Software applications focus on three aspects
From the perspective of software applications, collaboration software is mainly used in three areas: administrative office, e-commerce, e-government. Administrative Office is the most widely used part of sending and receiving documents, scheduling, notification notice, file management, shared resource management, etc., is the main application areas of the executive office; e-commerce application is the field of collaborative software applications to further expand the traditional E-commerce class software, is mainly based on curing business processes, focusing on the number and types of business activities, the amount of planning and accounting. The Collaborative e-commerce is mainly based on dynamic workflow management, focusing on business activities in the collaboration, communication management; Collaborative e-government is a traditional e-government software, further sublimation applications, software applications from the kinds of work focuses on matters record and reflect concerns into the work of collaboration and communication issues.
Triplet potential user needs appears
Collaboration software since 2000 to gradually rise in India, which currently has only five years, through professional collaboration software vendors to promote and develop India's information construction, India's demand for user collaboration software trend following triple:
First, the growth in demand for the outbreak. India's collaboration software in 2002 prior to the main theory is still in preparation and product research and development phase, starting in 2003 and gradually into the market, user-oriented, starting from the end of 2004 India's collaboration software, the explosive growth of demand;
Second, the demand point shift to the main workflow. Collaboration software, the main point of application requirements, previously concentrated in the e-mail communications, instant messaging and calendar management. With Microsoft Exchange and Outlook software is widely used, as well as the past two years, the rapid popularity of instant messaging software, user collaboration software for the needs of point, has turned to workflow management, user application software for the purpose of collaboration has been a breakdown in communication to "make Team collaborative work nodes in an orderly advance";
Third, the application mode from the P2P shift B / S, prior to the application of collaborative software, mainly e-mail communications, etc., P2P (peer) mode with a real-time, quick and low cost advantages of the individual applications have been instant messaging software, a broad category used. With the collaboration software user needs further development, B / S model with its centralized management, ease of installation and maintenance, the overall low cost advantage, more and more favored by the users.
Revealed three major trends in market development
After five years of market cultivation, India collaboration software market is gradually maturing, and reveals the following three trends:
First, the market share gradually to focus on first-tier makers
India's collaboration software and financial software market, a similar development path, from blossoming into unique show.
Second, the collaboration software, application-centric
With the construction of India's information in-depth development, and collaboration software to further mature, collaborative software product design and development center becomes: to provide users with "demand-oriented, easy to use" application functionality instead of tools for collaborative basis and platforms.
Third, with the core technology in the industry to become the leading
Like other domestic software vendors, collaboration software in India is facing tremendous competitive pressure of foreign manufacturers. But compared to other domestic or software our collaboration software vendors to compete with foreign manufacturers with more strength. The media has written that: "ERP software applications, domestic manufacturers started for at least five years behind the international level; Internet applications in the domestic start behind the international level for two years, while in the collaborative software, the domestic software vendors can be said that a leading or the same level." As competition for international status rapidly approaching, making with the core technology, software vendors, manufacturers only have an advance scientific and international strength. |
