Mainstream consumer Internet applications are quickly making their way into the enterprise and their intuitive user interfaces and flexible capabilities are setting new standards for more traditional mission critical enterprise apps. IBM is catching on.
This article in the Boston Globe talks about IBM’s efforts to bring consumer Internet technologies such as blogs, wiki’s and social bookmarking/networking to the corporate masses. There has been a lot of interest and excitement about these new products since the official announcements at Lotusphere in January.

Since the beginning of this year, IBM is sending a clear signal of change to the market. Lotus is (finally) getting back to its roots of being a pioneer and innovator of collaborative technologies.

Especially noteworthy is the quote from Lotus vice president of development and technical support, Alistair Rennie:

“The goal is to get employees to use the kinds of interfaces they’re comfortable with in their personal lives to be more productive at work.”

Yes, UI matters! (see also Notes get’s Nip/Tuck’ed)

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