Vuuch 4.5 Enterprise Social System Announced

By DE Editors

Vuuch has announced the availability of Vuuch 4.5, which it says allows all the various parts of a company to work together better.

“Many enterprises used to deal with complexity and risk in product development projects by using program coordinators -- people whose jobs consisted of ‘chasing down’ the numerous people and things that a project manager needed to deliver a product on time,” says Chris Williams, CEO, Vuuch. “Today’s leaner companies have mostly eliminated this role and distributed those functions directly to individuals. This has enormously complicated the process for everyone involved.”

New and improved features in Vuuch 4.5 include performance, scalability and security enhancements. It now runs on Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) cloud computing platform. With this migration to EC2, Vuuch says it offers users enhanced performance, scalability, improved reliability and increased operational security.

Vuuch 4.5 also now encrypts all data transmission to and from users’ browsers and to and from Vuuch plug-ins using the Secure Sockets Layer specification (SSL, also known as TLS or Transport Layer Security). Users can verify that their browser has connected to the real Vuuch 4.5 server by checking their browser’s address bar.

Vuuch 4.5 also offers a new home page with activity streams and RSS feed capability. The activity stream is a time-ordered list of changes to the projects and deliverables the user is involved with.

Vuuch 4.5 offers users new ways to interact with each other and the team. Users can attach any kind of content to a Vuuch page, enabling a “social collection” of all content about a specific deliverable, including notes, files, links and who is or has been involved with that deliverable.

“Social platforms originated based on the recognition that people -- customers, employees, business partners, and suppliers -- emerge as the most valuable assets to business and require informal, unstructured and easy-to-use communication tools that scale beyond a team for enhanced productivity,” says Sanjeev Pal, research manager, Product, Project and Portfolio Management Solutions, IDC Manufacturing Insights. “To realize the real benefits of social computing, PLM end users need to adopt a specialized social platform that provides task-oriented, structured innovation and follows the various processes involved in the life-cycle management process.”

Vuuch is available as an annual subscription. Users who create Vuuch pages and activities require a paid license. Other users may update pages and activities without a paid license. Pricing is $300 per year per Vuuch creation subscription.

For more information, visit Vuuch.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.