ARMONK, N.Y. - 28 Jan 2014: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced strong momentum for its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based social business offerings from partners, clients and developers. As part of todays news, IBM is also highlighting its continued investment with new innovations in its social business and cloud technologies.
According to a 2013 IBM study of more than 800 business decision makers worldwide, organizations that use the cloud reported two and a half times higher profits than their peers. In addition, organizations that adopt cloud-based solutions are 79 percent more likely to drive increased collaboration across their organization, and twice as likely to leverage analytics to unlock greater insight about their business.
When it comes to SaaS specifically, a new IBM Study released today found that leading enterprises those gaining competitive advantage through broad SaaS adoption are collaborating more effectively through social business tools.
A growing list of businesses such as Codorniu, Princess Cruise Lines, SIKA, SafeGuard, Shanks and Verisure have taken their business into the cloud, extending the benefits to millions of users around the globe.
We've seen amazing demand over the past year as clients adopt and partners extend the capabilities we've been delivering through the cloud, said Jeff Schick, Vice President of Social Software, IBM. Over this period, we have spurred new innovation by integrating social capabilities into an organization's business processes. This has been made possible through our open and extensible APIs that have let us unleash the power of cloud and help organizations collaborate and increase workforce productivity.
Connections in the Cloud and Next Generation Web Mail Experience
IBM today announced the rebranding of its mail, chat, meetings, office productivity and content capabilities, making them part of IBM's Connections brand in 2014. As part of this effort, IBM plans to expand the Connections portfolio to include high-fidelity, high-definition video based on its Sametime 9 technology.
In addition, IBM is also announcing its next generation web mail experience. In the age of information overload, workers must be able to quickly access and effectively manage the information most vital to their job, much of which resides in their inbox. This new mail offering, planned for availability in both the cloud and on-premises, will use analytics to deliver powerful task-level focus and inbox management capabilities that let employees easily track the content and messages needed to do their job.
"IBM's new web mail experience is very intuitive and integrated with key social business capabilities. This will help our people be more efficient in prioritizing and managing daily work, including tracking requests and follow-ups in a powerful yet simple experience," said Berry van der Schans, Information and Communication Technology Manager for Shanks Group Plc.
IBM also plans to introduce Domino Applications in the cloud through a ready-made Platform as a Service offering built on IBM SoftLayer. As a result, customers will be able to build on the investments they have made in custom applications and enhance them with new mobile options. Partners will also have a faster path for bringing their new Domino applications to cloud and getting them to market more quickly.
Growing Ecosystem Drives Demand for a New Social Business Software
IBM is teaming with business partner Parallels to integrate with its innovative cloud automation platform, making it easier for partners that distribute IBM products to assemble and sell unique cloud offerings. For example, a telecommunications company can use IBM's new plug-in to easily combine and provision its cloud offerings from IBM and other Parallels-ready vendors, such as SugarCRM. This streamlines the business process of delivering cloud services through a reseller channel.
IBM is also introducing a new certified set of global partners that provide on-boarding services that make it easier than ever for clients to deploy their mail to the cloud.
Furthermore, IBM's independent software provider (ISV) partner ecosystem continues to grow. To date, hundreds of unique Connections-based applications have been developed using APIs from the IBM Social Business Toolkit. For example, ISVs such as AppFusions, Flow,HootSuite and Kaltura have built entirely new cloud and on-premises applications on the IBM Connections platform.
HootSuite, for example, created a new social application integrating IBM Connections capabilities and content into the HootSuite dashboard. This allows data from corporate social networks to be viewed alongside social media data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other networks so employees can be even more empowered, connected and informed.
For information about IBMs social business initiatives, please visithttp://www.ibm.com/press/socialbusiness or follow #IBMSocialBiz and #IBMConnect on Twitter.
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