<p>Finding the perfect solution to empower your workgroup to be more efficient, effective and productive has been a holy grail of the software industry for a long time. Back in the late 90's I worked for a company named Interliant that sold Lotus Notes and Domino-hosted instances that promised great workgroup potential. Unfortunately, like so many workgroup solutions, it never lived up to the promise on many counts.</p><p>Workgroup solutions have gotten better over the years. Sharepoint and the open source Wiki solutions have moved the state-of-the-art, not to mention solutions like Mindshare. But just when we were starting to make some real progress, they went and moved the goalposts. Mobile devices and mobile teams leave solutions designed for PCs in the dustbin. A company out of Boston called Collaborate has come up with a great solution that not only is designed for mobile workgroups, but actually leverages the technology.</p><p>Collaborate is the brainchild of Dave Greenstein (an old friend of mine) and Matt Cutler. Matt and Dave originally had developed an app called Kibits for instant networking. They have taken a lot of the technology developed for Kibits and built it into Collaborate.</p><p>Collaborate allows you to share just about anything with the members of your group. That's a good thing because in today's world you can share just about anything. Files, URLs, information, to do lists, locations, etc.</p><p><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/83315">Keep reading...</a></p>