Hence, document or file collaboration today is a system allowing people to collaborate across different locations using an Internet, or "cloud", enabled approach[1] such as for Wikis such as Wikipedia or with document sharing technologies such as Sizle.
These systems provide a user with a document-centric collaboration experience because they allow users to tag the document and add content specific comments, maintaining a complete version history and records and storing all comments and activities associated around a document.
[4] For this reason, an increasing number of firms are using email less and file sharing and document collaboration tools more.
[5] Most collaboration systems require a server computer, which maintains copies of the documents for remote access.
The server computer may be operated by the organization owning the documents, or outsourced to some service.