Communications and collaboration solutions
To support your business objectives
Discover expertise. Drive innovation.
Deliver results.
Working smarter means working together. IBM Lotus® Connections
2.5 social software can help you build and extend communities of cus-
tomers, partners and colleagues to help drive innovation. Leverage
your collective brainpower to come up with better ideas, increase
agility in your marketplace and become a more efficient and productive
organization—all while reducing costs.
Bring together your people, information and ideas
Lotus Connections 2.5 software provides eight key components
that are designed to help your entire organization work smarter.
These features can help you and your colleagues stay in touch
with important people, keep track of emerging trends and ideas,
and stay in front of marketplace developments and your competition.
Home page—collect the social data that’s important to you,
IBM Lotus Connections software brings social networking capabilities together in an
so you don’t have to hunt for it, and post a “microblog” intuitive user interface.
status report for other participants
Profiles— find and discover the expertise and talent Work smarter, not harder
throughout your organization using a directory and expertise Locate the people and information you need to accomplish more in
location engine less time. Use Lotus Connections software to:
Communities—work together with people who have common ● Identify and locate the right people when you need them.
interests and expertise, rally around a particular cause or ● Connect to communities of knowledge based on your needs, role
project, and share information and ideas
and method of working.
Blogs—present your ideas in a forum, receive feedback and ● Share insights and get recognized for your talents.
capitalize on the opinions and experience of others ● Benefit from your colleagues’ expertise and apply best practices to
new projects.
Bookmarks—find, save and share useful Web-based content
● Locate information more quickly with tag clouds, social search and
through social bookmarking
shared bookmarks.
● Stay in touch with your colleagues, their ideas and their
Activities—view, manage and quickly complete tasks with
contributions.
your teams by sharing assignments, documents and content
● Reduce e-mail overload and break free from in-box bloat.
● Organize, manage and keep group projects on track.
Wikis—create and share content together with your teams
and professional network
Files—share documents, presentations and other files with
your colleagues—eliminating system duplicates and reducing
in-box bloat

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