The latest release is an expanded set of social software tools and capabilities for enterprise collaboration that brings popular features like micro-blogging from the home into the business environment. The IBM Software Lab Dublin lead the development and architecture for the main components along with the global beta product release for early adopters and is currently engaged directly with Business Partners and Customers in enterprise collaboration.
Lotus Connections, which originated at IBM Research, is an example of the types of technologies that result from the Centre for Social Software's incubator for innovative technologies which was opened a year ago, and expands on IBM's commitment to bringing a business-grade social software platform to the market. With the extranet, Internet and intranet collaboration services provided by IBM and IBM customers, Lotus Connections enables tens of millions of users worldwide to connect and collaborate.
At Sogeti Group who participated in the beta program, there was a great need to connect the firm's 20,000 people spread across 200 offices in 14 countries. Michiel Boreel, CTO of Sogeti explained, "Our people are our only and most valuable asset. We needed a powerful tool to connect our people all over the world, providing them with a social platform that would allow them to share information and collaborate. We chose Lotus Connections because it is a powerful collaboration platform that goes way beyond simple sharing of documents and furthermore, it is people centric instead of project or document centric. We believe that this is the future of collaboration and we want to position ourselves in the frontline of this new trend."
Lotus Connections 2.5 is available now in 25 languages.
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