White Papers

For in-depth information regarding collaboration, CollabraSpace's collaboration solutions, and how the solutions benefit various markets, CollabraSpace offers a selection of white papers that are free for download. To access, click on a title below.

Secure Collaboration Environments

Many organizations interested in collaboration or information sharing environments have to balance the need for increased efficiencies with their need or desire to protect information. Users need to be sure that the person(s) they are collaborating with are in fact who they say they are. In addition, sensitive information may need to be shared in real-time with a limited set of users, yet ensure that the information does not spill into the rest of the user community. Organizations that have successfully deployed collaborative work environments have leveraged products that have been designed with a flexible security structure for the enterprise. CollabraSuite is designed to operate in a secure enterprise environment. It leverages the J2EE security model for providing identification, authentication, and authorization. CollabraSuite provides full auditing and metric reporting on all collaborative activities.

Harmonizing Information Sharing with Business Operations

Deploying a system that provides rich collaboration functionality does not guarantee increased collaboration among analysts, developers, management and domain experts with access to the system. Furthermore, such systems are frequently bundled with their own proprietary services, thereby creating a stovepipe accompanied by high maintenance, support and system costs. CollabraSpace offers an enterprise collaboration solution that provides a rich and increasing set of collaboration functions that resides within most corporate middleware services infrastructures. The CollabraSpace solution integrates seamlessly into the desktop environment, with functions apparent and readily available to people as they go about their work.

CollabraSuite 5.1: Experience Revolutionary Collaboration

Based upon its experience with first generation collaborative tools and its knowledge of the needs of large customers, CollabraSpace believes that selecting the proper core architecture for providing collaboration services is just as important, if not more important, than the current collaboration capabilities offered by various vendors today.

Collaboration to Counter IEDs

Detecting and defeating IEDs before they do harm is a major problem. While detection as they are deployed is critical, it is equally critical to identify the source of the manufacture, command, and control of IEDs. If the insurgent leadership and engineers can be identified, then the IED can be defeated at its source.

Effective Border Management Through Collaboration

Since September 11, 2001, many federal agencies, including the Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Justice (DOJ) have been charged with improving inter- and intradepartmental communication to counter threats to homeland security and are required to involve state and local governments and the private sector. Such joint operational planning and coordination during execution is required for effective border management, and maximizing the effectiveness of operations requires collaboration.

Collaboration in the Enterprise

CEOs looking to grow their business are focusing on two areas: the strategic use of business intelligence and business process improvements. Underlying both initiatives is the need to harness and leverage intellectual assets and to provide support for the many ways in which people work with each other.

CollabraSuite and SOA

Service-oriented architectures (SOA) hold the promise to transform the ways in which enterprises do business. SOAs enable companies to reshape the interaction between IT and business units, providing a high-level framework of technical services that allow IT to swiftly retool applications and services to better meet changing business needs. However, like other technical revolutions that have preceded SOA – pervasive, low-cost and high-performance computing platforms, high-speed networks, and the Internet - broad SOA acceptance will be mediated by the availability of reliable, standards-based and flexible tools that will provide the building blocks of true interoperability between computing platforms, web-based services, applications, and data.

Collaborative Communities of Interest

Since September 11,2001, many federal agencies, including those in the Intelligence Community, theDepartment of Defense (DOD), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and theDepartment of Justice (DOJ) have been charged with improving inter- andintra-departmental communication. This is needed to counter threats to homelandsecurity and requires the involvement of state and local government and theprivate sector as well. Additionally, it requires information sharing andcollaboration. And while information sharing has improved, real-timecollaboration to geographically distributed organizations and individuals hasonly realized minimal improvements.

CollabraSuite Remote Campus Access

CollabraSuite version 4 offers a set of features dubbed Remote Campus Access which provides the capability for users logged into one campus to collaborate with users logged into another campus. This paper describes the details on the Remote Campus Access architecture and provides examples of environments that are prime candidates for leveraging this new capability.

Mission Critical Collaboration in the Public Sector

Since 9/11, many federal agencies, including those in the Intelligence Community, the Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have been charged with improving inter- and intra-departmental communication. While information sharing has improved, disasters such as Hurricane Katrina illustrate opportunities for additional improvements. This was evident in the days following the storm, as state, local and federal agencies struggled to bring order to chaos. Poor communication was one of the reasons key officials lacked sufficient awareness of the entire situation, including not knowing where evacuees had been sent for “safety” or even which hospitals had electricity.