Collaboration solutions

Solutions for small and medium business

Get all your people on the same page.

Collaboration solutions software enables everyone in business to work together more efficiently and effectively. Whether e-mail, instant messaging, wireless connectivity, virtual workspaces or videoconferencing, technology dramatically shortens distances between people and frees up the flow of intellectual capital, improving your employees collaborative efforts with customers, suppliers and each other.

IBM has developed collaboration solutions for mid-sized organizations like yours which will assist you in your efforts to connect your employees, suppliers and partners.

The advantage

Why IBM Collaboration Solutions versus freeware or competition

Secure, highly reliable and scalable
Supported on multiple operating systems
Built on the open source platform
Ability to share, manage and organize messaging and unstructured content

Benefits

What makes IBM Collaboration Solutions better?

Integrated email, calendar, office productivity tools
Brings together geographically dispersed teams
Leverages current software and hardware investments
Scalable, open architecture with open programming
Support for third-party telephony, audio and video services

Next steps

Collaboration starting points

Collaborative Workforce
The Collaborative Workforce set of offerings is specifically designed to help people get more business done, whether they are in the same room or across the country. The offerings provide essential software, services and hardware that help you enable better connection with employees, customers, suppliers and partners. The result is better idea sharing, improved productivity and cost savings across your company.

Flexible IT Work Environment
Improving workforce effectiveness is a key business objective that most organizations face today. Today, what end-users (including employees, customers, partners and suppliers) are demanding is seamless access to information, applications, and each other—both when they are connected to the network as well as when not. IBM flexible IT work environments address the universal challenge of finding the applications, the information and the processes employees need to do to their job quickly.

Anywhere, Anytime
In business today, work is increasingly performed outside the traditional office setting. Remote workers are becoming commonplace. More and more companies are equipping employees with laptops with full connectivity to the company via virtual private networks. While a remote connection to the office may be a nice-to-have for many employees, for mobile employees it's essential and may encompass numerous handheld mobile devices, in addition to a laptop. Fortunately, new technologies are available to support extended, highly mobile and dispersed organizations.