On this topic, it would be worthwhile to mention about Doug Engelbart of Stanford Research Institute who summarised our collaboration needs in his research works. In one of his research papers in 1960s he had stated that collaboration problems would scale at phenomenal rates, and our effective collaboration can make us smarter. People do commemorate Engelbart's accomplishment though we are still catching up to practice his motivation. Simple issues hurts: like sharing documents over emails, forgetting the contexts of any discussion after a period, losing track of issues when it fans out, mapping the behavioral aspect of work etc.

Software Development in a globally distributed team is one of the most challenging case of "Collaboration".

With Digité Enterprise, the collaboration challenges are taken care of whether you are in different time zones or there is a need of 24x7 support to the project. On one hand it maintains the central repository of project related data, on the other hand it also provides high-usability framework to facilitate effective collaboration like workflows, setting up notification & Communication plans, Traceability links, Document Management, chat integration etc. Digité Enterprise identifies collaboration areas as:
- Project Initiation, Requirements & Test Management
- Project Planning, Project Execution, Change management and Configuration management
- Software Quality monitoring and control



These core activities are supported by :
- Universal Process Framework to model any software methodologies
- Automatically generated project metrics
- Organizational Benchmarking
- Issues & Defect Tracking
- Resource Utilization
- Risk Management
- Cost & Time Analysis

Together it supports the 5 basic process groups and 9 knowledge areas that is accepted as the best practice within the project management discipline by PMBoK.