Group Collaboration Software
Group Collaboration Software
Brandi James
USC Upstate
35A Nesbitt Drive
Inman, SC 29349
864-612-4975
James_Brandi@Hotmail.Com
ABSTRACT
Whether you are working on a project with people in the same building or spread around the world, you know how challenging it can be to get everyone on the same page and working together in a coordinated manner. A variety of tools such as email programs, online calendars, wikis, and file sharing tools are available to make it easier for you to collaborate online but they also create new problems since it can create information silos, where your project information ends up being spread out across multiple tools. Group collaboration software attempts to solve the information silo problem by combining multiple tools into an integrated solution. As a result, you and your team members can use one tool for all your project collaboration needs.
The best collaboration software is one that successfully allows you and your teams to communicate, coordinate, and work together on achieving a common goal. Common features of all good team collaboration software include Folders to make it easier to organize and share your documents and files. Document management is provided with versioning support to make it possible to safely work on documents collaboratively. There are milestones and tasks tracking to allow coordination of who needs to do what by when. Shared calendars are present which make it easy to keep your team in sync. Messaging is there as well to ensure that all communication is captured in one place and easily accessible. One other component is activity streams to allow you to get up-to-date on what your team members have done without the need for status meetings.
With group collaboration software, we believe with a suite of feature-rich tools and functionality, coupled with intuitive navigation, deep integration with email, and superior customer support, our project team is guaranteed to work more efficiently
Brandi James
USC Upstate
35A Nesbitt Drive
Inman, SC 29349
864-612-4975
James_Brandi@Hotmail.Com
ABSTRACT
Whether you are working on a project with people in the same building or spread around the world, you know how challenging it can be to get everyone on the same page and working together in a coordinated manner. A variety of tools such as email programs, online calendars, wikis, and file sharing tools are available to make it easier for you to collaborate online but they also create new problems since it can create information silos, where your project information ends up being spread out across multiple tools. Group collaboration software attempts to solve the information silo problem by combining multiple tools into an integrated solution. As a result, you and your team members can use one tool for all your project collaboration needs.
The best collaboration software is one that successfully allows you and your teams to communicate, coordinate, and work together on achieving a common goal. Common features of all good team collaboration software include Folders to make it easier to organize and share your documents and files. Document management is provided with versioning support to make it possible to safely work on documents collaboratively. There are milestones and tasks tracking to allow coordination of who needs to do what by when. Shared calendars are present which make it easy to keep your team in sync. Messaging is there as well to ensure that all communication is captured in one place and easily accessible. One other component is activity streams to allow you to get up-to-date on what your team members have done without the need for status meetings.
With group collaboration software, we believe with a suite of feature-rich tools and functionality, coupled with intuitive navigation, deep integration with email, and superior customer support, our project team is guaranteed to work more efficiently
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