From the ay 26, 2004 press release PDMOffice Ships New Online Design Collaboration Suite:

"Aimed at remote workers, telecommuters, and temporary partners, PDMOffice is state-of-the-art collaboration tool which allows engineers, purchasing agents, and suppliers to collaborate with their peers in a secure environment designed for engineering and computer-aided design (CAD) collaboration. PDMOffice offers Project Management, Product Collaboration, and RFQ Management modules built on its next generation collaboration platform which leverages 3 key emerging technologies to promote engineering collaboration on the Web: Social Networking, Contextual Collaboration, and data visualization."

So what are these key emerging technologies all about? Here's a quick study:

"The goal of a social networking service is a far cry from Google's long-stated mission of organizing the world's information. Instead of helping connect people to information on the Web, it would be helping people connect with other people, Contextual Collaboration, and data visualization" [from Google spawns social networking service by Stephanie Olsen, CNET News.com, Jan 22, 2204]

"The goal of contextual collaboration is to make online collaboration as simple and intuitive as it is to work with people in the same room, while enabling that capacity between people anywhere in the world." This is accomplished by "embedding all the relevant applications, such as word processors, enterprise instant messaging (EIM), shared calendars, and groupware, into a unified user interface that uses presence technology to enhance collaboration" [from searchDomino.com Definitions: contextual collaboration]

"Visual presentations are the critical link between machinery and systems and the human beings that manage them. The goal of data visualization must be to help those human beings spend less time scanning, sorting and interpreting information and more time moving proactively to solve problems and drive the enterprise forward." [Control Your World in a Glance by Russ Agrusa and Robert R. Singers]

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