IBM leads enterprise social software race but lags behind the consumer web 2.0 space
Tags :Lotus Connections social networking
This article on ARNnet summed it up quite nicely.
IBM: Big Blue is a "dominant player in the collaboration space" that has done well in Web 2.0 with Lotus Connections. "Based on its own experience as a power user of Social Computing, IBM developed a new ground-up offering for customers: Lotus Connections. Connections, which blends blogs, tagging, communities, profiles and task management, represents a highly integrated platform that is enterprise-ready," Forrester writes.
This is exactly what I know I have conveyed to the team there for Connections. While they are ahead in enabling enterprises for social networking, there is so much they can include that is readily available on the consumer side to draw the people into seeing not only the business nees but growing the demand and usage.
From the same article:
IBM, Microsoft and SAP are taking a charge at the business Web 2.0 market, but the big vendors still lag behind smaller rivals who have developed far more innovative technology with quicker release cycles, according to a Forrester analyst.
"Right now I'm seeing a clear preference toward smaller vendors," says Rob Koplowitz, an analyst at Forrester. "Generally speaking the big vendors are playing catch up and the big vendors have a deployment model that is not very attractive."
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On Friday, November 9th, 2007 by Chris Miller
