ProjectForum/CourseForum 4.7 Released

Released 11/14/2005.

WATERLOO, Ont. - CourseForum Technologies is pleased to announce the immediate availability of ProjectForum 4.7, its professional and easy-to-use wiki collaboration software.

ProjectForum's shared web-based workspaces provide a central place to collect, manage and discuss work, and are always available over the entire life of a project. Team members can stay up to date, and coordinate with each other from anywhere at anytime, without excessive emails or time-consuming meetings. It is ideal for internal project communications, client projects, research groups, intranets, planning, to do lists, sharing and reviewing documents, team discussions and more.

ProjectForum is the easiest product of its kind to set up, yet includes powerful features such as full version control, group project support, multiple authentication options, image and file management, page templates, SSL, full branding support, multiple forums, and many more features.

Version 4.7 provides a broad range of performance and scalability improvements throughout the program.

ProjectForum is available either as a fully managed hosted service, or as software that can be downloaded and run in-house, without the complex installation pitfalls inherent in most wiki or web software. Anyone can have ProjectForum running in a matter of minutes, with no webmaster, no code, and no IT help needed. Versions are available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unixes, while users of the software need only a standard web browser.

Inspired by the new generation of wikis, weblogs, bulletin boards and other grassroots online tools, ProjectForum is easy to set up, easy to use, powerful and secure. With it's wiki-style forums, teams can collaborate more often, more effectively and more affordably.

ProjectForum hosting starts at US$20 a month, while downloadable versions start at US$229, with a free version also available.

For more information, or to download it or try it live, visit: http://www.projectforum.com.

CourseForum 4.7, an educational variant of the software, optimized for e-learning collaboration, was also released. See the main CourseForum page.