IBM has published a couple of short flash-based demos of the upcoming Lotus Connections and Lotus Quickr products, to their public website. Both products were greeted with much fanfare during the introduction at IBM’s annual Lotusphere conference in Orlando, last January.
Email attachments, specifically the (ab)use of email as a document sharing system is a common concern amongst many companies coping with the constant increase in network traffic and storage demand. Stuart McIntyre on the Quickr blog highlights an interesting approach on how to lighten the email load by providing an intuitive integration point between email client and collaboration solution.
Many Blackberry users worldwide were seeking treatment for massive email withdrawal symptoms earlier this week, after RIM’s service was disrupted for hours between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning EST. During the outage, most users lost all email access, while reducing some users email delivery speed to a crawl.
Forrester just released a report (purchase/subscription required) titled “It’s Not Your Kids’ Instant Messaging”. For companies still on the sidelines, questioning the business value of enterprise IM, this report provides good additional insight that may help in making a decision to embrace corporate IM as a collaborative productivity tool.
What is the future of email? That question seems to resurface every few years, typically coinciding with cyclical spikes in overall spam volume. Here are some articles on this topic that were published just a few years ago and are interesting to read in retrospect:
The Future of E-Mail – March 24, 2003
The Future of Email – November 3, 2003
We are currently seeing yet another spike in spam traffic mainly due to the propagation of image-based spam messages that have a higher success rate by eluding Bayesian based filters.
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.
Stefan Mehlhorn is the CEO of Permessa Corp. a Waltham, MA based company providing enterprise messaging management solutions and consulting services to many of the worlds largest corporations.
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