IBM FileNet Collaboration Services, Version 2.0 Windows, Solaris, AIX, Linux

Integration with IBM Connections

IBM® Connections is social networking software that helps users organize and share information and resources, build a network of personal contacts, follow project-related events, and share ideas. IBM FileNet® Collaboration Services connects a content repository to IBM Connections and enhances capabilities for collaboration throughout an organization or among certain teams, especially document management, library management, and community member administration.

IBM Connections libraries merge social collaboration and enterprise content management technologies to better integrate content repository resources with the routine tasks and various work cultures of an enterprise. Libraries are folders for storing documents in the content repository and for organizing and applying metadata to documents and other folders. Employees can manage and share information, which includes document data and metadata, in a social community interface.

Enterprises integrate IBM Connections and IBM FileNet Collaboration Services to deploy a social content management solution, most commonly on an intranet. With IBM Connections communities, users can organize and customize libraries and documents on an enterprise-scale content repository with minimal support from information technology (IT) employees.

The IBM Connections library facilitates the following social content management tasks:

Manage appropriate content repository libraries and access rights (community owner only)
Collaborate on documents with enterprise content management features, such as versioning, publishing controls, and customizable properties, directly from the social networking interface of IBM Connections
Tag, comment on, and recommend documents to share information of common interest
Identify which documents are popular in the community by viewing document download metrics
Search for particular information by either a term in the document or by a tag
Stay up-to-date on document revisions that are made by other community members

IBM Connections social content management can also improve productivity of IT resources and systems. IT teams spend less time administering content repositories when community owners create libraries, manage their communities, and control library and document permissions. In some enterprises, an IBM Connections solution can eliminate support for multiple client applications.