Leigh Jasper's Blog Archive

You’re a large enterprise and you want to collaborate, so your first impulse is to talk to some vendors about their enterprise systems -- you know, the ones that pepper their websites and marketing materials with the “collaboration” word. It makes sense. Until you realize that what you mean by collaboration is the ability to work with your partners and customers or across your entire supply chain where everyone is equal and everyone stands to gain. In this case, an enterprise solution makes no sense at all. Here’s why.

Many companies claim they are using FTP for collaboration. Yes, it's true. Some companies do claim this. But I say that whatever it is they are doing, it's not true collaboration. Here's why.