Monday, May 3, 2010

Web2 Documents Sharing and Collaboration: Google Docs vs DropBox vs Wiki.

One of the most important tools for teams that deal with information is the support for generating, maintaining and sharing documents. Tools like Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange where good pioneers a few years ago in the corporate environment but for small corporations or individual users those kind of options where normally too expensive and people used emails, shared drives, CDs, etc.
In the last few years, the low cost of memory gave us the memory sticks and some way of using the internet but still sharing and collaborating was difficult if we wanted a low cost or free solutions.
Today, we have very good tools for doing that for free storing our docs in the "cloud" which is, like or not, an almost inevitable trend.
The question now is which one to use. There are a few different options.
Due to a question in one of the team works I am working one, I will analyze here three important and popular options: Google Docs, DropBox and Wiki.

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