Groupware: Collaborative Strategies for Corporate LANs and Intranets

The all-new decision-maker's guide to intranets and groupware.

With today's new intranet and groupware technologies, you can dramatically improve collaboration and teamwork throughout your enterprise—and beyond. This book is a complete decision-maker's guide to leveraging those technologies. It will help you:

• Compare intranet and traditional groupware solutions.
• Understand powerful new hybrid solutions that combine groupware security with the Web's extraordinary flexibility.
• Discover the state-of-the-art in messaging, workflow, electronic meetings, and videoconferencing.
• Focus on the real issues involved in designing, implementing, using, and managing groupware.

Edited by David Coleman, the industry's leading expert on groupware, this book presents extensive new groupware research, some of it published here for the first time. It also includes the views of more than 20 leading industry experts, including internationally known players like Ronni Marshak and Lotus' Jeff Papows.

Through extensive case studies in diverse industries such as consulting, construction, and hardware/software development, you'll learn exactly what's working—and the lessons early adopters have learned. You'll also learn what to expect next, as distributed meetings, virtual offices, collaborative presentations, and desktop videoconferencing come of age.

Groupware also contains a comprehensive directory of resources, including Web sites and URLs, interest groups, lists of vendors and products, events, newsletters, and conferences and much more.

For many companies, the right decisions about groupware and intranet technology have improved productivity by 30%, 40%, or more. If it's your job to make those decisions, this book delivers all the focused, up-to-date expert advice you'll need.

This book helps MIS professionals make critical groupware decisions, and offers essential, up-to-date guidance on intranets.

This book presents the most up-to-date, thorough review of the groupware marketplace available, with special focus on the dramatic growth of intranets. It covers hot groupware topics such as desktop videoconferencing, e-mail and messaging technologies, and new Web-base meeting software. It also includes sections on implementing groupware in vertical markets, ranging from the construction industry, to consulting firms, to hardware and software development teams. The book also includes a comprehensive list of groupware resources, including Web sites and URLs; groupware interest groups; lists of vendors and products, events, newsletters, conferences and more.

The book is ideal for MIS professionals and managers involved in selecting, implementing, or managing groupware.

DAVID COLEMAN is the founder and conference chairman for the Groupware '9X conferences and Expo held annually in Boston, London, and San Jose. He is editor of GroupTalk, the newsletter of workgroup computing, and architect of the Business Transformation Game, a role-playing simulation that uses groupware to teach collaboration skills. He is also a principal at Collaborative Strategies, a San Francisco-based groupware consulting firm.