GP Optimizer Winter 2013: Enterprise Collaboration Portals . . . Should You Care?

Written By Nils Rasmussen, CEO of
Solver, Inc., for GP Optimizer Winter 2013
 Edition by Rockton Software

The social or enterprise collaboration wave is over us. Collaboration tools such as email and conference calls have been around a long time, but the new generation of solutions that have started to emerge in this genre of business software is set to change corporate cultures and drive efficiency and innovation on a whole other scale than the initial tools did.


Example: Traditional business versus business with enterprise collaboration solution

As different collaboration solution vendors have emerged in the market, we see that some have had their core strengths in project management and knowledge management (e.g. storing and retrieving documents), while others have focused on creating a social layer for employee communities, where discussions ("micro-blogging") flow freely around various topics. As the solutions mature, we will likely see that all of the above areas will converge and become core features that each vendor will include in their product.  We will also see a growing number of vertical collaboration solutions appear in various industries as the marketplace for the generic solutions gets crowded with vendors.

Enterprise Collaboration Portal as Knowledge Database

Enterprise collaboration portals will become a major software category over the next few years, and executives need to pay attention to this trend. Opportunities for efficiency gains across an organization are rampant; there are numerous other advantages as well. (Download a Collaboration research paper here to learn more). For organizations doing full scale, executive supported deployments, the question should not be: "Do you think this can help us?" It should be: "How can we use this technology to increase our bottom line from 5-10% to 15-25%?"

Check out information about the BI360 Insight collaboration portal here and learn how Collaboration is becoming the “last mile” of Business Intelligence.

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