Connected Search Archives IBM Lotus Connections, in plain English Edit: I used to be the IBM Lotus Connections Technical Evangelist. m part of IBM Lotus Technical Sales, and it is my job to help folks understand what Lotus Connections is and how to use it well. In my opinion, IBM Lotus Connections is primarily social networking software, not collaboration I am now the Social Enterprise Evangelist at Jive Software .

Connected Search Archives IBM Lotus Connections, in plain English Edit: I used to be the IBM Lotus Connections Technical Evangelist. m part of IBM Lotus Technical Sales, and it is my job to help folks understand what Lotus Connections is and how to use it well. In my opinion, IBM Lotus Connections is primarily social networking software, not collaboration I am now the Social Enterprise Evangelist at Jive Software .

IBM created LotusLive Labs, to bring together IBM Research and Lotus around enhancing cloud collaboration services and capabilities. The LotusLive Notes service will be optimized to support hybrid on-premise and cloud deployments with standard support for directory synchronization between on-premise directories and the cloud, access to application and mail workflows that remain on-premise, and entitlement for every user to use either a browser or the Lotus Notes client to access their email. Day 1 of IBM annual Lotusphere conference was today, in Orlando. Here's what I've

Synchronous Collaboration (web/video conferencing, instant messaging, presence, voice chat) Oracle makes the case the collaboration has been fragmented across three major domains (Enterprise Messaging, Team Collaboration, and Synchronous Collaboration). Also, the focus is on Exchange exclusively yet there remains a large amount of Lotus Notes customers that also might be reconsidering their enterprise messaging direction. Last week Oracle announced enhancements to its nascent collaboration platform, Beehive. Team workspaces, web / video conferencing, and integration with

The three major players right now for social network sites within the enterprise are: IBM (Lotus Connections), Jive (Clearspace), and Microsoft (SharePoint). Contact information, synchronized with LDAP or Active Directory Connectbeam is one of those first-movers in the market that often gets overlooked but they continue to do some creative things (see below). While initially identified as a social bookmark system for the enterprise (an "internal delicious"), the company has done a credible job of expanding the conversation beyond a tooling discussion.

Check this out: Yes, anything stored in an LDAP, a directory, or some other personnel data store can be automatically brought forward into My Sites, just like you can in Lotus Connections Profiles . It uses the Business Data Catalog to accomplish this, similar to how Lotus Connections uses Directory Integrator to bring data into the Profiles database and synchronize it with its sources, which is included with the Connections license. Connected Search Archives SharePoint My Sites: It ain’t just about profiles, people. Many, many, many customers are enamored of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2003 My Site ’s extensive profiling feature .

Check this out: Yes, anything stored in an LDAP, a directory, or some other personnel data store can be automatically brought forward into My Sites, just like you can in Lotus Connections Profiles . It uses the Business Data Catalog to accomplish this, similar to how Lotus Connections uses Directory Integrator to bring data into the Profiles database and synchronize it with its sources, which is included with the Connections license. Connected Search Archives SharePoint My Sites: It ain’t just about profiles, people. Many, many, many customers are enamored of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2003 My Site ’s extensive profiling feature .

IBM Lotus Connections And I am not exactly sure about the capability of SharePoint to integrate with HRMS, LMS and other formal information sources and synchronize that sources to your user profile. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 adds a significant social networking context to its existing collaboration and communication features and capabilities. personal profile page of their My Site will list these related individuals and provide contact, presence and organizational information to visitors. Correct - moving from a simple "white Collaborative Thinking

Enterprise Messaging / Team Collaboration / Synchronous Collaboration / "Next Big Thing" Note: This is the type of deep integration that Lotus should have done with Lotus Connections - missed opportunity on the part of IBM given level of SharePoint existence in market - Oracle integration includes Webparts ... Beehive Unified Collaboration Notes from Oracle OpenWorld presentation - only took notes on the social and collaboration aspects of the session.

Major vendors in Microsoft and IBM are increasingly offering products that not only produce RSS feeds, but in the case of Lotus Connections, can only produce some information flows via RSS subscription (no e-mail production). No-one doubts the take of of Lotus Connections or Sharepoint, these products being adopted by Enterprises today will drive a need for Enterprise RSS tomorrow. * A lot of great comments over at the main article: R.I.P Enterprise RSS .