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Collaboration requires individuals working together in a coordinated fashion, towards a common goal.

Accomplishing the goal is the primary purpose for bringing the team together.

Collaborative software helps facilitate the action-oriented team working together over geographic distances by providing tools that help communication, collaboration and the process of problem solving by providing the team with a common means for communicating ideas and brainstorming.

Additionally, collaborative software may support project management functions, such as task assignments, time-management with deadlines and shared calendars.

The artifacts, the tangible evidence of the problem solving process, including the final outcome of the collaborative effort, typically require documentation and archiving of the process itself, and may involve archiving project plans, deadlines and deliverables.