5.1 General information management

In addition to using Business Collaborator to share documents, as described in section 3.1, it can also be used to manage and exchange other information formats. All the general advantages of using Business Collaborator, as outlined in Section 1 - Why use Business Collaborator? , apply to these objects too. For example, information can be exchanged between people using different hardware or software. In addition, access rights can be used to control who can perform what actions and event tracking records everything which happens.

An additional benefit of non-document information sharing is that you do not need third-party software on your computer in order to create or change this information. Sharing information via threaded discussions (see section 5.2), meetings (section 5.4), email messages (Section 7 - Web-based email) and relational databases (Section 8 - The relational database tool) can be done directly through Business Collaborator.