Collaboration Tools

Here we describe some tools or software that help with group collaboration. The use of collaborative software in the workspace creates a collaborative working environment (CWE). A collaborative working environment supports people in both their individual and cooperative work thus giving birth to a new class of professionals, e-professionals, who can work together irrespective of their geographical location. 

•  is a free, Web-based office suite and data storage service offered by Google within its Google Drive service. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users.

•   is an office suite of desktop applications created by Apple for OS X and iOS operating systems. 

• or better known as the Zoho Office Suite is a Web-based online office suite containing word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, note-taking, wikis, customer relationship management (CRM), project management,  invoicing, and other applications.  

For collaboartive project management there are some software solutions:

•  is a project management collaboration tool that has mobile and web interface.

•  is a collaborative project execution software. It is a free, Open-Source, PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams through an intuitive web interface. It is a web-based project-management tool.  Basecamp offers to-do lists, wiki-style web-based text documents, milestone management, file sharing, time tracking, and a messaging system.

To see realtime writing that would help to take notes for a person or in a larger group or for example for programmers to write a code, there are online whiteboards and note taking software.

• is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving. A "note" can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Users with Internet access and an Evernote account can also have their notes automatically synchronized with a master copy held on the Evernote server. This approach lets a user access and edit their data across multiple machines and operating system platforms, but still view, input and edit data when an Internet connection is not available. 

•    is a free digital whiteboard that users can share online in real-time.

•   is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images.

• PiratePad is a real-time collaborative text-editor. Everyone viewing a document sees the same text.