The strong degree of competition to maintain or to develop a market share, stimulates companies to accelerate their business processes and to assiduously engage in trying to increase their productive abilities, and not only by reducing costs. 
In such a dynamic environment, cooperation should be stimulated among companies and various work groups, both internal as external to the company, in so producing additional value to the company. 
The utilization of innovative economical collaborative technologies, that are simple and fast to use, satisfies these necessities. The use of e-mail, chat, forum and newsgroups accelerates and reduces communication costs between the several members within the work groups, and which may be geographically distributed on the territory. 
Moreover, forum and newsgroups allow users to economically trace information exchanges efficiently, so making them accessible exclusively to authorized users.
Collaboration Desktop Portal is the best tool for collaborative activities by means of the customization function made available by the Open-Source world for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). The selected and careful choice of these technologies guarantees a high quality level of cooperative services at an extremely competitive price.

Below, there is a list of the main functionalities and characteristics offered by Collaboration Desktop Portal.

Web-based collaborative environment for project data management: there is a collaborative environment for large companies accessible through Intranet/Internet, by means of any web-browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer. As well as accurately selected and adapted collaborative technologies deriving from the Open-Source world.

Multi-room and private chat service: thanks to the integration of Open-Source multi-room chat systems, it is possible to create a private room for every workgroup/department. This allows several members to communicate with each other in real time, in so reducing costs to the minimum. Moreover, it is possible to produce virtual rooms to make communication easier between different people, not only internal but also external to the company. The private chat service is also useful when it is necessary to carry out communication between 2 customers in absolute security. Furthermore, it is possible to associate the role of moderator to some users when it is timely retained.

Forum service: Collaboration Desktop Portal integrates a forum service created on Open-Source technology. The forum can be thematic or accessible to a single workgroup/department to make the exchange of ideas, questions and suggestions, deriving from normal interaction between the persons "non-volatile”. Furthermore, it is possible to associate the role of moderator to some users when it is timely retained.

Newsgroup: This is an integrated product for the management of thematic or closed newsgroups for workgroups or departments, in which information exchanged between several persons by e-mail is memorized.

Safe access by using Access Control List (ACL): to obtain a high level of security to access sensitive information areas, it is possible to define and manage groups, roles and authorized access. This can be obtained by using the intuitive graphic interface.

Simple and intuitive administration interface: a simple, powerful and intuitive interface allows the user to performadministration operations.

Modularization of the platform: the Collaboration Desktop suite has been programmed as modular. This choice was based on the philosophy “think big but take small steps” which reduces the possibility of failures to a minimum. Moreover, it furnishes an immediate operative system with which it is possible, with little effort, to add further modules. It is this policy that Collaboration Desktop Portal is able to guaranty a rapid and significant ROI to companies.  

Low-cost solutions: the entire Collaboration Desktop suite was designed to have a high quality/price ratio. In this way, the suite can be adopted to a number of PMI environments. The choice of products deriving from the Open-Source world carries our company policy of Low-Cost product production The cost in adopting Collaboration Desktop is limited compared to other instruments used in companies. This is due to the use of Microsoft .Net technology and to the product’s easy integration

Rapid customization of the work environment: it is possible to quickly personalize the environment thanks to Open-source technologies and Microsoft’s .Net technology. These technologies are implemented, together with other integrated functionalities, allowing the user to customize the environment in very little time, at low cost and in an efficient manner, so facilitating work. By adopting Portal, it becomes possible to remarkably reduce communication costs deriving from the internal and external interaction of several work groups geographically distributed on the territory.