Next Generation Collaborative Platforms in Business Environments

In business environment a collaboration platform is an information system that adds social networking capabilities to increase information and knowledge sharing in order to foster development and innovation. Such system enables teammates to solve business problems effectively and efficiently with the use of collaborative tools and with the appropriate knowledge management incorporation. The research is based on collaborative system that includes both the general collaborative infrastructures and specific applications for supporting the requirements for humancentric applications and services. The collaboration platform has been designed based on use cases typical for business and educational environments. A number of cases has been thoroughly studied like a meeting, lecture, consultations, seminar, discussion room, lectures recording, tutoring, etc. The issues of providing interoperability between applications, efficient content delivery and distribution, skill-based content search, security and usability were discussed to design and develop a conceptual collaborative platform