IBM Lotus Quickr:Team collaboration beyond document management

Document management is a key component of team collaboration. However, for effective social collaboration, mere document sharing is not sufficient. Teaming in today's world requires more flexibility in communication and expression.

 

Lotus Quickr was designed with today's mobile and digitally interconnected world in mind. Understanding that team collaboration needs to occur at the speed of information, and that the ability for a platform to provide notification through multiple channels becomes key. An example of when notification is crucial, can be when a document has been approved by a key stakeholder. Other instances include, key date or milestone update notifications, a task completed or updated requesting clarification, or even as simple as a new member being added to the team while another member switches roles.

Lotus Quickr is designed to meet you where you want to collaborate from. Lotus Quickr delivers its functionality through a Web-based interface as well as through your favorite desktop applications. The use of desktop applications is enabled through the Lotus Quickr Connectors. The Lotus Quickr Connectors are designed to provide seamless user interaction from within applications such as: Lotus Sametime, enables collaboration on a document in real time with cohorts across the world, Lotus Symphony, enables real time editing and publishing of artifacts from within the document editors, Lotus Notes, enables storing of e-mails as documents into a team place as well as solving the multiple e-mail attachment problem, known to plague e-mail system administrators. Lotus Quickr also provides similar Connector support for the Microsoft Office suite of products.

For additional access points, Lotus Quickr provides REST and Web services APIs that enable an Integrated Systems Vendor to provide added value. These APIs are designed and implemented to ensure that an integrated systems vendor is able to leverage the Lotus Quickr REST and Web services, regardless of the back office platform the Quickr services are provided from Lotus Domino or WebSphere Portal.

Lotus Connections social networking software makes your business world smaller by breaking down barriers imposed by geography, language, and demographics. The missing link in harnessing this new found advantage of a highly interconnected world is bridged by seamless team collaboration, through Lotus Quickr. Lotus Quickr team collaboration software delivers this capability by integrating with Lotus Connections to deliver a social collaboration platform that is ready for business.

Lotus Quickr team collaboration software leverages Social Software principles; integration with a rich set of out of the box capabilities, and the Web 2.0 paradigm in enabling diverse teams in an interconnected world. Lotus Quickr should not be viewed by IT managers as just another entrant to the document management space, but as a well executed social collaboration platform, that delivers the productivity edge needed to succeed in the digitally interconnected business world of today.

 

Lotus Quickr itself represents a set of capabilities allowing end users to effectively drive team based collaboration, both internally and externally, to the corporate network. These capabilities include the following:

• Team places to allow groups of end users to share information

• Templates for the quick creation of new team places

• Document and content library management services

• Integration with Enterprise Content Management services

• Connectors to provide desktop integration with existing productivity tools

Beyond the preceding list, is a set of various other features to meet the needs of a collaborative work environment such as calendaring, task management, and so on. Additionally, Lotus Quickr can be viewed as a solution, a platform allowing customers to define and address business challenges either directly or with a range of extendable development services.

        

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