Collaboration

There have always been opportunities for organizations to collaborate better. But competitive pressures and an increasingly dispersed and outsourced workforce have made collaboration an imperative for business success. Advances in technology and adoption have revealed opportunities to leverage collaboration in ways that are more practical and cost-effective than previously possible. Burton Group’s coverage of collaboration-focused applications, development tools, and infrastructure helps organizations architect policy-driven, practical approaches to meeting current and future collaboration needs.

• Virtual workspaces, team rooms, project workspaces, discussion forums
• Bookmarking, folksonomies, tagging
• Collaborative app development
• Web conferencing
• Collaborative workflow
• Wikis
• Collaboration superplatforms (e.g., Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Lotus Notes / Domino)

This topic relates to the Collaboration and Content coverage area - Focused on the complex set of decisions facing IT strategists in order to ensure that collaboration and content solutions gain broad user adoption, are extensible by developers, and leverage common infrastructure services while enabling applications that satisfy business needs.

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