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Enterprise Collaboration Tools: Page 4 of 14

With Forum's basic search form, we found content by author and keyword and were able to limit the search by date and content type, such as workspace or individual discussion list. Forum searches aren't as advanced as the search forms and agents provided by Stellent or Vignette, but you can save and reuse search queries.

We easily developed a workflow process to review documents. Like Stellent's tool, Forum provides a good trade-off between usability and functionality. The first time you create a workflow, Forum installs or updates Adobe SVG Viewer on the desktop. After that, you use a graphical tool to create a workflow with stages and triggers to transition from one stage to the next.

Workspaces in Forum can receive e-mail. However, to implement this feature we had to set up POP3 mailboxes on our Exchange 2003 Server.

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VBCS also provides full featured workspaces at a good price. But it didn't beat Forum's price and ease of use. The product's tight integration with e-mail and LDAP and support for WebDAV make it an easy fit in any enterprise. However, VBCS is difficult to learn.