Source: Gartner (June 2007) Over the next few years, collaboration as a function will become more strategic for many enterprises. Organizations will increasingly observe, manage, monitor and measure, and archive the artifacts of collaboration. Collaboration as a function is not a single technology, process or service, but rather an attribute that can be associated with diverse business processes o
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