collaborative software
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application software to help people involved in a common task achieve goals
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It is catalogued under topics including Business software, Collaborative projects and Collaborative software.
Its subject is documented across 35 Wikipedia language editions.
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Encyclopedic overview
Collaborative software or groupware is application software designed to help people working on a common task to attain their goals. One of the earliest definitions of groupware is "intentional group processes plus software to support them."
Regarding available interaction, collaborative software may be divided into real-time collaborative editing platforms that allow multiple users to engage in live, simultaneous, and reversible editing of a single file (usually a document); and version control (also known as revision control and source control) platforms, which allow users to make parallel edits to a file, while preserving every saved edit by users as multiple files that are variants of the original file.
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