U.S. Joint Forces Command to Boost Collaboration and Strategic Thinking with Facilitate.Com

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- 04/29/2003 -- The U.S. Joint Forces Command, Joint Experimentation Directorate (J9) has selected Facilitate.com 7.5 web-based meeting software to bring new levels of collaborative problem solving capability to their large and small experimentation labs.

USJFCOM is the transformation laboratory for the Department of Defense. Their joint experimentation campaign plans provide the framework for the synchronization of all services - Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines - to ensure that they are more effectively used based upon improvements in doctrine, interoperability, and integration. USJFCOM turns to the Joint Experimentation Directorate (J9) to develop, explore, test, and validate how future joint operational capabilities will be used. J9 will use Facilitate.com 7.5 in meetings and online discussions to generate ideas around a focused set of topics and quickly prioritize them against multiple criteria. The option to contribute anonymously will increase participation and open discussion that is critical to identifying the best solutions.

Facilitate.com 7.5 is a web-based meeting and collaboration suite that makes group problem solving and decision making more productive and cost-effective. It uses anonymous parallel brainstorming to more efficiently generate, capture and formalize ideas. Facilitate 7.5 helps survey, categorize and prioritize to speed action planning in online and in-person meetings.

"One of our top priorities has been to make Facilitate.com 7.5 extremely easy to use," said Julia Young, Vice President at Facilitate.com. "A key differentiator for JFCOM was the ability to enable a large group of participants to generate and prioritize ideas without any training or prior experience with the software. Facilitate.com 7.5 lets you focus on the topics at hand, not on how to use the technology.”

About USJFCOM

Headquartered in Norfolk, Va., U.S. Joint Forces Command is one of nine unified commands in the Department of Defense. The Department of Defense appointed U.S. Joint Forces Command as the "transformation laboratory" of the United States military. For more information, visit www.jfcom.mil

About Facilitate.com

Since 1992 Facilitate.com has specialized in facilitation and collaboration software tools and techniques that dramatically enhance meeting productivity. Facilitate 7.5 helps generate, capture and formalize ideas with tools for capturing, categorizing, voting, surveying and building instant documentation.