Overview
Collabor is a software company focused on, nay obsessed about, Enterprise Collaboration. Hey, it’s in our name
We build collaboration software products. These are called Work 2.0, WorkIn, WorkOut and WorkBox. We think they are pretty cool.
Our products allow social networks, professional communities and enterprises to design, build and manage online communities for their stakeholders.
Employee collaboration allows companies to more effectively share information, manage distributed workforce initiatives, reduce duplication of work, speed up innovation and reduce costs. Customer communities allow companies to empower their customers to participate in new product design, launch and growth. Customer communities also enhance customer loyalty and reduce failed product concepts getting to market.
Our software allows companies to potentially increase revenue, reduce costs and waste and to be more effective along their information value chain involving their employees and their customers.
Collabor is built on the ethos of customer satisfaction through creative ideas and impeccable execution. To achieve this Collabor makes sure that we are constantly innovating our ideas, products, people and execution capability.
Collaboration 101
Enterprise Collaboration is the ability for companies to collaborate across their value chain (within and outside) to enhance productivity, increase knowledge sharing, reduce duplication of effort, reduce costs, and more effectively bring their distributed employees closer and inline to corporate goals
Enterprise Collaboration is known by other names – Enterprise Communities, Business Social Software, Enterprise 2.0, etc, etc. Well the essence is the same.
Here is how Collaboration happens. A company creates an online collaboration portal or community with the express purpose of building an online community using social networking tools and technologies. An Enterprise community may be built for different purposes.
- internal collaboration or innovation,
- external engagement or support;
- Knowledge share between internal and external communities
The community can do so by using multiple collaborative tools like – Blogs, forums, wikis, videocasts, audiocasts, chat, Q&A, Polls, Tagging and Bookmarking, etc.
Most people are using one or more social networking sites like myspace, facebook, orkut, linkedin, youtube, etc and are already familiar with how these sites and their features work. The biggest draw to this social computing is
- intuitive interfaces that need no formal training to use and
- instant gratification and on demand content that make its adoption quick and effective.
Imagine the power of this networking in your Enterprise
- A simple thought germinated in an obscure corner of the community can transform into a path breaking innovation with collective participation;
- Real-time knowledge sharing across geographies and business divisions;
- Corporate vision, results and culture can be shared across all employees at the same time;
- Employee directories can become profiles and employees can find or group with each other based on their skills and common interests;
- Customers can be participants in your product and service through valuable inputs, feedback, criticism and accolades.