, Citadon Velocity, will be commercially available in the third quarter of this year. Citadon Velocity extends powerful Project Collaboration Management capabilities to ubiquitous desktop applications and tools through an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) concept.
"Citadon Velocity exploits the Service-Oriented Architecture underpinnings of our flagship product, Citadon CW™, to create true Content-Process Fusion," said Bobby Jadhav, Vice President of Engineering and Product Management at Citadon. "This fusion is achieved by embedding Citadon's collaboration capabilities into standard desktop productivity tools and thereby eliminating the need to embrace yet another user interface. For instance, a user can now bypass logging into Citadon CW by simply invoking Windows Explorer to search for a document within a Web-based Collaborative Workspace," Mr. Jadhav adds.
The Business Productivity Center, which is a customized dashboard array of key indicators, is also included in this optionally licensed toolkit. The objectives of the Citadon Velocity toolkit are to broaden user adoption and offer greater business value. The production release of Citadon Velocity will offer transparency to components of the Microsoft Office suite including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Windows Explorer. The Lotus Notes version is scheduled to follow the Microsoft release.
About Citadon
Citadon is an award-winning provider of Web-based collaboration and Business Process Management solutions for project-oriented organizations. Citadon provides an on demand solution that enables customers and their constituents to seamlessly share and manage a wide variety of document types, automate and propagate complex business processes, collaborate and communicate without barriers while providing a mechanism for capturing and leveraging knowledge. Since Citadon hosts these applications, users can immediately begin to take advantage of software that can reduce both financial and legal risk, improve profitability, enforce accountability and add predictability to global projects.
More than 60,000 subscribers in over 60 countries on projects with a market value in excess of $130 billion currently access Citadon hosted applications. Current Citadon customers include Shell Oil Products, the Bechtel Group, GE, The Chicago Transit Authority, GM, Alcoa, ICA Fluor, Transport for London, Parsons Iraq Joint Venture and Novo Nordisk Engineering. For more information, please visit: www.citadon.com.
Media Contacts:
Citadon, San Francisco
Dan Pepper - 415-216-2303
dpepper@citadon.com
Smith Public Relations, Los Angeles
Caroline Somphone - 310-788-0456
caroline@smith-pr.com
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