[2] However, most people today when talking about document collaboration are referring to (generally internet based) methods for a team of workers to work together on an electronic document from computer terminals based anywhere in the world.
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.