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Surviving the rough economy with Lotus Software

Published February 24, 2009 Uncategorized Closed
Tags: chat, economy, expenses, financial crisis, ibm, IM, lotus software, symphony, הוצאות, חיסכון, יבמ, לוטוס, מיקרוסופט, צאט, שיתופיות

Intranet Journal published this super article, on how Lotus Software can help you and your company reduce expenses and navigate through the rough economy. My friend Ed Brill posted about this earlier this week. John Roling outlines nine actions you can take, that will help you weather this economical crisis, including: moving to Lotus Symphony, upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5, deploying Lotus Sametime for IM and web-meetings and others:

As we’re all painfully aware, the current economic climate is far from wonderful. Businesses are looking for ways to cut corners and reduce costs whenever possible, and many times that leads to belt-tightening in your IT departments. I want to share with you some ways that products from Lotus can help you reduce costs in some obvious, and not-so-obvious ways.

Links:
Intranet Journal – Surviving the rough economy with Lotus Software
Ed Brill
Dvir Reznik – Now’s the time to deploy IM

Now’s the time to deploy IM

Published November 15, 2008 Uncategorized Closed
Tags: chat, collaboration, financial crisis, instant messaging, lotus sametime, roi, savings, הודעות מיידיות, לוטוס, משבר פיננסי, צאט, שיתופיות, תקשורת

Now’s the time to deploy IM? really? you must think I’m joking – what about the crisis, the economy, the layoffs, the roi, the recession, the stock market? why should anyone make the decision to invest in IT? Well, simply put – because we must !
Businesses are still working, offering solutions, products and services – outcomes that will benefits the economy, save jobs (and creating new ones), healing the market, bouncing the stocks up. We’re facing harsh times, but we can’t close shop and go home. Furthermore, businesses are looking for ways to be more productive, getting more work done faster, while keeping a watchful eye on expenses. And they’re looking for easy to deploy and manage solutions, that can show real benefit in 2-4 weeks, not 6-12 months.

Some facts about IBM Lotus Sametime, the leading corporate instant messaging solution:

over 100 million corporate users
licensing starts at $21 per authorized user
integrates with IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook
web interface for company websites/portals (including MOSS)
VoIP integration for a unified communications solution
interoperability with public IM networks
IBM saved some $100,000,000 a year on travel and phone expenses
quick and easy deployment
minimum education – employees are already familiar with IM

There are many reasons to freeze any IT related expense, and just wait. But there’s also the demand to grow your business, be more productive, more collaborative, save money – IM has transformed the way IBM works. Want to reap some of those benefits as well?

Related articles:
CIO.com – how to make unified communications and collaboration work for you
networkworld.com – UC can help you through hard times
Sametime blog – the official US Army chat room software
IBM CIO Office – Lotus Sametime saves money
Sametime blog – global Hyatt signs for Lotus Sametime UC
IBM Lotus Sametime at ibm.com
Jon Mell – instant messaging ROI

Financial Crisis 101 – CDOs Explained

Published October 14, 2008 Uncategorized 2 Comments
Tags: cdo, credit defaults swap, financial crisis, lehman brothers, marketplace, paddy hirsch, stock exchange, stockmarket, אג"ח, בורסה, משבר אשראי, נדל"ן, סאב פריים

Some time has passed since taking my macro/micro economics courses, and quite frankly I was never a numbers guy… So trying to understand how an investment bank that was founded in 1850 ends up broke – intrigues and troubles me, at the same time. So far, our local stock market has proven its strength, dropping only 3.8% this Sunday, following some hugh drops in European, US and far-East markets.

One of the blogs I follow is PresentationZen, by Garr Reynolds. Garr posted this very ‘web 0.0’ video of Paddy Hirsch, a senior editor at Marketplace, who explains (on a whiteboard, with Mr. line-like-men) in 6min what CDOs are all about, and why they are the main reason for the current crisis.