Lotusphere 2012
It’s been almost exactly 12 months since IBM first announced its social business initiative during Lotusphere 2011. In tech a lot can happen in a year and I have to say the folks at IBM have been quite busy. When…
On code, purpose, meaning and poetry at IBM Impact
These days IBM’s Impact Conference is as much about sales as education, but one of the things it sells is ideas, and ideas can change the world. The first and last main tent keynotes contained two of the best, most-inspiring speeches I have ever seen in any context. TED-class. The two talks that really nailed [...]
You Won’t Have an iPhone moment Without a Brand
I got back from Lotusphere in an interesting frame of mind. On the one hand something kind of amazing is happening. I could tell the Web developer/designers I share an office with that IBM was going to create opportunities for them in its customers. That’s right – the banks, the retailers, the insurance companies, the [...]
IBM Hefts Onset of Social Business
With its Notes pedigree, IBM’s Lotus family of products dates back to the very beginnings of enterprise collaboration software. Its presence in the collaboration market is still substantial, so it was probably only a matter of time before IBM started leavening its Lotus marketing with talk of social business, the happening new name for what [...]
Lotus Gears Up To Embrace The Web, Rebuild its Developer Story, pwn Social Business
I was at Connect before Christmas, the annual Software Group meetup for industry analysts that follow IBM. See some coverage here by Coté. IBM’s Software portfolio is insanely big these days, so its hard to know where to start. But some interesting things are afoot. As Cote says: “When it comes to pulling in innovation [...]
IBM Shows Broad Mobile Portfolio at Largest Lab
IBM employs 45,000 software engineers worldwide, and like all large firms, has been greatly expanding its overseas contingent, leading some in the US to complain that not enough is being done “back home.” In mid-June, IBM provided an answer with the opening of a new lab facility in the Boston suburb of Littleton, Massachusetts, one [...]
Lotus Puts the Labs to Work: On Innovation
I am here at Lotusphere 2010 in Orlando, sitting in the press room. John Fontana from Network World just walked in and and asked me what I thought of the event so far. My reply:
“Well I am not saying Lotus has all its ducks in a row, but at least it has plenty of them [...]
Lotus – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009
Lotus has come a long way in the Enterprise 2.0 space. Can they keep going?
