Bantam Live

At the core of Bantam Live is the real-time activity stream, which is all about the sharing of time, being together in the moment of business activity, integrating business apps/workflows/data, and being able to instantly interact with co-worker activity. The stream has significant value beyond the asynchronous sharing of a web page or file via, say, email. With this in mind we introduce today a new design tweak that'll give you a window view into the future evolution of Bantam Live.

Today's design tweak (in the magnified stream item above) doesn't need much explaining, and that's the point when users see this visual enhancement for an updated business object in the stream. Now, when a user modifies a deal setting, it'll display with augmented meta-data in the stream about a change to a business object, instead of only text narrative. In some instances it'll be with graphical icons, as shown. So instead of text-heavy "Bill Jones created the deal XYZ and assigned a value of X with a close date of Y and a probability of Z" the updated items will now display the meta info in a way that's easy to skim to get the essentials. Moreover, we've added some small green/red icons for up/down on certain modifications to a deal, such as a change deal amount or probability percent. Not only do these meta-updates of deals in the stream quickly provide useful information to a sales manager and colleagues; it also fosters team cohesion and sense of purpose that's motivating as well as informative.