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July - 2010 - issue > Technology

On-Demand Vs On-Premises Collaboration

By Kiran Datar
Monday, July 5, 2010
By Kiran Datar
As collaboration gains adoption within enterprises of all sizes, it’s fast becoming a valuable tool for the productive knowledge worker. Organizations now recognize the compelling value of interacting any time and anyplace with peers, customers, and partners, and seek to round out their collaboration solutions with integrated instant messaging and asynchronous workspaces as well as on-demand system management.

Accelerating interactions while boosting productivity means organizations accomplish more in less time — and at lower cost. Once an enterprise realizes obvious gains from Web collaboration, it first becomes an initiative, then a mandate. Extending the ability of employees to reach global colleagues, customers, and partners via a hosted collaboration model ensures that productivity will increase substantially.

The evaluation and final decision for choosing between a hosted service or an on-premise, self-managed model usually falls to the IT department. The key considerations for making this decision encompass architecture, infrastructure, manageability, and total cost of ownership. Organizations must typically develop a full cost-profile of choices, not just the purchase price.

Organizational Requirements for Hosting Collaboration Solution
Deploying a full-featured collaboration suite that addresses the needs of several departments calls for a single point of administration. Because IT frequently administers collaboration, well-architected, managed solutions requiring minimal time and resources are favored. The table below represents the typical short-list for selecting a collaboration solution.

Comparing Technologies of Hosted vs On-Premise Collaboration

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