The Cloud

The cloud is many things to many people; it's great for personal use but even greater for teams. And it's not just for sharing your files, photos, or calendars; the cloud is also great for managing your projects, finances, customer relationships, and so much more.

Have instant access to all your information, no matter where you are - all you need is your computer, iPad, or smartphone, no syncing required. Working on a project? Coordinate your team, workflow, content, and deadline in one place, viewable from anywhere at any time.

Boost Your Productivity with the right Tools

Having the right tools in place will boost your productivity, save time, and slash costs! When choosing the right tools, make sure you consider pricing, ease of use, and most importantly, security. We can help you make that right choice, focusing on your industry, specific needs, business size, and budget.

At Action Chaos we use different cloud tools for different functions, but PBworks is one of our favorite cloud collaborative tools. It helps us manage our documents, projects, and teams.

Here are just some of their powerful features that convinced us:

• Shared Online Workspaces – Instantly create a shared online workspace for your team.
• Easily Add Users – Quickly add other users to your workspace.
• Collaborative Workspace Editing – Let multiple people collaborate on the same workspace page rather than emailing documents and waiting for comments.
• Document Management – You can convert Word, Excel, and WordPerfect documents into editable workspace pages using Document Import.
• Complete History and Audit Trail – Track every change people make. See who changed what. Reverse any change with a couple clicks.
• Manage Project Deadlines – Set up Tasks and Milestones for managing projects. As your project evolves, you can update your Tasks and see how things are progressing.
• Network Dashboard – See all you workspaces from one unified network dashboard. View detailed user profiles, all project activity and upcoming tasks.

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• Easy to Use [+]
  • Search – Includes text and document contents. Faceted search lets you narrow the search using criteria like "who last edited this?"
  • Point-and-Click Editor – Our Point-and-Click editor is the easiest WYSIWYG editor around. Insert images, files, colors, and fonts into your workspace pages.
  • Tags and Folders – Use folders to categorize your pages for easy browsing ("Marketing", "sales"). Tags let you place pages into multiple categories.
  • Automatic backup – Keep your data safe on multiple servers in multiple locations and our paid plans offer automatic backups of your data at no extra charge.
• Real-Time Collaboration [+]
  • Voice Collaboration – Start a conference call by having PBworks dial each participant's phone. There are no dial-in numbers or meeting codes to remember.
  • Integrated Presence/IM/Chat – See who is logged into your network and send them instant messages from within the product. You can also launch group chats.
  • Customer Engagement Monitoring – We'll send you an instant message whenever a key client logs into your extranet and show you a record of all the pages and documents viewed.
  • Live Editing – When a user is editing a workspace page, others can see the edits appear in real-time. Use Live Editing with Voice Collaboration.
  • Live Notifications – Find out about edits, file uploads, and other activity in real-time, rather than waiting for email notifications.
• Social Software [+]
  • Work-centric Social Networking – Each user profile includes static LinkedIn-style information, as well as the user's activities and tasks. You select the fields to include and allow your users to filter on things like department or office location.
  • Twitter-style Microblogging – Encourage informal collaboration and awareness. Your users can initiate conversations or post quick status updates to share with teammates.
• Enterprise Functionality [+]
  • Single sign-on – PBworks integrates with any authentication scheme, including LDAP and Active Directory.
  • SLA and Uptime – PBworks provides 99.9% uptime and industry-leading customer support.
  • Developer Platform and API – PBworks' API allows developers to create programs and web applications that directly interact with PBworks data and users.
• Security [+]
  • Access Controls – PBworks includes robust access levels (Reader, Writer, Editor, and Administrator) for differentiating access to your workspaces.
  • Page and Folder-Level Access – Control which specific pages users can access. Your marketing team can be restricted to pages in the Marketing folder, while your CEO could see all pages.
  • IP Whitelisting and blacklisting – For additional security, grant access to specific IP addresses with whitelisting. You can also blacklist IP addresses to block attacks.

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