IBM Connections
IBM Connections software can help organisations become social and help them build and extend communities of colleages and business associates to drive innovation. You can leverage your collective brainpower to come up with better ideas, increase your agility in your marketplace and become a more efficient and social organisation.
Work smarter, not harder
Locate the people and information you need to accomplish more in less time. Use Lotus Connections software to:
- Identify and locate the right people when you need them;
- Connect to communities of knowledge based on your needs, role and method of working;
- Share insights and get recognised for your talents;
- Benefit from your colleagues’ expertise and apply best practices to new projects;
- Locate information more quickly with tag clouds, social search and shared bookmarks;
- Stay in touch with your colleagues, their ideas and their contributions;
- Reduce email overload and break free from inbox bloat;
- Organise, manage and keep group projects on track.
Open the doors to collaboration without sacrificing security features
You need to protect your information and network. Unlike some public, consumer-based social networks, Lotus Connections software is built for business and can help you:
- Deploy a comprehensive, integrated social software environment behind your firewall;
- Control access and determine who can see what;
- Implement the measures you need to help enhance security;
- Empower end users and help relieve day-to-day IT burdens.
Build on a flexible and open application environment
Lotus Connections software is more than just software. It is the basis for a powerful social collaboration platform solution.
- Manage and extend collaborative capabilities easily by accessing social information anytime, anywhere, through a web browser, mobile device, rich-client application and more;
- Integrate with software you use, including IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus Sametime, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint;
- Easily develop custom features and extends them to other application with industry standards such as XML, HTML and atom protocols;
- Start small and grow to enterprise professional networks with flexible deployment options.