Colayer GmbH is a software product company, headquartered in Zurich

Zürich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

, Switzerland

Switzerland

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, founded in 2000 by Markus Hegi, the current CEO. Colayer GmbH also has a subsidiary, Colayer Web Conversations Private Limited located in Pune

Pune

Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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History

• 1999: The visions and concepts, which eventually became Colayer, were worked out by founder, Markus Hegi, and a small working prototype was developed on his laptop.
• 2000-2003: Markus Hegi founded Metalayer AG, to work further on his ideas & concepts. The development of these concepts started as a collaboration tool prototype, referred to as "The metalayer Comty Hub". Additionally, the exploration of suitable technologies were taken out for further scalability of the platform.
• 2004-2006: In 2004, Colayer GmbH was established by the same founder who started Metalayer. The management team decided to develop the entire platform to C++ architecture from the ASP.NET model. The focus was to build the core of the Colayer, a robust Web 2.0 platform for the social web.
• 2009: Colayer offers a broad platform to build interactive social Web 2.0 environments. Just like PHP
  PHP
  PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
  
  , Coldfusion
  ColdFusion
  In computing, ColdFusion is the name of a commercial rapid application development platform invented by Jeremy and JJ Allaire in 1995. ColdFusion was originally designed to make it easier to connect simple HTML pages to a database, by version 2 it had...
  
  , ASPX and JSP
  JavaServer Pages
  JavaServer Pages is a Java technology that helps software developers serve dynamically generated web pages based on HTML, XML, or other document types...
  
   for the dynamic web, Colayer aims to be the environment for creating any type of Social networking websites and applications. Recently, a discussion started about the similarities of Colayer and Google Wave
  Google Wave
  Apache Wave is a software framework for real-time collaborative editing online. Google Inc. originally developed it as Google Wave.It was announced at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009....
  
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Colayer platform

Colayer provides a platform for business

Business

A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...

 enterprises to communicate, collaborate & co-create. Colayer has revolutionized the way global businesses interact by integrating the most powerful web

Web 2.0

The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...

 technologies 2.0, to come up with the contextualized collaborative software-- enabling businesses from different geographical locations to connect and share

Sharing

Sharing the joint use of a resource or space. In its narrow sense, it refers to joint or alternating use of an inherently finite good, such as a common pasture or a shared residence. It is also the process of dividing and distributing. Apart from obvious instances, which we can observe in human...

 the intellectual

Intellectual

An intellectual is a person who uses intelligence and critical or analytical reasoning in either a professional or a personal capacity.- Terminology and endeavours :"Intellectual" can denote four types of persons:...

 insight

Insight

Insight is the understanding of a specific cause and effect in a specific context. Insight can be used with several related meanings:*a piece of information...

 of experts and helping like minded people to achieve their common goals

Goal

A goal is an objective, or a projected computation of affairs, that a person or a system plans or intends to achieve.Goal, GOAL or G.O.A.L may also refer to:Sport...

. Colayer (or Collaboration layer) is also the name of the product, it's a social web software

Social Web

The social Web is a set of social relations that link people through the World Wide Web. The Social web encompasses how websites and software are designed and developed in order to support and foster social interaction. These online social interactions form the basis of much online activity...

 that can be used to create a virtual organisation. The software integrates many communication needs of an organization. It offers content management system

Content management system

A content management system is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based...

, virtual conferencing

Web conferencing

Web conferencing refers to a service that allows conferencing events to be shared with remote locations. Most vendors also provide either a recorded copy of an event, or a means for a subscriber to record an event. The service allows information to be shared simultaneously, across geographically...

(online meetings, email and SMS notification), reporting and statistical analysis.