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Effective collaboration is a necessity for knowledge-driven organizations. Select the right collaboration platform to empower your employees.

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Evaluating and selecting the right collaboration platform can be a daunting task with many emerging new features and shifting delivery options. Use this research to streamline the selection process and choose the best collaboration platform for...

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Use this tool to generate a customized shortlist of vendors based on the capabilities your organization requires in a collaboration platform.

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Use this template to help create a request for proposal (RFP) that lists a collaboration platform's features according to your organization's requirements.

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After responses to an RFP have been received, enterprises considering collaboration platforms need a way to compare potential solutions. Use this RFP scoring tool to record and evaluate features across vendors.

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Use this demonstration script to provide vendors with a consistent set of instructions, ensuring an objective comparison of product features.

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Non-monetary switching costs can be high when adopting alternative office productivity suites, but deployment may also greatly decrease MS licensing costs. Assess your environment to determine if and where deploying an alternative suite makes sense.

London, ON – May 18th, 2010 – Microsoft’s decision to discontinue support for Office 2003 or older means that organizations using these suites will soon have to bite the bullet and decide whether to upgrade to Office 2010 or find an alternative...

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IT leaders looking to adopt an alternative office productivity suite and reduce their MS Office licensing costs need to understand their organizational requirements or risk either overspending or incurring preventable switching costs. Leverage...

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Money-saving opportunities exist for many organizations by implementing a limited deployment of an alternative to Microsoft Office.

File sharing can be done in a variety of ways. However, obstacles such as file size, bandwidth, storage, security, and accessibility often get in the way of what should be a simple process. Use dedicated solutions for document collaboration to...

OpenOffice.org released Version 3 of its free, open-source office productivity suite. Functional parity with Microsoft Office is at its highest, especially for the handful of Microsoft (MS) Office features most frequently used. However, when...