This book helps MIS professionals make critical groupware decisions, and offers essential, up-to-date guidance on intranets. This book presents the most up-to-date, thorough review of the groupware marketplace available, with special focus on the dramatic growth of intranets. It covers hot groupware topics such as desktop videoconferencing, e-mail and messaging technologies, and new Web-base meeting software. It also includes sections on implementing groupware in vertical markets, ranging from the construction industry, to consulting firms, to hardware and software development teams. The book also includes a comprehensive list of groupware resources, including Web sites and URLs; groupware interest groups; lists of vendors and products, events, newsletters, conferences and more. The book is ideal for MIS professionals and managers involved in selecting, implementing, or managing groupware.