IBM earlier released what they term LotusLive. It’s really a large number of capabilities moved onto a hosted platform with a fair amount of hooks into it. It’s part of a larger strategy to move into Software as a Service (SaaS). You can get a lot of information and comparison directly from their web site. They have also recently released their hosted web mail solution called LotusLive iNotes. The press has been picked up by MSNBC and others. The timing is interesting as Google continues to have periodic outages which most likely opens the door for solutions sets like these. Neither Microsoft, IBM, or other vendors seem to be sitting still.
What they have to say about it:
IBM LotusLive iNotes offers a cost-effective enterprise-grade messaging infrastructure delivered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for corporate users who do not need full-fledged groupware.
Benefits
- Extremely easy-to-use interface that contains essential messaging and calendar features without clutter
- Flexible storage quotas
- Proven reliability – millions of active mailboxes across hundreds of thousands of domains
- No mining of customer data for advertising, or other purposes
- Security rich practices that satisfy the needs of large enterprises
- Security, reliability, and experience of IBM – built for business (not re-purposed consumer applications)
- Integrates with and extends value of on-premise collaboration solutions (from Lotus® and other groupware providers)
