Collaborative software or groupware is an application software designed to help people involved in a common task to achieve their goals. Collaborative tools facilitate and manage group activities. Examples include: Electronic calendars to schedule events and automatically notify and remind group members, Project management systems to schedule, track, and chart the steps in a project as it is being completed, Workflow systems for collaborative management of tasks and documents within a knowledge-based business process and Knowledge management systems — collect, organize, manage, and share various forms of information.
At enlyft, we use sophisticated, patent-pending algorithms to track the use of various Collaborative Software products and technologies. We track 133 products in the Collaborative Software category, and have found 607,391 companies using these products.