SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR COLLABORATIVE EDITING OF COMMON OR RELATED COMPUTER BASED SOFTWARE OUTPUT

A system includes a collaborative data store that stores an object which can comprise a description, model, representation, arrangement or composition created by one or more contributors, the object comprising a plurality of features, the object encoded in a vendor-neutral format, a collaborative server configured to manage the collaborative data store, a first computer or electronic device client comprising at least one processor and configured to execute a first software application and enable the first user to edit the content of the object encoded in a first proprietary format that is different than the vendor-neutral format. The first computer or electronic device client and the collaborative server may be collectively configured to detect updates to the content of the object encoded in the first proprietary format, convert the updates to feature changes and update the object encoded in the vendor-neutral format with the feature changes.