Fuse provides consulting services for both Drupal & Open Atrium (A Drupal-based product by Development Seed) both of which make fantastic platforms for intranets and extranets. Here at FUSE, we use Open Atrium to help manage all our internal communications and projects. Atrium can further be customized to match the requirements of almost any business.

From a product perspective, Open Atrium provides an intranet and extranet solution that includes collaboration features that are commonly needed by organizations seeking to build social networking and sharing websites. Centered on the concept of letting users organize themselves into formal and informal groups, Open Atrium then allows collaboration, and access to a suite of universal features. These features include:

• Blog: Keeps your site up to date with timely conversation. Open Atrium provides support for threaded commenting, file attachments on both posts and comments, and granular email notifications to alert group members of new activity.
• Calendar: Empowers your user groups to share information about meetings, project milestones, and more. Calendar also supports iCal subscription, allowing seamless integration of Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook.
• Notebook: This feature allows users to post static content, collaborate on documents, store and compare revisions, attach relevant files, and print interim or finalized versions.
• Shoutbox: This provides a “microblogging” feature, allowing users to share short updates, links, and other relevant information with others.
• Case Tracker: Allows your users to create, assign, and update tasks to to-do lists for projects, making for effective online management.
• Dashboard: Allows group and site administrators to control and arrange content display, and ensures that teams are kept up to date with the latest information- appropriate for their particular group.
• Content: Open Atrium sites can be edited via web interface using a simplified mark-up language or a WYSIWYG editor. Content can exist in various workflows and have customized fields, and sites can have users with various permission levels. Visual and other user interface customizations can be facilitated through a simple web interface. By paying careful attention to long-term scalability and extensibility needs during development, the core Open Atrium product allows for significant customizations to be made within the user interface without changing any code. Such tools provide users with great flexibility to meet unique requirements for each new site built with Open Atrium.