The way we work today makes collaboration an absolute necessity. Distributed teams, virtual workforces, around-the-clock and around-the-world commerce, pervasive mobility, rapidly changing regulatory requirements — these are just some of the factors driving dramatic changes in the way work gets done. Given today’s rapidly shifting competitive landscape and increasingly high user expectations, organizations must figure out how to create an agile and collaborative work environment. So they’re investing heavily in collaboration tools that help them leverage widely available information that is then shared with people both inside and outside the organization, resulting in smarter, faster decisions.

According to a MacAfee study, the average company uses 57 different file sharing services, which can impede collaboration between teams, increase security risks, and increase costs. For IT and line-of-business decision-makers to successfully navigate the maze of collaboration tools, they need a roadmap to help them prioritize what to look for in a content collaboration platform that delivers on all counts —