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Out With IBM's Lotus Symphony, In With Apache OpenOffice IBM Edition

Out With IBM’s Lotus Symphony, In With Apache OpenOffice IBM Edition IBM Symphony appears to have arrived at the end of the road. It’s not exactly unexpected, given the moves in productivity and collaboration space. According to Ed Brill, Director of Messaging and Collaboration Solutions at IBM, the release of Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 is likely to be the last release of the free productivity suite.

IBM Q2 Earnings Report Reveals Strong Performance in Growth Markets, Cloud Services and Business Intelligence

It's the time for earnings report calls. And as IBM (news, site) posts US$ 26.7 billion in quarterly revenue, we learn that much of the 15% nominal increase over the same quarter last year was from operations in growth markets, as well as software and services like cloud computing.

Are Productivity Alternatives Hitting Microsoft Office Upgrades?

In the world of office productivity suites, where content and collaboration professionals aim to make users as efficient as possible, Microsoft Office is still way ahead of the pack when it comes to deployment. But there are many alternatives on the market now, which, according to new research by Forrester, are being tried out by companies, if not fully deployed -- not yet, that is.

Lotus Web CMS 7 Improves Authoring, Analytic, Community Capabilities

IBM Releases Lotus WCM 7The release of IBM  (newssite) Lotus Web Content Management v7 occurred somewhat quietly behind the release of its new Customer Experience Suite. But it did arrive just the same and here's a glance at what's new.

IBM Releases Android Beta, Targets Mobile Market

IBM_logo_2009.jpg Always with its eye on the prize, IBM (news, site) this week has made no secret that it intends to move into the mobile market the same way it has moved into the business analytics market.

Over the course of a few days, Big Blue has launched the beta of business collaboration software for the Android operating system, as well as a number of background support services for mobile enterprises including a new a software development laboratory in Mass.

Mobile Collaboration Tools Uptake Fueled by Smartphone Surge

Will we look back at 2010 as the year of mobile content management and collaboration? At least two market researchers think so. And to prove it, a number of companies are already in the game with tools that put enterprise collaboration platforms into information workers' pockets.

IBM Offers Lotus Collaboration Solutions for iPhone, Mac

IBM Releases Business software for iPhone and MacIBM (news, site) is making news at MacWorld, announcing a slew of new business tools optimized for the Mac and the iPhone. What's on the list? Let's have a look.

IBM Unveils New Project Focused on Future of Collaboration

IBM Unveils New Project Focused on Future of CollaborationWant to know what the next generation of collaboration software looks like? Hmm...so do we. It looks like IBM (news, site) is going to tell us.

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IBM's Social Strategy Includes Support for CMIS, User Generated Content and Compliance

IBM's Social Strategy Includes Support for CMIS, User Generated Content and ComplianceOh to have been a fly on the wall at Lotusphere 2010 this past week. With what seemed like a never-ending ode to enterprise social computing, IBM (news, site) announced a number of updates and new projects that must have generated lots of excited whispers in the corners.

LotusLive iNotes Takes on Google Apps in the Cloud

ibmlogo_whitebg_2009.jpgIs LotusLive iNotes an audacious bid for cloud-space by IBM (news, site) or a folly in its attempts to challenge Google?

Lotus Connections Gets Social, Adds Microblogging, Wiki Features

lotus_logo.jpgLotus (news, site) updates its Connections software, adding more community features and collaboration tools. This new version looks primed to take on Microsoft SharePoint in the enterprise.

Vamosa Opens Door for IBM Lotus Quickr

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It is universally known that a content management system is only useful when it has content to manage. Unfortunately, the problem of how to migrate content either into a new CMS or from one CMS to another is rarely considered ahead of time and is far from trivial.

Zoho Start Adds Stickiness to Zoho Suite

Zoho Start is a relatively new start page/integrated console that marries all Zoho apps in a single view. It currently works with Zoho Show, Writer and Sheet, with other apps to come.

Download Squad wryly writes, “Thanks Zoho, for making it extra difficult to choose between Zoho’s suite of applications, and Google’s Docs/Apps.” This isn’t the first time in recent months it’s done so. Less than a fortnight ago Zoho used Google Gears to bring its suite offline, something Google itself hasn’t opted to do.

That was neat. But unless you’re already a Zoho user, it’s hard to see how Zoho Start will draw Google Apps users into the Zoho camp.

Perhaps perceiving this, Center Networks thinks Zoho should go the extra mile and create a full start page, with the ability to include syndicated content.

IBM Drops an 'e', Goes Web 2.0 with Lotus Quickr

Lotus LogoA recent Forrester Research study — involving 119 CIOs — indicated that over 60% of those surveyed showed a “strong desire” to purchase and implement Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis and other light-weight collaboration tools. Manifesting a classic corporate quandary, those same CIOs also implied that they would prefer to purchase said technologies as a suite from a “large, incumbent software vendor”.

Its not music to everyone’s ears, but IBM with their new Lotus Quickr product intends to deliver for just such a crowd.

echo Releases Swiss Army Knife for SharePoint

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As if enough software companies haven’t already hitched their wagons to Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS), echo Technology announces the beta release of its all-in-one MOSS administration solution.

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