Collaboration applications

In various project environments, using collaboration applications is required for providing joint activities, solving common problems, resolving conflicts, sharing viewpoints, and communicating with team members. It helps managers to ensure that team members work effectively towards achieving shared goals. Their subordinates are enabled to act as a joint and productive team that produces planned results and accomplishes tasks in a timely manner. That software also helps senior management of projects to keep track of overall progress, review results and exert governance over project teams.

Therefore, all the parties involved in project planning and implementation will benefit from using project collaboration applications. And regardless of project type and size, a desktop suite will build a "bridge" between team leaders, team members and senior project management to ensure close communications, effective teamwork and high performance. For example, time scheduling becomes more efficient when team members, managers and project stakeholders use a collaboration application platform to access the same electronic calendar and keep track of changes in real time mode. Or another example: key stakeholders (like Sponsor and Customer) can provide guidance for teams through using job sharing tools that allow team members to access a centralized database and review shared guidelines, instructions and requirements.

Without IT technologies there would be no collaboration applications tools. Due to the development of client-server platforms, web-based technologies and real-time communication tools today we know many software solutions that help unite people into productive teams, build teamwork, and manage shared goals. Project participants are able to make collaborative interactions to capture common goals and combine common efforts into a flexible project environment that supports electronic document management, threaded discussions, task history, and other mechanisms for better teamwork and management.

VIP Task Manager is a desktop-based client-server solution that provides packages for building teamwork, managing group assignments and sharing project data. Unlike web-based online software, VIP Task Manager allows using local network capabilities to establish team collaboration. Users can access a centralized database over LAN. Such a database can be deployed on a local corporate server. VIP Task Manager supports real-time mode allowing users to instantly review changes and receive status notifications.

VIP Task Manager is best for small- and mid-sized organizations. It uses a reliable platform that successfully competes with MS SharePoint and other powerful technologies. Meanwhile, VIP Task Manager is available at affordable prices as compared to MS solutions. Users can try this software for free – there is a 30-day evaluation edition. At this website you can fill in a short registration form to get a link to your copy of the free edition.