Online collaboration

Online Collaboration is designed to help people involved in a common task achieve their goals with online software. Some online collaboration solutions include professional email, document management, project management, shared calendaring, and contact management tools. Online collaboration solutions allow employees, customers, and partners to share critical business information with each other from anywhere in the world.

Overview:

Teamwork is a key aspect of product design and revenue. Companies are now improving teamwork between employees using online web techniques. These techniques include synchronous meeting, co-modelling systems, and visualisation software. Online collaboration technology lets people interact and resolve problems regardless of location. This is much faster and more effective than using teleconferences, faxes, and email and easier than getting everyone together for a face-to-face meeting.

One example is synchronous visual teamwork meeting, this helps people in different locations simultaneously view the same CAD model on their desktops or discuss it interactively online through pointers and annotations. The atmosphere also becomes more informal, comfortable, and relaxed, while making assignments to members much clearer. Working together allows for the buildup of a range, ideas, quickness, and trouble. For more types of software see collaborative software

Online Collaboration Tools

• Synchronous conferencing
• E-mail
• Wikis
• Revision control
• Internet forums
• Online chat
• Video conferencing
• Data conferencing
• Application sharing
• Electronic meeting systems
• Electronic calendars
• Project management systems
• Online spreadsheets