Submitted by

Sourabh Malhotra
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Collaboration is a working practice whereby
individuals work together to a common
purpose to achieve business benefit.
Types Of collaboration

Synchronous collaboration such as online
meetings and instant messaging.
Asynchronous collaboration such as
shared workspaces and annotations.

A collaboration platform is a category of
business software that adds broad social
networking capabilities to work processes.
Collaborative software or groupware is an
application software designed to help people
involved in a common task achieve goals.
Earlier Known as is 'intentional group
processes plus software to support them
Resource
Requirements

System
requirements
Collaboration
Requirements
Support
Requirements
The goal of a collaboration software application is
to foster innovation by incorporating knowledge
management into business processes so
employees can share information and solve
business problems more efficiently.
Effective communication throughout the
organisation
Evolution to a Paperless World
Real-Time, Interactive Information Gateway
Freeform: no barriers to authorship, i.e.
free from a learning curve or restrictions.
Network-oriented: all content must be Web-
addressable.
Social: stresses transparency (to access),
diversity (in content and community
members) and openness (to structure)
Emergence: must provide approaches that
detect and leverage the collective wisdom of
the community.
Pooling of expertise:provides more opportunities
for experts to join project groups where their
knowledge can be best used, and be
complemented with other experts whose
knowledge contributes to a common goal.
Cost Effective
Team building, project planning, company
meetings, reduced traveling costs, increasing
work efficiency, productivity, have better client
interaction etc.
Technological limits:Because technology cannot convey
important information, such as context and expressions
of emotion, teams are limited in their grounding of
knowledge and interpersonal relations
Reliance on technology:problems that arise with the
technology can obstruct a collaborative effort due to
complete reliance on technology for communication
Asynchronous and lagged
communication:Collaborators that are interdependent
on each others information can experience problems
due to the lack of synchronization due to technology.
Means of exclusion:The method of information
transfer in collaboration can allow for team
members to choose who does and does not
receive information.
Microsoft SharePointMicrosoft Office SharePoint
Server (MOSS)
Microsoft exchnage
Microsoft Lync
Cisco WebEx Connect
Google Apps
MindTouch
Drupal

1.http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-
Applications/10-Collaboration-Platforms-To-
Consider-For-Your-Business-884210/
2. http://www.microsoft.com/en-
hk/businessproductivity/solutions/Collabora
tion.aspx


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