knowledge management collaboration information technology web 2.0 founded 2000 incorporated 2004 headquarters zurich switzerland key people markus hegi founder & ceo siddhi nagaonkar director number of employees 40 2009 subsidiaries colayer india website http colayer.com colayer gmbh is a software product company headquartered in zurich switzerland founded in 2000 by markus hegi the current ceo . colayer gmbh also has a subsidiary colayer web conversations private limited located in pune india . colayer offers a context driven platform to build social interactive web 2.0 environments and virtual workplaces for enterprises . contents 1 history 2 use in business 3 references 4 external links history edit 1999 the 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 1 to work further on his concepts . the development of these concepts started as a collaboration tool prototype referred to as the metalayer comty hub . 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 platform to c architecture from the asp.net model . the focus was to build the core of the colayer a web 2.0 platform for the social web . 2009 colayer offers a platform to build interactive social web 2.0 environments . colayer aims to be the environment for creating social networking websites and applications . in 2009 the similarities of colayer and google wave were discussed . 2 3 4 use in business edit colayer has integrated web technologies 2.0 to come up with the contextualized collaborative software enabling businesses from different geographical locations to communicate . colayer or collaboration layer is also the name of the product a social web software that can be used to create a virtual organisation . 5 it has content management system 6 virtual conferencing online meetings email and sms notification 7 reporting and statistical analysis . references edit metalayer colayer s previous incarnation from 2000 2003 . pune based colayer develops future of communication years ago . sakaal times . 2009 06 27 . origin of spaces . pune mirror . 2009 07 04 . links and overview of colayer and google wave . virtual headquarters of lilly critical care europe . lilly cce . content management solution . executive insight . virtual online conferences . douglas connect . external links edit colayer website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title colayer & oldid 697479939 categories companies established in 2000companies based in z richweb development softwarehidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 30 december 2015 at 20 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view