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If you create a merged communication system with chat, email, document management and more tools, like issue management etc, you need to provide many ways to structure the communications. And you also need tools to provide individual views of that communication. Once a chat is over, probably only the results of it matters, not the detailed conversations. If needed, any user can re-open the chat and read parts of it to understand the results. Hence, the outcome of a chat, the decisions made, proposals and questions are seen by all team members. Middle and upper management see only final decisions and milestones.

‘How is Colayer different from a Wiki?’

Colayer is a communication and collaboration tool for organisations. All the tools required to handle complex business communications are embedded with in the platform:

"The times page", which is the main feature for online communication, and which is key for replacing email conversation!

… The features SMS, Email, Presentation, Video, Online Meeting, Questionnaire, Medical Forms

… Colayer as a productivity tool TODO, shared todo list, mark lists, shared calendars

The structural possibilities Comty, Virtual Organizations, Mark

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‘What does Google Wave mean for Colayer?’

Markus Hegi, Colayer Founder & CEO: “After the Google Wave announcement end of May, many partners, customers, employees and alumni have contacted us, all basically with the same message: ‘Google implements Colayer!’. As I heard messages like this before, I was careful at first, as there are many products in the market similar in some aspects, but we never found a product, which was close to Colayer in its basic concepts.

With Google Wave, this was different: The basic concepts are very similar of where we started our journey one decade ago: both tools aim to …

… create real time web spaces for people to work simultaneously together,
… be an integration platform for different communication tools,
… organize communication along CONTEXT, not fragmented in tools or different spaces.
The main focus is on ad-hoc communication and not (only) on working together.
Hence, it is not about complementing email, but it is about creating a smart, web based alternative to email.

The technical implementations too are similar: The web 2.0 / RIA technology, based on an XML philosophy & social web principles.

The main question I hear from customers, partners, employees and from the visitors of the virtual reception: ‘What does Google Wave mean for Colayer?’

Colayer is very excited that Google is entering this market. For a small company like Colayer, it was often difficult to be alone in the market with such a concept. We have been able to convince customers and partners about the concepts, but it was impossible to reach a larger audience.

Colayer is excited about the open source projects Google has announced and will join them, wherever it makes sense. Colayer will implement Google Wave interfaces to be able to run Waves on the Colayer platform. A customer is then free to use Colayer, Waves, Emails, SMS, RSS, Web services etc in one single platform and is able to use, whatever additions are developed for Google Wave.

We are 'technology fanatics', and want to have the best product for our customers. In many areas, Google is developing great technology, And wherever it makes sense, we will join the open source projects of Google Wave, use their code and provide code from our sides to their projects. This is an exciting opportunity for us!”