Enabling Inter-Company Team Collaboration

  • Authors:
  • Ludwin Fuchs;Steven E. Poltrock;Werner Geyer;Tom Frauenhofer;Shahrokh Daijavad;Heather A. Richter

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • WETICE '01 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Collaboration across different companies at different geographical locations has become a business necessity. We are building a system called TeamSpace that integrates different types of collaboration technologies into an environment that supports inter-company teams. Enabling inter-company collaboration is still a challenge because security infrastructures are in place to prevent the flow of information. This paper reports our experiences in using existing technologies to enable the inter-company collaboration of our own project team. We describe our initial approaches to the problem and explain why they failed. Based on the lessons learned, we built a TeamSpace prototype using an architecture that allowed us to collaborate across existing security infrastructures.