Learn how Government cloud collaboration services Collaborate more easily and effectively while reducing IT costs.

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Solution Brief
Government cloud
collaboration services
Collaborate more easily and effectively while reducing
IT costs
Highlights
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Helps reduce costs while increasing
efficiency with a pre-integrated cloud-
based solution for government agencies
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Supports collaboration with comprehen-
sive social capabilities and productivity
tools delivered over the cloud
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Facilitates a security-rich environment by
leveraging IBM’s dedicated federal data
center
Like many organizations, government agencies are under constant
pressure to improve delivery of services while driving down costs.
Technologies such as social collaboration tools can accelerate your
progress, enabling you to improve interactions across and beyond your
organization. The challenge is to introduce these technologies without
also introducing added cost, complexity and compliance concerns. A
secure and scalable cloud-based computing environment can give you
rapid access to essential social collaboration technologies at a fraction
of the cost and risk.
IBM offers a rich suite of cloud-based social collaboration services
designed to improve business efficiency while decreasing costs. Hosted in
a cloud environment dedicated to the government, our services feature
industry-leading web tools for email and instant messaging, web meet-
ings, social networking and support for popular mobile devices. Through
these tools, you can facilitate a more mobile and productive workforce
that makes better decisions faster. In line with the administration’s cloud-
first policy, IBM cloud services can enable you to more quickly reap the
productivity benefits of social collaboration tools on a subscription basis
without long-term commitment and at a reduced cost.
Helping reduce costs with pre-integrated
solutions
Affordable and accessible, our pre-integrated offerings for social collabo-
ration and our dedicated cloud delivery model can reduce up-front capital
investments and ongoing operating expenses. Our collaboration services
are built on an open, extensible platform, enabling you to add capabilities

2. without the cycles of manual upgrades. Components can be purchased
individually or in bundles, and they are offered on a subscription basis to
reduce the need for expensive software licenses.
Supporting collaboration with comprehensive
social capabilities
The ability to quickly find, access and share information can eliminate
unproductive email swapping, missed phone calls and lost opportunities
to engage resources. Our social collaboration services provide a full port-
folio of offerings to help simplify and improve your daily business inter-
actions and telework capabilities. You can meet online, video conference,
share files, tap a professional network, find others who share common
expertise, blog, chat and get email from a single web browser or mobile
device. A flexible user configuration and deployment are designed to
adapt to your environment, not force you to adapt to the technology.
Facilitating a security-rich environment
While the enhanced collaboration associated with social capabilities
can be a catalyst for improved productivity, compromised security is too
great a cost to pay. We designed our security-rich, multitenant cloud to
meet demanding policies and mandates such as the Federal Information
Security Management Act (FISMA). The cloud is located in the conti-
nental United States and is part of IBM’s dedicated federal data centers.
Built for government, the solution is designed to deliver enterprise-grade
functionality and features, including high security and availability,
encryption and controls.
Why IBM?
We have decades of experience serving government agencies, and we
understand your unique requirements and constraints, from security
to financial. We can help balance requirements for social collaboration
capabilities with subscription based pricing and enterprise-level security
and reliability. As a leader in enterprise-class social technology, IBM can
provide a cost-effective way for an entire agency—not just individuals—
to embrace social capabilities faster, increasing productivity at decreased
cost and risk.
For more information
To learn more about government cloud collaboration services from IBM,
please contact your IBM representative or visit the following website:
ibm.com/government
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