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[Contact](https://www.valeonetworks.com/contact/) -  2 min read # What Is an Enterprise Collaboration System? Here Are the Basics [Mindy Gallagher](https://alura.valeonetworks.com/blog/author/mindy-gallagher) : May 14, 2020, 12:00:00 AM [Managed IT Services](https://alura.valeonetworks.com/blog/tag/managed-it-services) Communication is key to running a business small or large. With team members being spread out and as the world grows wider and wider enterprise collaboration continues to grow in importance in order to keep a strong business going. We illustrate here many of the benefits and a collection of some of the best tools that can keep your team and ultimately your business working at its best. ## Benefits of Utilizing Enterprise Collaboration Business is and always will be  a numbers game. So anything that can improve the numbers will be taken as a success. The use of [enterprise collaboration tools ](https://hub.packtpub.com/top-reasons-why-businesses-should-adopt-enterprise-collaboration-tools/)continues to drive these numbers in a positive direction ### Cut Costs Keeping traveling expenses down is a huge benefit that businesses recognize early on. General operational costs are down alongside as files and information can easily be shared remotely. ### Streamline Processes The ease of sharing knowledge and collaborating on the material within both the internal team as well as the external team will allow for a far quicker development process and far quicker project times overall. ### Drive Innovation *"Two brains are better than one" *Collaborative research fostered ideas are more openly shared and more easily shared. With decisions being made more quickly it allows for more ideas being developed. ### Increase Competitive Advantage Expanding the abilities of all departments through increased collaborative resources will strengthen the company as a whole. The teams will work as a cohesive unit rather than disparate parts. The resources of one team can be considered the resources of many. ### Retain and Draw Talent With strong collaborative tools it is far easier to allow for remote workers. This will draw in an extra pool of workers. A strong emphasis on collaboration and the valued input of all workers is something employees seek out. ### Maximize Results All of these factor into the business maximizing both its time and its cash flow. More can be done with the same amount of investment if not less.  ## Top Enterprise Collaboration Tools Amongst the countless ECT there is a handful that stands out for simply the amount of features they have or the ease of usage and the manner that they can integrate into countless other platforms dropbox and google drive for example. - ### **Teamwork** - ### **Wrike** - ### **Basecamp** - ### **Asana** - ### **Podio**  Beyond these the most well known and top used is [Slack](https://slack.com/). The ease of live communication and file sharing within the application has made it one of the most popular of the tools. In combination with enterprise collaboration tools a strong strategy to take is utilizing a [hosted exchange](https://www.alura.com/solution/excloud) server.  Because they share amongst the entire company it makes for easy connection and syncing with entire teams with co-authoring of documents and email. ## Communicate Manage and Succeed Businesses have to remember if their team can't communicate the team can't collaborate. With that in mind the best enterprise collaboration tools are chosen. There is a tool for all environments to communicate share and manage. Understanding the system was the first step and now identifying the needs of the team is the next. 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