--- title: Understanding Collaboration description: Podaris was built from the ground up as a platform for real-time communication, asset sharing, and collaborative planning. It consolidates a wide range of powerful tools for commenting, file-sharing, and collaborative drawing. --- [Skip to content](https://support.podaris.com/understanding-collaboration#main-content) English Show submenu for translations ![podaris\_logo\_png.png\]](https://support.podaris.com/hs-fs/hubfs/podaris_logo_png.png?height=50&name=podaris_logo_png.png) Open main navigation Close main navigation - English Show submenu for translations - [Go to podaris.com](https://podaris.com/) [Go to podaris.com](https://podaris.com/) Podaris Support Centre - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. 1. [Help Center](https://support.podaris.com/?hsLang=en) 2. [Welcome](https://support.podaris.com/welcome?hsLang=en) 3. [Key Concepts](https://support.podaris.com/welcome?hsLang=en#key-concepts) # Understanding Collaboration ## Podaris was built from the ground up as a platform for real-time communication, asset sharing, and collaborative planning. It consolidates a wide range of powerful tools for commenting, file-sharing, and collaborative drawing. ![real-time collaboration](https://support.podaris.com/hubfs/img_collab1-jpg.jpeg) It represents a secure environment for uniting multi-disciplinary teams, bringing everyone connected with your project onto the same page, through a simple, intuitive interface. Project owners/administrators can add collaborators at any point in project development, working with them in real-time, as though everyone is at the same table. [Collaborators](https://support.podaris.com/collaborators-panel?hsLang=en) can communicate via comments using the [comment tool](https://support.podaris.com/comment-tool?hsLang=en). Comments allow anyone with the right permissions to leave in geographically contextual feedback on different scenarios and engage in interdisciplinary dialogue, both for communication within a team, or with different stakeholders and even the public through [Engage](https://support.podaris.com/podarisengage?hsLang=en) . ### True real-time collaboration Every change that you or your colleagues make is updated and synchronised in real-time across everyone’s devices. With real-time collaboration, it's important to know that work will never be lost -- particularly in a collaborative project where different editors can overwrite each others' work. Podaris gives you [full control over the project's revision history](https://support.podaris.com/history-panel?hsLang=en), letting you roll back changes in specific areas, without affecting the rest of the project. The ability to see revisions instantaneously, and to comment, or even modify another user’s revisions yourself, represents a profound upgrade to traditional workflow models. ![revision history](https://support.podaris.com/hubfs/img_collab3-jpg.jpeg) ### Asset Management and Sharing All our users also benefit from a secure database for organisational assets, visible to permitted team-members only and accessible via the homepage. Complete projects, transport infrastructure and [georeferenced imagery](https://support.podaris.com/custom-tiles?hsLang=en) can be shared between permitted team members, removing the need to email or convert files between team members and ensuring that changes to your files are automatically synchronised across the team. ### Plugins, integrations and data Interoperability Podaris is designed to support integration with a variety of existing third-party tools. 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