Most companies rely on several team members to create documents or employ a review process where a file passes through a potentially labyrinthine approval hierarchy. This once meant a room filled with individuals struggling to coalesce a variety of viewpoints or a mark-it-up and pass-it-on process- each rife with their own limitations. While word processing tools, like Microsoft Word's track changes, have eliminated issues like trying to read a colleague's indecipherable handwriting or epic retyping projects, they come with their own shortcomings. Add to the process the advantages and limitations of email- the de facto collaborative tool for most organizations-and the need to ensure that workers can use familiar office software in secure, accurate, efficient, and traceable ways becomes increasingly important.
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