1.0.6- Technologies for Collaboration

Technologies for Collaboration

A crop of powerful tools for distributed-team communications are appearing by the dozen, each with a slightly different set of features functions or focus. Virtual Team Space (VTS) tools allow work groups to share project information, documents, and images mostly in an asynchronous way.

The most high-profile entries in this market come from the industry big guns: IBM’s Lotus QuickPlace  now called Quickr) and Workplace, EMC/Documentum’s eRoom, Microsoft’s SharePoint Services, but there is a whole crop of new Web 2.0 tools that fit into the VTS space including:

• Jive’s Clearspace
• Huddle
• Clearspace
• Near-time
• Teamworkzone
• Central Desktop
• Nexo
• Collanos Workplace
• Openteams