Collaboration in Virtual Enterprises through the Smart Vortex Suite

Part 12: Collaboration PlatformsInternational audienceCollaboration is a key issue in modern virtual enterprises adopting service-oriented business models and functional engineering in the offering of their tangible and intangible assets, as in software oriented IT, CAM/CAD, manufacturing industries. In this paper, we aim at introducing the main components of a Collaboration and Decision Making Suite developed for such scenarios, in particular (i) Elgar, a collaborative workspace supporting the elastic collaboration concept, and a standard interface to realize the integration of groupware tools, and (ii) RegalMiner, capable of capturing, monitoring, processing and visualizing collaboration data streams generated from users of Elgar participating a collaborative process that exploits the elastic collaboration approach in order to evaluate individual and group performances by analyzing the generated activities and the produced text contributions