Improving enterprise efficiency using IT collaboration systems

Technology and globalization have created an environment in which teams communicate and collaborate, across time, geography, and organizations. Team members possess knowledge and must communicate and collaborate to accomplish tasks. Communication and collaboration lead to better results, reducing organizational costs, and preventing and solving conflict between participants. Enterprise collaboration systems (ECS) are basically an information systems that enhance communication, coordination and collaboration among the members of teams and workgroups. They help people in an organization to work together more effectively to achieve organizational goals. This paper analyze the effects of implemented collaborative system, based on Microsoft SharePoint, in context of increasing productivity in organization, reducing organizational costs, and improving coordination and collaboration among team members.