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About MindShare
Why use MindShare?
What is MindShare?
Why use MindShare?
Companies face a difficult challenge to improve profitability.
Dispersed teams coupled with the drive to reduce cycle times has
increased the need to rapidly share expertise among widely separated
locations to enable workers to access up to the minute information,
and to streamline and improve work practices.
A key part of work practices across many organisations involves
the capture of information and the creation and dissemination of
documents. In many technical and data-rich industries where critical
business decisions rely upon accurate up-to-the-minute information,
the need for a streamlined documentation process becomes more acute.
We use the term “document-centric” for the environment
where project teams routinely capture information, build and collaborate
on documents that become key parts of the decision making process.
To facilitate these processes, many organisations use project management
tools that create secure common project areas that routinely include
shared document repositories. These systems are often web-based
and usually offer a range of tools to give project members real-time
interaction. However, this real-time interaction does not extend
to authoring documents and receiving real-time updates to documents.
Project members are not able to work on the same document at the
same time with the result that project members routinely develop
individual files that are then required to be consolidated, or a
slower process results in which authors systematically edit a document
one at a time.
MindShare allows project members to synchronously create, edit and
browse common documents in real-time, effectively bridging the gap
between real-time project management systems, and their lack of
real-time interaction when editing documents. MindShare is not designed
to replace project management systems or portals, but to add real-time
document collaboration to project teams requiring such functionality.
What is MindShare?
MindShare is a real-time documentation tool that allows users to
rapidly capture information, and build shared documents within a
project team workspace.
MindShare is very simple use and requires minimal training. MindShare
has clear screen layouts and familiar editing interfaces common
to many other applications. Customisation to client requirements
is available, but is not required.
Using MindShare, standard drag-and-drop actions are used to build
documents and document structures using a set of easy to use tools.
Once the project and document structures are created, users can
add content in the form of text, images, tables and external files
and documents using common content editing interfaces (text editor,
picture editor, etc). MindShare includes in-built wizards to guide
users through more advanced options, and capture tools to rapidly
bring images and files into the document workspace.
Built-in tools include an image grabbing system to allow images
to be grabbed from the screen and dropped directly into a MindShare
document, ready for editing or annotating.
MindShare includes unique technology that allows users to share
documents, or elements within documents (e.g. a page, an image,
some text, a table) with other MindShare documents. If the content
of one document is changed, any shared elements are automatically
updated in other documents. This powerful feature allows summary
documents, documents for varying audiences, or presentations to
be built from elements within existing documents ensuring that these
secondary documents are automatically updated when data or results
change.
Built using the latest Java technology MindShare can be deployed
to users as a locally installed application or using web browsers.
MindShare does not tie users to the corporate network or the internet.
A full synchronization system allows users to work offline and synchronize
changes back into MindShare at a later date giving project members
full portability when travelling or working remote from the corporate
intranet.
Installation and administration of MindShare is very simple and
minimal training is required to run a MindShare installation. Installation
of clients and servers is simple, straightforward, usually with
no additional configurations required.
For more information on MindShare, see the downloads
page.
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