Alternative to Email

Why Organize Emails When You Can Eliminate Them?

For years architects and their design teams have seen a dramatic increase in submittals and RFIs delivered by email. Firms quickly realized that email is inconsistent, difficult to trace and prone to filing errors. Many have used quick “band-aid” solutions to organize these emails. The inherent dilemma with these solutions is that email was never intended for collaboration.

As the internet grows, new collaboration tools such as wikis and blogs have surfaced. New companies such as Salesforce.com, Basecamp, Facebook and LinkedIn have grasped the concept of collaboration. With design teams separated from contractors and owners by firewalls, a web-based solution is your only hope to overcome emails.

Why organize your emails when you can eliminate them?