Web servers such as IIS fall short in assisting workgroups in uploading, sharing, and downloading files. Content-management solutions are expensive and demand that administrators and users learn a fairly complex package. Files can be dragged to and from the desktop into these shared, virtual document rooms. Version control with annotations helps track document changes. This interface is best suited to small and medium-size workgroups and became unruly when we added more than 100 items.
Participants can create discussions using rich text for added emphasis.
We found this helped turn wandering collaborations into firm decisions. If you want to use your IIS Web server for document sharing, eRoom makes it palatable. Documents, folders, votes, notes, and links can all be created in an eRoom.