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“WebEx WebOffice has the sleekest look and the most carefully designed feature set of the online collaboration services I've tested.”

WebOffice integrates asynchronous collaboration tools such as calendaring and document sharing with real-time collaboration capabilities such as Web meetings.

Good models include WebEx WebOffice, the collaboration suite developed by on-demand pioneer intranets.com, benefiting from five years' experience serving the SMB.

WebEx says that during the transit strike, it is offering New Yorkers free access to its WebOffice Suite, although anyone can get a 30-day free trial even if your local transportation system is working fine.

WebEx Communications has joined other companies in offering New Yorkers free telecommuting services during the transit strike.

Users of WebOffice will be able to access WebEx webconferencing, along with document sharing, messaging, a group calendar and a shared database manager.

…after Richards signed up with WebEx WebOffice, he had a Web site that he and his employees could use to manage projects, update calendars, and access to a shared database.

Last month WebEx launched WebOffice, which combines Intranets.com and WebEx real-time collaboration features into a single subscription.

WebEx and Intranets.com merge deep asynchronous and real-time communications.

For under $50/month, a business owner can conduct an unlimited number of online meetings with as many as 10 attendees.

The sale of Intranets.com was finalized last month and today the results of that small business focus are beginning to emerge.

WebEx supplies a host of new products designed to help small businesses collaborate and be more productive.

WebEx is launching an updated, re-branded version of Intranets.com's hosted collaboration software suite.

A month after closing its acquisition of Intranets.com, WebEx is launching an updated, re-branded version of Intranets.com's hosted collaboration software suite.

Starting today, Intranets.com will be re-branded as WebExOne, the small business and knowledge worker arm of WebEx, and it has a host of new products to offer.

WebEx is planning an SMB-focused services launch that will include a hosted offering designed to give small companies a sort of "virtual Exchange server,"

Collaborative services are firm's specialty
"Intranets.com is bringing in 10,000 small-business customers worldwide, representing 300,000 employees."

WebEx Communications, a provider of online business meetings, said it agreed to buy privately held Intranets.com of Burlington for about $45 million in cash.

WebEx, a provider of collaborative web meeting applications, recently announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Intranets.com.

The company will become a wholly owned subsidiary of WebEx. The acquisition will give WebEx both real-time and asynchronous collaboration products to sell.

Online collaboration company eliminates major rival by purchasing it for $45 million.

Intranets has the same business/distribution model as Webex (i.e. ASP) and they will be hosted on Webex's media tone network.

Deal allows WebEx to take out a rival that had aggressively chased the smaller end of WebEx's core market, Web conferencing services.

Making a play for small and medium business customers, online meeting giant WebEx announced today that it will pay $45 million in cash for Intranets.com.

WebEx reports it will pay $45 million in cash for Burlington's Intranets.com, a provider of on-demand, asynchronous collaboration for small- to medium-sized businesses.

WebEx said Monday it has agreed to buy collaboration software developer Intranets.com.

WebEx will acquire Intranets.com, a maker of on-demand business software, for $45 million in cash, the companies announced on Monday.

WebEx said it will pay $45 million in cash for privately-held Intranets.com.

WebEx has offered a set of online meeting and support tools for a few years now, and gains the asynchronous tools offered by privately held Intranets.com with this acquisition.

Sixteen doctors and a shared workspace
"How does one coordinate users across multiple schools and hospitals? Dr. Barbash discovered Intranets.com and realized that although they sell the product to companies, it worked great as a virtual company coordination tool."

Disaster Strikes?
Make sure you and your business are ready for anything.

Burlington Firm Offers Banks Intranet Service for Employees
"Intranets.com offers the applications to a variety of industries, including the financial services sector. Approximately 10 percent of Intranets.com’s 9,000 client companies are within the financial services industry...

Intranets
While intranets are old news for many of the larger, Fortune 500-sized companies, they're still a new tool for many small and midsized businesses (SMBs).

Rapid Deployment for Project Teams Means Rapid Results
Rick Faulk, CEO of Intranets.com, writes about the benefits of online collaboration for project teams.

Intranets.com has made several ease-of-use enhancements to its online database tools
"This recent group of improvements came after Intranets.com managers noticed several user feedbacks requesting better integration in the CRM database tools."

WebEx Communications will acquire Intranets.com, a maker of on-demand business software, for $45 million in cash, the companies announced on Monday.

Editor-in-Chief Mike Vizard Interviews Rick Faulk, CEO of Intranets.com
"Our vision, which we'll be rolling it out in pieces this year, is really to become the world leader in providing on-demand business services to small and medium sized businesses." - Rick Faulk, CEO of Int...

Donated Intranet Service Helps Troops Stay Connected

Intranets.com Enables Members of U.S. Armed Forces to Maintain Ties to Home
"The Dilgs' intranet site was provided to them free of charge by Intranets.com...The company has decided to offer free intranet service to anyone who is serving overseas."

Letting someone else run your applications can pay dividends-but only under the right conditions
"Hosted applications work well for Keller Williams because the realtor does not have the IT infrastructure, manpower nor budget to either build its own applications or maintain thi...

Portal lets you drag and drop local documents into a shared repository
"...In this category, there's probably no better example than Intranets.com, which currently hosts 2 million documents from 250,000 paying subscribers in North America alone."

Intranets.com Awarded "Editor's Choice" by PC Magazine

Learn how Cosep Meetings & Events Division is using Intranets.com
"At a minimum, our efficiency immediately doubled once we began using Intranets.com. We've cut our paperwork by more than 50 percent. Communication gaps are virtually nonexistent.

Over 8,000 Companies Use Intranets.com
NewsCenter 5's Rhondella Richardson reported that one company is offering a new work at home alternative that is being used by several Boston-area companies.

Read about Intrants.com's free offer to local businesses during the Democratic National Convention
"Intranets.com in Woburn, is offering free services to help telecommuters during the convention, in hopes of turning them into steady customers."

Three dotcom survivors find new models and new revenue
"CEO Rick Faulk says Intranets.com 'weathered the storm because we never lost sight of old-fashioned business values.' Translation: Offer a service people are willing to pay for."

The Democratic National Convention is providing extra cash for dozens of local companies

The MacWorld trade show returns to Boston this week and I can't help reminiscing about 1997, the last time it was in town
"It's permissible again to have ".com" at the end of your company's name. Witness Salesforce.com, the Silicon Valley software company that went public last...

Learn how Intranets.com is helping Boston-area commuters during the Democratic National Convention
"Intranets.com is offering its collaboration service free through Aug. 31. The service lets users share documents, schedule meetings, post announcements, assign tasks and conduct...

Learn about how Boston-area commuters plan to cope with Democratic National Convention traffic changes
"Intranets.com Inc., which provides on-demand collaboration services for small businesses or departments and groups inside large organizations, is offering its products free ...

"Karen Leavitt, Intranets.com vice president of marketing, tells Mass High Tech about the sweet deal her company is offering to businesses affected by the Democratic National Convention."

T-Mobile uses Intranets.com for wireless network facilities
"T-Mobile is using a solution from Intranets.com to assist its 200 project team members in New England with planning, designing and building new wireless network facilities."

Collaboration Evolves

Intranets.Com Adds Web, Audio Features

Intranets.com recent upgrades & winning formular
"Intranets.com rolls out upgrades and new features on an almost continual basis in order to either anticipate or satisfy customer requests for functionality that will help make their intranet a must-hit site."

"Aligning your company with compliance issues and regulations needn't require a huge investment; Danvers Savings Bank does it with a hosted Intranet and some e-learning software."

Dot-com business adapting to changing landscape
"Just last Tuesday Intranets put up a large sign at their 18 Commerce Way site to increase visibility from Route 128.

Intranets.com is growing despite the job market
"While February's poor showing for job creation should keep the Fed from raising interest rates until fall, its bad news for the more than 8 million without a job."

Intranets.com integrated Web and audio conferencing into its online collaboration suite
"Intranets.com Conferencing, aimed at small and midsize businesses, lets users share applications in real time with features such as Web and audio conferencing, chat, polling, calendar, dat...

Intranets.com saves Keller Williams $1 million annually
"...Miller says outsourcing to Intranets.com, an application service provider (ASP), is costing 10% of the price of creating and hosting the site in-house."

Elluminate, Intranets.com Heat Up Web-Conferencing Market

Intranets.com will add conferencing and group scheduling features to its suite of hosted collaboration software
"The collaboration tools are aimed at small to midsized companies or departmental deployments within larger companies. The hosted Intranets.com software competes wit...

Collaboration services provider Intranets.com jumped into the increasingly competitive Web-conferencing market on Monday
"...Most Web-conferencing services charge on a per-user, per-minute basis, but Intranets.com decided that flat-rate pricing would do more to entice new cust...

"Intranets.com debuted integrated Web and audio conferencing into its online application suite with features and pricing squarely aimed at small to mid-sized businesses."

Intranets.com is adding Web and audio conferencing capabilities to its hosted collaboration suite
"Twenty percent of the company's business now goes through partners, but as it launches vertical versions of the offering it hopes to use more partners to attack the consulting, f...

"All along the way, Intranets.com has provided software that lets users easily share files, calendars, and databases with co-workers, suppliers, and other business partners."

ASP adds Web and audio conferencing capabilites
..."Intranets.com's conferencing applications cost less than those from Microsoft and several other vendors also targeting midmarket customers."

Intranets.com bumps Groove Networks off the list
"...we're happy to welcome back one of our founding members, showing the durability of yet another successful company dedicated to the ASP model."

Service Enables Small Shops to Join the Information Age
"Solution providers looking to bring enterprise-class collaboration capabilities to their small-business customers are finding a willing and profitable partner in Intranets.com."

Small banks don't need to invest in pricey and analytical software
"Since Intranets.com's hosted platform, has no hardware, the product costs one tenth that of a proprietary product. For Danvers, that was an annual savings of 50 percent."

Anthony Mason reports that - even in a tight economy - Intranets.com is thriving
"Employers added new jobs last month at a pace not seen in three years. The last time payrolls expanded more than 112,000 was in December 2000, when companies added 124,000 positions."

Intranets.com went through two makeovers, and two names, before it hit on what appears to be a winning formula
"The burials received the most attention when the dot-com bubble burst nearly four years ago, but some companies stuck it out, retooling, reinventing and repackaging ...

Deals and deployments by financial institutions
"Intranets.com is saving us tens of thousands of dollars a year compared to the cost of building and maintaining a solution in-house and offers all of the collaboration tools we need and more." Lisa Rose, senior VP abd CIO at Dan...

Company provides online collaboration
"We're saving more than $500,000 per year with Intranets.com and that's not including the constant administration costs involved with building and maintaining a home-grown solution." - Jack Miller, IT Manager, KW

Intranets.com keeps Linux software developer Partecs running smoothly across languages and time zones
"Intranets.com provides collaboration and groupware services to small businesses across multiple operating systems. That made me curious to speak with a customer running his b...

Today's Small Business Answer File
"Collaborative applications designed to help organizations share information were once reserved for large enterprises with the time, money and resources to get them up and running. Today, however, there are alternatives..."

Keller Williams uses Intranets.com to establish a link between corporate initiatives and local offices
"...Keller Williams engaged Intranets.com for a services project in which information from the corporate database -- such as list of 1,300 yearly training events as well as t...

Dot-com survivor finds success the third time around as intranet service provider for small and midsize businesses
"...While its focus is chiefly on the small to midsize business market...Intranets.com has also landed high-profile projects from less obvious sources. NASA, for ...

The online resource for intranet professionals
"The average Intranet.com customer has 21 users. Our sweet spot is companies with 5-100 employees," said Karen Leavitt, VP of Marketing.

Have intranet, will travel to disasters
"...So Intranets.com built - what else? - an intranet for the "other candidates" to share ideas, schedules, biographical background and whatever other information they considered pertinent to their campaigns."

NASA probe offered web exec a journey of her own
"Boston's Intranets.com had been working with NASA for two years as a subcontractor of California-based Ares Corp. before Columbia's failure."

Is it Really Going to Improve the ASP Model?
"The promises of Web services are many. That these services will mean less work, that they will connect applications and make them more efficient, these are all promises that ASPs can't ignore."

With 120K Clients, Intranets.com Near Breakeven
"We recently interviewed Rick Faulk, chief executive officer of Intranets.com, which provides small and midsize companies with intranets delivered via an application service provider (ASP) model."

Intranets.com Powers Lycos's Subscription Service
"...Intranets.com and Terra Lycos announced today a partnership that's designed to offer Lycos's Communities and Small Business site members intranet services."

The online resource for intranet professionals
"Woodmont Realty uses Intranets.com for a variety of business functions, but most are centered around communication and document exchange."

Favorite: Entrepreneurs
"With the Web, there's no reason an office of 10 can't run as smoothly as an office of 10,000. Log on to manage payroll and personnel, collaborate with vendors and more." -- Joanne Gordon

Favorite: Small Business
"If enterprise networking software is out of reach, come here for the scaled-down version. Use a customizable template to create a fully collaborative site accessible only to your team. Drag-and-drop interface gives employees access to company policies...

As the travel business goes bust, videoconferencing, Web-casting, and satellite services are starting to boom
"Next stop: the Internet. Create an online environment in which employees, partners, and customers can swap documents, create group mailing lists, or post messages in ...