GroupWare

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GroupWare

• The Field Marshals

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GroupWare

• Refers to Applications that allow people to work
  collectively from remote locations so all users
  can review the same information
• Product Examples
• MS Project
• Lotus Notes
• MS Exchange
• see Oncourse Environment

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GroupWare
Collaboration Support
Initial Coordination Support
Information Sharing Document Authoring
Ongoing Coordination Support
Support for Team Building
Project Management Group Calendaring
Messaging Systems Computer Conferencing
Communication Support
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• Information Sharing
• Customer Business Data
• Memos E-mail
• Knowledge Bases Project Planning

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• Document Authoring
• Authoring Groups
• Technical Documentation
• Financial Reports
• Business Proposal
• Document Collaboration
• Append Text, Graphs, and Images
• Voice Annotations

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• Messaging Systems
• Expansion of E-mail
• Internal External Messaging Capabilities
• Management Distribution Lists
• Message History Tracking Abilities

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• Computer Conferencing
• Easily Exchange progress reports
• Allows many users to have input on a single
  document

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• Group Calendaring
• Provides access to all the group members personal
  calendars thus allowing meetings to be scheduled
  at convenient times for all parties

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• Support for Team Building
• Identifies patterns of communication
• Establish alliances
• Discover leadership potential
• This describes the ability of any user of the
  system from the top to the lowest person on the
  teams ladder to put forward and idea to better a
  given process. The leadership potential can be
  discovered in persons not considered leaders

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• Project Management
• Group Project Tracking
• Project Management Tools
• Activity Lists
• Gantt Charts
• Hierarchical Activity
• Objectives
• Projects to achieve objectives
• Tasks that make up a project

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GroupWare

• Real Life Examples
• http//www.netxs.com.pk/intranet/groupware.html
• Auditing Large Databases

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GroupWare

• To Summarize Advantages over single-user
  systems.
• Facilitate communication make it faster,
  clearer, more persuasive
• Enable communication where it wouldn't otherwise
  be possible
• Enable telecommuting cut down on travel costs
• Bring together multiple perspectives and
  expertise
• Form groups with common interests where it
  wouldn't be possible to gather a sufficient
  number of people face-to-face
• Save time and cost in coordinating group work
• Facilitate group problem-solving
• Enable new modes of communication, such as
  anonymous interchanges or structured interactions
• Source http//www.usabilityfirst.com/groupware/i
  ntro.txl

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