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IBM brings social networking to office

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MUMBAI, INDIA: IBM today announced an expanded set of social software tools and capabilities for enterprise collaboration that brings popular features like micro-blogging from the home into the business environment.

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Leading companies such as NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH and Sogeti are among the early adopters of IBM's collaboration platform named Lotus Connections 2.5, said a press release. Realizing the benefits of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0, IBM is bringing a comprehensive social software platform to businesses with the debut of Lotus Connections 2.5.

“With Lotus Connections, we have merged document sharing and social networking capabilities to create a comprehensive collaboration platform for businesses," said Karthik Padmanabhan, country manager - Lotus - Software Group - IBM India/South Asia."Today's announcement showcases how IBM is delivering easy access to a company's two most valuable assets - people and information," he added.

IBM said, Lotus Connections, which originated at IBM Research, is an example of the types of technologies that result from the Center for Social Software's incubator for innovative technologies.

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The new release of Lotus Connections expands on IBM's commitment to bringing a business-grade social software platform to the market. With the extranet, internet and intranet collaboration services provided by IBM and IBM customers, Lotus Connections enables tens of millions of users worldwide to connect and collaborate.

Lotus Connections 2.5 includes an enhanced communities experience with new features and capabilities. With the new solution, community owners can now customize the appearance of their community and move widgets around, on the community home page. Community owners can add activities, blogs, wikis, and file sharing services to their communities in addition to bookmarks, feeds, and forum capabilities.

This significantly enhances the options for community members to collaborate on projects and content.

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