Definition of "groupware" [groupware]

• Software that integrates work on a single project by several concurrent users at separated workstations. (noun)

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• "The term groupware refers to applications that facilitate real-time communication, coordination and collaboration amongst groups of people."
• "Geoff Cohen's nailed a really important idea about network effects in "groupware," and the way that groupware creates group-think:"
• "There seems to be some concern about whether to call it groupware instead of a cloud."