This is the target of collaborative applications (groupware), project management and workflow solutions, messaging services and, more recently, social network applications.
Analysis of gesture in face to face design teams provides guidance for how to use groupware in design.
Techniques identified include electronic document management, product data technology, groupware systems, advanced information-management systems, decision-support systems and data-warehousing solutions.
One of the important constituent of groupware is workflow.
They communicated with each other during weekly classes and via a groupware tool.
In the coming year we plan on introducing networked communication using the notion of groupware components.
A great deal of care has to be taken when developing groupware systems within an organization.
In terms of groupware technologies, despite the availability of several commercial offers, construction project actors do not seem to be yet ready to embrace workflow-based processes.
