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January 23, 2008 | Comments: (0)

IBM touts Web 2.0, mashups

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IBM at the Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Fla. Wednesday unveiled Web 2.0 and collaboration tools intended to enable development of enterprise mashups and social software.

Conference attendees had an early look at the IBM commercial mashup maker, called IBM Lotus Mashups, which the company said allows non-technical users to build enterprise mashups. Ad hoc visualizations can be developed featuring enterprise and Web data.

Features in Lotus Mashups include a browser-based tool for assembling mashups, a set of business-ready widgets, a catalog for finding and sharing widgets and a builder for building widgets to access enterprise systems.

Also unveiled by IBM was the next release of its IBM Lotus Connections social software for business. Due in the first half of this year, Lotus Connections 2.0 is slated to include a new homepage that aggregates and filters data from the five services of Lotus Connections. Users can see what has changed in their professional network and search for information. Widgets can be developed to link information to other social networks such as Yahoo or LinkedIn.

The Lotus Connections community component is slated to be enhanced with discussion forums and the ability to link wiki services from IBM Lotus Quickr, SocialText and Atlassian.

Additionally, IBM demonstrated Lotus Quickr 8.1, a collaboration environment allowing teams to more effectively work together. Version 8.1 plans call for inclusion of content libraries, team discussion forums, blogs and wikis. IBM plans to integrate Quickr with content management systems such as IBM FileNet P8.

Posted by Paul Krill on January 23, 2008 03:13 PM

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