Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
While Microsoft has been trying to win Web 2.0 corporate hearts and minds with Sharepoint Server, IBM threatens to steal the show with a new corporate tested offering called Lotus Connections.
Web 2.0 in the consumer space is all about social
networking as exemplified by sites such as MySpace, YouTube and
FaceBook. Users of these sites with common interests can network, share
ideas and provide each other with information that builds upon their
mutual knowledge base.
Likewise in the corporate world, workers within an organization share
common interests, needs to access information and requirements to
collaborate for their mutual benefit.
Enter Lotus Connections which is comprised of five key modules:
employee blogs, employee profiles, activities or projects, communities
of like minded employees, and a bookmarks function for sharing
information such as websites and documents.
This is all Web 2.0 stuff distilled down to the corporate space,
allowing employees to interact with each other in a similar way as
members of a social networking site. However, instead of sharing
information about movie stars, music genres and cool websites, users
share information about work related matters, such as projects and
staff skill sets.
The latest offering from IBM's Lotus division has already received rave
reviews and threatens to steal the thunder from Microsoft which has
been jockeying to gain a prominent position in this space.
An advantage that IBM has over Microsoft and most other companies is
that it has been able test its offering in a fully fledged corporate
strength environment. With nearly 350,000 staff, IBM is a true global
scale company. The word is that Lotus Connections has come up trumps
and is ready for commercial deployment.
With an estimated installed base of about 150 million Lotus Notes
users, IBM would appear to have a solid base upon which to launch its
Lotus Connections platform.
David Bass
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