FDC, now part of Logicon Inc., Northrop Grumman Corporation’s information technology subsidiary, has nearly 30 years of proven IT System Integrator expertise, will market Intraspect’s collaboration-business (c-business) server.
As proof of the need for such collaborative solutions, FDC and Intraspect also announced their first joint customer, The Carlyle Group. A private global investment firm based in Washington, D.C., The Carlyle Group acts as lead equity investor in management-led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and build-ups, and growth capital financings. The Carlyle Group will be using the FDC/Intraspect c-business solution for an internal initiative.
The primary mission that is driving the FDC/Intraspect solution is simple: to provide a solution that allows the ability to collaborate and find, create, share, discuss, and apply the information end users need and capture the value of this knowledge work for the organization, said Philip Matkovsky, the Director of Analytical Systems at FDC. The FDC/Intraspect c-business solution is a fine addition to the cache of solutions FDC can provide to current as well as future customers.
Using the Intraspect c-business server, users share documents, participate in email discussions, and work on running projects while at the same time contributing to a collective repository that stores data and benefits the entire community. The organization can, in turn, harvest the best practices and ideas from this work and publish them back to the community, reusing rather than reinventing knowledge.
The FDC/Intraspect c-business solution easily integrates with the existing tools such as desktop applications, web applications, and-most importantly for collaboration-email. The c-business server handles all sources of unstructured information, including Microsoft Office documents, Web pages, Lotus Notes documents, web-based reports, and web interfaces to enterprise applications, and it delivers powerful search and subscription technology in an easy-to-use interface.
As the euphoria over e-business wears off, organizations are realizing that in order to fully harness the power of the Internet, they need a true collaborative platform that enables c-business both internally with employees and externally with customers and suppliers, said Jim Pflaging, president and CEO of Intraspect. This partnership with Federal Data will enable Intraspect to bring the tools needed to achieve this collaboration to a wider range of companies, especially in the federal sector.
