Any business can establish efficient joint cooperation, partnerships, and alliances with the support of unified communications and collaboration technologies. In this chapter, we have gone through the main advantages of all the communication and collaboration modalities for companies and their business partnerships or relationships with customers. In the world of today, it is extremely important to collaborate across the company's boundaries and to establish strategic partnership when needed. Unfortunately, they are sometimes not successful due to incorrect expectations and unexpected changes in the market.
However, as shown in this chapter, rapid exchange of relevant data and information is needed for the strategic and operational activities within corporate collaborations or networks. In the planning and implementation phase of such collaboration, each company needs to gather relevant information to decide whether or not a corporate cross-cooperation is actually necessary for them...