Focused on productivity. 2 Teambox. Teambox: A collaborative Web application with many uses — Communications and Marketing. Teambox Offers Box, Dropbox and Google Docs in One Collaboration Platform. Teambox is a collaboration platform that offers its own tools and integrations with third-party apps. Today it is offering the capability to integrate with Box, Dropbox and Google Docs. You hear this debate a lot about what services people prefer inside the enterprise world. Consumer services are competing with more enterprise focused apps. Dropbox is wildly popular for its simple, elegant capability to easily move files from your desktop or through third-party services. Teambox calls its service a collaboration dashboard and the term seems to fit. Teambox has project management apps such as a Gantt chart and time tracking. Teambox roots as a task management system is evident in its chat feature, which allows end users to quickly create conversations between teams to assign tasks and due dates to projects enabling real-time collaboration.
It’s this open platform that I find sorely missing from Microsoft Office 365. The Teambox service is proving to have its own appeal. Features. Teambox Adds High-Definition Video Conferencing, Market Looks for Deeper Collaboration. Teambox has added high-definition video conferencing, adding to a list of providers that are adding video to their collaboration platforms. The Teambox offering is of particular note, as it fully integrates video conferencing and screen sharing directly into the collaboration platform through Zoom, a video-conferencing service. The service allows for video conferencing of up to 25 people across desktops, tablets and mobile devices.
It supports iCal, Outlook and Google Calendar. Teambox has earned recognition for its capability to integrate third-party apps for an inline experience. It’s in some sense a framework for aggregating apps such as Box and Evernote. But is it that much better than using third-party services in conjunction with a collaboration platform? Tibco’s Tibbr activity stream product now integrates third-party web-conferencing tools. So there are benefits to both ways of integrating video conferencing with a collaboration platform.
But the tide is shifting. Teambox Collaborates with Higher Education. Educators often struggle to bring new technologies to the classroom. Budgets are tight and IT departments are usually understaffed. Even when cost isn’t a major factor, IT departments have a backlog of requests from the students, faculty and administration they support. In the face of these challenges, education technology is expected to meet the needs of geographically distributed students and faculty. Education is being transformed by companies like Coursera and Udacity. These organizations often partner with nationally recognized universities such as Stanford and Princeton to enable students across the world to participate virtually in the classroom.
Meanwhile faculty and industry experts are collaborating across the globe on new science and research. As teams become more and more dispersed, effective collaboration can be a challenge. What makes Teambox so appealing? We’re easy to set up - With Teambox, everything is stored securely in the cloud and accessible anywhere. Higher Education Taps Teambox For Social Collaboration - Education - Teambox, as a task-oriented, cloud-based social collaboration tool, is a flexible option for collaborative learning and other campus projects. Inside Eight Game-changing MOOCs (click image for larger view and for slideshow) The higher education market is emerging as one of the best success stories for the social collaboration and project coordination tool Teambox. More than 60 institutions have adapted Teambox for everything from administrative task management to strategic planning and coordinating activities within online courses. Teambox cites as prominent educational customers Auburn University, Colgate University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Rice University, Stanford University, University of California Irvine and University of Michigan.
"We deliberately built a platform of collaborative tools that applies to any vertical, but we've gotten particular traction in a couple and education is one of them," said Teambox CEO Dan Schoenbaum. . [ A teacher's best friend? 1 of 2. Teambox Corners the Education Market. Over 60 Prestigious Universities Across the Country Have Implemented Teambox to Communicate, Collaborate and Streamline Work Processes REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 27, 2013) - Teambox, the cloud-based company redefining collaboration and business communications, today announced that more than 60 prestigious universities across the United States are implementing its cloud-collaboration solution to help their communities of students, faculty and staff access, share and manage content from any device, anywhere.
Within the past year, Teambox has grown its business by over 400 percent, and has made significant strides in the education vertical. Some of the nation's leading higher education institutions including Auburn University, Colgate University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Rice University, Stanford University, University of California Irvine and University of Michigan top this growing list of schools that have adopted the Teambox collaboration solution.