Email stinks as a collaboration tool, especially in today’s business environment. Teams are sending multiple copies of documents, wait for them to be reviewed only to then have to reconcile the changes.
And typically users are cc’d on lengthly, irrelevant email threads.
Collaboration tools have been around for several years with IBM Lotus Quickr and Microsoft SharePoint leading the charge.
At A&G, we have been educating our clients about these collaboration tools. And many have embraced them full throttle.
Clients access SharePoint to get information about ongoing projects from kickoff to launch. They can find contact information, documents and forms.
In addition, the SharePoint environment is secure and easy to use. Collaboration applications like SharePoint may worry IT Departments, but the reality is that these tools beat email when it comes to managing privacy, compliance, and security.
Although SharePoint is the collaboration tool of choice, there are several other tools available, such as PBwiki, Jive software’s Clearspace and EMC Documentum’s eRoom.
