TeamWox: Collaborative software rather than social media holds the key to small business success

Many firms have turned to social, cloud and mobile technologies to interact with employees and do business with suppliers and clients. Why allocate resources for an IT infrastructure when meetings can be held on free remote meeting software, information can be exchanged via instant messaging or e-mail. Files can be accessed on cloud-storage services providers and customers can be reached in real-time through micro-blogging?

"Security, reliability and efficiency are more important than free," claims online management system provider TeamWox.

Enterprise level organisations as well as small businesses have embraced the social networks as an intranet. These online services enable free, rapid communications within and outside these organisations.

But using the public domain to exchange privilege and sensitive information can be risky. Posting information on social media sites runs the risk of brand damage through exposing posted information. Social networks make it easier to leak secrets, deliberately or inadvertently, to the public.

"Irresponsible use of social media causes detrimental impacts on organisations in terms of putting organisations' networks and systems at risk of malware, leading to potential lawsuits due to copyright and defamation, loss of productivity, and significantly impacting on organisations' reputation and future revenue," according to a paper written by Nurul Nuha Abdul Molok, Shanton Chang and Atif Ahmad that examines the threats of information leakage through online social networking.

One of the online collaborative tools provided by TeamWox to clients is a "message board", an intranet forum being used by management to deliver information to employees, gather employee feedback, and organise meetings. As well as letting employees talk to one another.

Aside from enabling team members in multiple locations to communicate smarter and faster with each other in a secure environment. Cloud-based collaboration tools provided by firms like IBM, Oracle, SAP, Salesforce.com, and TeamWox allow managers to track all workplace activities and assign tasks to members. As well as allow employees to organise their work, share and collaborate on documents and deal with clients and suppliers.

Small businesses that have remote employees working together across an internet connection can be resistant to group-ware and collaboration software. Some start-ups are instead using free services from Skype, Facebook, e-mail, Google-docs, and Drop-box to communicate or share files in order to avoid added expense.

By not using a common workspace for collaboration these organisations open themselves up to redundancy and inefficiencies. Online-collaboration solution providers claim that their tools provide added benefits rather than added costs. They help organisations eliminate inefficiencies, automate processes and streamline operations.

To get you started with their online collaboration tools, TeamWox provides its management suite FREE OF CHARGE to small businesses with 10 team members or fewer. Users can simply download TeamWox and any relevant services right from the website to get started. While larger teams are charged an annual fee, they can take a TWO-MONTH FREE TRIAL to assess the group-ware’s benefits before being billed.

To learn more, visit http://www.teamwox.com/ to see how you can benefit from secure and reliable collaboration tools.

Via: WhaTech