Changes to SNAPPS' QuickPlace product names
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You might be aware that in addition to my company's consulting practice, we've developed five value-add software products over the years.
I decided last week to change the names of two of our more mature products. Branding is a pet peeve of mine, so making this one change took a few months of consideration, but I believe it will be better in the end. We now have a branded suite of products for QuickPlace (don't ask, I know, stay tuned) in addition to our popular SnappShot chat recorder for Sametime.
With the launch of AnyPlace Administrator in 2003, we stumbled upon a brand that really captured the essence of what each of our former and future products would do - focus on helping people be more productive with QuickPlace, whether it was with one place or hundreds. Either a product would work in any place, or it would give everyone more functionality across many places. Earlier this year when we released AnyPlace Navigator, the name stuck. So, we have renamed two older products:
SNAPPS SiteMap for Team Workplace, introduced in 2001, is now AnyPlace Explorer
SNAPPS Dreamweaver Extensions for Team Workplace, also introduced in 2001, is now AnyPlace Designer
Each of these products has a unique focus, and since I don't blog about products much, here's a quick rundown of what each one does:
You might be aware that in addition to my company's consulting practice, we've developed five value-add software products over the years.
I decided last week to change the names of two of our more mature products. Branding is a pet peeve of mine, so making this one change took a few months of consideration, but I believe it will be better in the end. We now have a branded suite of products for QuickPlace (don't ask, I know, stay tuned) in addition to our popular SnappShot chat recorder for Sametime.
With the launch of AnyPlace Administrator in 2003, we stumbled upon a brand that really captured the essence of what each of our former and future products would do - focus on helping people be more productive with QuickPlace, whether it was with one place or hundreds. Either a product would work in any place, or it would give everyone more functionality across many places. Earlier this year when we released AnyPlace Navigator, the name stuck. So, we have renamed two older products:
SNAPPS SiteMap for Team Workplace, introduced in 2001, is now AnyPlace Explorer
SNAPPS Dreamweaver Extensions for Team Workplace, also introduced in 2001, is now AnyPlace Designer
Each of these products has a unique focus, and since I don't blog about products much, here's a quick rundown of what each one does:
| AnyPlace Administrator | The admin client that QuickPlace doesn't have. Administrators can easily manage hundreds of QuickPlaces across multiple servers, performing complex "command-line-only" functions with point-and-click simplicity. |
| AnyPlace Designer | Extensions, snippets and a wizard interface for Macromedia Dreamweaver for professional design of QuickPlace custom themes. Includes an offline preview mode so you don't have to upload themes before seeing what they'll look like. |
| AnyPlace Explorer | A floating "remote control" for any individual QuickPlace, providing end users with a navigation tool to the entire place with a Windows Explorer look and feel. Lets users open folders, rooms, subrooms and documents with ease and no waiting. Can be deployed to a placetype. |
| AnyPlace Navigator | Similar to Explorer, but extended to the enterprise by going across places, letting managers assign collections of places to a single multi-place navigation interface. Multiple "Navigators" can be created for end users, and users can create personal collections of their most active places. Like Explorer, navigates down to the document level in a floating window. |
