IBM Collaboration Software

IBM Collaboration Software

In the current economic climate, collaboration software offers a way to help increasingly dispersed companies stay competitive and efficient. A recent world-wide IBM study noted that 90 per cent of employees work away from headquarters while more than 60 per cent work in different locations to their managers.

Even when distance isn’t an issue, businesses still need to find better ways of using and sharing the information they already have, exchanging new ideas and finding the right partners. They need to enable employees to do things for themselves quickly and easily, increase productivity and skills, streamline processes and reduce costs wherever possible.

Employees on the other hand want faster access to the best enterprise information and applications, the latest collaborative tools and the ability to work anywhere at any time - all without sacrificing security or efficiency.

Collaboration software offers team members instant, secure access to shared content, and expertise – with people located down the hall or across the world. New Web 2.0 social computing capabilities like tagging, collaborative search filtering, wikis and blogs help eliminate information "silos" and enable people to syndicate their knowledge and build unified solutions.