The initial 1.0 Release of Traction TeamPage shipped in December 1999 and included features for web-based journaling, collaborative editing, and permission-based project workspaces.
Traction TeamPage is known for features including permission-filtered bi-directional linking, paragraph-level addressability, inline comment threads, and a journaling model that records time-stamped label changes as well as "wiki-style" content history.
The platform includes a sophisticated permission model that aggregates multiple weblog/wiki spaces into a Front Page, e-mail newsletter, and search views.
In TeamPage Release 5.0, the Live Blog interface evolved into a pervasive capability, present in each space and in a server Front Page roll-up which could display status posts from all users or those you are following.
Metrics reports provide an overview and detail on user read, author, edit, comment, tag, and search activity.
Traction TeamPage Release 5.0[6] first shipped in June 2010 with Traction's "Proteus" user interface based on Google Web Toolkit (GWT) technology along with integrated Twitter-like asymmetric follower model, integrated microblogging in each space, activity streams, extensible user profiles, incorporation of profile information into search, TeamPage Microsoft Outlook Social Connector, and other social networking extensions.
Release 5.1 also incorporates Attivio with Advanced Japanese Linguistics for Japanese language content analysis and faceted navigation as well as international search over mixed Latin, Cyrillic, Middle Eastern, and Asian language content[8] Traction TeamPage Release 5.2[9] first shipped on 10 May 2011, adding activity dashboards.
Activity dashboards show consolidated status, actions, related documents, and discussion centered on any project or milestone, drawn from the flow of collaborative work.
"[10] Traction TeamPage 6.0 release[11] first shipped 9 Apr 2014 with styling and performance updates for the Proteus skin; improved rich text editor; Jetty Web server to support session tracking, improved DDoS defense, compatibility with SPDY and WebSocket protocols; smaller memory footprint; redesigned setup interface; and security improvements including updated cryptographic algorithms including use of PBKDF2, and recording and optional login display of most recent failed and successful login attempts.
TeamPage Fall 2014 release[13] New features include: support for @ style user "mentions"; updated popup profile card, profile page, and unified search to make @ user names more visible; interactive @ name auto-completion works in TeamPage articles, comments, and status posts; a new combo-box control for entry forms that supports type-ahead completion for spaces, projects, and milestones; moving entries between spaces.
The release also includes the ability to edit, assign, close, or delete the current selected Task with a right-click action or keystroke; improvements to the Project Management, and List Management user interface; new Blank Slate guides to provide inline help and examples; bug fixes, SDK extensions, updated internationalization, and performance improvements.
solutions use the ISO 9001:2015 model for defining, auditing, and improving core business processes with TeamPage as an integrated framework for documentation, communication, and action tracking.
Impi can then use TeamPage to answer client questions, recognize problems or opportunities for improvement, track follow-up actions, respond to notifications, and make suggestions in the context of daily work.
Highlights include a new Quality Management Threat and Opportunity module, improved document relevance scoring for unified search, new plug-ins, and TeamPage SDK additions to support new discussion types, dynamic updates to form fields, and other capabilities.
The Questionnaire plug-in now includes an answer tab used to show, organize, and export responses presented as an interactive data table.
The release also makes improvements to the performance of project management-related queries used in TeamPage lists, views, and interactive data tables.
This enables a customer's Azure AD Cloud tenant to create and manage a unified directory of users and groups with single-sign-on access to cloud-based as well as on-premises resources including TeamPage.
Ordered List improvements relate to a new drag-and-drop Kanban user interface that Traction Software says it will release as a separate plug-in extension.
Traction TeamPage has been recognized as InfoWorld's 2007 Technology of the Year award winner: Best Enterprise Wiki[35] (see review[36]), as well as a KMWorld magazine trend-setting product in 2005 and 2006.
[39] Traction TeamPage is also reviewed in Fuld & Company's 2006 Competitive Intelligence Software Report[40] In a March 2005 report titled "Blogs Wikis & Beyond," Burton Group Analyst Peter O'Kelly wrote: "Although Traction's products are marketed as 'enterprise weblog' offerings, they are powerful hypertext systems that exploit blog- and wiki-related advances to maximize simplicity but also do so on a scale that addresses elaborate hypertext application scenarios that would overwhelm wiki alternatives.
It brings this activity into the enterprise 2.0 world as every task is treated as an object for comments, RSS, and made searchable to those with the proper permissions."
Deloitte's press release[45] and study cite "a 61 percent reduction in time required for compliance activities" attributed to the use of Traction TeamPage.
In his October 2015 blog post,[47] Real Story Group analyst Kashyap Kompella wrote: "Traction continues to punch above its weight.
In June 2002, a public In-Q-Tel customer agreement represented the first significant enterprise site license of a blogging platform.
The study involved funding to add the WebDAV extension to the Traction platform and to support the following Liberty Project participants: Traction Software, The Office of Naval Research, the Army Night Vision Lab, Defense Acquisition University, Naval Underwater Warfare Center, Marine Corps, Ford Motor Company, and the New York City Police.
In 2010, Traction TeamPage customer Borlaug Global Rust Initiative[54] won a 2010 Forrester Groundswell award[55] for the social impact of its use of collaboration technology to organize, conduct, publicize, and manage international research to combat a new crop disease that has the potential to devastate the world's food supplies.