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Best Tools for Collaboration K2 Enterprises

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Session Overview • Brief overview of required collaboration tool functionality • Feature and price comparison of three major collaboration suites – Microsoft Office 365 – Google Apps for Work – Citrix GoToMeeting with ShareFile

• Detailed review or demonstration of specific product features in the suites

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Learning Objectives • Upon completing this session, participants should be able to: – List collaboration tools available from leading technology providers – Differentiate among the tools based on key features and price – Identify how to use each collaboration tool to generate the desired results – Utilize collaboration tools to communicate with others, both inside and outside of your organization

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Collaboration Tools • A collaboration suite should provide: – Email – for conventional communication – Teaming features – document libraries, shared calendars, task lists, and announcements, etc. – Real-time communication – instant messaging, VOIP telephony, mobile integration, online meetings and whiteboards – Social media interaction – knowledge exchange, experience sharing, skill identification, etc.

• Taken together, these tools deliver improved staff productivity and on-the-job user experience

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Individual Collaboration Tools • Representative list of web applications that deliver some, but not all, of the collaboration functionality required by most organizations • • • • • • •

Basecamp BinFire bubbl.us Colligo ConceptBoard Dabbleboar Gliffy

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GroupZap huddle Moxtra mural.ly Pordio Proofhub Red Pen

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Scribblar Trello Twoodo Workflowy Wrike Zimba Zoho

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Collaboration Suites • Instead of using a collection of individual tools, a better solution would be to select a suite of collaboration tools • This session focuses on three suites – Microsoft Office 365 – Google Apps for Work – Citrix GoToMeeting and ShareFile

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Suite Comparison Feature / Function

Office 365

Google

Exchange Outlook / OWA

Gmail

SharePoint / OneDrive Outlook / OWA Outlook / SharePoint SharePoint

Sites / Google Drive Calendar Sites Sites

Real-time Communication Instant Messaging VOIP Telephony Online Meetings Screen Sharing White Boarding

Lync Skype for Business √ √ √

Gmail Hangouts √ √ √

Social Media Capabilities Knowledge Exchange Experience Sharing Skill Identification

Yammer √ √

Google+ √ √

Email Teaming Document Libraries Shared Calendars Task Lists Announcements

Citrix

ShareFile

GoToMeeting √ √ √

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Suite Pricing Office 3651

Google

Citrix

Business Essentials

Google Apps

GoToMeeting

Up to 300 users $5 per user per month

Unbranded email, 15 GB per user Free

Per organizer per month Up to 3 participants = Free Up to 25 participants = $39 Up to 100 participants = $56

Business Premium Up to 300 users $12.50 per user per month

Google Apps for Work

Enterprise E1

Branded email, 30 GB per user, 24/7 phone support $5 per user per month

Unlimited users $8 per user per month

Google Apps for Work

Enterprise E3 Unlimited users $20 per user per month 1 All

Branded email, 1 TB per user, 24/7 phone support $10 per user per month

ShareFile Price per month 1 user, 100GB = $16 5 users, 1TB = $60 + $10 per user over 5

5 users, Unlimited = $100 + $12 per user over 5

listed plans include branded 50 GB Exchange email box, Lync online meetings, and SharePoint/OneDrive for Business.

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Microsoft Office 365 • Office 365 delivers all of the collaboration tools required in a modern digital office • Well suited to organizations that want to leverage their investment in Microsoft Office • Office 365 provides a seamless experience between the desktop applications and the cloud

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Exchange with Outlook • Exchange with Outlook is the de facto gold standard for business grade email • Provides encrypted email storage, mobile communications, SharePoint integration, and shared calendars, contacts, and tasks • OWA allows users to access their email through a web browser with nearly the same functionality as Outlook

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Lync • Lync is the lynchpin collaboration tool in Office 365 • Allows users to communicate in real time – Secure instant messaging – VOIP audio/video telephony – Online meetings – Screen, slideshow, or application sharing and whiteboards

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Lync • Online meetings can be initiated immediately within Lync or scheduled in Outlook or OWA • Interacts with a user's calendar to indicate whether a user is currently available • In default, Lync starts with Windows and is available in the Notification Area

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Lync Click the Lync icon to open the application window, then double-click on a contact to open a Lync session.

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Lync Note the GREEN presence awareness indicator on the left of the shadow head.

Instant Messaging

Type in a message or click the communications type on the bar at the bottom to initiate a session

Invite Other Participants

Webcam Video VOIP Call

Screen Sharing and White Board

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Lync Hover over a contact's picture or shadow head to display the Lync bar.

Full Contact Details

A Lync session can be initiated from an individual contact record, the People Pane, or an email message.

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Lync All recent IM sessions are recorded and saved in Lync. A more extensive list is preserved in the Conversation History folder in Outlook/OWA.

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Lync

Whiteboard sessions are used for brainstorming or strategy sessions. Each participant can markup the whiteboard with text or drawings. Participants can use VOIP for live audio/video or use a phone for audio.

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Lync Audio and video sessions can be recorded for reference or future replay.

Recordings saved to SharePoint or OneDrive can be viewed online in a browser.

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SharePoint • SharePoint delivers document libraries, project calendars and task lists, and the publication of related announcements • Sites are usually created by IT staff, but team members with sufficient knowledge and skill can build project-specific sites on demand

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SharePoint Check out the document for exclusive use. Others can't use it until it's checked in.

The Files tab provides functionality that is applied to individual or selected files.

Send an email or text message when the document changes.

Share the document with others.

Send the document to another folder or create a Document Workspace.

Project sites can contain document libraries, tasks, calendars, etc. Links to resources: Documents, Tasks, and Calendar, etc.

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SharePoint The Library tab provides functionality that is applied to an entire document library. Sync documents to local PC for offline use.

Put a link to the library in Backstage for easy access.

Connect documents, tasks, or calendar to Outlook.

Links to resources: Documents, Tasks, and Calendar, etc.

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Yammer

Yammer delivers the social media features for experience and knowledge exchange, and skills identification.

Click to see and interact with members online in real time.

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Other Collaboration Tools • Office Online – online versions of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and OneNote – Edit documents collaboratively in real time and with versioning

• OneDrive for Business – provides file storage and sharing similar to SharePoint, but without its complexity – 1TB $5.00 per month – 256-bit AES encrypted with unique key for each file

• Delve – helps users discover the information and contacts that are important to then

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Office 365 Security Third-Party Certifications ISO /ISE 27001:2005 Certification SSAE 16 / ISAE 3402 SOC1, AT101 SOC 2 and 3 Attestation HIPPA / HITECH PCI Data Security Standard Certification FISMA Certification and Accreditation FedRAMP P-ATO by the Joint Authorization Board 95/46/EC – EU Data Protection Directive & California SB1386

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Google Apps for Work • Google Apps for Work delivers a complete suite of collaboration tools, ranging from email to document libraries, productivity apps, video and voice conferencing, online meetings, and social networking • True SaaS applications built for use in the cloud through a web browser • Google Chrome delivers the best user experience and is essential for offline use of email and the productivity apps

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Apps for Work • Apps for Work offers branded email, 24/7/365 telephone support, and an administration console similar to Office 365 • Gmail is the de facto standard for web-based email, offering a 30 GB mailbox per user • Gmail integrates Google Calendar, which can be shared easily with others, and a Task List

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Apps for Work • Apps for Work delivers a suite of desktop productivity apps beyond Gmail and Calendar Microsoft Office

Apps for Work

Excel

Sheets

Word

Docs

PowerPoint

Slides

• Less capable, delivering ≈80% of Microsoft Office functionality, but sufficient for base documents • Reads and writes Microsoft Office file formats • Allows sharing and concurrent editing among multiple users

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Hangouts • Hangouts is the lynchpin collaboration tool in Apps for Work • Allows users to communicate in real time or hold online meetings with up to 10 participants – – – – –

Instant messaging (also available in Gmail) VOIP audio/video telephony Online meetings Screen and slideshow sharing Whiteboards using a shared document or an online service, such as webwhiteboard.com

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Hangouts • Online meetings can be initiated immediately within Hangouts or scheduled in Gmail • All users must have a Google+ account to use Hangouts and participate in a meeting • Can be launched from Google+, Gmail, the Google Chrome icon in the Notification Area, or from the Chrome App Launcher

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Hangouts Add Participants

Click the Hangouts icon on the desktop to open the application window, then click on a contact to open a Message or Video Call session.

Instant Messaging Video/Voice Call Online Meeting

Desktop Icon

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POTS Call

Hangouts Hover over a contact's picture or shadow head to display the contact card and the Hangouts bar at the bottom.

Full Contact Details

A Hangouts session can be initiated from an individual contact record, a Circle group, or an email message.

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Hangouts All recent IM sessions are recorded and saved in Hangouts. Sessions can be archived, if desired.

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Hangouts on Air • Online presentations can be simulcast to unlimited participants and up to 10 presenters • All presenters must have a Google+ account, but participants do not • To record the session, the main presenter must have a YouTube account • Presentations up to 8 hours may be recorded if the YouTube account is enabled to allow recordings greater than 15 minutes

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Hangouts on Air Add participants, setup audio and video, mute audio, turn off video, and end Hangouts session.

Audio and video sessions can be recorded for reference or future replay on YouTube.

Hangouts on Air has a full range of presentation tools available along the left side of the canvas.

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Google Sites • Sites deliver collaboration web sites similar to SharePoint for document libraries, project calendars and task lists, and the publication of related announcements • Sites are usually created by IT staff, but team members with sufficient knowledge and skill can build project-specific sites on demand

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Sites Add a Page

Page and Site Settings Configure Alerts

Edit Page

Site and page settings are applied from the buttons on the right.

Sharing Permissions

Site Navigation

Sites provide access to document libraries, tasks, calendars, etc.

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Google+

Google+ Communities deliver the social media features for experience and knowledge exchange, and skills identification.

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Other Collaboration Tools • Google Docs/Sheets/Slides – online apps for creating text documents, workbooks, and slideshows – Edit documents collaboratively in real time and with versioning

• Google Drive – provides file storage and sharing similar to OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, etc. – Consumer 15 GB = Free – Google Apps for Work 30 GB per user – Additional storage available at ≈$10 per TB per month

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Apps for Work Security Security Features/Third-Party Certifications ISO /ISE 27001 Certification SSAE 16 / ISAE 3402 SOC1, AT101 SOC 2 and 3 Attestation HIPPA with BAA agreement FISMA Certification and Accreditation 95/46/EC – EU Data Protection Directive & California SB1386 Primary security functionality consists of 1) boundary authentication, 2) server scattering, and 3) highly secure proprietary O/S Authentication and data communicated using SSL/TLS, but data not encrypted in storage. Copyright © 2015, K2 Enterprises, LLC. Reproduction or reuse for purposes other than a K2 Enterprises’ training event is prohibited.

Citrix GoToMeeting • Acknowledged standard in online meeting applications, but does not deliver a broad range of collaboration tools • Delivers online meetings and screen sharing with VOIP telephony • Whiteboards are not directly supported, but participants can control the keyboard/mouse in a common document or use an online service, such as webwhiteboard.com • Documents can be stored and shared in ShareFile, a companion Citrix product

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GoToMeeting Outlook Add-in

Users can Meet Now or Schedule Meetings in GoToMeeting or in Outlook.

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GoToMeeting To join a meeting, the recipient simply clicks the link in the invitation message.

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GoToMeeting The presenter controls the meeting through the GoToMeeting control panel. Setup Audio, Screen Sharing, and Webcam in Options.

Participants use the control panel to configure audio or a webcam, or to chat with others in the meeting.

Click here to record the meeting for playback or sharing.

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GoToMeeting Additional presenter controls are available from the GoToMeeting drop-down menu. Minimize control panel.

Control microphone muting here.

Drawing control setup is necessary for whiteboard sessions.

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GoToMeeting Use of a whiteboard is not directly supported, but the presenter can share keyboard and mouse control within an application, such as Word or PowerPoint.

Casey Sims

Strategy session completed by multiple concurrent users in Word.

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GoToMeeting Meetings can be recorded for playback or sharing. When the meeting is completed or a recording is stopped, simply convert the recording to shareable format, such as MP4.

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GoToMeeting Security Security Functions / Features 128-bit SSL encrypted authentication True end-to-end data security using 128-bit AES encryption Automatic inactivity time outs Supports strong passwords Participant end-point security delivered through digitally signed plug-ins with strong cryptographic capabilities

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Citrix ShareFile • ShareFile, a companion to GoToMeeting, provides the document storage and sharing necessary to support online meetings • Delivers SSL/TLS encryption in transit and 256-bit AES encryption in storage • Includes support for mobile devices and integration with Outlook

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ShareFile To send a file, check the file, click Send, and complete the form.

Add users to the recipients list.

The recipient clicks the download link in the sharing email to receive the file.

Check the necessary file restrictions.

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ShareFile To send files using the Outlook addin, attach the files to a message and click Convert Attachments.

The attachments are uploaded to ShareFile, removed from the message, and a sharing link is inserted automatically.

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ShareFile Security Security Functions / Features ISO/ISE 27001:2005 certification SSAE 16 SOC1 and SOC2 accredited data centers 256-bit SSL/TLS encryption in transit 256-bit AES encryption in storage Granular security settings 99.9% Uptime

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Summary Comments Product Suite

Comments

Office 365

• • • •

Allows organizations to leverage their investment in Microsoft Office Familiar interface will require less staff training Staff are not forced into an all-cloud solution Tiered plans provide flexibility in meeting collaboration needs

Apps for Work

• • • • •

True SaaS cloud solution Not as polished or as powerful as Office 365 Different interface and processes will require significant staff training Desktop productivity applications will still be required in most settings Documents and conversation histories are not encrypted in storage

GoToMeeting

• Does not provide full collaboration functionality • Best viewed as an online meetings and training add-on • Excellent secure file sharing with ShareFile

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Conclusion Collaboration tools promote knowledge and experience sharing and improve organization effectiveness and productivity.

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QUESTIONS?

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