<p>Someday, a study will determine if business teams have become more or less collaborative because of all of the enterprise collaboration software now available. Another one emerged this week, with Japan-based ChatWork announcing the official entry into the U.S. market of its cloud collaboration solution.</p><p>The company's offering utilizes group or individual text, voice, video chats, task management and file sharing for use inside and between companies. Two new features are being added for the U.S. release video chat and screensharing both of which presently require a small browser plug-in. The company said that both capabilities will be available without plug-in by sometime this Q2. Compared to Email</p><p>Except for use of those two new features in the short term, ChatWork works in most contemporary browsers and requires no additional software. A mobile app is available for Android and iOS devices.</p><p>The platform is based around group communication, such as searchable instant messaging or group chat, as well as file sharing and task management. The company compares its productivity through IMs to working through email, a notoriously unproductive way of communication that seems something of a straw man. Contacts can be imported from Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Windows Live and Tumblr accounts.</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/japanbased-chatwork-launches-collaboration-platform-in-us-020802.php">Keep reading...</a></p>