Simple groupware - Online and client-server groupware solutions

Simple groupware
Simple groupware is a category of software developed to help groups of employees and project teams to work together by contributing to the information exchange among group members who may be located in the same or several offices. Simple groupware is a useful mechanism for sharing information, defining the project workflow and managing business processes, so users can complete tasks and processes step by step in an efficient manner. The best groupware solutions let every user be responsible for the next step or action by initiating notifications automatically after some changes have been made.

Online groupware
Often, users of simple groupware collaborate on the same project, although the best groupware solutions offer functionality for sharing information throughout the entire company by using Internet. Those small business groupware solutions that establish user collaboration and information exchange via Internet are called web-based or online groupware. Online groupware allows using an internet browser to access information stored on web servers. Usually, web-based easy groupware solutions don't suppose installing any application modules or components because the heart of online groupware is stored on web servers of the groupware provider. Users of web-based easy groupware have to pay a regular fee to get access to the web services.

Client-server desktop groupware
Those small business groupware solutions that allow users to connect a corporate database through local area network or virtual private network as well as through Internet are called client-server desktop groupware. Such desktop groupware solutions store the corporate database on a dedicated server or any PC that can be located in the company's office. Client-server desktop groupware makes it easy to access corporate data, share the workflow and protect information because the corporate database is quite near to the system administrator or the manager. However, as the most of client-server small business groupware solutions are easy in use and don't require special computer knowledge and experience to manage the database, it won't take a long time and hard efforts from the system administrator to configure and run a client-server based easy groupware solution.

VIP Task Manager is a simple groupware solution based on client-server technology that can suit requirements of the most particular users who want to establish real time collaboration among employees. This simple groupware can be applied to run projects (VIP Task Manager as a project management groupware solution) as well as to manage business activities (VIP Task Manager as a small business groupware solution).

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