1. A policy based application provisioning system for use in a collaborative environment, the system comprising: A computer; a memory, the memory containing instructions that when executed by the computer causes the computer to perform the process of: creating a policy comprising rules for limiting collaborative context creation and operation in the collaborative environment; creating by a context provisioning process coupled to said policy a collaborative context in the collaborative environment limited by said rules in said policy; and detecting violations of said rules in said created ones of said collaborative contexts according to usage data for said created ones of said collaborative contexts, remediating, by a context management process coupled to a data store of usage data for created ones of created collaborative contexts in the collaborative environment, detected violations of said rules in said created ones of said collaborative contexts according to usage data for said created ones of said collaborative contexts.