AquaFold, a leading US software company, has launched AquaClusters.com, a new social collaboration tool for software developers and the Open Source community.

AquaClusters features a simple but powerful design that helps redefine how groups of users work together on issue tracking, Wiki documentation, discussions, and questions & answers, a statement from the company said.

“AquaClusters helps us communicate with our customers, quickly address issues, and develop useful features based on user demand,” said AquaFold’s CEO, Niels Gron. “We think that giving everyone access will finally let the community bring together the many documents created during the software development process, and build closer relationships with users along the way by fostering ongoing communication.”

The AquaClusters environment is highly collaborative and encourages each participant to make connections, share documents, post comments, and search for answers across multiple projects.

Standout features include a streamlined interface for tracking issue resolution, a built-in Wiki documentation module for collaborative editing, and a questions & answers engine for building an up-to-date knowledge base and FAQ for every project.

Users can like and follow issues, comments, and questions so that they are automatically notified when new contributions appear, the statement said.

What makes AquaClusters unique is that it is a service designed by experienced software developers for software developers with the belief that cross-industry collaboration will result in better quality products.

Virtually anyone can register as a project owner, start an open project, invite contributors, share intended information with the entire open development community, and search for answers across other open projects, it said.

“The Open Source community is the seed of global software innovation, and our goal with AquaClusters is to offer them unlimited access to a no-cost, enterprise-grade service where they can collaborate and innovate,” Gron added.

It is available immediately worldwide and has been localised into 21 languages with events displayed in local time for each user. It works in any modern web browser, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari, the statement said.

AquaClusters is free of charge for users of open projects. Paid commercial licenses are available for private projects, it said. – TradeArabia News Service