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At the Enterprise 2.0 conference today in Boston, IBM Corp. announced LotusLive Connections, adding the Lotus Connections layer of social networking tools to its LotusLive software-as-a-service offering.
“It’s another natural extension,” said Lotus software general manager Bob Picciano in a phone interview with Mass High Tech. “In LotusLive we provide some things you would consider to be no-brainers like web conferencing and events. People do more than just web conferences. They actually want to work online,” he said.
The main thrust was the desire to add the ability to collaborate across company boundaries. Picciano called that market “massively underserved,” saying most inter-enterprise collaboration takes place via emails with attachments. Workers spend the first few minutes of any meeting establishing that everyone is looking at the same version of a document, he said.
LotusLive Connection’s collaborative multi-tenancy allows users to control permissions and sharing on an individual user basis that is more secure than sharing via email, he said.
In March, Mass High Tech honored IBM social software development director Ronnie Maffa as a Woman to Watch. Maffa directs Lotus Connect software development from the company’s Littleton campus.
This week, LotusLive was voted the winner of the Enterprise 2.0 Cloud Computing Technology Buyers’ Choice Award, IBM announced in a press release today. Winners are selected by vote of the Enterprise 2.0 conference attendees.
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