Online collaboration: Choose the right platform
How to choose the best platform to enhance and secure online collaboration
Would you like to improve online collaboration within your organization using a secure collaborative tool? Ercom, a vendor specialized in data and communications security, presents its ultra-secure solutions.
What is online collaboration?
You may not realize it, but online collaboration is probably already part of the fabric of your organization. By regularly sending e-mails and instant messages to their managers, colleagues, suppliers and customers, videoconferencing with these same people, storing data online, using project management solutions... your employees are already working together online.
Online collaboration has therefore become the norm for many organizations. So much so, in fact, that those who haven't yet taken the leap into online collaboration are missing out on a whole host of benefits. And for good reason: regardless of the capabilities in place, online collaboration is a process that most often improves an organization's structure and productivity by enabling it to:
- Reduce costs and time wasted visiting customers and suppliers.
- Streamline work processes using online collaborative tools designed to simplify project management, structure schedules, complete tasks, etc.
- Store and secure data using collaborative tools that share data between geographically dispersed stakeholders, while at the same time ensuring their security.
- Reinforce team building, by enabling geographically distant departments within the same organization to keep in touch easily.
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Securing online collaborative tools: A major challenge for organizations
With online collaboration already part of routine activities, the challenge for managers and/or CIOs now lies in mastering these collaborative solutions, platforms and tools. While organizations have much to gain from these online tools and applications, they can also expose them to new risks: cyber attacks, loss of data...
There is a fine balance to be struck between simplifying collaboration and ensuring the security and confidentiality of the data produced.
To limit these risks, it is obviously possible to implement numerous procedures to secure business data. Nevertheless, the easiest way to secure data produced or exchanged via an online collaborative platform is to ensure the latter is as reliable as possible.
This is why by choosing an online collaboration solution from Ercom, you can rest assured that your work can be done with complete privacy and control of your data with tools that guarantee:
- No resale of your data
- No re-use of your data
- No advertising
- End-to-end encryption
