Seasons Greetings for 2010

Wishing you and your loved ones a very prosperous and happy 2010.

SambaJAM has reached a year milestone. We want to take this opportunity to thank our family, friends and the many people we have met this year who have shared their advice and support. All of you have helped to move SambaJAM forward from an idea to where it is today. We have included below some highlights from our year and provide a look forward to what’s coming in 2010.

Sincerely yours, SambaTeam.

Helping You in 2010

What would you do with an extra 60mins a day? SambaJAM is about saving time by reducing the effort taken to find and share information as well as manage documents. Additionally it provides a usable and engaging environment to work in. Try it and let us know if there are any suggestions, ideas, enhancements you think will help provide everyone with a better service.

Journal

2009 has been a year of significant discovery for SambaStream. We have grown from an idea to a fully functional organisation. We have learnt more about our business and the people we rely on day to day whilst steadily moving towards our goal of creating the world’s most powerful online workplace. We appreciate in greater depth the opportunity we have created and the talented people we are fortunate to work with.

Our greatest achievement in 2009 was launching SambaJAM. SambaJAM is a web application that provides users with a secure online workspace to share documents and work collaboratively with colleagues. This year we released SambaJAM Beta edition with the following key features:

• Document Library (file system) for securely managing document and their versions.
• A rich and intuitive Interface for previewing office documents online.
• Microsoft Office Integration
• Online Editing for office documents enabling users to edit document in the browser without needing to download the document to make changes.
• Configurable dashboards for aggregating and monitoring workspace activity.
• Wikis enabling teams to share and edit html web pages online.
• Discussions providing online forums for capturing and tracking group discussions.
• Calendars to allow teams to share meetings and events.
• Space Members enabling users to invite and add users quickly and easily to SambaJAM via email and address books.

As we continue to work closely with our clients to design SambaJAM we will be introducing new functionality. Here are some new additions to look forward to in the New Year as we continue to expand SambaJAM’s core features:

• Micro-blogging and Expert Search. We will be updating the user profiles page to provide richer social-networking features to enable business colleagues to connect and share information easily. This will make finding experts within your organisation straight forward. It will also ensure important conversations are not lost in email inboxes, but are instead kept in a centralised searchable knowledge base.
• Task Management. We are developing an easy to use and flexible task management feature to support planning, team working and delivery.
• Mobile Edition – We are working on our mobile edition of SambaJAM to support users who require mobile access to their SambaJAM file store. The mobile edition will be built to work across common mobile devices that support web browsing such as, Windows Mobile, IPhone and Blackberry.
• Developer Platform – We will be releasing a developer API to enable our customers and third party system integrators to build extensions to SambaJAM.

Company Overview

SambaStream Ltd was founded in August 2008 by Alessandro Giannone, David Gildeh and Clarence Sittampalam with the aim to provide affordable and usable information management tools.

Before creating SambaStream the founders worked alongside leading enterprise software vendors in information management. Their professional lives have been spent at the forefront of software within this field, delivering large IT projects for both corporate, government and non-profit organisations. They noted that application suites typically come at great cost and were limited to those organisations with large IT budgets. In addition increased adoption of consumer electronics and the web have raised the expectation from end users for more sophisticated online tools for completing work. These trends provide the platform for a new type of software business.

By adopting the “software as a service” delivery model, SambaStream aims to provide its customers and partners with a more affordable on-demand service. This is especially true when compared to traditional software licenses and on-premise installations. SambaStream's goal is to become an innovative leader in the provision of online software.