The new Information & Communication : Technologies as a support of collaborative work

Thèmes abordés

Information & Communication, cloud computing and social media

Résumé du document

Despite a dramatic increase in performance and in the use of ICT during the last decade, New Technologies still have a contribution to do in economic growth and improving the quality of business relation. The emergence of Internet and new communications tools like the web 2.0, cloud computing and social media should simplify the collaboration at work. A lot of opportunities are now available for companies to develop and improve their way to communicate. The offer in collaborative work solutions is growing year over year because of the market globalization and the need for speed in business transaction.

The sector is booming. Regarding to the increasing number of employees complains about the waste of time at work, we can consider that it will become a major issue in the next few years. People receive everyday a huge amount of information that they need to sort and
organize. They also have to adapt to the technology evolution. Sometimes it can be really stressful and time consuming for the employees and managers. But tools and methods are constantly evolving in order to meet these new challenges.

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[...] Their solution is to create their own corporate social plateform like an intranet. We will need to determinate in a few years if this corporate platform is better than adopt an external product. We see Google and Microsoft changing their offer early 2012 and invest in cloud technology. This step was made to answer the demand to collaborate with better tools and communicate with effciency. We will see if a global solution can fit for all kind of organizations. REFERENCES "Classer, Trouver, Réfléchir." Copernic Inc. [...]

[...] However companies still use different tools to collaborate in a corporate level. I take as an example my own intern experience at the Publicis group. I was in charge of the international coordination, and my job was to control and challenge all the local media planning recommendation. We had 6 brands and 20 countries for each to manage. The time spend in email and phone is really significant and the company don't have a platform to collaborate with the local team in real time. [...]

[...] The access granted to specific users can allow to read only or read and write. Users who want to access files without having a SkyDrive acount, they can simply use a link that has been emailed by the owner of document. It really the best free tool for online and real time collaboration on the market. I used it in my previous internship and it was really efficient. c. Business Model The business model is quite simple and has been recently adapted. [...]

[...] This program allows an online and collaborative work, and is one of this revolutionary Web 2.0 application. Menus, keyboard shortcuts and dialogs appear similarly to desktop applications such as Microsoft Office or OpenOffice, so it is not confusing for the internet user. Google is acting for cloud computing and online storage. Among the possibilities offered by Google Docs, we have: Automatic backup for documents being edited; Collaborative work in real time (several people can work simultaneously on the same document, seeing all the changes in real time); Ability to import Microsoft Word and Excel, OpenOffice.org; Ability to export in the same formats; Possibility of publishing the document on the net. [...]

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