Collabor8online has been around in one guise or another for over 10 years, our mission at the outset was to create a solution that delivered the functionality that contractors needed to manage, control and share the documentation but without making our system so complicated that it became difficult to use, clumsy to implement and challenge to manage.

Simplicity and ease-of-use remain at the forefront of our design criteria but, as systems have evolved over the years, we recognise that contractors are demanding more functionality from their systems to cope with both increasing numbers of documents and requirements on them to produce accurate and timely information.

For our part, we recognised that some of our competitors were offering enhancements that were both popular and rapidly becoming “must haves” for many organisations. We therefore took the decision to close the functionality gap, between our own product and are much more expensively priced competitors whilst, challenging ourselves to maintain the ease-of-use of our product.

The only way to do this was to start again, with clean sheet and rebuild our system from the ground up.

That work is now been completed in version 2 is in the final stages of beta testing and will be released in the coming quarter.