MWD ADVISORS’ REPORT ASKS

IF COLLABORATION TOOLS

WILL TAKE OVER FROM EMAIL

Angela

Will new tools

ANALYSIS

Ashenden

is Principal

Analyst at

MWD Advisors make email

REDUNDANT?

and leads the

collaboration

practice. Angela

joined MWD

in 2007 and

Email is approaching a fork

is a primary in the road, according to a

authority on report from MWD Advisors

collaboration

technologies

and effective

working

U sers are asking

whether email should

still be their primary

web conferencing,

online communities,

microblogging, wikis,

practices in

means of communication and team workspaces.

business today.

and collaboration says Some of these tools

the study – Email in the make working with other

Cloud: Hype, Opportunity people faster, more

and your Collaboration convenient and richer

Strategy. than old-style email.

Face-to-face meetings Innovative collaboration

and phone calls are “We are seeing new

increasingly being collaborative tools

supplemented by coming onto the market

services such as which raise the question

8 instant messaging, of where email fits in with