IBM introduce Social Media for Business

Social media and social networking should have already made a big impact on how you communicate with suppliers and customers, how about internal communication and collaboration though?  If you use a product like Lotus notes or other cloud services such as Window’s Office cloud offering or Google Apps you should already be collaborating through the …

IBM’s Cloud feature packed offering LotusLive could see Lotus rise to prominence again

It is a long time since Lotus Software, owned by IBM since 1995, dominated a market, their Lotus 123 product though was a great spreadsheet package that led to a step change in spreadsheet software and Lotus Notes later did the same. Lotus missed out though when Microsoft Office came along and dominated a market …

Cloud Computing set to revolutionize how we do business

Today few of us could manage for long at work without e-mails, socially they are useful but in business they are, for even the smallest businesses, essential. E-Mails revolutionized the way we work: it changed how we share information including the volume, how often and how quickly and it sped up the entire world economy …

Lotus Live Error 1008

Here is an error one of my demo clients has been having since a week ago: “ERROR 1008: Your LotusLive servers are down for maintenance. We should have them running shortly.” This Error is the most recent one. The user has not had an access to LotusLive Notes since about a month ago. Prior to this one, …

LotusLive vs Microsoft Cloud

During the past few weeks I have been reviewing two systems from the major Cloud offering players: IBM LotusLive and Microsoft Cloud (Offic365). Below is a table which I compiled based on my application review and interactions with the support personal. My intent is simply to compare two competing product lines based on my personal …

IBM Lotus Domino Utility Server for LotusLive Has Arrived

IBM has announced today availability of the IBM Lotus Domino Utility Server for LotusLive. This is a really great news for Notes and LotusLive community. No more headache with administering your Lotus Domino server, not more headache (I assume) with backups, security and hardware issues. The IBM Cloud will take care of it all. The only question …

IBM LotusLive Gets New Translation Applications

IBM  LotusLive gets new Translation Applications from LinguaSys. LinguaSys, Inc., an international language translation and text analytics software company announced last week a new suite of language translation applications, TGSocial, TGNotes and TGChat, for IBM Lotus and LotusLive social collaboration applications, both on-premises and in the Cloud. The new LinguaSys translation applications allow businesses around the world to communicate …