Collaboration - New Software Needed

It's a well established fact of the Internet Age that people can now work remotely and collaborate with their peers and co-workers over the Internet. Companies have recognized this fact, and many of them allow and often encourage their people to work remotely. It cuts costs after all, through savings in office costs.

One problem, however, is that there is a dearth of software that actually supports full collaboration in business. While there are various packages that have been around for a while that allow online meetings and video conferencing and of course, there's email and other messaging tools, nevertheless there is very little good software that companies can use that encourages a full social media type of approach while at the same time fully supporting business processes that need to be carried out to move ahead with the business of the company. To put it another way, there is a shortage of software that can be fully integrated with business processes.

This article summarizes one new product that is trying to meet this need. The article is instructive in that it points to the need and shows how software can fill a void that exists in a large number of companies. Check out the article here.