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WEB COLLABORATION
With Web-based collaborative workspaces, users separated by offices or miles can accomplish any project. We tested eight product suites, but only one set the standard for features, interoperability and price.
Windows Collaboration, a new tool in Vista, will bring collaboration to the masses, but it's an island unto itself, rather than a bridge.
Question: Do today's new collaboration tools make it harder for IT to wrangle corporate information, or easier? Answer: Yes.
Collaboration is a hot topic in IT circles, and we see many vendors competing to provide the software to accomplish this task. But is collaboration really a technological issue? After all, humans have been collaborating for thousands of years--long before the introduction of information technology. Here's a way that IT people can look at collaboration and become more influential in their companies.
Over the last six months, Gartner analyst Betsy Burton noticed a significant uptick in the number of inquiries she was receiving from CIOs about collaboration. Investigating further, she found four fundamental shifts that are increasing the importance ofand interest incollaboration.
Microsoft, IBM, and Google are most prominent, but Oracle, SAP, and Cisco have plans, too.
If e-mail attachments are your idea of advanced collaboration, these Web-based tools from vendors like Google and Zoho can help jump-start your workflow, without straining your budget or brain.
Map out security and answer data ownership questions before you deploy.
This "meat-and-potatoes" collaboration service offers enough services and administrative features to be taken seriously.
Thanks to messaging and collaboration products, your customers and remote staff have more ways to contact you. In the past year, we've tested hundreds of tools that allow the seamless and effective sharing of ideas and data.
Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers said the networking giant in the coming year will focus on improving collaboration by weaving video into enterprise voice, e-mail and instant messaging applications.
IBM, AT&T Team On Ready-to-Run Collaboration For SMBs
Who says Firefox only has to be about Web browsing?Here are the extensions that will transform Firefox into a fuel-injected, collaboration engine.
Tello Adds Hosted Collaboration
Cisco is teaming up with IBM to promote industry adoption of unified communications and collaboration via a platform based on open standards like Eclipse and OSGi.
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