IBM hosted a cloud forum on April 7, 2011 to discuss social business in the cloud. Sean Poulley, Vice President of IBM's Social Business Cloud, presented on how social business embraces networks of people to create business value by being engaged, transparent, and nimble while ensuring trust, security, and compliance. IBM defined social business, created the first social software platform in 2007, and brought it to the cloud in 2009. IBM sees social business as a $100 billion opportunity and delivers social business solutions globally across industries from large to small customers. Brendan Crotty then demonstrated LotusLive, IBM's social collaboration platform in the cloud, which provides security, reliability, integration capabilities, and is an ext