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Collaboration solutions

Solutions for small and medium business


Why IBM for small and medium business collaboration solutions

IBM offers a broad array of collaboration solutions that can help your employees, customers and suppliers interact more effectively. These solutions can help your firm be more responsive, increase productivity, and improve operational efficiency while lowering costs.

What we offer

IBM's collaborative workforce solutions can help you harness the collective knowledge, experience and potential of your employees, partners, suppliers and customers by enabling them work together across your organization and beyond. Increase innovation. Lower costs. And respond rapidly to market opportunities with IBM.

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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.


Solutions

IBM® Lotus® Quickr™
provides a suite of collaboration applications to help you create online destinations for employees, partners, suppliers and customers to enable more effective collaboration—inside or outside of your firewall.

IBM Lotus Domino® Express
provides security-rich e-mail, calendaring and scheduling, instant messaging, and support for a wide range of business needs including arranging appointments and meetings, engaging in real-time discussions with colleagues, and displaying interactions with a particular person.

LotusLive Meetings
LotusLive Meetings is a full-featured online meeting service. With the click of a button you can meet with anyone, anywhere in the world from the comfort of your office through a web browser. Practical and affordable for today's businesses, LotusLive Meetings helps enhance team productivity, shorten sales cycles and contain travel costs.


Real world Collaboration solutions

Case study
Zobrist Consulting Group boosts sales to SMB market with portal and collaboration platform.
The vast numbers of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Southern California represent huge sales opportunities for Zobrist Consulting Group, Inc. The Van Nuys, California-based computer consultancy of 20 employees specializes in building Internet applications for entrepreneurs running business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) Web sites in industries as diverse as retail, insurance, distribution and manufacturing.

Podcast
LotusLive: Share. Meet. Collaborate quickly and easily
This podcast reveals why IBM's software as a service can help companies focus on their core business and not IT.

Podcast
Real-time Collaboration: The IBM Lotus Sametime Family
Today instant messaging is more than chatting with your buddies online. Real-time collaboration solutions integrate instant messaging with presence awareness. It also has Web and video conferencing as well as Voice over IP capabilities which help you attain your business goals.

Flexible IT work environment

IBM's solutions for a more flexible IT work environment can help you increase worker productivity by making it easier for people to access information and applications. This IT system supports and reinforces business processes by automating the flow of information across business processes.


Solutions

IBM Websphere® Portal Express
provides application integration, document management, Web content management and collaboration capabilities in a single, easy-to-deploy solution. This solution helps increase employee productivity by delivering timely information and easy access to applications so they can work together more effectively.

IBM Lotus Forms Turbo
makes it easy to create eForms from your Web browser and make them available to your employees, customers and partners via a simple Web link. These secure eForms can be completed and submitted through a Web interface and provide the basis for deep analysis.

IBM Websphere Application Server Express
is an affordable, ready-to-go solution that provides a fast, secure, scalable and reliable environment for building dynamic Web sites and applications that can drive new business efficiencies. The solution provides out-of-the-box security configurations so you can add new levels of management, user governance and auditing to decrease system vulnerabilities while maximizing developer productivity.


Real world Collaboration solutions

White Paper
IBM flexible IT work environment
The global nature of today's workplace makes it imperative that employees have access to critical business information and applications. Providing this without sacrificing productivity or security is a major concern. While workplace applications and processes have become increasingly complex, users are demanding easy access to information, systems and each other–on and off the network.

MidMarket Executive Kit
IBM Collaborate to Innovate for MidMarket Executive Kit
As a midsized business owner, you understand that in order to grow, you need to be able to communicate and collaborate with people, quickly and easily. But you have limited budgets and resources. You want security-rich solutions that will extend your assets, improve operating efficiencies and grow as your company grows. IBM offers you reliable solutions that can help you compete with your larger counterparts.

Anywhere, anytime communication

IBM's anywhere, anytime communications solutions can help your workers be more productive anywhere, anytime with an infrastructure that leverages technologies such as wireless, VoIP, converged networks and software from IBM. Now you can connect people with applications and data using virtually any device or access method.


Solutions

IBM Lotus Sametime
provides integrated, enterprise-wide instant messaging, VoIP, video chats and Web conferencing capabilities. With this solution, you can communicate with global teams in real time within a security-rich system that can help minimize risk and promote regulatory compliance.

Unified Communications on Power
can help you foster innovation and business agility by making it easer for people to find, reach and collaborate with one another no matter where they are. This solution provides users with a simple integrated experience across the applications, as well as the communications and collaboration tools, they use every day.


Real world collaboration solutions

ForwardView Article
Operating in real time becomes a reality
To ensure that new opportunities don't slip by, competitive midsized businesses are now taking a closer look at the new breed of collaboration tools. These technologies help enable geographically dispersed employees and partners to work together as if they are all located in the same room, as well as increase customer satisfaction by providing immediate service.