OnePlace is a web-based

Web application

A web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The term may also mean a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable.Web applications are...

 collaborative project management software. It was developed to facilitate communications within a working group, department or company.

Features

• Project Management
• Task Management (to-do lists)
• Time Tracking
• Teammate Pages
• Discussions – can be associated with workplace, project, task or file
• File Sharing – can be attached to workplace, project, tasks or discussions
• Calendar – personal, workgroup or project
• Instant Messaging
• Other Project Management: Capacity Planning, Billing and Reporting

The software also has features that allow individuals to live by most of the rules of Getting Things Done

Getting Things Done

Getting Things Done is an organizational method created by productivity consultant David Allen, described in a book of the same name....

 (GTD), a personal productivity philosophy and practice developed by David Allen.

Note: The term Workgroup is a logical grouping of people. A group of people can be a department, a project team, customer support team (across many departments)

History

One place was developed by Riverock Technologies (http://www.RiverockTech.com) founded in 2007 by veteran software professionals Steve Kickert, CEO, and Denis Ahearn, CTO. Kickert was previously the CTO of HighJump Software, which was acquired in 2004 by the 3M Company. Ahearn has 19 years in the software industry and was previously director of product development at Superior Edge Inc. The company creates web-based solutions for problems in everyday life, designed to be used the way people want to work. Its tools are designed to make people and teams more productive. OnePlace™ has been in development since August 2007. It was released from beta in September 2008.

January 11, 2011 – Riverrock, merging with Bluewater Direct, direct marketing software and services provider.

Software

OnePlace is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) based team collaboration and project management system.

It was written in the Ruby programming language and built using the Ruby on Rails web framework. It also utilizes many Ruby gems and Rails plugins. For the database back end, it utilizes the MySQL

MySQL

MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

 database server.

Platforms Supported

• A full-web user interface; browsers supported include Firefox 2+, Safari 2+, and IE7+
• An iPhone
  IPhone
  The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
  
   optimized web interface. Also works with many other smart phones
• A general mobile user interface for most other web-enabled mobile devices
• Email integration for reading/writing information to/from OnePlace
• An Adobe AIR application for accessing the functionality of the "TeamCentral" feature of OnePlace from the desktop

See also

• Collaborative software
  Collaborative software
  Collaborative software is computer software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve goals...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• List of project management software
• Getting Things Done
  Getting Things Done
  Getting Things Done is an organizational method created by productivity consultant David Allen, described in a book of the same name....
  
  
• Web 2.0
  Web 2.0
  The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...
  
  

External links

• Product web site: http://info.oneplacehome.com
• Company web site: http://www.bluewaterdirect.com
• "OnePlace: Manage, Share, Collaborate & Execute," Minnov8.com, August 24, 2008, by Steve Borsch (link: http://minnov8.com/2008/08/24/OnePlace/ )