STM products aim to bridge that gap.Īlthough they aren't homogenous in their feature sets, STM products generally are designed to serve both team leaders and project participants in a way that is more intuitive and friendlier than legacy project management tools and more powerful and collaborative than traditional stand-alone to-do applications. Historically, there have been sophisticated project management applications designed for team leaders, and, on the other end of the spectrum, there have been lightweight, simple to-do applications aimed at individuals to track their work tasks. "So teams move among structured and social activities as they work on a project," Koplowitz said. But it's usually necessary to do structured tracking of deliverables and deadlines. In most projects, leaders must sketch a blueprint and assign tasks to team members, and some of those tasks may be very social in nature, like collaborating on a presentation to the board of directors. "Now people are turning around and saying: 'Hey, a bit of structure isn't a bad thing," Koplowitz said.
Producteev vs things software#
Vendors promise improved productivity via Facebook- and Twitter-like capabilities adapted for workplaces, arguing with increasing success that email is overused and inefficient for many tasks that their products are better suited for.Ĭonsequently, more and more CIOs get persuaded every day that their employees will work better together with ESN suites that let them set up profiles, microblog, share files, co-edit documents, participate in discussion forums, launch wikis and comment on and rate corporate content.īut when ESN software first emerged and started gaining traction in enterprises, many vendors rejected the idea of including in their suites an application to identify and structure project tasks, saying that such a component would introduce complexity and dilute the core value of ESN: facilitating free form, ad hoc collaboration. It's an emerging category," said Rob Koplowitz, a Forrester Research analyst.ĮSN products have hogged the collaboration market spotlight for the past eight years.
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