Adding Real-Time Collaboration to your solution will help differentiate you from your competitors. UNA Merge is easily integrated, provides all the benefits of versioning, and gives your customers the ability to collaborate more naturally.

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Add real-time collaborative authoring to your wiki, online document, spreadsheet, or other enterprise-quality solution

Introduction
Real Real-Time Collaboration
For Wikis
For Online Docs
For Your App
FAQ
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“Microsoft is investing enormous amounts of money in collaboration and the investment is paying off.”— Forrester Research

Introduction

UNA Merge is the only system that allows your development team to easily add real-time collaborative editing and authoring features to your application. Whether your team is building a wiki, online document, spreadsheet, or other enterprise-level solution, it's worth looking closer at the competitive advantage UNA Merge can deliver to your tool.

Compare real-time collaboration to the other solutions here.

Real Real-Time Collaboration

Collaboration doesn't have to be an arduous, painful, heavyweight process. With UNA Merge, collaboration can become a seamless dance of interaction that is as natural and intuitive as breathing.

Explore the movies below to learn how UNA Merge truly represents the evolution of collaboration.

Traditional Collaboration	UNA Merge
People edit copies of the document, leading to conflicts.	People edit the same document, fully aware of what each other are doing.
People have to wait turns to edit the document.	Anyone can edit any part of a document at any time.
People work alone, without input or help from peers.	People work together, naturally and seamlessly.
Merging and overwriting are painful, discouraging collaboration.	Merging is seamless and real-time, encouraging collaboration.
No one knows who made changes to a document.	Full authorship information is available.
Collaboration requires bulky, awkward, confusing technology that often breaks.	Invisible, seamless collaboration technology that requires nothing from users.

Technical Advantages

UNA Merge isn't the only merging solution in town. But it is the smoothest, most technically sophisticated solution.

Explore the movies below to learn what sets UNA Merge apart from the competition.

Other Solutions	UNA Merge
Only handles plain-text merging.	Handles rich-text, plain-text, images, or any other media.
Requiring a central server to help with merging increases cost of scaling.	Fully peer-to-peer, dramatically reducing cost of scaling.
Tree-based merging leads to unacceptable lag.	Broadcast-based merging achieves theoretical minimum lag.
Conflicts lead to loss of information.	User intention is preserved.
Hefty network requirements, adding to cost.	Low-bandwidth requirements.

For Wikis

Wikis are the #1 technology component identified with Enterprise 2.0 Platforms
69% of Enterprise 2.0 installations cite "Increase Collaboration" as their primary goal

Give your customers what they are looking for - more collaborative capabilities.

Since wikis are the technology most often identified with Enterprise 2.0 Platforms, and "Increasing Collaboration" is the number one goal of these organizations, it's understandable that Enterprise Wikis are looking for ways to increase the collaborative capabilities of their tools.

Unfortunately, 36% of implementers cite "immaturity of technology" as a major shortcoming of Enterprise 2.0. Development teams in this field need to step up to the plate and make their solutions as collaborative and user-friendly as possible.

N-Brain can help.

UNA Merge is a real-time collaborative editing solution, designed to remove the technical barriers associated with collaborating online - so that teams work naturally, and accomplish more, quicker. The differences between real-time collaborative authoring and the current solutions are obvious: take a look at Real Real-Time Collaboration to learn more.

UNA Merge provides a competitive advantage for your enterprise wiki solution. It is easy to Integrate, and we're happy to customize it for your specific needs.

Check out the FAQ, or contact the company founder, John A. De Goes, with any questions that you have via email.

Based upon user requests, Collaborative Editing is one of the Top 10 most requested features for Atlassian's Confluence.

For Online Docs

69% - the number of people citing “Increase Collaboration” as the primary goal of Enterprise 2.0 installations

On Google Docs: “Just now, for the first time, I tried working on a document together with a colleague, and had to give up since his screen became too jumpy when the two of us were inputting text at the same time (in different sections of the same document).”

— Comment on ReadWriteWeb

Online Documents are growing in popularity, since they allow team members and partners to work from anywhere, collaborate on projects, and save time reviewing, editing, and revising. Unfortunately, versioning issues often cause end-users headaches, as they watch their recent changes disappear, their screens change unnaturally, and their content move out of place. These bugs are slowing the adoption of Online Documents as a viable solution for more main-stream users.

N-Brain can help.

UNA Merge is a real-time collaborative authoring solution, designed to remove the technical barriers associated with collaborating online — so that teams work naturally, and are still free to roll back to previous versions. The differences between real-time collaborative authoring and the current solutions are simple: take a look at Real Real-Time Collaboration to learn more.

UNA Merge provides a competitive advantage for your online document solution. It is easy to Integrate, and we're happy to customize it for your specific needs.

Developing collaborative-editing technology on your own is too time-consuming in this competitive marketplace. Check out the FAQ, or contact the company founder, John A. De Goes, with any questions that you have via email.

For Your App

“Collaboration is a business aspect with universal appeal.”

— AIIM.org MarketIQ

UNA Merge is a real-time collaborative authoring solution, designed to remove the technical barriers associated with collaborating online — so that teams work naturally, without even noticing the underlying technology. The differences between real-time collaborative authoring and the current solutions are simple: take a look at Real Real-Time Collaboration to learn more.

UNA Merge provides a competitive advantage for your application. It is easy to Integrate, and we're happy to customize it for your specific needs.

Developing collaborative-editing technology on your own is too time-consuming for this competitive marketplace. Check out the FAQ, or contact the company founder, John A. De Goes, with any questions that you have via email.

FAQ

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What document types can UNA Merge handle?

UNA Merge operates on tree structured data, in a form similar to XML. If your data can be expressed in XML, then chances are, UNA Merge can handle it.

Rich-text and plain-text are two examples of document types that UNA Merge can deal with.

How easy is it to integrate UNA Merge?

UNA Merge has a nice clean API that is well-documented. However, integration times vary depending on the complexity of your data model.

We also provide integration service for an hourly charge, with an emphasis on high-quality and rapid turnaround.

How is this different than Google Docs?

Google Docs uses a semi-real-time collaborative merging algorithm, in which changes to one part of a document appear to other users editing the document after a substantial delay. Users who edit the same part of a document at the same time often clobber each other.

How is this different from Version Control?

In version control systems, users edit copies of a document. To create a version of the document containing the changes of all users who have edited it, the users must perform a merge operation.

Version control is a form of "offline" or "non-real-time" collaboration that encourages people to work on different areas, to avoid the pain of merging.

Integration

Integrating UNA Merge into your solution makes real-time collaborative editing simple for your end-users. We're happy to customize the integration to your needs, and support you along the way.

To account for the various ways UNA Merge can be integrated, let us know what you are looking for:

My applications is a solution.
We want to enable versioning for our users:
We'd like to enable multiple users to undo their actions in real-time:
We'd like to prevent version control and merging bugs that delete content:
We'd like to integrate real-time, collaborative editing:
We'd like N-Brain to help us with the integration:
We'd like support and upgrades to UNA Merge:
Though UNA Merge has a well-documented API, we'd also like to buy the source code:

Programming Language:
Name:
Email:
Website:
Are there any questions you'd like to ask N-Brain?

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Integrating UNA Merge into your solution makes collaborative editing simple for your end-users. We're happy to customize the integration to your needs, and support you along the way.

To account for the various ways UNA Merge can be integrated, we've developed these packages, which you can further customize.

Choose Your Solution

Do-It-Yourself — The current version of UNA Merge, packaged into a library with detailed API documentation. Support and Upgrades can be added to this package.
Custom Installation — We're happy to integrate UNA Merge into your solution and work directly with your team. After integration, we'll also provide a full year of integration support and upgrades. Royalty and royalty-free options available.
Kitchen Sink — The full source code for UNA Merge, one year of support and upgrades, and two add-on options: Royalty-Free, and Custom Installation.

Interested in designing your own package? Check out the integration options or email us directly to let us know what you're looking for.