Groupware
Groupware/group wear

It is the software and the system in order to support the intellectual creation activity by the group. As function, other than the document joint ownership, E-mail and the bulletin board system of all files such as picture and sound,there is schedulejoint ownership and work flowmanagement etc.making use of network.

You can call that it offers in the form which it is not individual, integrates these functions feature of the groupware. For example, if the mail is provided to the person who participating doing business and accompanying to meeting and wants and that person approves, it is the function that the schedule is reflected on the scheduler of that person automatically.

This kind of concept has been lectured by the sixties already, as for Douglas Engel baht of the American Stanford Research Institute, using the computer, the research which searches the method of making the intellectual ability of the human expand (Augment Project), in 1968 among them "NLS" (oNLine System) with it does the presentation of the equipment which is named, demonstrating the movement of the joint work of using network, it shows. Such research continues, CSCW and the like continue salso from now on with the name which is said.

= Lenz Peter Johnson of the United States (Peter Johnson-Lentz) with = Lenz true D Johnson (Trudy Johnson-Lentz) with it is said that the word, groupware was created, but as for those where the market of the groupware which is really utilized with the business scene is opened up "Lotus Notes" (Notes/Domino) with, as for those where first version appears it is 1989.

As for the prototype of Notes, it can acquire comment enormous CAI which operates with the mainframe 1973 the ray ogee which is the student, in the American Illinois university (Computer Assisted Instruction) system "PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations)" entry of the simple vis-a-vis message which was made on and, that, the system which is called "notes". As for the ogee after the graduating, you are employed to the company of classified by one time, but the company, iris associates which become the development parent of product edition in 1984 is established, the first version of Notes is completed 6 years later.

If it utilizes the groupware, well, it can assure substantial business improvement. But, when without is necessary to re-construct the procedure of work because of that, there is no consciousness of business reformation it introduces, it is said that there is a case which cannot be utilized excessively.