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Collaboration and Social Software

Is your organization taking advantage of new trends in social media? What does team collaboration mean to you? Let us help you turn your email messaging systems into enterprise social software systems. We have decades of expertise in groupware - from designing new solutions to improving the performance and features of existing global systems.

Business Challenges

A smart organization is an efficient one. Collaboration is about working together efficiently. The ease, speed, and accuracy in which information is shared is key to the efficiency of an organization.

Often employees, customers, and partners are dispersed throughout the country or even the world. With the proper tools they can come together and make decisions or share ideas quickly, at any time, from anywhere. These tools include blogs, wikis, bookmark sharing, video sharing, e-mail, instant messaging, document sharing, Web conferencing, telephony and video conferencing. To achieve higher productivity and efficiency a business needs to do the following::

  • Find more ways to have a two way conversation with customers.
  • Remove information silos within the company that stifle innovation
  • Enable employees to collaborate on ideas and new products
  • Adapt the workplace to an aging and increasingly diverse populace
  • Provide demographic groups of employees and customers with socially oriented mobile products and services

IBM LotusLive Cloud Based Corporate Collaboration and Messaging

IBM LotusLive Engage is a unique online social networking and collaboration service designed for businesses. It offers a set of tools including online meetings (web conferencing), file storing and sharing, contact management, live chat, and business forms integrated with a robust business network. LotusLive Engage provides the essential business services that every workgroup needs in a way that is simple to acquire and easy to use. It delivers integrated collaborative & social networking services that are connected to relevant business services and applications. With LotusLive Engage users can work seamlessly with people – outside or inside their company. LotusLive delivers the servicees and connections that fit the way you work - helping your team work from anywhere, with everyone in a secure environment at an economical price that fits today's shrinking budgets. Lotus live proiveds integrated, cloud-based email, web-conferencing, instant messaging, file sharing, relationship management, and project tracking with IBM's focus on security, reliability, and enterprise integration. With over 18 million users and counting, LotusLive has a track record of success for companies of all sizes. Built on open systems, LotusLive extends your existing on-premiste investements, allows for rapid innovation and integrates seamlesssly with third party business tools - such as Salesforce.com, Skype, Silanis eSignature, UPS, and more.

What we offer

Collaborative Document Management software from IBM
Lotus® Quickr is Web 2.0-based team collaboration software for knowledge sharing and collaboration. It includes a content repository, content management and team collaboration capabilities, and connectors that allow you to access Lotus Quickr from within desktop applications. Take a quick tour of the offerings of Lotus Quickr.
Enterprise Social Software from IBM
Enable your Enterprise 2.0 with Lotus Connections software. The product includes blogs, wiki's, social bookmarking, employee profiles and more. It also offers recent integrations with RIM BlackBerry™ to allow you to take your corporate social media with you where ever you go. ISV's and enterprise development teams can also integrated it with collaborative application lifecycle management (C/ALM) using Rational Team Concert.
Corporate Messaging
This is more than just email, it includes instant message and workflow applications built around and on top of your email system. IBM Lotus Domino takes advantage of open technologies that allow you to integrate with other IT systems such as SAP, and build collaborative applications on top with a rich development environment. Lotus Sametime is the industry leading corporate instant messaging system. Which runs on stable, long running platforms such as AIX, i/OS, or Linux running on IBM POWER™, Intel, or the flagship System z. Yes, it runs on Windows, too.

Facts:

93% of social media users believe a company should have a presence in online social media
Cone, Business in Social Media Study, 2008
Browsing online social media is now the 4th most popular online activity - ahead of personal email
Nielsen, Global Faces & Network Places, 2009
3 out of 4 Americans use social technology
Forrester, The Growth of Social Technology Adoption, 2008
2/3 of the global internet population visit social networks
Nielsen, Global Faces & Network Places, 2009
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