Groupware: Answers the 5 Questions of Document Collaboration by Joe Miller
Every organization which creates collaborative documents, whether they are budgets, presentations, reports, spreadsheets, or other documents recognizes that collaborative efforts are requirement. That collaboration always forces the 5 eternal document collaboration questions: Who? ... Three helpful groupware software technologies will be presented and referred to throughout this article as means of answer-finding, as a refreshing relief to the more common question-making of collaboration. ... Business frantically searched for groupware solutions that answers the 5 questions of document...

Collaborative Software Creation by Peter Hale
The intention is to create collaborative tools that allow users to develop software in a way they will be familiar with from their use of spreadsheets. Sternemann and Zelm (1999) explained that even then it had become necessary to research collaborative modelling and visualisation tools, because... To assist in this project, it is essential that new ways of enabling collaboration between all those involved in software creation and use are investigated. ... Researchers should examine ways of structuring information, and enabling processing and searching of the information to provide a...

Research in Modelling Simulation and Collaboration Over the Web by Peter Hale
Collaboration, simulation and modelling have been investigated to assist us in determining the requirements for future research in modelling of problems. Huhns [1] and Paternò [2] both explain that alternatives to the current approach to software development are required. ... The intention is to further the research of others into the approach of web based collaboration, and use semantic web software and techniques to achieve this. ... This should allow translation from a model-based representation of software to the actual software.

IBM Lotus Domino or Microsoft Exchange? by Rafael Osipov
IBM Lotus Domino or Microsoft Exchange? The severe competition continues for many years between two main leaders in collaboration solutions - IBM and Microsoft. Whether the choice of a platform influences the ordinary user? The both of software giants put efforts to improve working conveniences... Free add-on for Outlook: Notes Connector Microsoft supports free add-on for Microsoft Outlook client, which allows connection to message/collaboration server Lotus Domino. ... 8.0, United Linux, v. ... 7.2 or 8.0, SuSE Linux, v.

Using a Client Extranet for Efficient Online Collaboration by Rick Mosenkis
Efficient collaboration with clients is essential for any service firm. Traditionally, collaboration has focused on face-to-face meetings, supported by email to share work in progress. Over the past several years, a new tool has grown in popularity: the client service extranet. ... While face-to-face meetings remain the most effective (and essential) collaboration tool, extranets have replaced email as the favored forum for sharing and organizing the vast number of documents that are part of all client/agency relationships.

Groupware as a Document Manager: Collaboration Series #3 by Joe Miller
This article is the third of a series of articles exploring specific aspects of groupware. The brief informational articles in this series discuss some of the technologies associated with groupware, as well as some of the characteristics of groupware. ... In today’s fast-paced business world, most of the document collaboration that takes place is ad hoc. ... Often, document manager software systems require IT infrastructure and limited usability. ... Is Groupware a Document Manager able to Handle Ad Hoc Collaboration?

Management of Complexity by Peter Hale
Cagle (2006) explains that "You can never eliminate complexity from a system, you can only move it from place to place". The purpose of my research is to allow software developers to deal with complexity as far as possible in order to leave the end-user free to model their own problems. ... This allows model builders and users to seek agreement between individuals and between their models and the software representation by intervening in the model building process. ... This kind of problem is investigated by the Institute for People-Centred Computation IP-CC (2006) collaboration network,...

Project Management Software: What It Can Provide by Leon Chaddock
Project management software is a software program that is designed to allow you to manage all aspects of your project needs effectively. There are various type of this software available but most will allow for complete management from the beginning through completion. ... • It will provide for you such things as resource allocation, collaboration software, and documentations software as well. ... These project management software solutions can work for various types of organizations. ... There are various reasons why this software application can work for you.

Following the Movement to Open Source by Aaron Wittersheim
When it comes to security, versatility and stability, there is no better solution in information technology than open source. From operating systems to Web development to just about any common application, the open-source revolution finally has taken hold. ... It is used to describe initiatives and collaborations ranging from software projects to enterprise environments with source code that is accessible to anyone. ... So far, each has maintained its autonomy and reiterated its commitment to furthering “the movement” rather than its bottom line.

Why Go For Custom Software Development Services by Kirill Basikhin
If you are following the IT field then you must have heard the latest buzz surrounding custom software development. Custom software development is not a new technology or field but it has extended the world of IT to various specific functions within an organization. ... Softage also holds a cutting edge as Apart from providing custom software development services also provides other services such as development of portals, e-commerce applications , business application and automation software, document management solutions, custom software solutions and online applications supporting...