The Lotusphere Blog

An excellent collection of some of the key news headlines from Lotusphere 2009, compiled over at mynotesblog.com:

Built on open standards, LotusLive is designed to allow for simple integration with third-party applications. It features a "click to cloud" functionality to tie existing applications residing on customer servers with LotusLive services. (IDG News)

In the space of a week, has Notes transformed itself from legacy bogeyman into the precursor of a cloud-based future with Lotus Live? (ZDNet)

Lotus Notes to become more LinkedIn. (The Washington Post)

i.b.m. is releasing and online version of the most popular line of software lotus live. the cloud computing frees users have having to install it on their own computers. it lets them create networks with business partners and customers. (First Word, Bloomberg TV National Programming)

LotusLive.com will combine Web conferencing, collaboration and e-mail into a single integrated "cloud computing" system using technology from IBM Lotus's Sametime Unyte Events, Connections and Notes products. "This is about market extension," Picciano said, telling business partners that LotusLive will appeal to a whole new set of customers as well as existing clients. (CRN)

LotusLive is a hosted collaboration suite that includes pretty much everything you would think it would include -- e-mail, file sharing and various online collaboration bits. It slots in competitively, more or less, with Windows Live and maybe a bit with Google Apps as well.” (Redmond Channel Partner)

IBM, the world's largest technology services company, and German software company SAP AG plan to roll out their first jointly developed software product in March, the two companies said on Monday. (Reuters)

Research in Motion Co-CEO Jim Balsillie celebrates RIM Blackberry's 10th anniversary in enteprise mobility by pledging support for IBM Lotus Quickr, Lotus Symphony and additional support for Lotus Connections. (eWeek)

IBM has been one of the world's biggest providers of enterprise communication and collaboration software since it acquired Lotus in 1995. However, in recent years with the rise of Web 2.0 technologies like blogging, wikis and RSS, vendors like Google, Zoho and Yahoo's Zimbra have simplified the adoption and use of communication and collaboration software by offering it via the Internet, making it more affordable to smaller companies along the way. (eWEEK)

IBM (IBM.N), the world's largest technology services company, and German software company SAP AG (SAPG.DE) plan to roll out their first jointly developed software product in March, the two companies said on Monday. (Reuters)

IBM made several announcements today at the annual Lotusphere conference in Orlando, including a new portfolio of integrated cloud services, new Lotus software and development tools for RIM's BlackBerry platform, and Alloy -- the first software product to be jointly developed by IBM and SAP. (eChannelLine)

First, this is by far the best OGS that Lotus has done in years. The tone was right, the energy was high, the pace was great. All of the brands got about the same amount of time and the demos were quick and to the point. Well done IBM. (JohnDavidHead Blog)

International Business Machines Corp., the world’s third-biggest software maker, will release an online version of its Lotus programs, a bid to attract new customers by tapping into so-called cloud computing. (Bloomberg)

IBM (NYSE:IBM) Lotus will take a major step into the software-as-a-service market Monday when it announces the general availability of LotusLive.com, the on-demand collaboration and communication system known until now as "Bluehouse" that's been in beta for a year. (CRN)

I'm at a keynote, midweek for Lotusphere. And, it's absolutely packed. Social Networking has been a home run hit for IBM/Lotus with Connections and Quickr, when other competitors are struggling to make past first base. Bob Picciano just strolled by and shook hands with everyone sitting in press row (I'm here as a blogger). (Leadership By Numbers Blog)

By keeping out of the telephony platform wars, IBM is doing a service to the industry, because it is in IBM's interest, given SUT's positioning, to recognize and grapple with the multivendor, highly diverse, and complex telephony environments that virtually all enterprises have and will continue to have for quite some time. IBM's answer isn't: Migrate your telephony to our UC platform. It's: Our UC platform works with your telephony environment. (Information Week)

The moves are designed to help IBM keep pace in a market where customers are expected to continue spending on the cloud and Web 2.0 despite the budget squeeze in these recessionary times. (InternetNews.com)

Bob Picciano, general manager at IBM Lotus Software, said: 'The new Lotus collaboration features and developer tools on the BlackBerry platform will deliver productivity beyond the office extending IBM software and services so that individuals can access all of the resources they need to keep their business moving, anytime, anywhere.' . . .Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO of Research In Motion, said: 'RIM and IBM are strengthening the BlackBerry platform for Lotus with a portfolio of enterprise social networking and collaboration capabilities that will make BlackBerry smartphones even more effective in mobilizing businesses around the globe.' (Computer Business Review)

IBM's Lotusphere 2009 conference is underway in Orlando, and the company has been trumpeting the new offerings it has in store for this year, and how it will continue its battle with Microsoft Exchange. (VNUNet.com)

Microsoft owns the desktop (for now). Google owns the Web (also for now). But this Software-as-a-Service stuff is wide open, and a huge player kicked up its pace in the SaaS race this week. IBM unveiled LotusLive this week in Orlando at -- where else? -- Lotusphere. LotusLive is a hosted collaboration suite that includes pretty much everything you would think it would include -- e-mail, file sharing and various online collaboration bits. It slots in competitively, more or less, with Windows Live and maybe a bit with Google Apps as well. (Redmond Channel Partner)

I have just come out of a conference session on moving from Microsoft Office to Lotus Symphony which was packed. I have spoken to many people talking about the costs of their Office maintenance being unsustainable, particularly in the current climate. I have spoken to people who have potential double-digit million dollar Office renewals who are now considering Lotus Symphony. (ComputerWeekly, UK)

At Lotusphere 2008, IBM previewed a number of collaboration software projects in its Innovation Labs. IBM continued that theme at Lotusphere 2009, where it became clear that IBM researchers are working on more granular collaboration projects that could end up as new products with IBM Lotus or feature subsets. (eWEEK)

Ahead of the release of Lotus Connections 2.5 in the third quarter, global financial institution HSBC shared its best practices for a successful Connections implementation this week at IBM's Lotusphere conference. (IT Business Canada)

IBM's move into supplementing its installed Lotus Notes app with hosted solutions echoes the strategies being rolled out by Microsoft with its Windows Live online tools. To add fuel to the fire, last week Big Blue drew Microsoft's ire when it claimed that Lotus Notes was gaining ground on Microsoft Exchange, claiming that Lotus Notes holds a 50 percent market share among top-100 U.S. businesses. (Redmond Channel Partner)

Seeking to break out from behind the firewall, IBM/Lotus is cloning its collaboration family for the cloud and embarking on a direction that could define the future of its applications. The company last week changed the name of its year-old Bluehouse cloud services project to LotusLive and signaled that it is officially in the software-as-a-service race. (Network World)

But with solution providers struggling to figure out just how they fit into the whole software-as-a-service world, fulfilling the promise of making channel partners a key element of the LotusLive initiative could be the vendor's biggest contribution to the future success of both Lotus and its partners. (CRN)

Concentrated access to a parade of Lotus executives to answer my questions is very useful. Seeing what customers are doing, and generally being around thousands of people committed to improving collaboration gives me a great deal of energy. I go to many conferences as an analyst, but the level of involvement at Lotusphere is always refreshing. (TechCrunch)

Great work guys!

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