With the new SmartCloud Engage offering, IBM wants to consolidate its position into the Cloud market.
The IBM SmartCloud Connection’s Saga
continues with the release of some new features including: File Synch and Share which aims to let
employees access the cloud and share files securely. This means, for instance, using
new mobile file synch capabilities, line of business leaders in sales can
update a customer presentation on their iPad in real-time, incorporating
feedback from a meeting.
Regarding the Social bridging, Connectikpeople may recall
that, it presents a single view of social content from related communities,
whether inside or outside the organizations. Henceforth, an internal marketing
community will have access to
‘’valuable’’ discussions and content being shared
by partners and customers in other communities.
IBM SmartCloud Docs brings traditional office
productivity tools into the social realm. For those who unfamiliar, IBM SmartCloud Docs lets employees work more
efficiently by letting them create, share and collaboratively edit documents,
spreadsheets and presentations in real-time.
With IBM
SmartCloud Notes employees can easily move between social tools
including communities, projects they are working on and files they are sharing,
all in a unified dashboard.
Now the availability of IBM SmartCloud for Social Business on SoftLayer’s
industry leading Infrastructure in a new Amsterdam data center, along with four
new on-boarding services, aim to help potential users quickly move to the
cloud.
In the momentum, IBM today has also unveiling Sametime
9. This means, employees can now engage experts in real-time, shifting
from a simple instant message, to a multi-way voice or video call, to an online
meeting, all from within their social environment.
Connectikpeople has observed that, Sametime 9 is built on open standards,
which aims to makes it easy to integrate with any and all business processes
and uses the ‘’latest’’ encryption technology to ensure conversations are kept
private and secure.
