COLLABORATION LAUNCHPAD

Integrating collaboration products or processes includes displaying a plurality of contacts in a collaboration display area, receiving a selection of one or more contacts from the plurality of contacts, displaying a plurality of collaboration service selections from a plurality of collaboration service providers in the collaboration display area, receiving a first collaboration request relating to one of the collaboration service selections provided by a first collaboration service provider, displaying a first collaboration session from the first collaboration service provider, and associating the the one or more selected contacts with the first collaboration session. A selection of business objects may also be received, and may be made available from the collaboration session.