With more and more people and companies working together closely from across the boundaries, There is a need for a good collaboration software in the world today then ever before. This requirement is here to stay and make the world a smaller place. my Adventure here is to try to summarise What good things can make this collaboration software a next generation one.
I can think of the following MUST BE features.
1. Blogging abilities
2. Task Tracking
3. Message boards
4. emails
5. chatting including text, voice and video conversation
6. Net meeting or I-meeting software
7. Calander
8. Sticky notes
9. Dictionary
10. News & feed Service.
11. Alerting Service
12. Documents and presentations making Software and Hardware
13. Items manager
In Detail
1. Blogging abilities
3 profiles of a person have to reflect in a blog. One is a work profile. All the blogs in this work profile are related to his project. Two is the Organization profile.The blogs here are related to various things of the persons organization ie technology reviews, ideas on company processes and systems etc....the third is the personal profile which include blogs on personal affairs which can be shared with colleagues for a better friendly relation. This should be enough to give a complete understanding of a person in an organization.
2. Task Tracking
Tasks are countable units of work that are basic elements of workflow in an organization. Tasks are created tracked and stored for knowledge as part of any project.
3. Message boards
Message or bulliten borads are places of discussions on various development topics. These are various ideas of severel team members in achieving particular tasks and which help making better decisions
4. emails
Everyone knows about this
5. chatting including text, voice and video conversation
Self Explanatory
6. Net meeting or I-meeting software
A place where people can have online meetings sharing each others desktop.
7. Calander
8. Sticky notes
Stick something on desktop to prioroties
9. Dictionary
10. News & feed Service
11. Alereting systems.
Alert me if something happens
12. Documents and presentations Making software and Hardware
13. Items manager
Documents, photoes, videos, books, contacts and songs Manager made personal and sharable Online.
We have all this accessible in market but if they come from one roof that would be very great to see. Probably Over a long run all are going to be from the opensource. But if a commercial Company with Database at the backend comes up with all these it would be wonderful to see. There are some good suites in the market like Oracle Collaboration suite etc but they need renovation and lot of additions.
Shall update more if I can think of any more requirements for my dream collaboration suite
