Posts Tagged ‘connections’

Gartner recently published the 2011 Magic Quadrant on Social Software in the Workplace. Not surprisingly, the market leaders are IBM, Jive and Microsoft. Gartner views IBM’s size and product breadth as major contributions to its ranking. Also, IBM Connections has many, many large implementations under its belt. IBM’s challenges come from the complexity of installing […]

IBM just announced new mobile social applications.  IBM has been a leader in the social marketplace over the last several years and this announcement continues their leadership status. The announcements cover applications for iOS, Android and Blackberry devices, so they have the major players covered. Here are the new applications IBM announced: New social networking […]

IBM Connections uses a tool called Tivoli Directory Integrator to push and pull profile information between Connections and a variety of different LDAP’s and systems (Peoplesoft HR for example).  It’s a powerful tool that can get a little complicated.  IBM just published a whitepaper on their developer worksweb site titled Understanding IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator […]

Forrester has just published their latest research on Enterprise Social software systems.  The Wave chart shown here indicates that Jive, IBM, NewsGator and Telligent lead the list of vendors.  You can get the entire report at forrester.com. In analyzing the top four leaders in the Enterprise Social Software space, Forrester says: Jive SBS: “… continues […]

Forrester has just published their latest research on Enterprise Social software systems.  The Wave chart shown here indicates that Jive, IBM, NewsGator and Telligent lead the list of vendors.  You can get the entire report at forrester.com. In analyzing the top four leaders in the Enterprise Social Software space, Forrester says: Jive SBS: “… continues […]

Ideas – what to do about these pesky things. What if they point out a failure or shortcoming of the company? Not as big of a concern is ideas that would compliment and build on a culture or system that is working great. Control by legal, marketing or communications are usually some of the bigger […]

I came across a new new YouTube video titled IBM Connections vs. Microsoft SharePoint: Social Personal File Management posted by Brandon Seppa on June 21, 2011.  This video is clearly an IBM produced video that touts the file handling features of IBM Connections vs Microsoft SharePoint 2010. The video is 31 minutes long and covers […]

A few months ago I wrote up this list and will begin to address ways social champions can address the 20 reasons NOT to collaborate. These are the good old days.  Just a new version of the good old days.  Remember how the internet was going to replace the person and the businesses (.com’s) that […]

I recently found a new app called iWildFire on Apple’s AppStore.  iWildFire brings IBM Connections down to your iPad or iPhone as a native application.  The application was released on June 3, 2011 and is already getting good reviews.  Here is a link to the iWildFire page on iTunes.  iWildFire provides access to Connections Home […]

In Q3, IBM will be shipping their Portal 7 Mobile theme (insert applause).  This powerful theme takes advantage of the almost-ubiquitous used mobile web-kit.  This compliments IBM’s Mobile Portal Accelerator (MPA) which provides a much broader solution for multiple mobile device support.  The Mobile Theme provides a lightweight toolkit for extending portals to Android, iPhone […]

Liza Sisler (@lizasisler on twitter) pointed me to this article on collaboration on Information Week titled, “The Right Way to Get Employees to Collaborate“.  Michael Sampson has obviously been around the block when it comes to deploying collaboration solutions and I completely agree with his main premise.  Just building something and throwing it over the […]

Sharon Bellamy over on the Connections Blog noted some key enhancements coming in the next release of IBM’s social software product, Connections.  Key but not from a feature standpoint is the rebranding of Lotus Connections to IBM Connections. New capabilities Moderating community content Community owners are provided with new capabilities for the moderation of a […]