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Figure 10-2. Collaboration-Communications Hierarchy. Collaboration builds
upon the capabilities of a functional communications infrastructure.
Communications and collaboration rely on a variety of technologies for the creation, modification,
use, and transfer of data—activities that, taken together, constitute knowledge management. They
include a variety of authoring tools for creating content and developing user interfaces, as well as
database management systems (DBMSs) and controlled vocabularies for archiving data, plus
software and hardware for creating a communications infrastructure. In addition, there are
visualization and analysis aids, including tools for creating graphics, animations, and simulations. As
described in the following sections, the technology requirements increase as a function of the
