Incentive Features Overview
Not sure what Incentive does for you?
How about stream, dashboards, wikis, blogs, and search?
Stream
Discuss something, ask anyone - or just let everyone know.
| Simple, yet useful | Share your work, where you are right now - or how your solved a challenge. Let others tell you how useful it was. |
| Bring people together | Let your right hand know what the left hand is doing. Let anyone within your organization get a voice that is heard. Cut distances. |
| Keep up | Follow a project at close hand. Get a quick brief of something important. Never feel disconnected. |
| Get answers - fast | Ask question, get quick answers from people who know. Get expert opinions within minutes. |
| Mentions and notifications | Mention another user in your text, and he or she will be notified. This applies also to wikis, blogs and other social elements. |
Wikis
Share knowledge that anybody can access or contribute to.
| Create unlimited wikis | An installation of Incentive can host an unlimited number of wikis across your organization. Single point of administration. |
| Get straight to the point | Creating a wiki takes less than 60 seconds. No IT-knowledge needed - anyone can create a wiki at anytime. |
| Edit fast and easy | Creating and editing content in a wiki is easy. If you can use a word processor you can use Incentive - wiki syntax or WYSIWYG, your choice. |
| Track page versions | Who improved or changed an article? Compare different versions and roll back to a previous version if you like. |
| Get notified & subscribe |
Monitor content you have created, either through RSS or e-mail notifications - choose between daily or real-time reports. |
Blogs
Report straight from a project or a department. Kill e-mails
| Get feedback | Instant view of what's hot and what's not - popular blog postings, recent blog posts and shortcuts to blogs you're involved in. All from one place. |
| Blog within a minute | Start your internal blog in 60 seconds, complete with RSS, threaded comments and other common features of your standard blogging tools, such as Wordpress. |
| Get your own voice | Personalize your blog with avatar and other visuals to create your own style. |
| Edit fast and easy | Creating and editing your blog is easy. If you can use a word processor you can use Incentive. WYSIWYG is the way to go. |
Find people
Expertise on-demand.
| Find someone real fast | Incentive is like a corporate directory, but better - it’s self maintained, like Facebook. Information is not updated centrally, it’s done by everyone. |
| Tell your story | Let people know who you are, both at work and in private (if you like). Show your expertises and specialties. |
| Invite people | Incentive, is of no use when left empty. Invite people and teach them the tool - finding and sharing. Make them champs. |
Search
In Incentive you will find stuff you never even knew existed.
| "Google it" | Everything in Incentive is searchable. Incentive is for your company what Google is for Internet. |
| Index it | Incentive indexes all; attached PDF-, Excel-, Word-, and text files. Find any occurance of any search term in a fraction of a second. |
| Network it | Configure Incentive to index shared folders in your network, making all your existing content accessible through a single search. |
| Search smarter | Combine words, find content excluding specific keywords, limit the search to date intervals. Refine your search to get the best result. |
| Get suggestions | Incentive makes suggestions based on inquiries others have made. This both speeds up the search process and increases relevance. |
Dashboards
Create a personalized page with your own widgets.
| What is a widget? | A widget is a small application that shows information from any other system or website. Also known as gadgets, stuff or mashups. |
| What is it for? | A widget can present key figures, show latest updates, follow discussions, update your status and many more convenient things. |
| Personalize | Create your own dashboards with the widgets of your choice. Select from a vast number or build your own. |
| More than just business | Search and share YouTube videos, Facebook, Flickr and Twitter. Use widgets as you please. |
| Develop your own | Got .NET- knowledge? Create your own company specific widget with our Software Development Kit. |