Where Are We Headed with Cloud-Based Collaboration Technologies | @CloudExpo #Cloud

Collaboration is a big focus area among technology start-ups. The past five years have seen a range of new products in this area that have completely transformed the way businesses work. Thanks to the likes of Trello and Slack, team members do not even have to live in the same city or even country any longer. Start-ups like Zapier operate with a completely remote workforce thanks to these telecommuting tools.

While these tools help with keeping team members updated on the status of various tasks and work well as project management tools, they do not actually help with decision making and strategy. This requires face-to-face meetings that video conferencing tools like ClickMeeting help with. Through such tools, various stakeholders in a project can get together on a virtual platform and deliberate on various issues in real-time. This makes physical meetings unnecessary while helping businesses reach consensus faster.

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