GroveSite
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GroveSite is a privately held online collaboration software company headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. The company offers secure online workspaces, sometimes called hosted wikis, to small and medium-sized businesses, and to larger enterprises who need to collaborate securely outside the IT firewall. Their flagship product, GroveSite 5.0, includes document management, web project management, wiki web pages, and other collaboration features. In January 2011, the company released an online relational database
Relational database
A relational database is a database that conforms to relational model theory. The software used in a relational database is called a relational database management system . Colloquial use of the term "relational database" may refer to the RDBMS software, or the relational database itself...

 product that is also targeted at business users.

GroveSite signed its first two large customers, BearingPoint and Target, within a year of its 2003 launch. Most of its clients are in Consumer Packaged Goods, Professional Services, or Government and Non-Profit industries. Notable are OfficeMax, Restoration Hardware, Abt Associates, AARP, ACGME and California’s BTH Agency. The company and its features are compared to that of other online collaboration, project management and web database solutions, including those from Central Desktop, Basecamp, Trackvia, and Quickbase. Unlike those companies, GroveSite does some customization of features for particular clients. This makes their product less scalable, but more attractive to those customers. GroveSite is positioned as an end-user-oriented, customer focused, SharePoint alternative.

History

Grove Technologies LLC, dba GroveSite, was founded in 2002 by three principles, President Thomas I. Selling PhD, CMO Jane Hagen, and CTO Joseph S. McVicker. Prior to founding GroveSite, Mr. McVicker and Dr. Selling were with Thunderbird, the Graduate School of International Management. McVicker architected the school’s collaborative professor-student software, a well-liked alternative to Blackboard. The first GroveSite collaborative workspace offering was launched in January 2003; this is notable for making it a relative pioneer in the software-as-a-service space. The company has been profitable since 2005. Since 2006, the company has been women-owned. In 2007 the company was included in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Team Collaboration and Social Software; it was also included in the similar 2008 Magic Quadrant study.

Products

GroveSite makes it easy to work with colleagues who are far away. Unlike collaboration software that focuses on internal corporate teams, GroveSite offers a secure way for companies to collaborate and share documents with team members outside their firewall. GroveSite offers web-based collaboration, online database, and project management solutions. You are able to create custom collaborative workspaces, engage in secure, cross-company collaboration, and create, manage, and share your own custom databases. What is most unique about their DB is their collaborative nature. Create discussion posts within a row and attach pictures and additional files. You also have the ability to create relational databases within GroveSite.


GroveSite is a DabbleDB alternative and offers a data migration service to former DabbleDB customers.

Features

Secure Online Workspaces
  • Site Creation and Management
  • Customizable Branding and Navigation
  • Security, SSL Option, Strong Passwords
  • Member Enrollment and Management
  • Enterprise management: Hierarchies, Usage Reporting, Archiving

General Collaboration and Communication Tools
  • Document Management, Check Out/In
  • Discussion Forums
  • Wiki
    Wiki
    A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...

     Web Pages
  • WYSIWYG
    WYSIWYG
    WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product...

     Editing
  • Online Calendars
  • Member Directories
  • Email Notification, Email Digests
  • Image Handling

Web Project Management
  • Task Management
  • Milestones
  • Issue Tracking
  • Reports, Gantt charts
  • Dashboard
  • Task, Calendar Email Alerts

Custom Online Databases
  • Flat or Online Relational database
    Relational database
    A relational database is a database that conforms to relational model theory. The software used in a relational database is called a relational database management system . Colloquial use of the term "relational database" may refer to the RDBMS software, or the relational database itself...

  • Custom Database
    Database
    A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...

     Editor
  • Collaborative Features
  • Image Thumbnails
  • Excel Import Wizard
  • Custom Views, Filters, Comments
  • Quick Edit
  • Import/Export

See Also

  • List of relational database management systems
  • List of project management software
  • List of collaborative software
  • Online office suite
  • SaaS
    Saas
    SAAS is an abbreviation for* Social Accountability Accreditation Services* Software as a service * Student Awards Agency for Scotland* Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences* South Australian Ambulance Service...

  • Collaboration software
  • Project management software
    Project management software
    Project management software is a term covering many types of software, including estimation and planning, scheduling, cost control and budget management, resource allocation, collaboration software, communication, quality management and documentation or administration systems, which are used to...


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