Social business? Déjà’ vu all over again
IBM is transitioning. It’s got a $1 billion business with a software product called Lotus Notes but it is consciously trying to reposition it and other products around a social business mantra. To illustrate, one of the IBM communications executives pointed out to me that the “Lotusphere” part of the IBM Connect show logo is […]
Lotusphere 2011: Social Business Here Comes IBM
When I started out in the IT world, the first thing I ever did was to develop a Lotus Notes practice for a small company. This was the early 90s, if I recollect correctly (I’m not being evasive, merely making believe I’m an old codger, by cracky). So I would go to Lotusphere – pre-IBM […]
IBM Lotusphere 2011: Social Business
I attended Lotusphere 2011 this week in Orlando and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by many of the conversations that I had with IBM execs about the focus of their social business initiative. I had seen the Lotus Connections product before, and was basically familiar with some of the other Lotus products […]
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 […]
