ScoopTM: Instant, mobile, visual collaboration…
This was the concept that sparked our imagination and launched us into the of the exciting Scoop product.
Scoop is a great example of our product development approach at Trusterra. It is based on deep technical and market research and brings together many of the efficiency principles to which we are committed. No wonder it is already changing the way people communicate!
Motivation
Our extensive market research revealed a number of powerful trends. These trends motivated the development of Scoop and shaped its feature set:
- The global workforce is increasingly a mobile one. It is predicted that by 2013 35% of this workforce will consist of mobile knowledge professionals
- An increasing number of organizations are adopting, even encouraging telecommuting to attract employees striving for work-life balance.
- Senior experts, many choosing an active retirement lifestyle are typically located remotely from operational centers but desire to remain accessible and contribute.
- Generation Y, now entering the workforce, is accustomed to and demands access to modern social communication tools as a prerequisite for productivity.
- Public and private organizations increasingly work to reduce the need to travel for financial and environmental reasons
- Governments strive to foster a digital economy to boost productivity and global competitiveness for their nations.
- Our personal and professional lives are increasingly intertwined and our IT systems need to reflect this.
- Mobile handheld devices now have the necessary horsepower and user interface richness to provide an appealing user experience
Highlights of Scoop
Responding to these powerful trends Trusterra developed the Scoop product, an innovative software platform that leverages the latest in mobile, web and rich media technologies to enable efficient communication, telepresence and issue-focused collaboration. The platform allows distributed or remote users to rapidly create issue-specific online workspaces from web and smart phone devices.
Innovative multimedia features allow users to utilize voice, pictures and video to clearly describe and document the topic at hand directly from the field. Users are capable of forming dynamic teams around each workspace and access the multimedia communication facilities to expand and discuss the topic at hand more efficiently than ever possible before.
Scoop enables a collaboration experience featuring the clarity and immediacy of an in-person or on-site meeting but without the need to coordinate same-time meetings or site visits and without the financial, environmental and personal burdens of field travel.