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Enterprise Collaboration Tools: Page 14 of 14

With Web-based collaborative workspaces, users separated by offices or miles can accomplish any project. We tested eight product suites, but only one set the standard for features, interoperability and price.
December 03, 2004

Unlike the other products we tested, Groove's Virtual Office is not a Web product--it installs locally to Windows PCs. It provides a workspace to invite other Groove users, share files, calendars and tasks and engage in discussion lists and real-time chat. It even offers a feature to route a document to selected reviewers. Although it doesn't supply document check-in/out features or versioning control, its synchronous features in IM and presence management make collaborating quite easy. Without them, a virtual workspace is like entering a meeting room in the dark.

The products from Hummingbird and SiteScape also include messaging and IM components. And Open Text's Meeting Zone provides a place for live, online meetings and discussions. Other products like Vignette and Microsoft Sharepoint are looking forward to integration paths with Live Communication Server.

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