Comments on: IBM’s Lotus Connections 3.0 Aims to Make Businesses More Social

By: Damra Muminovic

Damra Muminovic — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:05:52 +0000

Delighted to see IBM continue thought leadership social software for businesses. I especially appreciate entry of Social Analytics, described above, using valuable, well known and popular mechanisms in consumer oriented social networks.

Another great feutare showing of thought leadership is aknowledging importance of access to corporate social platforms in mobile devices/smart phones. That was a very well needed step. Corporate users have the same expectiations at work as in private life.

IBM shows off real understanding of business needs for a mature corporate user of social collaboration platforms, bringing consumer technologies to businesses.

Lotus Connections is a great move forward!

By: Stuart McIntyre

Stuart McIntyre — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:09:26 +0000

As a keen user, consultant and evangelist for Lotus Connections, I can only endorse the other comments on this story. Connections has been leading the way for enterprise social software since its release in mid-2007, focusing on bringing together people, knowledge and communities in a way that other products in this space cannot touch. Version brings in a number of very important improvements, not least the new social analytics piece and a massive improvement to communities functionality.

Year on year, IBM has been updating and improving Connections to give organisations more of what they need to embrace the cultural change toward being more social.

If the mention of ‘Lotus’ makes you take a deep breath and remember software from the 90s, its time to take a fresh look. Connections is definitely not your father’s Lotus software!

By: Bilal Jaffery

Bilal Jaffery — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:00:04 +0000

As an IBMer, this makes me proud. The vision of a truly social enterprise that is agile, hungry and ‘hip’ becomes real everyday.

Bilal Jaffery

By: Simon Vaughan

Simon Vaughan — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:40:16 +0000

Great to read this and finally see a release date for Connections 3! The new version is a great step forward with a vastly improved user interface, social analytics and a host of functional / non functional improvements that will increase the adoption rate within an enterprise. The team @Lotus have listened to what we customers have been asking for and I for one am really looking fwd to the official launch on the 24th Nov… Well done to all involved !

By: Mitch Cohen

Mitch Cohen — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:39:31 +0000

I have been using Lotus Connections since the pre 1.0 release, I am amazed at the huge improvements, and new features that IBM manages to pack in to each new release. 3.0 is another tremendous step forward. For those who adopted early the payback is huge as the new Social Analytics engine will leverage all the existing content to provide recommendations to individuals adding yet more value to the tools.