"Using GroveSite, we are able to easily share artwork files with customers and vendors worldwide, providing significant savings in both time and money. It is incredibly easy to use and the tech support is unparalleled. GroveSite has truly become an indispensable part of our everyday operations and I don't know how we ever managed without it"

"Our clients are ecstatic over our GroveSite team site.  They particularly like having the large files available and also how effortless it is to keep global team members up-to-date." 

Susan Newlin
Managing Director
MedQuest Research

"When your management team is not in the same location, GroveSite is really the most affordable way to keep company information together.  GroveSite's sales reps and support are phenomenal, too."

Emily Deere
CTO, Armorpoint

"Love the software. Kudos for making the web the easy collaboration tool it should have been all along!"

David Newcorn
VP/New Media
Summit Publishing

"GroveSite eliminates endless hours of work by providing a great collaboration tool that is intuitive and easy to use."

Ron Schott
Arizona Technology Council

Collaborate to Speed New Products to Market

Bringing new products to market involves close teamwork and iterative communication among designers, product managers, manufacturers, packaging suppliers, and other agents.  Using email to manage this process is error-prone and inefficient.  In addition, graphics files containing product specifications, images or artwork are often too large to attach to an email.  Phone calls are difficult given time differences between Asian manufacturers and US designers.  The cost of communication errors - inaccurate samples, rework, delays, lost sales, blame and animosity - is high.

The Patricia Seybold Group, an independent analyst firm, published a case study on how Visual Comfort uses GroveSite to improve its time-to-market.  Visual Comfort (VC) designs and manufactures lighting fixtures for three channels: lighting stores, large retailers (national accounts), and as private label products through large name-brand retailers and catalogs.  According to Product Manager Byron Wilson, GroveSite’s use has led to:

·                    Improved communication of design specifications

·                    Improved accuracy of manufactured samples

·                    Shortened time-to-completion

·                    Improvement in meeting deadlines

·                    Ability for more people to be involved, from customer to designer to “agent”

VC President Andy Singer says, “Using GroveSite, we have been able to create an open conduit for communications between designers, manufacturers, and customers, which facilitates faster, more accurate sample turnaround.  The end result is that we bring new products more quickly into the marketplace.”

Enjoy reading the full case study, which includes several GroveSite screenshots.

GroveSite Announces Site Archive Service

Is your project completed?  Want to easily capture and store project information and files?  With GroveSite's new Site Archive service, you can get a "snapshot" of the project site on CDs.  The CD archive includes a copy of your site (viewable in your browser) including all of your uploaded project files.  Normal fee for the archive service is $75/site. Please call 866-952-9880 with your archive requests.

In The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Friedman notes that the global playing field for business is increasingly being leveled by the ease of using affordable talent and resources from all over the world.  We see that businesses worldwide are closely connected through global supply chains, outsourced work groups and offshore operations.  Internet technology is a key enabler in a "flat" world. 

At US-based GroveSite, we experienced directly the impact of the globally-connected workplace.  On December 27, 2006, a 7.1 earthquake shook Taiwan and broke or disabled underseas cables that provide backbone internet infrastructure linking the US and Asia.  GroveSite's US users immediately noticed degraded performance:  slow screen refresh times, browser 'time-outs', even the inability to login.  Our technical team scrambled to diagnose the problem, which turned out to be caused by huge spikes in GroveSite file requests from several Asian IP addresses.  We believe this was caused by erroneous duplication of transmissions by Asian ISPs struggling to reroute and restore network connectivity.  Once we identified the problem, we were able to selectively block the offending traffic and restore normal, quick GroveSite access.

We are continuing to monitor our system to ensure smooth operations for our clients who use GroveSite to collaborate with overseas vendors on product design and development. These include Visual Comfort, Target, Skagen Designs, Ricardo Beverly Hills, Rachel Ashwell, Smith-Western Company, and others.