BSCW supports collaboration with your partners via the Internet, in your intranet or in a network with your business partners (extranet).
BSCW provides shared workspaces where groups can store, manage, collaborate and exchange their documents, chats, tasks, e-mails, URLs, etc.
The main advantages:
o With a BSCW workspace you can share documents within workgroups - independent of the computer systems the members are working with.
o BSCW also offers everything you need for distributed collaboration. Essentially, these are chats, task management, effort estimation and scheduling, and audio-video conferencing.
o You do not need to install any software to use BSCW. All you need is one of the market-leading, freely available web browsers.
o You can access BSCW workspaces, browse folder overviews and save documents on your own computer.
o BSCW keeps you informed about all events in common workspaces that interest you.