Network World published an article about some of the recent announcements from Lotusphere, IBM’s main Lotus software focussed conference.

John Fontana writes “IBM/Lotus plans to expand its corporate collaboration tools by adding social relationship, behavior mapping and alerting technology that lets users easily share ideas, data, research and corporate knowledge. Customers are hoping that the tools can help revolutionize the way their organizations communicate, share data, and analyze information and work patterns. The goal is to help improve collaboration.”

The article provides a good overview of some of the technology directions at Lotus - and goes to the trouble to point out (via a quote from the development manager for blogs, wikis and feeds at IBM Research) that none of the developments are new products - they are existing products that IBM already have in this space, being updated to take advantage of new concepts and additional collaboration capabilities.

Read the full article: Lotus touts role of blogs, wikis and feeds

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