Convea Overview

Convea (pronounced Conveyor) has been designed to improve business communication, collaboration and coordination. The Convea business application framework provides a fully configurable web workspace in which to run web applications helping businesses increase productivity and reduce costs. Convea includes over 19 applications, tools and business utilities, including:

Email:

Convea's e-mail module provides complete control of any organization's e-mail requirements. Users can instantly send local e-mail to other Convea users or to individuals across the Internet. It is easy to manage multiple accounts, create mail folders, and set up auto-filing rules. Signatures and HTML e-mail provide the ability to customize messages. The e-mail utility is also fully integrated with other Convea modules, allowing users to send messages from within other applications.

Powerful features such as grouping and searching provide the flexibility to quickly sort through and identify important mail. With Convea, there is no need for an e-mail server, as messages remain on the Convea system, where they can be accessed from virtually anywhere.

Group Calendaring & Scheduling

Convea's Calendar is a full-featured module that allows users to create tasks & events and share those events with others. Multiple views provide the ability to track the current day, week, working week, or month. Colleagues can easily view the calendars and events scheduled by other members of their team, simplifying tasks such as planning meetings or vacation time.

Convea's Scheduler provides complementary functionality to the Calendar application. Its intuitive interface allows events to be dragged to new dates for hassle-free rescheduling. Tracking tasks and timelines via this module simplifies the processes of event scheduling & project management.

Group Discussion

The Group Discussion utility allows teams of two or more to easily engage in public or private discussions. This powerful tool overcomes geographic barriers and email lag-times in allowing teams located anywhere to participate in text conversations. By reducing the need for meetings and allowing employees to share answers and ideas, the Group Discussion module helps increase the overall productivity of an organization.

Instant Messaging

Convea's Instant Messaging module allows users to rapidly message others who are online. This utility is ideal for carrying on multiple conversations at the same time or for having quick, short conversations that do not warrant a full fledged discussion. Instant message conversations allow team members to communicate at their own pace, while continuing to perform their own work, hence reducing the need to set aside dedicated time for meetings.

Instant Conferencing

The Conferencing module allows users to quickly and easily set up online group meeting rooms and conduct meetings, presentations and seminars. When simple text messaging or a Group Discussion is not sufficient, this utility allows team members to conduct meetings "in person" from virtually anywhere. When in "conference" users can easily exchange files and other data with any or all users in the room. At the end of a discussion convenient features like "Save Minutes" will save the minutes of the conference in HTML document format, for easy distribution to all contributors.

Knowledge Management

The Knowledge Base is an information-rich database that allows users to create and share data on any subject or item. A common use for a Knowledge Base is to store the answers and solutions to frequently encountered problems or issues. Retaining such knowledge is highly beneficial to an organization, as it reduces the need to duplicate efforts in resolving difficult issues or finding answers to esoteric questions. A well-built and maintained Knowledge Base allows employees to work more independently and efficiently.

File Management

Convea's File Manager is a central repository where files of any format can be stored and shared with others. Whether the files are sales reports, source code or binary applications, the File Manager simplifies their storage and dissemination. Instead of sending large attachments to groups of people via email, for example, such files can be stored within the File Manager, where they are accessed when needed, and by those who need them. Development teams that wish to share collaborative code with others can easily create a work area to load and download the content. The uses of the File Manager module are virtually endless. Convea's "System Folders", such as "My Documents" and "My Pictures" give users an easy and robust way to maintain their own file space. Sharing files with other users is as simple as placing them into their "My Shared Files" folder.

News and Events Management

The News and Events module is a full-featured content creation and distribution tool that allows Convea users to create and share news with others. This module provides the ideal channel for project managers to share status reports with team members, for developers to notify colleagues of code changes, or for management to keep employees informed of corporate decisions. As with all other Convea modules, News and Events fully supports Convea's User Access Profiles- letting managers and administrators determine which users can create, edit or administer the information contained within the application.

Comprehensive Site Admin

The Site Manager is used to manage all aspects of a Convea system, from the Users to Disk Storage and Security features. This module allows an administrative user to fully monitor, maintain, and modify an organization's Convea system, and the ability to perform this work remotely via the web-based interface is a key feature of the module.
This overview covers very briefly the nine key Convea modules, a further seven complimentary tools and utilities are also currently shipping with Convea Enterprise Pro.

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