Collaboration platform

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An emerging category of computer software, collaboration platforms are unified electronic platforms that support synchronous and asynchronous communication through a variety of devices and channels.

Collaboration platforms offer a set of software components and software services that enable individuals to find each other and the information they need and to be able to communicate and work together to achieve common business goals. The core elements of a collaboration platform are messaging (email, calendaring and scheduling, and contacts), team collaboration (file synchronization, ideas and notes in a wiki, task management, full-text search), and real-time collaboration and communication (e.g., presence, instant messaging, Web conferencing, application / desktop sharing, voice, audio and video conferencing), and Social Computing tools (e.g., blog, wiki, tagging, RSS, shared bookmarks).

Actually, the Collaboration platforms could be proprietary or open source or free software, and tend to be used in a wider information and communication environments, representing the collaboration platform one module or package more to be integrate in a bigger platform.

[edit] See also

• CWE Collaborative working environments
• PMS List of Project Management Software