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IBM Expands Its SaaS Offerings With LotusLive Connections

Source: readwriteweb

Jun 25, 2009

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As a major addition to its on-demand suite, IBM has unveiled LotusLive Connections at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, where it won the Cloud Computing Technology Buyers' Choice Award.

LotusLive has long revolved around Web conferencing, with other features being somewhat secondary. The real power for the enterprise came from IBM's Lotus Connections, which is limited to on-premise deployment. But when LotusLive Connections becomes available on June 30th, all that will change.

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LotusLive Connections lies somewhere between Lotus Connections and the cloud predecessor of LotusLive Engage.

The new package doesn't quite have the full functionality of the original Lotus Connections, and apparently will lack blogs and the Dogear bookmarking feature. What it will include is file sharing, instant messaging, and the Activities application that allows for group creation.

As compared to the rest of the LotusLive panorama, Connections removes the focus on Web conferencing that Engage has, making it more akin to Google Apps or other document-cen

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