Dashboard

The dashboard provides a view across all your information in SambaJAM. Each user is provided with their own configurable dashboard that can be easily personalized. Individuals can configure what they view according to the context and information important to them.

• Real-time Activity Feeds monitoring user activity, changes to content, events and tasks
• Aggregate information stored in SambaJAM or content from external online sources by adding RSS feeds to your dashboard
• Create custom dashlets to suit your operational needs
• Hyperlinks and contextual information enable you to process and respond directly to changes shown on the dashboard

Profiles

SambaJAM enables your colleagues, clients and partners to create profile pages to share contact information and engage in conversation. Build stronger relationships and capture knowledge about your organizations community.

Publish your own blog and microblogs to SambaJAM and external services such as twitter. Share ideas, connect with experts within your organisation and add colleagues to your colleagues list to chat and connect easily with.

• Edit and share contact information
• Grow stronger communities. Engage your workforce across regional and international locations
• Catch up on progress with Visual Activity Feeds
• Locate experts in your location by sharing skills lists - Planned
• Reduce your email load by moving conversational messages out of email and online using micro-blogging - Planned

Search and Discovery

SambaJAM is designed for large data catalogues. As your information grows SambaJAM provides powerful search tools to enable you to find content from across all your spaces. SambaJAM uses a powerful full-text search engine that allows you to find relevant content quickly and easily. Quick Search enables user to instantly find matching content as they type into the search field. The Advanced search screen provides multifaceted search options to enable users to break down searches to find exactly what they’re looking for.

• Quick Search field: search as you type
• Advanced search with multifaceted search. Filter results by Space, Content and Tags
• Thumbnail preview provided in search results to aid identification
• Single search across all content and people in SambaJAM
• Expert Search to locate skilled people in your community

Online Workspaces

SambaJAM enables users to create secure and configurable online work spaces that allow you, your team, partners and clients to work productively online. SambaJAM makes it easy for you to invite new members to a space and start immediately working together. Space owners can easily manage what users can view and edit using clear and understandable security principles.

• Instantly create secure online workspaces
• Easily invite colleagues, clients and partners to work together
• Search and locate content across all your work spaces seamlessly
• Create, share and manage documents online using Document Library
• Create and capture knowledge using Wiki and Discussions tools
• Tailor your space to fit your needs. Each feature in SambaJAM can be added/or removed from a space
• enabling users to define the workplace they require to manage their work and interactions with colleagues
• SambaJAM can be extended enabling users to create or use third party features
• Configurable Space dashboard provides a summary of real time activities occurring in your space

Document Management

SambaJAM allows you to access your documents through your web browser as though they were on your local desktop, but with enterprise class Document Management including granular security, version control and online viewing/editing.

• Online File system to store and manage your content securely
• Share documents and digital assets.
• Supports all file types: office documents, digital files, music, video, photos, graphics, CAD
• Store large files easily
• Drag & Drop file management
• Preview documents and rich media online
• Rich media thumbnails created for stored content
• Online document editing for office documents
• Save office documents from Microsoft office straight to SambaJAM. No plug-ins required
• Full-text search engine to find your documents easily
• Workflows to manage document lifecycles and approval processes
• Granular User Security at document, folder and space level
• Full Version control and Version history for stored content. Users can check-out content for editing and check-in content once updated to create a new version.
• Tracks changes to files: last modified by, created

Workflows

SambaJAM's powerful workflow engine allows you to provide structure around your document collaboration, providing review and ad-hoc task workflows out of the box.

• Equipped with a powerful jboss workflow engine
• Support for complex workflows to connect your information and people
• Support for Documents lifecycles

Calendars

Add group calendar to your spaces to publish and share key events, meetings, tasks and milestones using a rich calendar interface that allows you to quickly add, reschedule and update calendar items.

• Create Events
• Drag and Drop Interface
• Monitor updates via Dashboard and Activity Feeds

Wikis

Wikis allow users to author HTML pages online that can be used to share information or ideas with colleagues. Wikis can also be used to capture ideas and references. All wiki pages are versioned and stored as content, enabling users to track changes to authored pages, and locate them easilly using central search features.

• Online HTML Editor
• Wiki Markup
• Version Control
• Full-text search engine
• Post contents to Dashboard

Discussions

Create and engage in discussions with your colleagues and partners to keep a record of your ideas and input that doesn't clutter up your inbox.

Multi User Account

Add colleagues, clients and partner agencies to your SambaJAM account enabling you to centrally control access to your company information and provide a platform for your business community to network and work collaboratively.

Centrally Manage Your Account

SambaJAM has been created so that business can easily manage their accounts without the need to employ a technical specialist. Account admins have access to an administration console ensuring you have complete control of your SambaJAM account. Nominated account administrators can easily manage all company workspaces and account users from an intuitive and easy to use interface.

Brand Your Account

Personalise SambaJAM by adding your company logo and configuring colours that match your brand

Customise Your Email Notifications

Premium account holders can use custom email templates to use with SambaJAM to ensure colleagues, clients and partners using SambaJAM receive branded email notifications.

Microsoft Integration

With Microsoft Integration you can edit and save your office documents from your desktop. Use your desktop office applications such as Word, Excel and Powerpoint and save directly to SambaJAM without needing to access the application over the browser. This makes it quicker for you to keep your documents updated whilst promoting the central management, version control and sharing of your documents online.

Rich Interface

Using the latest in web 2.0 technology, SambaJAM is as usable and intuitive as a desktop application, but without the overhead of installing and maintaining the application on your own PCs.

Choose Your Language and Timezone

localization options enable you to configure your Premium Account Language and time-zone displayed to your users - Planned

Secure

SambaJAM is built to provide enterprise class security. All your content is stored in SAS70 Type II compliant data centres within the EU, is backed up, and we provide SSL encryption for all our enterprise users.

Resilient

File and Data Storage is backed up hourly providing you with peace of mind that your information is safe should there be any incident of service interruptions