The templates let us quickly customize the look of the project area, adding logos, changing screen colors, arranging files or creating folders. Screen layouts are simple to use and easy to maneuver. It was also easy to create forms for team members to fill out, and QuickPlace has handy workflow options that can route forms to individuals for approval before they are published to a folder or a shared calendar. QuickPlace has various security options for controlling access to content. Anonymous users can be allowed to view the site, but only users with passwords may create pages or customize the site.
Private areas are also available to create separate work spaces for subgroups of the project team.
The product's simplicity may be a good fit for some project teams, but eRoom and Involv take collaboration to a higher level. Some important tools that they offer, such as the ability to poll team members, are missing in QuickPlace, which also lacks chat, paging and other real-time communications. Lotus could solve this problem by integrating QuickPlace with its Sametime real-time communications server. We'd also like to be able to assign tasks to team members. Lotus would do well to integrate some of the more formal project management features found in TeamRoom templates for Domino into QuickPlace.