Web 2.0 Goes to Work for Business

Erase Boundaries, Extend Value Networks

IBM enables organizations to take advantage of the Web as a delivery platform. This enables businesses to promote a globally integrated virtual enterprise and extend the discovery and use of expertise across an entire ecosystem.

Why the Web as a delivery platform

• Economies of scale, low-barrier, lower up-front cost
• Capturing user created content and participation value
• Enhanced application flexibility using the cloud environment
• Discovery and use of expertise across an ecosystem

LotusLive (formerly know as “Bluehouse”)

LotusLive provides essential collaboration services to simplify and improve your daily business interactions with customers, partners and colleagues. Work with people seamlessly inside and outside your organization and streamline communications. LotusLive helps you bring people and information together quickly and simply in an easy-to-use environment, designed with security in mind.

LotusLive offers a variety of online solutions that let you share documents, meet easily with potential customers and build your network by connecting with companies relevant to your business needs. The simplicity of the online solutions reduce startup time and allows you to free up valuable IT resources. Learn more and join the LotusLive Engage Beta

Enabling businesses to:

• Work outside the corporate firewall
• Connect with companies relevant to your business needs
• Integrated online Web conferencing with essential online business tools
• Use online social networking and collaboration services

Lotus Foundations

Small business is still big business. Every company needs the ability to do e-mail, create, share and centrally manage documents and ensure that all their information is backed up and protected - but they don't want the hassle or expense of dealing with complex IT systems. Lotus Foundations is a family of software appliances that provide the essential software a business needs to focus on running the business, not managing computer systems. Learn more

IBM WebSphere Portal

Utilizing Web 2.0 capabilities for corporate use requires a Web delivery platform that can address your needs now and in the future. WebSphere Portal software, with its market leading web capabilities, leads the way in providing a platform for the latest Web 2.0 technologies and social networking advances. Learn more

• Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), representation state transfer (REST), RSS/Atom feeds, semantic tagging, Google gadgets and mashups allow you to develop and deploy rich, browser-based applications that provide a 'desktop like' user experience and incorporate new social services, such as wikis, blogs, tagging, and communities.
• A roles-based user interface experience which serves to meld both Web 2.0 and enterprise information, applications, and collaborative tools — to help users become more efficient and productive in context of the job at hand.
• Supporting industry standards and providing security, performance, scaling, and governance, helping insure a security-rich Web experience for ten's to million's of users.