What Is a GroupWare?

We are living in the century of information. Information surrounds us everywhere. Specialists have calculated that the amount of information increases twofold every one and half years. Just look around - now we have television, radio, Internet and mobile communication. In the course of time, we get more TV and radio channels, new websites and Internet applications, mobile phones turn into pocket PCs. All these means provide us with more and more information.

Nowadays companies, no matter what their business is, also feel the influence of the increased informational flow. Your company constantly receives tons of information via telephones, posts, emails, online messengers, faxes. These are agreements with your clients and suppliers, consultations of specialists, negotiations.

The longer your cooperation with a client or supplier is, the more information you have interchanged. Besides, with the company growth the number of clients and suppliers increases, too. As a result, the amount of information grows at an unprecedented rate. If all this data is not systematized, you get a lot of chaos.

Besides, are you sure that all your employees work hard? Very often you need to control quality and time-frames of their work. In conditions of informational chaos, this is quite a complicated task. Generation of various reports also becomes a rather labor- and time-consuming work.

And what if you have branches in other cities or even countries? How can you quickly set tasks to them? How can you control their work? How can you gather all the information interchanged with your branches for its' convenient storing in an archive?

Today, many of us understand that we cannot work as before anymore. Due to the inefficient cooperation inside a company, bureaucracy appears, the working efficiency of your employees diminishes, nonmanufacturing overheads increase. Your company becomes less efficient, while your employees spend more and more time on bureaucratic operations. As a result, each client costs more and each working hour of your employees makes fewer investments into your company's productivity.

The main advantage of using such systems is the creation of a one informational environment within one company. All employees now work using the system and communicate in it. This helps you quicker assign tasks and control their fulfillment. All information about clients and suppliers are automatically systematized.

Moreover, such systems can automatically keep an archive and quickly find necessary data or a document. Together with that, creation of reports is also automated. This helps instantly estimate the working efficiency of employees, quality of their work, sales target implementation, and so on.

The use of GroupWare helps you substantially lower bureaucratic problems, increase your employees' working efficiency, and cut expenses. This is a tool for making your company's work more efficient and competitive.

Take a look how it works in TeamWox GroupWare Online Demo!