Collaboration Technologies and IT Infrastructure

Assignment Overview
Working in teams separated by time zones is always a challenge. For this Case you will reflect on teams in which you have worked where the team members were located in different time zones. This will provide an opportunity for you to research the use of team tools to support collaborative learning and how these tools could be used to share findings with other members of your team.
Review these lectures to prepare for this assignment:
Module 3, Lecture 1: Business IT Networks and Components
Module 3, Lecture 2: U.S. Customs’ Network Crash:
Case 3 Review Quiz: This quiz will not count toward your grade but allows you to assess your knowledge.
Case Assignment
You can research any collaboration software to prepare your assignment and discuss its infrastructure. Examples are Skype, Google Docs, and Office 365 productivity applications like OneDrive, email, etc. Share your findings in your Case paper; you can provide a comparative analysis across these types of collaboration software. You can also use the Module 3 discussion to communicate your findings. How would collaboration software have helped in your past team experiences?
Be sure to include references to support your Case Assignment. It is very important that you provide a detailed analysis of your past group processes and how the collaborative system would have impacted those processes.
Assignment Expectations
This Case is to cover team processes and the IT infrastructure to support team processes. For the IT infrastructure refer to Module 3, Lecture 1: Business IT Networks and Components (above). The IT infrastructure consists of components identified as hardware, software, communication systems, data resources, and people. These components apply to information systems, and in Module 3, you will be analyzing collaboration systems. You case will present findings on the IT infrastructure to support team processes discussing hardware, software, communication systems, data resources, and people for the selected tool or application and providing a comparison across the various group collaboration tools.