Why IBM for social software
IBM has long had a vision that the value of social software increases exponentially when people can connect to their social networks at anytime and from anywhere.
IBM is making social and smarter collaboration more pervasive across a wide range of devices and applications so that businesses can connect people with relevant information at anytime and from anywhere.
Social software integrations
IBM delivers the most complete set of social software services, which enables rich integration with IBM WebSphere® Portal, IBM Lotus Notes®, IBM Sametime®, and other applications, such as Microsoft® Office and Microsoft SharePoint.
Here are some examples of how people can integrate social and smarter collaboration:
- Dragging and dropping an attachment from an email message into a Team Place.
- Using Lotus Notes to take an activity offline.
- Publishing a IBM Connections Page into a Team Place.
- Integrate a Document Library from Quickr for WebSphere Portal into Communities.
- Saving and editing documents directly from IBM Lotus Symphony™ and Microsoft Office into a Team Place or activity.
- Integrating IBM Lotus Quickr® pages with IBM Sametime and WebSphere Portal.
- Adding a chat transcript to a IBM Connections activity.
- Viewing a contact's business card (profile) in the Sametime contact list.
- Sharing a file in IBM Connections.
- Surfacing activities, blogs, and bookmarks in a WebSphere Portal application.
- Using Team Collaboration with IBM FileNet® Content Manager and IBM Content Manager.
- Viewing an IBM Connections business card in Microsoft SharePoint.
- Integrating profiles with Microsoft Outlook Contacts.
- Staying in touch with your team by reading microblogs and updating your own.
- Adding a bookmark.
Mobile device access
IBM Connections allows mobile users access to their corporate Connections data on-the-go via a micro-browser or a mobile application (device dependent). With a minimal number of taps, users can access their social software information – such as: Updates, Profiles, Communities (including the Media Gallery and Ideation Blogs) Files, Wikis, Activities, Forums, Blogs and Bookmarks - directly from their mobile device.
Supported devices include: Apple iOS 4.0 and above, Android 2.2 and above, Blackberry OS6 and above, Nokia (micro-browser only), and RIM Playbook (micro-browser only).
The IBM Connections mobile applications are available directly from the device vendor's digital distribution platform (app store).
Click the link or scan the code to go directly to the app store for your device.
