The future of enterprise groupware applications
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The future of enterprise groupware applications, Filipe, Joaquim, Enterprise Information Systems, Springer, 2000, 99-106, Terzis, S. and Nixon, P. and Wade, V. and Dobson, S. and Fuller, J.Download Item:
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Abstract:
We are currently witnessing a
convergence of several threads of technology
and business imperatives. A new model for
business organisations, the Virtual Enterprise
(VE) is emerging. The new model is based on
the idea that business organisations should be
able to marshal more resources than they have
available without the need for expansion. This,
combined with the trend for outsourcing and
downsizing, leads to more demanding
collaboration between organisations and
individuals. As groupware technology focuses
on providing enterprise collaboration solutions,
the VE model imposes a series of new
challenges in the development of enterprise
groupware applications.
This paper starts by providing a
description of the VE model and identifying the
requirements it imposes on future enterprise
systems. It continues with a review of
groupware technology and products. The
purpose of this review is to identify the various
aspects that current groupware technology
covers and to investigate its appropriateness as
the basis for future enterprise systems. Then, it
proceeds in an evaluation of the role of groupware in realising the VE model and
identifies in which way current technological
phenomena will transform groupware and will
drive the enterprise systems of the future.
Finally, it concludes with a discussion on a new
model for developing groupware applications.
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