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For the people who are not into Lotus Software, last week was the annual event on Lotus software: Lotusphere. The theme of this year was ‘Get social, Do business’.

One: competition

I wasn’t able to attend, so I followed the OGS via the livestream. What struck me, was that IBM really is serious about social business. For them it’s not just a buzz word, it’s serious business. If I compare that to Microsoft or Google, IBM is further in its strategy. Google missed the social boat so far and MS is trying to convince that they are doing Enterprise2.0 too.

Two: social business toolkit

It’s easy to say that you’re being social, but to actually have a good vision on that is something else. IBM has shown Vulcan last year and this year they have introduced the Social business toolkit. This is the engine behind Vulcan and allows you to add events from all kinds of sources to the central activity stream. I’m very enthousiastic about this and can’t wait to implement this for customers once final.

Third: LotusLive Symphony

IBM couldn’t stay behind on an online editor like Google Docs. That’s why they’ve created LotusLive Symphony. What I like about this editor, is that you can use this on premise. But what I like most is that IBM have added some clever collaboration possibilities. By the means of ‘sections’ you can give other people tasks and parts in the document to edit. These tasks are added to an activity, a placeholder for information and TODO’s. So IBM actually adds something to the field and that’s just cool. You can checkout LotusLive Symphony in LotusLive labs if you have an account (you get directed to Lotus Greenhouse actually).

So yes, IBM Lotus has got some cool tooling to actually do social business, the next step is to get this message to the audiance, something IBM Lotus is not particularly good at.