OpenTeams

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OpenTeams LLC is a privately-held company based jointly in Houston and Austin, Texas that produces the OpenTeams web-hosted collaboration software. The browser-based software functionality includes wiki, blogs, discussions, file attachments, and tags in a 3-pane interface similar to email and newsfeed readers, including drag-and-drop functionality and WYSIWIG editing. In addition to project collaboration, social networking, community building, and knowledge management, OpenTeams is designed as a "innovative initiative development environment" where employees collaboratively seed and mature new ideas for additional revenue, productivity, and cost-savings.

The company's stated mission is to foster a new model of working inside organizations, which they refer to as "The Entrepreneurial Organization".

There are five primary concepts in OpenTeams:

Initiatives - team folders which can also be used as blogs or blikis
Collaborative Pages (or cPages) - wiki pages with their own version history, discussions, and file attachments (which also keep their own version history)
Tags - for organizing content
Briefing Outlines - formally ordered and structured sets of cPages with a narrative, similar to a table of contents or slideshow presentation
What's New - a reverse time-sorted view of changes available for initiatives, cPages, tags, briefing outlines, users and their profiles

A list of some features: 3-pane drag-and-drop Ajax-based interface similar to email and newsfeed readers, private secure wiki spaces (including invitation-only and a domain security option based on validated email domains, i.e. "Everybody with email@domain.com"), tags, blog, bliki, "What's New" views, WYSIWYG editing, draft autosaving, discussion, attachments with version history, SSL, unlimited spaces, pages, edits, versions, storage, and bandwidth