Collaboration is a key determinant of enterprise success. Prosperity comes only to businesses that anticipate and respond best to the constantly changing marketplace. Companies must engineer optimally efficient processes that integrate all stakeholders into a circulatory system that streamlines all information flows, leveraging them in real-time, for present and future benefit.

Optimal decision making is dependent on two fundamental requirements. The first is awareness of all relevant information. The second is the consideration of all relevant interpretations of that information. Both these requirements demand collaboration. That necessary collaboration can extend deep inside or far outside the organization to include customers, employees, partners, competitors, and governments.
With the widespread adoption of e-mail and the Web as fundamental business platforms, people have greater access to stakeholders and information than ever before. However, with these new technologies arrive new challenges. E-mail is designed mainly to facilitate one-to-one exchanges.

However, due to its simplicity and ubiquity, it is frequently used in an attempt to connect large groups of people. The result is a bombardment of each participant’s e-mail inbox. As participants try to participate in the collaboration, information rapidly becomes diluted, fragmented, and forgotten. The inappropriate and ineffective use of e-mail contributes to an already growing information overload problem that is driving declining productivity.

Online community systems aim to address this mismatch between objective and platform. By providing centralized online areas in which participants can easily share all types of information, online community systems offer organizations a universally accessible collaboration system in which sensitive information and interactions can be managed, secured, and archived.

ADK's forum service is a PHP-based forum that enables organizations to utilize online community structures to easily and effectively connect groups online. Targeted at accessing mainstream users, our forum is an entirely web-based application. There is no software for end users to download or install, and no technical knowledge is required by end-users to create or participate in online communities.
Basic community tools allow users to publish content, participated in threaded discussion, share calendars, post notes, create lists, conduct polls, utilize private chat rooms, exhibit images, exchange files, send instant messages, and more. Further, a sophisticated administration toolset permits tailoring of user permissions, customisation of tools and visuals, broadcast communications, moderation of content, archiving of content, and more.

Offered as a hosted service, ADK's forum’s is available to anyone who wishes to have control over their own online community and a support system to ensure continued availability.