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Describe E-Collaboration

Describe E-Collaboration

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Kavungya
Every business has a number of work scenarios where group of people work together to complete the tasks and to achieve a common objective. The group could be teams or virtual teams with different member strength. They come together to platform a task to achieve some results. The process is called Collaboration. The Biggest Advantage of E-Collaboration
- It taps the collective wisdom, knowledge and experience of the members.
- The collaboration team or group could be within the organization and between the organizations as well
- Since, E-Collaboration works on an internet platform and uses web technology, work group/team need not be at one physical location.
- E-collaboration uses E-Communication capabilities to perform collaborative tasks or project assignment.
- Its effectiveness is increased by software ‘GroupWare’ that enables the members of the group to share information, invoke an application and work together to create documents and share them and so on.
- E-Collaboration helps work effectively on applications like calendaring and scheduling tasks, event, project management, workflow application, work group application.
- E-collaboration system components are internet, Intranet, Extranet and LAN, WAN networks for communication through GroupWare tools, browser.
Let us illustrate the model using an event in the business such as receipt of material for a job to be processed on the shop floor. In this event there is a transaction receipt of material, which needs to be processed, and then a workgroup will use this information of material receipt. Each member of this workgroup has a different goal.
Kavungya answered the question on May 10, 2019 at 16:12

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