Collaboration Tools
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Technology Map Detailed Contents October 2018
Importance of the Technology
The Technology in Brief
- Products
- Enterprise Messaging Apps
- Cloud Storage
- Project Workspaces
- Videoconferencing/Telepresence
- Web Conferencing
- E-Learning Systems
- Knowledge Bases and Wikis
- Enterprise Social Networks
- Social Analytics
- Document Creation and Editing
- Video Creation and Editing
- Community-Management Tools
- Enterprise Content Management and Search
- Unified Communications
- Work Marketplaces
- Product Suites
- Enabling Components
- Software Technologies for Future Collaboration Systems
- Hardware Technologies for Future Collaboration Systems
Commercial Development Parameters
- Demand Factors
- General Constraints
- Synergistic Technologies
- Competing Technologies
- Required Resources
- Regulatory Factors
Areas to Monitor
- The Shadow Cloud
- Progress in Automation Software
- Big Data
- Commoditization of Collaboration Tools
- Human–AI Collaboration
- Firewall-Centric Security
- Management Structures for Virtual Teams
- Digital Distraction
- Fragmentation of Consumer Social Media
- IT-Department Politics
- Progress in Augmented Reality
Implications of Commercialization
Opportunities
- Applications
- Calls and Messaging
- Everyday Teamwork
- Remote and Face-to-Face Meetings
- Learning and Knowledge Management
- Content Creation and Sharing
- Social Networking
- Business-Process Optimization
- Customer and Partner Relations
- Business Models
- Software as a Service
- Software Licensing