Live Objects - Collaborative Window in the Corporate Documents

Abstract

In this paper, a document collaboration platform for enterprise environments is presented. It incorporates the collaboration, security, auditing and reuse features into the document editor, as a tool that has well known interface to the end users. The platform enables template definition with annotation of the collaboration and protection units, called live objects. Through the live objects it allows multiple employees with different privileges to work on the same document, without having to violate the enterprise policies and processes. This work aims to increase the employees' productivity by providing a collaboration windows in corporate documents. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.