KM Tools: Collaboration Tools and Articles
Collaboration
Tools
Collaboration Articles
This section contains a collection of web collaboration websites, online article references, and a selected list of collaborative tools (groupware). Many of these sites describe in detail the concepts of Collaboration Tools (Groupware), and Collaboration technologies.
What are Collaborative Tools?
Collaborative tools (groupware) are computer-based tools that help people
work together and share information. They allow for virtual on-line meetings
and data sharing. Some examples of collaborative tools include: calendar,
bulletin board, chat, whiteboard, audio, video, discussion groups (newsgroups),
file sharing tools, presentation tools, application sharing, persistent capability,
instant messaging, search capability (people and documents), offline paging/messaging,
online paging, text tools.
What do Collaborative tools provide?
They bring geographically dispersed teams together for virtual meetings across
great distances. This results in: tremendous time and cost savings, greatly
decreased travel requirements, faster and better decision making, and improved
communications flow throughout the organization.
Organizations and their processes are not linear. They are dynamic and operate in parallel over great distances. Collaboration technologies improve parallel processing, knowledge worker productivity, coordination, and adaptiveness.
Collaboration Tools
Overview of available tools:
Web Collaboration
- Capterra
Provides a listing of web collaboration vendors and their products. As of
March 2002 the list included 33 web collaboration products.
Individual vendors and tools:
Use the menu below to select a review:
ActiveProject
ActiveProject v2000/E helps keep projects on schedule by speeding communication
and collaboration among team members and by providing centralized storage
of project information.
AskMe
"AskMe is a leading provider of knowledge sharing solutions for corporations
and large organizations. AskMe Enterprise provides a new context for communication
within large organizations, allowing employees to easily find answers to business
questions, and share their personal knowledge with other employees, partners,
suppliers, and customers…" by Gartner Group, 12/01/00.
BrightSuite
BrightSuite is a comprehensive and easy-to-use Groupware package on the market
today. Combining 25 application modules using a common database, BrightSuite
provides unparalleled power and efficiency and is designed to run on a web
server. The software can easily be installed on your company’s Intranet
or an Internet website. The backend database can be Microsoft Access , Microsoft
SQL Server, or MySQL.
Business Collaborator
Business Collaborator was designed to help you work with your colleagues and
clients, to make your working life simpler and to reduce your time spent working
with, and sharing, your business critical information.
Centra
Centra provides a total eLearning solution to support and accelerate strategic
business processes, such as product roll-outs, hands-on SAP training, corporate
universities and new hire orientation, customer interaction and online selling,
and the delivery of priced services on the Web. Web conferencing and online
presentations allow you to assemble large audiences on the Web without sacrificing
the important benefits of real-time, face-to-face interaction, communication,
and learning.
CompanyWay
"CompanyWay serves the enterprise, online communities of practice (CoP) market
with swarm collaboration tools. Swarm collaboration is a process where the
rules and incentives affecting organizational behavior are built into the
work itself. The CompanyWay web service enables informal networks of employees
to self-organize to solve innovation and strategy problems. Peer feedback
determines reward, recognition, and organizational capital of each worker,
allowing leaders and experts to emerge from a bottom-up process."
CuseeMe
A complete rich media communications environment that interfaces with existing
applications and workflow.
Divine
D ivine Enterprise Collaboration solutions enable proactive, high-quality
and productive working relationships. Divine solutions address the ongoing
cycle of capturing, sharing, and acting upon knowledge-including experiences,
data and ideas.
eRoom
Virtually all companies who develop and deliver products and services today
have teams comprising people from different departments. eRoom Technology
was founded to help organizations across multiple industries build a better
workplace—one where the work, the tools and the workplace come together;
one that provides business agility; and one that enables people to get more
work done while creating a better balance between work and life.
Facilitate.com
Facilitate.com turns any web browser into a virtual conference center for
highly productive collaboration any time, any place. Facilitate.com improves
collaborative results and reduces costs associated with: on-site meetings,
web conferencing, web meetings, and online surveys.
Groove
Groove Workspace software provides a full range of interactive tools and toolsets
and a complete collaboration environment. It provides a better way than email
for working on joint file editing, team projects and other collaborative work.
HelpMeeting
Share any PC application with up to 8 conference participants. Easy to use
via a Web browser that requires no server hardware or software. Scalable to
support thousands of conferences. Spontaneous and reserved conferences with
email confirmations Uses Microsoft NetMeeting 3 technology.
Interwoven
Interwoven's Collaborative Document Management Solution (CDM), a new component
of the Interwoven solution family improves document management, collaboration,
and sharing of mission-critical corporate functions across the enterprise.
This new solution raises the quality and effectiveness of core business processes
such as new product development, customer account management, and project
management.
ProjectorCenter
With Project Center, team members improve project communication, productivity,
and reduce errors by storing documents, drawings, photos, and other correspondence
in one location.
SameTime (Lotus)
Lotus Sametime offers real-time collaboration products providing instant awareness,
communication, and screen sharing capabilities.
TeamCenter
TeamCenter allows remote workers to communicate more effectively, increasing
productivity, project success.
WebEx
WebEx offers Videoconferencing, Voice Over IP, File and Documentation sharing,
Chat, Online Meeting Room, Virtual Office Space and many others.
WelcomHome
With WelcomHome, you can increase the efficiency of your projects by avoiding
the delays inherent in client-specific and location-specific teams.
Collaboration Articles
The
Coolest Kind of Collaborations - NetworkWorld Fusion
Do your far-flung users want to communicate as if they share an office? Here's
how they can team over the Internet. There is little question that companies
stand to benefit substantially from Web teaming tools and techniques. Besides
increased efficiency, there are significant cost benefits to be realized.
This offers a best collaboration tools. By Ian Lamont.
Mitsubishi
is Knowledge Management Pioneer in Japan - KM World
Mitsubishi Automotive Engineering (MAE), a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Motors,
has implemented a new KM solution, Livelink, to solve its information challenges
and to enable employees to exchange knowledge in virtual teams without leaving
their desktops. With Livelink, a Web-based, collaborative e-business application,
MAE employees can share information that is created, compiled and ready-to-use
from a single browser.
United Technologies -
CIO Magazine
A decentralized company wrestles with sharing knowledge across borders. In
an article that's worth reading, the author grabs your attention asking: "What
can an engineer who designs space suits for NASA possibly learn from one who
builds elevators?" Sounds familiar, doesn't it? As United
Technologies embarks upon their KM journey, it's interesting to see what questions
they are asking and where they are going.
This section of the site was last updated on February 28, 2002.