Box throws its hat into the digital whiteboarding ring

Field

Enterprise cloud content material administration firm Field has at this time introduced Field Canvas, a digital whiteboard that permits staff to collaborate visually whereas working remotely.

Field Canvas supplies customers with a set of templates, alongside free type drawing and textual content choices, diagrams, wireframes, and course of flows utilizing visible components like shapes and connectors to simply current knowledge and concepts visually. It is going to be included in all Field plans from this fall, with all customers getting access to limitless Canvases at no extra value.

Each coworkers and exterior events may be invited to entry a canvas, whereas group members may be alerted to necessary data through notifications and @mentions.

Presentable slides may also be created instantly in Canvas and customers are capable of present interactive suggestions utilizing sticky notes and feedback, and vote on concepts utilizing emojis.

Diego Dugatkin, chief product officer at Field stated that with analysis suggesting round 70% of corporations within the US and Europe need to set up a hybrid work surroundings, new instruments are required to maneuver past conventional collaboration strategies.

“Field is taking collaboration to the following stage with Field Canvas. Our purpose is to unleash the ability of creativity so groups can clear up complicated issues, nurture recent concepts, and create new methods of working collectively from anyplace,” he stated.

Field will not be the one firm so as to add a digital whiteboarding resolution to its platform in latest months. ClickUp just lately introduced it was including a whiteboard to its collaboration platform, whereas Mural, a visible collaboration firm that skilled explosive progress through the pandemic, has appeared to spice up its providing even additional through acquisitions.

BlueJeans has rolled out a 'Collab Board' as a part of its new company studying providing and Zoom and Microsoft Groups each introduced vital upgrades to their whiteboards in latest months.

“The way forward for work is evolving quickly, and it’s turning into clear that organizations can’t present a one-size-fits-all strategy for the way staff get their work performed,” stated Holly Muscolino, group vice chairman for content material methods and the way forward for work at IDC.

“With the introduction of Canvas, Field is taking this flexibility of alternative one step additional by bringing interactive, visible modes of collaboration into the combo, and offering a brand new method for workers to remain related no matter whether or not they're within the workplace or at house.”