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Teamwork and exchange of knowledge and experiences are of outstanding importance today. Most businesses operate at several locations, nation- or worldwide. This means that time and geographic differences have to be bridged. Knowledge and experiences need to be internally shared and passed on. Communication and collaboration between employees, customers and suppliers must take place globally – as easy and efficient as possible. The total cost-per-user for communication and collaboration software remains extremely high. As organizations seek to drive productivity by deploying email, calendaring and instant messaging throughout the enterprise, lowering the cost-per-user has become increasingly important. With the high cost of proprietary solutions and an increasing number of users, organizations are seeing a larger portion of their IT budgets absorbed by very basic – but very critical – collaboration tools. Most CIO’s and IT administrators are eager to find alternative solutions that offer a lower total-cost-of-ownership, but are also more scalable, more secure, easier to administer and easier to integrate than traditional tools. Open source-based collaboration tools are the answer.NTIS uses the open source e-mail and collaboration server Zimbra as customized solutions for efficient collaboration. |
