Inversoft recently launched its Gather forum software as an early access program (EAP), allowing users to get a taste of the software and give Inversoft feedback before it launches officially this summer.
Gather is designed as a modern community software solution that offers traditional bulletin boards and goes beyond that with question and answer tools, access through API framework and integration with Inversoft's CleanSpeak software.
The API is like those offered by Twitter and Facebook. "They can use it to match all of their contacts across their entire enterprise or they can use our shrink-wrapped solution, which looks like a traditional bulletin board system," says Inversoft CEO Brian Pontarelli. "But we have a lot of other cool features where you can make it look like Core or Stack Overflow, and you can do polls, and really define the front end and make it look however you want it to look," he explains.
"Old-school forum solutions like VBulletin and Lithium, they don't have a good moderation system," Pontarelli contends. He adds that the profanity filters used are generally just word blockers, while Gather's integrated CleanSpeak is what he calls a "language-aware system."
When it introduces the finalized version of the software Inversoft plans on making the software a subscription-type solution based factors on like total user volume or active monthly users. That's despite whether Inversoft is hosting the software in the cloud or if the companies using the package use it on their servers. While more companies than ever are using remote services, some of Inversoft's bigger clients like Disney want to use the software behind their firewalls, Pontarelli explains.
With the release of Gather, the company of eight employees is set for more growth. Pontarelli anticipates the company could hire up to three people now and up to another three people when Gather goes live. The positions will be in engineering and sales.
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