One of the neat things that I get to do often is try new software, especially “large scale” enterprise software that I wouldn’t normally be able to afford (and still can’t).
One of the more recent ones was Glasscubes, which is an online collaborative tool, project management, CRM solution, and more.
Here are some of the listed features:
- Tasks – Create your own tasks or assign tasks to other members of your team within your workspaces and set reminders.
- Edit documents online – Keep track of what your colleagues are interested in, using this clever visual tool you are able to see exactly what’s hot.
- Discussions – Start debate and discussion with other members of your team to increase collaboration without the need for email chains.
- Customizable Fields – In our contact manager you can create your own fields to manage to data you want, not what we want.
- Multi Language Support – Glasscubes supports the following languages: English, German and Polish. More live shortly.
- Document versions – Editing documents can result in a blocked server and numerous copies but this versioning tool always shows the latest edit.
- Preview – When you open a document the preview will appear immediately enabling you to view it without the need for downloading.
- Notifications – Receive reminder alerts via email or SMS and also be notified when somebody wishes to draw your attention to something.
- Announcements – If you have something that you want to shout about to the whole organization, make an announcement on the dashboard.
- Polls – Create a poll and find out what your colleagues throughout the organization think of ideas, opinions or suggestions.
- Calendar – Manage your calendars on your dashboard or in your workspaces. Overlay calendars to get a full overview of what is happening.
- Branding – Give your organization a branded hub by choosing a them, changing the main colour and adding your logo to match your organization.
- Powerful Search – The Glasscubes search is inspired by Google and searches within a document to provide you with quick, efficient results.
- Free Conference calling – Glasscubes conference calling comes built in – create a free conference call in one click – invite people – all with local country codes and pin.
Check out this overview video as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLmn_qVcjEs
It’s definitely not cheap but there are some ministries and non-profits that are large enough to possibly warrant the cost. I don’t know of any within our space that are using it, but if you know of any I’d love to hear about it.
Check out Glasscubes if you’re shopping around for a new tool like this!
Wayne Pope says
Hi John,
Thanks for the write up – we’d like to just point out that we offer large discounts to non-profits and ministries. Please contact Nick via the website to find out more, as we’d love to chat to anyone considering a solution like this – we’re here to help step by step.
many thanks
Wayne
John Saddington says
wow, this is awesome!