Content collaboration tools provide an easy way for employees to use and share content both inside and outside the organizations. Since these tools can be used to collaborate with customers, partners and suppliers, they often provide rich security and privacy controls. Today, much of this functionality also can be found in other tools such as cloud office platforms, workstream collaboration platforms, content services platforms and content services applications. Functional differentiators in dedicated CCTs are difficult to identify.
Design collaboration tools facilitate teamwork among designers and other stakeholders by providing a shared platform for communication, feedback, and project management. These tools enable real-time collaboration, streamline workflows, file sharing and enhance communication among team members, making them essential for modern design and development processes. This eliminates the need for endless email chains, scattered notes and confusion over the latest version of a design. Typical users include UI/UX designers, Graphic designers, Product managers and developers.
Visual collaboration applications enable teams to communicate and creatively collaborate for asynchronous and real-time work activities on a blank, infinitely scalable shared digital canvas. These applications support colocated and remote users to create, co-edit, review and share precreated content to visualize complex ideas. Some vendors also provide extended capabilities such as voice and video communication, APIs to connect with other business applications, and predesigned templates for structured formats. The users can export created content in portable formats. These applications are generally offered as cloud-based SaaS products, but a few vendors offer on-premises and private cloud deployment options as well.