Collaboration Tools for Online Teamwork

Do all your colleagues work in the same office? In the modern, fast-paced world of work, this is often not the case. Projects are handled by employees at various company sites, with others working from home and external co-workers joining the team. This can present a number of significant challenges. How can teams communicate with each other when they’re spread across locations?

Emails, telephone calls, video conferences and chats – there are plenty of ways to tackle these kinds of problems in project collaboration, but they often necessitate switching between different programs. You write emails using your email program, video conferences run on another tool and cloud storage is required for exchanging large files securely.

TeamViewer is a comprehensive solution, including multiple online collaboration tools to simplify team collaboration and communication. It offers numerous features that enable you to communicate with colleagues or customers online and exchange files – all within a single application, meaning you no longer have to interrupt your workflow and switch to other programs.

The TeamViewer online collaboration software provides you with various options for communicating with one or more people online. Online conferences with top-quality audio and video are ideally suited for longer conversations, while the instant messaging feature is useful for quickly exchanging information as and when needed. Easily switch between the various communication methods with just a few clicks. All conversations are end-to-end encrypted.

Use TeamViewer to conveniently exchange files with ease, either directly in the chat window or during a video conference. Drop documents into the file box, share your screen with other conversation participants or use remote access to control your colleague’s computer over the Internet – of course, only after they’ve granted you access.

TeamViewer is well suited to a range of situations as a collaboration tool. Use the software, for example, if some of your colleagues aren’t in the same office – whether they’re employed at different branches, are on call at a customer’s site or are working from home. The software is particularly useful when collaborating directly with customers. You can also use TeamViewer to optimise team collaboration on a range of different projects – providing a central hub for all information, important documents and communication. Individual projects and relevant team members can be organised into groups. Plus, you can see which of your contacts are online, offline, away or busy – meaning you’ll no longer have to waste time waiting for an answer.

Communication is key, particularly when virtual teams need to work together. Details have to be discussed, and questions or problems may arise from time to time. The TeamViewer digital collaboration tools enable you to interact with colleagues at any time using the clearly designed TeamViewer Chat, instead of endlessly sending emails. This way, you’ll have all project details in a single place – without the need to click through long email threads to find information. Naturally, the chat is encrypted, so you can also exchange confidential information with peace of mind.

Video conferences are an excellent way to discuss something on a wider scale. But what happens if some of the participants are unable to join? Thanks to TeamViewer’s collaboration tools, you can save online meetings and remote desktop sessions with screen recording in top audio and visual quality, before sharing the link to the session. This lets you bring these participants up to speed and enables conference attendees to view the meeting again at any time. The recording can easily be converted to an AVI file.

During the online meetings or at any other time, you can exchange files with colleagues. A central file box is provided for this purpose. This way, you can be sure that there’s just one central repository for your documents that can be accessed by all participants – without the need to seek out the file or the most up-to-date version in your emails or chat logs. The documents in the file box are of course secure and encrypted, and only those involved in the project in TeamViewer have access to them.