Groupware

By David Coleman

This book helps MIS professionals make critical groupware decisions, and offers essential, up-to-date guidance on intranets.KEY TOPICS: This book presents the most up-to-date, thorough review of the groupware marketplace available, with special focus on the dramatic growth of intranets. It covers hot groupware topics such as desktop videoconferencing, e-mail and messaging technologies, and new Web-base meeting software. It also includes sections on implementing groupware in vertical markets, ranging from the construction industry, to consulting firms, to hardware and software development teams. The book also includes a comprehensive list of groupware resources, including Web sites and URLs; groupware interest groups; lists of vendors and products, events, newsletters, conferences and more.MARKET: The book is ideal for MIS professionals and managers involved in selecting, implementing, or managing groupware.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0137277288
• ISBN13: 9780137277285
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 2.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding Book

The book is compulsory reading for everybody with an interest in groupware technologies. It covers most aspects of modern groupware systems and successfully addresses all important technical, organizational and commercial issues. The depth and the details are exceptional, the informative and extensive approach is thoroughly convincing and highly recommendable. Although the book is taking a slightly more commercial view, it seems Coleman does for the late nineties what Ronald Baecker did for the early nineties with his landmark collection "Groupware and CSCW".

A MUST for business people using intranets

This is one of the few practical and knowledgable books about groupware and collaboration that doesn't loose the reader in details about the technology. It gives readers a top notch education about all these group applications that are supposed to help us be more productive. Since so many of them are showing up in Netscape, Microsoft and other main-line business applications, it's great to have an easy-to-use and really right-on tool. My only complaint is that the book is so big, over 600 pages. There's just a lot of information in there, but the chapters are very well organized and focused. I highly recommend the book