Collaborating on the Internet and intranets

Collaborative Strategies^TM surveyed 100 Fortune 1000 firms in the USA on the use of Internet tools. The study also focused on how these organizations are using Internet and intranet tools to support electronic collaboration today and their goals for the future. These interviews revealed several important trends: companies are collaborating more on intranets than on the Internet, IP networks will experience dramatic growth over the next two years, companies are cautiously moving their mission-critical applications on to IP networks, and many of these applications will be active by 1998. There is a discrepancy between people´s perceptions of the relative cost of building a collaborative Web site and a Notes site. We also examined some factors which companies see as impediments to electronic collaboration