IBM Lotus Connections 2.0

Lotus Connections integrates across the applications you use on a daily basis, combining the strength of the industry’s leading real-time, messaging, and portal capabilities with the power of social software. For example:

• With IBM Lotus Notes V8 and Lotus Connections, customers will be able to access Activities on the side bar from Lotus Notes and drag and drop email messages directly into an activity.
• IBM WebSphere Portal and Lotus Connections customers can leverage the read only portlets to display new Dogear bookmarks, recent blogs entries, and search profiles to locate an expert.

The combination of Lotus Sametime and Lotus Connections makes instant communication from within the social network fast and simple. With Lotus Sametime and Lotus Connections, users can easily access the Activities that they share with a contact and save a chat transcript to an Activity within the context of the chat window. The other integration is exploiting the awareness of individuals within the profiles.

Lotus Connections also integrates with Microsoft Active Directories. With support for open standards such as ATOM and REST, Lotus Connections makes it easy for enterprises to integrate social software into their existing IT infrastructures and their day-to-day tools.