IBM Collaboration Solutions briefing shows you how to leverage new IBM social business offerings to:

• Connect all the right people. IBM offers extensive integration capabilities, broad mobile support, and hybrid deployment options to connect people regardless of role, affiliation, or location.
• Unlock new insight. IBM has a rich portfolio of business analytics, enterprise content management, and commerce capabilities that work in combination with IBM collaboration and social software tools to provide value that is unmatched in the industry.
• Mitigate risk. IBM offers security rich solutions and the know-how to guide clients through governance challenges.
• Accelerate next generation solutions. IBM provides a scalable, open, extensible architecture designed to protect client investments, allow incremental deployment, and encourage application development.
• Put connections in context. IBM can embed social capabilities in the tools people use to get things done.
• Accelerate action with mobile and cloud. IBM SmartCloud for Social Business can easily extend collaboration to the business partners, while mobile solutions accelerate improvements of business processes by enabling mobile employees to be more productive away from the office.
• Realize value quickly. IBM's business and technical consulting services provide best practice models for accelerating cross-organization adoption of new technology, implementing new leadership skills, and building governance policies.
• Learn from experience. IBM itself is one of the world's leading Social Businesses. Through the first-hand experience of hundreds of thousands of IBMers and partners every day, IBM knows what it takes to transform a complex organization, leverage technology, and deliver tangible business results.

Primary audience

Line-of-business executives, IT managers; operations managers and architects; software and enterprise architects; Chief Information and Chief Finance Officers; IBM Business Partners, and independent software vendors (ISVs)