Microsoft® SharePoint™ 2003 Unleashed, Second Edition

New Collaboration Challenges

Controlling access to data and files is important, but enabling effective collaboration and use of the data is equally, if not more, important. Although there will most likely never be a replacement for the face-to-face meeting, handshakes, fresh donuts, and whiteboards, the modern business can't afford to have all collaboration take place this way. Meetings can be difficult to coordinate and expensive in terms of the costs associated with the participants for the half hour to one hour a meeting typically takes.

Conference calls and videoconferencing solutions evolved to facilitate meetings over long distances, but attendees need to be present at the same time and have access to specific types of equipment. Online ...