Collaboration is working together to achieve a goal, process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus. Collaboration tools in PlanMill include commercial add-ons such as PlanMill Wiki and optional extensions included in base user subscription such as PlanMill Touch. Standard collaboration features also include Document, Forums, and Calendar.

Collaboration tools in PlanMill

Enterprise management and documentation

PlanMill Community Wiki, powered by Atlassian Confluence, provides cost-effective enterprise collaboration and manage documentation. This solution is jointly developed with AtlassianPartner, Ambientia Oy and integrated to related modules of PlanMill Business Application Suite such as Accounts, Request (tickets), Projects, and Finance. The main collaboration activities are:

• Get more things done together
• Provide one place for your community to collaborate
• Create, share, discover, discuss and find content
• Remove Intranet & Extranet bottlenecks
• Integrate business applications and Wiki
• Develop customer relations and service

Collaboration in business

Collaboration in business can be found both inter- and intra-organization and ranges from the simplicity of a partnership and crowd funding to the complexity of a multinational corporation. Collaboration between team members allows for better communication within the organization and throughout the supply chains. It is a way of coordinating different ideas from numerous people to generate a wide variety of knowledge. The recent improvement in technology has provided the world with high speed internet, wireless connection, and web-based collaboration tools like blogs, and wikis, and has as such created a "mass collaboration." People from all over the world are efficiently able to communicate and share ideas through the internet, or even conferences, without any geographical barriers. 

Collaboration in technology

Enterprise collaboration tools are centred around attaining collective intelligence and staff collaboration at the organisation level, or with partners. These include features such as staff networking, expert recommendations, information sharing, expertise location, peer feedback, and real-time collaboration. At the personal level, this enables employees to enhance social awareness and their profiles and interactions Collaboration encompasses both asynchronous and synchronous methods of communication and serves as an umbrella term for a wide variety of software packages (Wikipedia).