In a recent study, 98% of CEOs surveyed said that innovation through collaboration is their number one priority. Also, 90% of employees work away from the office and more than 60% work in different locations than their managers. Over 60% of mid-size organizations say that collaboration tools are essential to their business success and growth. Increasing global competition is driving organizations to find ways for their increasingly distributed teams to collaborate and innovate continually - across hallways, time zones or the world.

Connecting People To Resources

• To develop more innovation and competitiveness, companies are implementing software that supports more types of collaboration. Instant messaging enables live, real-time communications and collaboration - and can integrate with existing applications and business processes for collaboration of information and data. Community-based tools give team members instant, secure access to shared content, and expertise -- with people located down the hall or around the world. And Web 2.0 social computing capabilities - such as tagging, collaborative search filtering, Wikis and blogs - helping people share their information, and make it easier for everyone in the organization to find and use the information.
  
  The reality is, closed systems hinder business agility. By leveraging what you have today and integrating new processes with existing strategies, you can build unified solutions that help to eliminate information "congestion."