The collaborative workspace is where people, processes and information come together to achieve a common purpose.  Collaboration improves productivity (product development can be reduced by up to 40-50%), and market leaders like Cisco, IBM and Microsoft see the future of collaborative workspaces as the future of communications.

Many technologies, platforms and applications are integrated through a single, web-based interface that enables users to search widely for people and information in diaries, blogs, wikis, document storage, business applications and individual desktops. This takes account of both structured (explicit) and tacit (unstructured) knowledge within the enterprise.

Collaboration naturally flows through IM tools such as Microsoft OCS, and when these are integrated with internal directories, workflow and document management, and other tools like email, IP and mobile telephony and SMS, they provide a powerful, common communications portal to the entire workforce.

Logicalis can advise on effective collaboration strategies and has experience in collaborative tools such as Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Lotus Quickr and Cisco Webex Connect.  These bring people closer together by enabling fast and effective sharing of information, ideas and knowledge, and through a single interface, deliver a presence essence to the workplace that makes effective and efficient interaction a reality.