IBM SmartCloud for Social Business, formerly LotusLive, was a suite of business networking and collaboration cloud-based services hosted by the ''IBM Collaboration Solutions'' division of
IBM
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. The integrated services that were covered by this software were
social networking
A social network is a social structure consisting of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), networks of Dyad (sociology), dyadic ties, and other Social relation, social interactions between actors. The social network per ...
for businesses,
online meetings,
file sharing
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,
instant messaging
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,
data visualization, and
e-mail
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.
History
The services were performed by the following software:
* ''IBM SmartCloud Connections'' is an integrated set of collaboration tools for creating user profiles, managing contacts, creating business networking with your contacts, instant messaging, social file sharing, managing collaborative tasks, creating "Communities," and sending out surveys.
* ''IBM SmartCloud Meetings'' is a web-based online meeting service, formerly known as
Lotus Sametime Unyte Meeting.
* ''IBM SmartCloud Engage Standard'' combines the functionality of LotusLive Connections and LotusLive Meetings. It was code-named "Bluehouse" and was first announced at
Lotusphere in January 2008.
* ''IBM SmartCloud Notes'' is an e-mail, calendar, contact management, and instant messaging service in the IBM cloud. With LotusLive Notes, users access their mailbox over the Internet with a web browser or with the Lotus Notes client.
* ''IBM SmartCloud iNotes'' is a web-based e-mail and calendar service. It uses the messaging assets that IBM acquired from
Outblaze, a
Hong Kong
Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...
–based online application service provider.
For Social Business, IBM SmartCloud had a framework for third-party applications to integrate with LotusLive. In 2009 IBM announced integration with
Skype
Skype () was a proprietary telecommunications application operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft, best known for IP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls. It also had instant messaging, file transfer, ...
,
LinkedIn
LinkedIn () is an American business and employment-oriented Social networking service, social network. It was launched on May 5, 2003 by Reid Hoffman and Eric Ly. Since December 2016, LinkedIn has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft. ...
,
Salesforce,
UPS, and
Silanis.
At Lotusphere 2012, IBM announced that it had rebranded the LotusLive product line as IBM SmartCloud For Social Business.
References
External links
IBM SmartCloud for Social Business HomepageLotus Notes Hosted MessagingDeveloperWorks article on LotusLiveDeveloperWorks article on LotusLive Engage
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