What is Guppers?
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Guppers is a group collaboration solution specifically targeted for organizations including businesses, schools, and communities. It offers a cost effective, simple to use, safe, and reliable collaboration platform that works with your existing communication infrastructure, tools, and devices.
The core idea of Guppers is to take advantage of proven Social Networking, Cloud Computing, and Mobile technologies to enhance and make simple collaboration experience within members of your organization and therefore encourage team work for a better productivity.
With Guppers, you can get a collaboration solution for your organization up and running quickly and allow your people, partners, or customers to stay connected, work, and share resources with existing equipments and infrastructure safely.
Getting started with Guppers is easy, you can setup a workspace for your organization in just one step. Simply provide your organization name, pick an ID, and that is it. You basically have a group collaboration platform which supports email, instant messaging, and SMS in just seconds. There is no need to install any server or change your existing infrastructure.
The workspace you created is private to your organization; only members of your organization can share and collaborate within the workspace. No one else from outside can access your conversations, documents, and other shared resources. Your data is safe and private. The same access control can be applied to the group level where only members of the group can collaborate and share within the group.
To start collaborating, simply create a new group for your daily operation or a project. Invite your co-workers or associates to the group via email or SMS. Once they have joined, you can start group conversation, share documents and data with the team, from the convenience of a browser, email program, instant messenger, or mobile device, anytime, anywhere.
With Guppers, there is no need to purchase any data plan or device. Simply add your existing messaging device or client into your personal profile and you are ready to communicate. You can even add more than one messaging channels so that you won’t miss an important message.
In addition to all the cool features for personal messaging, you can add a PC Monitor or Mobile LED for group messaging display, targeted for team or public viewing. Simply register your choice of device and join it to a group. And whenever there is a message being broadcasted to the group, the system will instantly push the content to the display device. So, it is easy to extend Guppers to do group messaging displays, from a simple pricing update among few sales offices to an enterprise-scale production alert of a global manufacturer.
Why Guppers?
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No hardware or software installation
We host your solution at a data center and therefore there is no expensive software or hardware to purchase and install at your site. We maintain and upgrade the hosted solution for free with no disruption to your operation.
No data plan required
Guppers rides on existing communication infrastructure. There is no need to acquire any new data plan, especially one for your mobile device in order to access Guppers from the device. We just require your phone to support SMS feature.
Minute to setup
Setting up an organization is quick and easy; simply provide an organization name and a unique messaging identity and you are done. Creating a group in an organization is similar and as easy.
Multiple messaging devices
Guppers support multiple types of messaging devices: email, mobile phone, and instant messenger. You can add as many personal messaging devices as you like and assign them to the appropriate organizations as communication channels. For example, you can set your mobile phone to your workplace while set your personal email to your home owner association. With support for multiple messaging channels, you can have the same message or notification delivered to multiple devices or the convenience to perform a task from the device of your choice at different time or place.
No training required
Guppers take advantage on the technologies you already use daily. If you’re using email, SMS, IM, or Internet browser, you already know to use Guppers. We focus on the very basic and core collaboration functions and strive to provide a simple and easy user experience with help from some proven social networking technologies and approaches.
Social network for business
Although Guppers takes advantages of social-network technologies, it is built and designed for intra-organization networking. Guppers focuses on how people work, interact, and share, within an organization and use proven social-network technologies to address those challenges. Using Guppers, organization members can conduct group messaging, get relevant business activities update via minified, update his or her status to the team, or contribute feedback and comment. All these features aim for better team work and ultimately better productivity.
No long term contract
Instead of spending thousands to develop and maintain an internal collaboration system for your organization, you could simply subscribe one with Guppers. Pick or customize a monthly subscription plans that fit the needs of your organization and pay as you go. There is no long term contract and you cancel anytime you want.
Anytime, anywhere
With a 24x7 hosted services and support of most popular end clients, you can practically stay connected and work from anywhere, anytime. With a mobile device, you can even stay connected using SMS without the need of Internet.
Run your business on cloud
Guppers is riding on Microsoft Azure and Amazon S3 cloud computing platforms. That implies the collaboration solution for your organization is very reliable with redundancy protection. It also means the total cost ownership for your solution is low and you only pay for what you use.
Safe and Private
Guppers enforces access control at both the organization and group levels. You must be members of an organization in order to access to the organization workspace. Similarly, you must member of a group in order to collaborate and share resource within the group. Guppers also employ role and policy to simplify management of privileges. On the Plus and Enterprise subscription plans, all traffics are encrypted with SSL for additional protection.
External collaborator
Guppers make collaboration with external parties such as partners, suppliers, or buyers easy. It uses simple group-based security scoping to limit the visibility of these members to only the groups they are invited to. Although they are members of the organization, they will not be able to view anything at the organization level like a normal member does.
Support for PC and LED display device
Adding a PC or LED display device for public viewing is never been so easy. Simply pick the device type, create the virtual device, and pair it with the corresponding physical device. Assign the device to any groups of interest in order to display messages broadcasted to the assigned groups. Messages are pushed to the display devices.
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