January 6, 2010 Welcome to 2010! This should be an exciting year for innovation and productivity. We’ll start it out with a wave of new apps and building blocks. News Review of the CorasWorks Product and Community Build Out during 2009 – Blog article reviewing 2009 and our product releases, apps, and Community build out – all geared toward driving customer success. Unique ID Generator now Free to SharePoint Community – this great tool now free to everyone Spirit Releases Community Services Suite – give your business leverage in 2010 by engaging people inside and outside of your organization in communities on SP. For more information on any of these, email info@corasworks.net. Community Highlights Remember to Login to see all information and access contributor features. Click here if new to community. Business Applications Community Services Suite (by Spirit) – Want some business leverage in 2010? This robust, plug and play solution is used to create rich, web UI-based Communities for Intranets, Extranets, a Web Sites. You use its 4 modules to build integrated, collaborative communities or to add “community services” to any site in a SP environment. Leveraging the Toolset it introduces a new gen of apps with highly customizable UI’s using CSS and XSLT. (Type: Integration & Application Services, Runs On: Toolset, Price: $2,500) Time Tracking (by R3) – Enables you to create, track and report on time – for use with employees and contractors. Includes new dynamic searching. (Type: Business App, Runs On: Suite or AppEngine, Price: Free) Proposal Hub (by Future Structure) – The next gen collaborative hub app for creating and tracking information and activity around sales proposals. Leverages relational design (see Workplace ID BB) to put everything related to a proposal on one page. (Type: Business App, Runs On: Suite or AppEngine, Price: $500) Purchase Request Management v2 (by R3) – Next gen of this app for managing purchase requests. Includes distributable Snaplets to put information and activity at the fingertips of users across a SharePoint environment. (Type: Business App, Runs On: Suite or AppEngine, Price: $1,500) Travel Request Management v2 (by R3) – Next gen of this app for travel requests; also including distributable Snaplets. (Type: Business App, Runs On: Suite or AppEngine, Price: $1,500) Building Blocks Building Blocks are apps that you use to help you build applications or integrate your environment – mini, reusable, sub-systems – part documentation, part template, part reusable features. CorasWorks will be investing in building blocks more in 2010, starting with the Workplace ID. Workplace ID Generator v1.6 – Unique IDs for SharePoint – Pulled from our Toolset, this tool is now available to the entire SharePoint Community for Free. Comprehensive building block to get you going with unique ID’s and relational app designs. Includes the Workplace ID field (.DLL included), sample templates for native SharePoint users and CorasWorks users, and extensive documentation. (Type: Building Block, Runs On: Suite or AppEngine or Toolset, Price: Free, See Also: Proposal Hub) Blogs CorasWorks Web Based Training for Builders – Now up to 5 modules, 27 videos, and 3 hours of structured online training for "builders". Start of Free Partner Apps – Partners have started showing their stuff with Free apps. This article covers the Conference Room Scheduler by Crucial Systems and Idea Hub by Future Structure.