Cloud-based service combines social networking with collaboration tools
(Computerworld) IBM will today open the online door to a service that merges some of the best features of social networking with business-collaboration tools.
A software-as-a-service (SaaS) product, Bluehouse is free during its public beta release. Once the testing ends sometime in the next few months, subscription pricing, which has not yet been detailed, will kick in.
Bluehouse combines a familiar pallet of collaboration tools, including instant messaging, Web conferencing, document sharing, profiles, directory and tools to build business networking communities -- all delivered via a cloud platform.
Facebook is used by some firms for business collaboration today. Like Facebook, Bluehouse will allow people to quickly create a collaborative space, but unlike Facebook, it has management features to ensure that privacy and other controls that businesses want, said Sean Poulley, vice president of IBM's online collaboration services.
Bluehouse is part of broader cloud-services initiative at IBM that includes helping independent software developers turn their applications into SaaS services, which the company can use to help businesses develop internal clouds for their own service delivery.
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(Computerworld) IBM will today open the online door to a service that merges some of the best features of social networking with business-collaboration tools.
A software-as-a-service (SaaS) product, Bluehouse is free during its public beta release. Once the testing ends sometime in the next few months, subscription pricing, which has not yet been detailed, will kick in.
Bluehouse combines a familiar pallet of collaboration tools, including instant messaging, Web conferencing, document sharing, profiles, directory and tools to build business networking communities -- all delivered via a cloud platform.
Facebook is used by some firms for business collaboration today. Like Facebook, Bluehouse will allow people to quickly create a collaborative space, but unlike Facebook, it has management features to ensure that privacy and other controls that businesses want, said Sean Poulley, vice president of IBM's online collaboration services.
Bluehouse is part of broader cloud-services initiative at IBM that includes helping independent software developers turn their applications into SaaS services, which the company can use to help businesses develop internal clouds for their own service delivery.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9116241&source=NLT_AM&nlid=1