Lotus is not dead
By Davey Winder in Editorial
With a name like Enterprise 2.0, you kind of know that there are going to be the odd one or two surprises thrown up as announcements during such a ‘collaborative technologies’ conference. I wasn’t expecting, however, to hear that Lotus is not only alive and well but, and you might want to sit down at this point and put your coffee out of the way, actually innovating as well.
But there you have it, an announcement from IBM confirmed just that. IBM Lotus Connections is, apparently, the industry’s first integrated social software offering for business.
Well, actually it a suite of a handful of Web 2.0-alike components covering blogging, profile building, community creation and bookmarking. In other words the ability to bring relationship building into the enterprise in order to unlock the employee knowledge asset.
Did I really just say that?
Ok, so it might be a first in that it has integrated everything within one enterprise suite, but it’s hardly earth shattering stuff is it? Are there really any enterprises left who don’t already make use of some kind of blogging software, be it customer facing or internal, and most productively both, in order to share knowledge? Is there an enterprise that has somehow managed to be left behind by the bookmarking and tagging revolution, which is still trying to find folksonomy in a dog-eared 20 year old dictionary?
Social networking is not a new concept, in fact it’s starting to get a little long in the tooth, tired and predictable, boring even. Lotus is not dead, but putting wheels on the zimmer frame doesn’t make it any the more exciting…
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