The Evolution of Collaboration Software 2006-2007: The Period of Transformation.DUBLIN Dublin, city, Republic of Ireland Dublin, Irish Baile Átha Cliath, county borough (1991 pop. 915,516), Leinster, capital of the Republic of Ireland, on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the Liffey River. , Ireland Ireland, Irish Eire (âr`ə) [to it are related the poetic Erin and perhaps the Latin Hibernia], island, 32,598 sq mi (84,429 sq km), second largest of the British Isles. -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50974) has announced the addition of Collaboration Software See collaborative software. Market Analysis to their offering. The concept of the knowledge worker has been used to describe many of the changes to working practices and organisational goals over the last decade. Organisations at the leading edge of knowledge management now recognise that most employees flourish -- and benefit their organisation -- as part of a knowledge-sharing community. Such communities of interest or communities of practice are providing the context for new organisational structures and innovative technologies that support knowledge sharing and creation. Even organisations that have less interest in formal knowledge management programs are increasingly interested in collaboration tools A collaboration tool is something that helps people collaborate. The term is often used to mean collaborative software, but collaboration tools were being used before computers existed, a piece of paper can for example can be used as collaboration tool. , simply as a mechanism to support project teams. This becomes particularly important where teams are spread across multiple locations, different time zones, and sometimes distributed worldwide. There is a significant opportunity for vendors to use the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and intranets to provide a consistent and well-managed environment for the effective exchange of information and for team-working. This means that they must improve the ability of users to connect to knowledge resources (information or human experts) as they need them. They must then be able to work with those resources in a collaborative environment, with the same level of intuitiveness that they have come to expect from their personal productivity tools. Over the next few years these collaboration tools will achieve the popularity that personal productivity tools and email currently enjoy. Content Outline: Key messages The collaboration software market is maturing The technology is also evolving Collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. remains a two-track market The challenge from the telecoms companies The big software vendors dominate Open source and consumer collaboration software Opportunities for the small players Embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. collaboration Collaboration: from knowledge workers to network-based communities The big picture for collaboration technologies Communication versus collaboration Software market segment Telecoms segment Public and open source segment The collaboration software market The evolution of collaboration software 2006-2007: the period of transformation 2008-2009: integration of the enterprise collaboration platform An emerging category of computer software, collaboration platforms are unified electronic platforms that support synchronous and asynchronous communication through a variety of devices and channels. 2010 and beyond: joined up collaboration Market forecast For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50974. Source: Ovum |
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