Communiqué : Smarter ways of working

Paru sur le site Indien Business Standard, ce communiqué de presse est consacré au travail collaboratif et tout particulièrement à Groove®. Askok Hingorani, CEO de la société Computact et partenaire historique d'Hommes & Process y intervient :

Smarter ways of working
Par Leslie D`Monte / Mumbai December 28, 2005

It started with email, then instant messaging, chat, VoIP, knowledge management. What next? 
 
It’s 8 pm Aaron, an Illinois police officer walks into his office. He’s on the team that is investigating a homicide. He activates the calendar on his desktop, scheduling a neighbourhood canvass for 7 am the next day. 
 
Ellen, his colleague, begins entering leads in shared files. Bob activates the discussion tool and posts intelligence on violent felons who have been released from nearby prisons. 
 
The next morning, new members join the task force and quickly read up on what’s occurred overnight. Jim, a supervisor, quickly sees which suspects have been interviewed and who is next on the list. The investigation is in full swing, and though task force members come and go during the investigation, everyone involved is on the same page. 
 
The very software that Jim and his team uses, allows any team the world over to work over a network as if its members were in the same physical location. Known as Groove virtual office (now acquired by Microsoft), it is a peer-to-peer (P2P) collaboration software founded by Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie (now CTO, Microsoft). 
 
Used even by Interpol today, it has helped the US army in Afghanistan and Iraq to communicate over a secure and reliable virtual network. Even the Florida authorities have used Groove to coordinate the relief work for the Katrina victims. 
 
Besides, it’s being used the world over by companies like Siemens, HP, DHL, Pfizer and Wipro to cater to their collaboration needs. [...]

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