As for Lotus, we have a very cool afternoon planned out, with two guest speakers and a welcome presentation by yours truly. The Lotus agenda is as follow: Social media at the business and new Lotus solutions – Dvir Reznik Housing 2.0 at Amidar – Amir Belferman, CIO, Amidar Barack Obama, the long tail and social media – Niv Calderon, social media consultant.
The event page for registration and full description of IBM Software Forum will go live Sunday, so by Monday morning this post will be updated for you to register.. 😉
It’s happening people, started yesterday, throughout the week, IBM is holding its annual and largest Lotus event of the year – Lotusphere 2009. An estimate of 10,000 customers and business partners will attend the 16th Lotusphere, and I can guarantee some surprises and major announcements!!
The first one was announced 2 hours ago, at the Opening General Session, which you can follow, live, at the LotusphereBlog.com: LotusLive.com (formely known as BlueHouse) LotusLive provides essential collaboration services to simplify and improve your daily business interactions with customers, partners and colleagues. Work with people seamlessly inside and outside your organization and streamline communications. LotusLive helps you bring people and information together quickly and simply in an easy-to-use environment, designed with security in mind.
You can already head over to lotuslive.com and register for a free account, that would allow you to share and network with your colleagues, and even conduct live e-meetings with your network. I’m already there, look me up.
You can head over to the News section at Lotusphere.com, and learn of the new solution as they come available. If you’re an early adopter type of person, like me, head over to lotusphereblog.com, and learn first-hand – from public bloggers covering the event.
IBM confirmed to vnunet.com that there will be four new product announcements at the event, and that new online collaboration services will be unveiled. IBM Lotus programme director Chris Reckling plans to demonstrate how new social software tools are needed to meet new communication challenges.
The increasing market share Lotus is enjoying, both through retaining existing clients and gaining significant numbers of new customers, suggests that IBM’s Lotus platform strategy is highly successful and sustainable.
Over the past 15 months ending in the third quarter of 2008, more than 12,000 new organizations bought their first Notes/Domino licenses, and more than half of the Fortune global 100 now use Lotus Notes and Domino. This includes more than 80 percent of the largest banks, consumer product, electronics, insurance, pharmaceutical and telecommunications companies — as well as more than 50 percent of America’s largest 100 companies.
The messaging service will become part of the IBM Lotus “Bluehouse” online social networking and collaboration project that’s currently in open beta, IBM said. The company is expected to disclose more details at next week’s Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Fla., about how the Outblaze assets will become part of IBM’s online portfolio.
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