Today'sbusinessenvironmentis characterizedas knowledgebeing the critical resourcefor any businessactivity. Byautomatingmanyof their routinebusinessprocesses,companiesare ableto save time and valuable humanresources. Workflowmanagementsystemscan serve as the basis for collaborativecomputing,as evidenced bytheir growingpopularity.Thispaperdescribes currentresearchefforts to developa collaborative computingenvironment,Postdoc-NextGeneration (NG).Thedevelopmentof Postdoc-NGis based on Postdoc