User:Emcconne/ICEcore (software)

ICEcore is a collaboration platform that includes everything an enterprise needs to handle team coordination. It includes two server components that work together to provide teams with real-time communication like IM, conferencing, and application sharing, but also includes document sharing and content management features which allow organizations to create project teams and share content amongst team participants. One of the nice features that makes ICEcore worth checking out is that social networking features have also been included which means anyone that has the rights can create a wiki or blog for a particular project and have it available to anyone in the company. Lucene search is at the core of ICEcore and is used extensively to return relevant results to team members based on the access rights that have been attached to the documents. Extensibility is often a key factor in the adoption of a collaboration platform and ICEcore allows for this by including a web form builder. Teams that require specific information can design web forms through a web based form designer and make these forms available for team members. Data entered in these forms are indexed in Lucene just like all the other documents that ICEcore handles. This allows the ICEcore search to return any and all documents that are relevant to particular team members whether they are web forms or attached documents. The ICEcore collaboration platform includes a unique feature that makes finding the answer to an organizational question as easy as performing a search. Each document in ICEcore has a version and author history associated with it and includes presence indicators for all contributors associated with the document. This means if you find the documents you want you also have found the experts that put them there and can quickly determine if they are available to answer any questions about it online in real-time.