IBM Lotus Quickr delivers Enterprise 2.0

In researching the term Enterprise 2.0, you find that the Association for Information and Image Management defines it as:

".. a system of web-based technologies that provide rapid and agile collaboration, information sharing, emergence, and integration capabilities in the extended enterprise."

IBM Lotus' Social Software portfolio delivers this capability to the enterprise.

Its ability to seamlessly integrate social networking tools like blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, talent profiles, and so on, with team collaboration's staple functionality, document management, delivers social collaboration through Lotus Quickr.

Let's take a look at where Lotus Quickr fits in a high performance organization that has embraced the Enterprise 2.0 paradigm. First let's list the components:

• Lotus Connections Profiles

• Lotus Sametime people awareness

• Lotus Quickr Team places

The Wikipedia article on Social Software refers to team collaboration software with a social integrant, as social collaboration software. Lotus Quickr advances the notion of a social element further by leveraging social networks within an organization. Lotus Quickr's integration with Lotus Connections delivers a strong value proposition by melding social networking tools such as Profiles with the Team Collaboration platform, Lotus Quickr Team places.

The flow of a project's execution now becomes one that starts with talent discovery, using the Connections Profiles. The Lotus Connections' Profiles component serves as the talent and skills discovery mechanism when building a team. It is possible to quickly check the individual with identified skills' availability by instantly conversing with them or their management team. This can be achieved using the Lotus Sametime people awareness capabilities from within the Connections Profile application. Once skilled resources are assembled, a place to congregate and share information is then needed. This is where seamless integration with Lotus Quickr delivers the promise of Enterprise 2.0 with Lotus Quickr Team places.

We will take a closer look at the components available to end users in a Lotus Quickr place in subsequent chapters.