Redbooth

Redbooth (formerly Teambox) is a web-based collaboration tool.

History

Teambox Technologies S.L., who developed Teambox, was founded in 2008 and continued to serve commercial and free hosting for Teambox. The company also offered installation and customization of the software.

In February 2010, Teambox secured $193,400 (€140,000) and an additional US$250,000 as part of a seed funding round in November 2010. In April 2010, Talker announced that it had been acquired by Teambox.

On 21 January 2014, after gaining 650,000 users, Teambox announced it has rebranded as "Redbooth", the company was renamed to "Redbooth, Inc.".

License

Teambox version 1 was initially made available as a personal project. The version 2 and 3 was released on GitHub under the Affero General Public License version 3, a free software license written by Free Software Foundation. However, Teambox 4, 5 and Redbooth were closed source under proprietary license.

Features

• Status updates and conversations — Status updates are registered as projects' conversations. You can later organize conversations by giving them headlines. There are options to notify other project members via email and to attach files from one's computer or Google Docs.
• Task management – Tasks are organized into task lists under the projects. The task system is very closely related to the to conversation system and conversations can be converted to tasks. Tasks' status can be changed when commenting it. There is time tracking, delegation and due date properties for tasks.
• File and Content management: Easily share, find and work on current documents. Comes with free file storage and integrates with: Dropbox, Box, Google Drive
• Real-time communication: HD Video conferencing for up to 100 people, screen sharing, and group chat to communicate with your team in real time.
• Role-based permission to access to projects
• Integration with other systems (CRM, ERP, etc.)
• HD Video conferencing
• Pages — Pages are a wiki type documentation feature.
• Discussion forums
• Chat
• Contacts on the project
• Time tracking — Time spent on tasks can be tracked
• Phone and tablet clients for iOS and Android
• Language support for English, French, German, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese.

See also

• List of collaborative software
• Comparison of project management software

External links

• Teambox on GitHub