Collaboration Platform Software

Collaboration platform software is a computer-based suite to drive a number of services and tools designed to support cooperation in the team, or in other words, those tools are included into a consolidated toolset used to maintain, facilitate and radically improve existing major workflow-oriented interactions between collaborating people. CThe architecture means a shared virtual environment where communicational channels between the employees and their managers are appropriately supported & boosted up by innovative instruments, but along with securing the settled workflow and seniority.

That’s why a job workflow is a winning combination: you save your traditional and proved collaborative model, but along with it you implement collaboration platform software enabling you to reach a brand new level of productivity that is a result of easy, quick and paperless interactions between people becoming free from outdated constraints. Specific features depend on the type and purpose of such a system. There could be the following types:

• collaboration at shared documents: systematize, co-edit, co-access and statusing;
• employees-managers reporting and communications: systems to delegate tasks, etc;
• business matters: time parameters, budget, objectives, priorities;
• scheduling: target dates, events, milestones, etc;
• management of business processes;

According to opinions of business experts who performed analysis (studied impact of implementation), even if a company decides to improve only one area of their workflows, the productivity growth appears drastic, but when a company makes its whole workflow automated it gets enabled to disclose many inefficiencies, eliminate them, and free up its business resources to re-direct saved means at accomplishing some other, more important tasks. Collaboration platform software systems are delivered by many developers who employ different ways of its organization, distribution and serving different requirements to fit businesses of different scales & specializations. Some of developers provide their tools as a service requiring monthly or annual fees and to be accessed via the Internet (which is not a safe way to work with business information).

An eample for small and medium businesses:

VIP Task Manager is a client-server program that is used to establish teamwork at documents, tasks, schedules, & business processes over your LAN, or Internet (if required). This product is not  freeware, but a commercial solution with affordable pricing and convenient licensing model. This program’s  capabilities include:

• agile To-Do Lists and workflow Calendars (timelines and agendas);
• project’s Task Tree (different kinds of WBS);
• project’s matters: due dates, costs, time attributes of tasks, etc;
• project’s documentation: sharing and associating project documents with tasks;