What is Project Collaboration ?

Project Collaboration is the basis of bringing in two or more people of an organization or team to work together by sharing knowledge, experience, skills for the development of a new project.

Why do you need a project collaboration software ?

A project collaboration software should offer a set of tools that enable team members to get projects done, quickly find information they need and above all able to communicate and work together to achieve common business goals. The core elements of a project collaboration software are email, file sharing, calendars, team collaboration (Wiki, Tasks) and real-time collaboration (Stream, Chat, Forums).

How Zoho Projects can be your online project collaboration software ?

Zoho Projects provides the exact set of project collaboration tools where your team, customers, clients and colleagues can come together, plan and collaborate ideas for a project and get work done. It helps you to create a project workspace to increase productivity, reduce costs and drastically improve collaborative efforts across geographically separated teams.

In Zoho Projects team members get instant visibility on what's going on in project through the project stream and can update the work they are doing periodically using twitter like user status messages which helps to make informed decisions.

Key Project Collaboration Features of Zoho Projects

Stream of Latest Activities

The Project Stream gives you a quick overview of the latest activities happening around your project and keeps you well informed on the progress of a project. It lets you see the updates across the project within seconds.

You can also get a view of the status messages of your fellow project members, so it's easy to see what everyone is working on.

Discuss in Project Forums

Forums are interactive message boards where one can post a topic and let ideas flow back and forth. Any group project involves discussions, unlike emails, all the forum topics are available at a central location and is easily accessible by anyone involved in the group project.

Using Forums you can :

• Post a topic, let your team share their views and get to know the exact requirements to start a project.
• Escalate critical bugs in a project and get immediate solution from experts in the team.

Organize Contents in Project Wiki

Zoho Project offers an integrated, intuitive wiki interface for your projects where you can create, share, collaborate and organize your pages. Project wiki can act as a knowledge base for your future projects.

With Project Wiki, you can :

• Add pages and create an "intranet" for your projects with seamless navigation.
• Share and collaborate your project contents like documents, spreadsheets, video clips in a single place.

Chat with your Project Team

The always-on built-in chat room allows everyone on the project to quickly come together to discuss important topics and make decision faster. Chat with your project members and immediately share your ideas with your team through our friendly chat interface.

Best of all, it runs entirely on your browser so there's no need to install anything, the transcript always stays there, so you can refer back to the decisions that were made. By default, there is one chat room where all the participants can take part, but you can create other chat rooms to keep different conversations separate.

Business Benefits of Zoho Projects

• Collaborate with geographically separated teams

  Create workspaces, collaborate with teams and track progress of a project through efficient project collaboration.

• Unlock your group potential

  Zoho Projects empower individuals to come together, unlock your group's potential and collaborate effectively on a project.

• Put your Work Online

  Zoho Projects allows you to put your work online so that your team can review, suggest changes, post comments which reduces email traffic.

• Make Big Ideas Come Alive

  Zoho Projects create a virtual space to share knowledge internally / externally and manage complex projects across multiple teams using group chat and wiki. By exchanging information makes big ideas come alive.