Understanding Groupware in the Enterprise (Strategic Technology Series)

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Summary: Disappointing Content or Wrong Title...
Review: It seems the book has only very little to do with groupware, but all the more with Microsoft products connecting to each other. The approach is questionable and the content not very informative, I fear. Even worse the book lacks many technical and functional groupware basics (workflow management, knowledge management, meeting systems etc.), not to mention enterprise issues: Business benefits? Deployment expenses? Costs of ownership? Methods for groupware evaluation? Unbiased market analysis? Unfortunately all not in this book. The book (220 text-pages) is an introduction into personal computer networks and internet/intranet technologies (190 pages) with some very basic aspects of how connected systems help people better cooperate (30 pages). It is about a lot of things (mostly Microsoft things, that is), but not about groupware. Certainly not a bad book, but the title should have been different...