Social Software
Executive summary
Social software, considered as free online resources, recently comes into enterprise phase. Many companies devote into this area and are trying to produce enterprise social software which is suitable for using in an organization. Apart from normal widely used social software, these ones face to the organization. Therefore secure problems become a big issue. This blog is produced to introduce five kinds of popular social software on the Internet which are bookmarking, blog, wiki, profile and instant messaging program. We choose seven well-known providers to compare the functionalities which are IBM, Oracle, Sun, Novell, Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo. Among those provides IBM, Oracle, Sun as well as Novell are producing the social software faces to the organization. In the meantime, Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo are facing to the normal user on the Internet. This blog is mainly divided into five sections. The first one is the introduction and the following will be the background introduction which will give a brief description about social softwares which are mentioned in this blog. Next, we will briefly compare the functions of social softwares provided by different providers and will introduce the social software according to the providers in the fourth section. Finally, this blog will give a conclusion.
Posted at 01:42PM Jul 06, 2007 by Xuan Zhang in Social Software |
Conclusion
This blog presented the functionalities of five kinds of social software which
supported by different vendors. They have similar functionalities as well as
its feature. All the functionalities mentioned
and compared in this blog are all based on the information provided by the
vendors.
IBM provides
the social software within a big product, IBM Lotus
Connections. It contains Dogear, blogs and profiles. Those components can be
accessed through browser interfaces or through existing applications such as
IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus Sametime, and IBM WebSphere Portal. As a part of a
big product, those components can cooperate with each other, such as when user
search for a bookmark, he can find some other user’s bookmark, as well as that
user’s profile and the blogs, if he have enough privilege to do it. However, IBM Lotus Connections
is targeting at organizations rather than personal uses. Moreover, IBM Lotus Connections
is built on WebSphere Portal which requires high performance computers to hold
the programs. Therefore, it is not a kind of very popular software for the
public to use.
Some famous
vendors, on the contrary, who produce product targeting at the normal public users,
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, integrate their services together. Such as Google
and Yahoo, they introduced toolbar to integrate bookmarking, mail and search
services which make users easy to use. Moreover, they all integrate their
instant messaging programs with the mailbox. Microsoft in this case associates
blogs with instant messaging programs. Google integrates the instant messaging
programs into mailbox, as well as combine all the services under Google account.
User just simply goes to Google website with username and password can mange bookmarks,
blogs as well as chats.
In addition,
some of the products are not the main product for that vendor, such as Oracle,
Sun and Novell. They only have the instant messaging programs and all those
products faced to organizations uses. Therefore some technologies and features
are not as mature and various as those famous product that widely accepted by
the users.
Posted at 01:42PM Jul 06, 2007 by Xuan Zhang in Social Software |
Yahoo Messenger
Yahoo
Messenger is a popular advertisement-supported instant messaging client and
protocol provided by Yahoo. Yahoo messenger is mainly support Windows platform however
it does have released some stable version for Mac OS X. However, it has fewer features
than the Windows release and has been reported to be quite buggy. That version
includes some basic features however it is still lacking the more advanced
features such as PC-to-PC calling, an address book and chat room access.
Yahoo Messenger
is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic "Yahoo
ID" which also allows access to other Yahoo services, such as Yahoo Mail,
where users can be automatically notified when they receive new email. Yahoo
offers PC to PC telephone, file transfers, webcam hosting, text messaging
service, and chat rooms in various categories.
In addition
to basic instant messaging features, Yahoo Messenger also offers many unique
features, for Microsoft Windows version, such as IMVironments which allow user
to customize the look of Instant Message windows, address-book integration and
Custom Status Messages. It was also the first major IM client to feature
BUZZing and music-status.
User can
access Yahoo Messenger not only through Yahoo Messenger client, but also can launch
it under the name Yahoo Pager. Which means user can access to Yahoo Messenger
using any computer connected with Internet without install Yahoo Messenger instant
messaging application.
Yahoo
Messenger provides a function called Yahoo Voice. It is a Voice over IP which
could be PC to PC, PC to Phone and Phone to PC service. Yahoo also added
voicemail that user can send a message by voice to another user.
Yahoo Messenger has added the ability for users to
create plug-ins via the use of the freely available Yahoo Messenger Plug-in
SDK, which are then hosted and showcased on the Yahoo Plug-in gallery.
Yahoo plans to integrate Yahoo Mail Beta and Yahoo
Messenger. Conversations will eventually be archived and stored in the same manner
as emails. This allows users to search within their chat logs easily, and to
have them centrally stored no matter what computer is used to have
conversations.
Offline
messaging, a feature long offered by Yahoo, allows online users to send
messages to their contacts, even if said contacts are not signed in at the
time. The sender's offline contacts will receive these messages when they next
go online.
Posted at 01:41PM Jul 06, 2007 by Xuan Zhang in IM |
Yahoo 360°
Yahoo 360° is
a personal communication portal similar to Microsoft MySpace, currently in beta
testing. It integrates features of social networking, blogging, and photo
sharing sites.
Besides the
basic function provided by blog tools, a user may create a personal web site,
share their photos from Yahoo Photos, maintain a blog, a list of local reviews,
profile information, and see which friends are currently online. Yahoo 360°
also, by default, features a “friends updates” section, under which each
friends' latest update is summarised. Yahoo 360° also goes a step further than
standard friend connections by permitting the creation and/or joining of forums
under which users that share a common interest can talk. These are operated
using Yahoo Groups, and the integration with Yahoo 360° is used for this
feature.
Posted at 01:40PM Jul 06, 2007 by Xuan Zhang in Blogs |
Yahoo Bookmarks
Yahoo Bookmarks, a kind of personal online storage locker, gives individuals access to favourite sites from any Web-connected computers. Besides normal bookmaking tools’ features, the new version of Yahoo Bookmarks offers several improvements on organizing bookmarks into folders to make them easier to find. It also encourages users to try tagging, a more modern way of organizing information that relies on users assigning keywords to personally important information to make it easier to search for and find such information again later. Yahoo Bookmarks introduces the concept of social bookmarks by allowing users to send favourite links to friends via built-in e-mail or instant message links. The new Yahoo toolbar allows users to create an unlimited number of personalized link buttons for fast access to favorite websites.
Posted at 01:39PM Jul 06, 2007 by Xuan Zhang in Bookmarking |
Google Talk
Google Talk
is a computer application for Voice over IP and instant messaging, offered by
Google. The Google Talk client is currently only available for Windows, but
with the release of the Google Talk gadget, a user on any operating system with
a web browser can use Google Talk. However, other XMPP clients, such as Pidgin,
fully support other operating systems.
Gmail
received chat functionality, and was integrated with Google Talk. Users can
send instant messages to other Gmail users. Google Talk does not need to be
downloaded to send instant messages to Gmail users. The conversation logs are
automatically saved to a Chats area in the user's Gmail account. This allows
users to search within their chat logs easily, and to have them centrally
stored on the Internet, which has caused concerns that intelligence agency may
exploit this fact to gather information.
Instant
messaging between the Google Talk servers and its clients uses an open
protocol, XMPP, allowing users of other XMPP clients to communicate with Google
Talk users. VoIP in Google Talk is based around the Jingle protocol. The
technology used within the Google server network however is not publicly known.
The connection between the Google Talk client and the Google Talk server is
encrypted, except when using Gmail's chat over HTTP, a federated network that
doesn't support encryption, or when using a proxy like IMLogic. End-to-end
messages are unencrypted. Google plans to add support for chat and call
encryption in a future release. Some XMPP clients natively support encryption
with Google Talk's servers.
Google added
voicemail and file sending capabilities to the Google Talk client. Voicemail
messages can be 10 minutes long, and they're delivered to the contact's Gmail
mailbox as an attached MP3 file. It is also possible to display the song
currently playing on the computer. This music data is collected, if the user
agrees to this, and displayed on the Google Music Trends page. Google also introduced
offline messaging to Google Talk. This allows users to send messages to their
contacts, even if they are not signed in. They will receive the messages when
they next go online.
Posted at 01:38PM Jul 06, 2007 by Xuan Zhang in IM |
Blogger
Blogger is a
website that allow user to create a web blog using Google account. Blogs can
either be hosted internally by Blogger, externally on a user's own domain, or
on the user's own server. As part of the Blogger redesign
in 2006, all blogs associated with a user's Google Account are located on
Google servers. The service is now claimed to be more reliable, due to the
quality of the servers. Along with the migration to Google servers, several new
features were introduced, including label organization, a drag-and-drop
template editing interface, reading permissions and new Web feed options.
Furthermore, blogs are updated dynamically, as opposed to rewriting HTML files.
Posted at 01:33PM Jul 06, 2007 by Xuan Zhang in Blogs |
Google Bookmark
Google
Bookmark is an online service that lets user save favourite sites and attach
labels and annotations. Unlike the bookmark feature from the browser, bookmarks
are stored securely on Google's servers online, so they are accessible even if
you're using other computers. The most important features that set Google
Bookmark apart from other services is that all your bookmarks are private which
means it can be accessed for the user only by providing correct username and
password.
Google
Bookmark allows user to import bookmarks from Firefox and Internet Explorer as
well as export from Google Bookmark. User need to download Google Toolbar, and
use the "Import bookmarks" option that appears on the drop-down menu
next to the Bookmarks icon. For other browsers, user should import bookmarks to
Firefox and use Google Toolbar as explained before. If user uses other online
bookmarking tools, and wants to transfer bookmarks to Google Bookmark, user
should find an option to export bookmarks in their support center, user export
function to save bookmarks in a HTML file that can be imported into browser
then import to Google Bookmark. It is easy to use Google Bookmark to export
bookmarks from Google. User need to go to bookmark page and it allows user to
download a file called bookmarks.html, which can be imported in browser. User can
also export the bookmarks as a feed, but it won't be very useful unless for a
developer.
Google
Bookmark has three ways of adding bookmarks. One is using Google Toolbar. By
using Google Toolbar, user can use add or remove bookmarks by click on the blue
star to add the current site as a bookmark. Click again on the star to choose
one or more labels. Another way is using an extension. For Firefox, there is a
very good extension called GMark that shows your bookmarks in the sidebar and
another extension that mimics Google Toolbar and adds drag-and-drop. But to add
bookmarks there's a very simple bookmarklet that should work on almost any
browser. Just drag this to the links toolbar and user will also find it at the
bottom of Google Bookmarks homepage.
Google
Bookmark is a fully searchable bookmark tool. User can not only search through
title of the page, the description and the URL, but also can search the entire
page. Google Toolbar adds a new option for bookmarks in the list of search
engines. If user types the first letters from the title of a bookmark, Google
Toolbar gives the option to load that site. User can also use Gmarks that
searches as type or can just go to the web interface at google.com/bookmarks.
Search the same as using Google.com. To restrict your search to a label, add
label:name to your query (note that labels are case sensitive). The search
based on bookamrks will not affect the search on Google website. User will see
the labels selected for a bookmark next to its corresponding snippet in the
search results. Bookmarks affect Google's search results only for user. Google
improves the relevancy of the search results by tailoring to interests, so the
order of the search results could change in some cases.
Posted at 01:32PM Jul 06, 2007 by Xuan Zhang in Bookmarking |
Windows Live Messenger
Windows Live
Messenger still commonly referred to by the previous name of MSN Messenger (MSN
for short), is an instant messaging client for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003,
Windows Vista, and Windows Mobile, first released on December 13, 2005 by
Microsoft. Windows Live Messenger is mainly available for Windows
platform. However, it does have products for Mac and Linux.
As the next
generation of MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger includes all the features
of MSN Messenger. Besides that, Windows Live Messenger adds some other
features.
Besides transfer files between the contacts while
chatting, Windows Live Messenger provides a Sharing Folder feature which is an
alternative to the "direct transfer" method of file distribution.
When a user wants to deliver a file to another person on his or her contact
list, he can use the sharing folder function. When files are added to the
"sharing folder" for a particular person, the file will automatically
be transferred to the corresponding computer when they are online. This means
that the folder is literally "shared" between two computers. If a
user deletes a file, for example, the file will also be deleted from the
corresponding computer's shared folder. To minimize risk of virus-infected
transfers, the "sharing folder" feature is bundled with an anti-virus
program. The "sharing folder" feature can only be used on computers
with NTFS-formatted hard disks.
In addition
to PC-to-PC calls that have been supported in previous versions, Windows Live
Messenger now supports PC-to-phone calls with Windows Live Call. This feature
is supported by Verizon, branded as "Verizon Web Calling". This
feature is only available in selected countries, including the
On October
13, 2005, Yahoo and Microsoft announced plans to introduce interoperability
between their two messengers, creating the second largest instant messenger
user base worldwide. The interoperability between Yahoo and Windows Live
Messenger was launched 12 July, 2006. This allows Yahoo and Windows Live
Messenger users to talk to each other without the need to create an account on
the other service, provided both contacts use the latest versions of the
clients. However, if a user uses an older or third-party client, they will
appear offline to the users on the other network.
There are various games and applications available in
Windows Live Messenger that can be accessed via the conversation window by
clicking the games icon and challenging your "buddy".
Unlike
previous versions, one can start conversations even when his or her status is
set to Appear Offline. However, if talking to someone who has an older MSN
Messenger client, they will lose the ability to talk to that user after a short
period of no activity, due to their client thinking that user is offline.
The i’m
initiative is a new program Microsoft launched in March 2007, that connects the
user with nine organizations dedicated to social causes through Windows Live
Messenger. Every time someone has a conversation using i’m, Microsoft Corp. shares
a portion of the program's advertising revenue with the organization of the
user's choice. There is no set cap on the amount donated to each organization.
The more i’m conversations the user has; the more money goes to one of the nine
causes. Each participating organization is guaranteed a minimum donation of
$100,000 during the first year of the program. There is currently no end date
for the program. However, the i’m initiative only works with the most recent Windows
Live Messenger.
In order to
manage the contact list, Windows Live Messenger allows user to edit nicknames
of individual contacts that can be customized to appear differently from what
the contact has set. User can set contacts with the name that easier to
identify them.
Posted at 01:31PM Jul 06, 2007 by Xuan Zhang in IM |
Microsoft LiveSpace
Microsoft LiveSpace
is the blog tool provided by Microsoft which allows registered user to create a
“space” in the Internet which can hold pictures, music as well as blog entries.
Microsoft LiveSpace contains a profile system that user could define his
profile with general personal information. User can choose this information to
be public or private. In LiveSpace user can setup permission which defines the
accessibility of the blog. No matter your blog is public or private, it's easy
to setup. LiveSpace can auto translate the headings to the language
defined on user’s computer. That makes people from different country could
setup their blogs easily and makes user easy to read other people’s blog.
As normal
blog tools, LiveSpace allow user publish a new blog or save as a draft before
publish. Visitors could leave comments for the content that they could access. It
provides Trackback and Permalink functions for the blog entries. It also could achieve
the old blog entries according to the time. It provides a visually text editor
for both content and comment editing. User could easily add a blog or a
comment. It also supports emoticons which makes blog lively.
Nowadays, LiveSpace
supports gadget, feeds and embed video. When a user logs into the space, LiveSpace
will display a new page shows the up-to-date changes about other user’s space. User
can send message to other users, which can keep in touch with the Spaces
friends and meet new people by sending them personal messages.
Posted at 01:31PM Jul 06, 2007 by Xuan Zhang in Blogs |
Novell GroupWise Messenger
Novell GroupWise Messenger is
the instant messaging program which is included in GroupWise since version 6.5.
Novell GroupWise Messenger is a secure, open standards-based and policy-based
instant messaging system that allows employees to communicate in real-time,
permitting faster decision making while protecting information behind the
firewall. GroupWise can support a number of server and workstation platforms.
Server platforms include NetWare, Linux, and Windows. There is a Windows client
and a less-capable Java client for Linux and Mac OS X. Novell has promised
closer client feature parity in the next major release.
Using GroupWise Messenger,
users can determine personal availability, and communicate and transfer
files-all behind the safety of the corporate firewall. GroupWise Messenger also
enables an organization to extend instant messaging securely beyond the
firewall to partners and suppliers using a virtual private network (VPN).
Administrators can set policies to log instant messaging communications
system-wide, by groups or by individuals, simplifying management and control.
Novell GroupWise Messenger
offers strong security features, so users can communicate freely, without
compromising sensitive information. All users must first authenticate
through Novell eDirectory to keep out unauthorized people. GroupWise Messenger
encrypts all communications (client-to-server and server-to-server) using secure
sockets layer (SSL) encryption, so eavesdroppers can't tap into sensitive
information. Users can record conversations on a private file for their own
use, so they have an audit trail of sensitive conversations. GroupWise
Messenger can be set to archive conversations on an encrypted log file that's
available only to trusted users. Conversation archiving helps your organization
meet certain government regulations and support litigation cases. Because
GroupWise Messenger is integrated with Novell eDirectory, users know their
contacts' true identities instead of only aliases or screen names.
Integration with eDirectory
translates into easy administration. Management is policy based using a plug-in
to ConsoleOne®. Administrators can manage corporate conversation archiving,
specifying that conversations of certain users or conversations across the
entire system are archived to the secure log file. Moreover administrators can
manage directory access, limiting the scope of user directory searches to
certain areas of the directory and specifying the scope either by user or user
group. In addition, the administrator can limit the fields that are displayed
as the result of a search, specifying the fields either by user or user group. Furthermore,
administrators can search conversation archive, enabling administrators and
other trusted users to locate specific conversations in the archive using the
GroupWise Messenger client.
Novell GroupWise Messenger has
the business-class functionality that corporate users need. Users can search
the corporate directory (through Novell eDirectory) to find other users based
on their real names, titles and departments. That means users can quickly find
the people they need to contact. Users can conference other people in
just as easily as they do over the telephone. Users can minimize
disruptions by limiting who may initiate conversations with them—creating
either a list of allowed people or a list of disallowed people. In
addition to the standard presence indicators, which include online, offline,
busy and away, users can create custom indicators such as working on quarterly
report, to provide more detailed information. Users can specify an
automatic reply to people who attempt to contact them. GroupWise
Messenger supports 21 languages, so it can be used by global organizations. It
also supports Unicode, allowing multiple languages in the same message. Users
can organize contacts into custom folders for fast, easy access. Because
GroupWise Messenger maintains contact lists in the directory on the server,
they are available to users from anywhere at any time. Users can
personalize their messages with custom fonts and colors. GroupWise
Messenger can automatically generate audio or visual alerts when contacts log
on, log off or send messages.
In addition,
Cerulean Studios provides a free GroupWise Messenger plug-in for its Trillian
Pro, and instant messaging client that operate with all popular instant
messaging services. With Trillian Pro, GroupWise Messenger users can conduct
all instant messaging activities from a single client.
Posted at 01:29PM Jul 06, 2007 by Xuan Zhang in IM |
Sun Java System Instant Messaging
Sun Java System Instant
Messaging is the instant messaging program which is a component of the Sun Java
Communications Suite. Sun Java Communications Suite also includes the
industry-leading Sun Java System Messaging Server and the Sun Java System
Calendar Server. Sun Java System Instant Messaging is a standards-based, secure
instant messaging product for enterprises and service providers. Its
client could be installed on many platforms such as HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Apple
Mac and Windows. However, its server must be installed on either Sun Solaris or
Red Hat Enterprise Linux. A key feature of this product is its XMPP-based
interoperability with other instant messaging systems.
Sun Java System Instant
Messaging delivers secure presence information and extended, real-time
messaging capabilities including instant messaging, conferences, alerts, news,
polls, and file transfers to create a rich collaborative environment. Sun Java
System Instant Messaging enables users to capture the knowledge generated and
exchanged within an instant messaging session, a conference or a poll with
keyword search and retrieval of transcripts through the search component of the
Java System Portal Server; or through a variety of e-mail servers and clients;
or via the Archive API and a third party archiving solution.
Sun Java System Instant
Messaging enables secure access via any browser inside or outside a corporate
firewall using SSL or through the VPN-on-demand technology available through
the Java System Portal Server, Secure Remote Access. It provides extensive end
user privacy controls. It is a XMPP-based product which facilitates integration
of instant messaging and presence functionality with a wide array of third
party and open source clients, components, and other applications. Gateways to
the public networks can aggregate of contacts across XMPP-based servers and
public networks.
Today, end users demand
secure, "always-on" access to people, services and information. In
turn, enterprise IT organizations and service providers demand security and
performance. Additionally, corporate executives require cost-efficiency of
communications. Sun Java System Instant Messaging provides a scalable and
reliable Java technology-based client and server for secure real-time
communications and presence management that meet these requirements. Sun Java
System Instant Messaging could automatically update users' availability as
indicated by online activity; enables users to control access to their own
presence, including the ability to be "invisible" while online.
Provides services-based, or
feature, provisioning and access policy through Java System Access Manager,
enabling granular service differentiation across users; enables centralized
management of user properties; and, supports single sign-on.
Sun Java System Instant
Messaging enables service providers to host services for multiple organizations
or corporate IT to host multiple departments within the enterprise on a single
server, reducing number of servers needed, facilitating management of large
deployments, and lowering TCO.
Sun Java System Instant
Messaging offers virtually seamless integration with the industry-leading Java
System Portal Server a community management, search capabilities, and secure
remote access.
Sun Java System Instant
Messaging protects infrastructure investments by enabling products to be easily
extended and customized to meet specific or changing business requirements, and
facilitates embedding presence into existing and new applications.
Posted at 01:28PM Jul 06, 2007 by Xuan Zhang in IM |
Oracle Messenger
Oracle Messenger is the
instant messaging program which is included in Oracle Real-Time Collaboration. Oracle
Messenger, built on the industry-standard XMPP protocol, is a full-featured
presence and messaging system. Oracle Messenger only supports Windows
operating systems which are Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
As normal instant messaging
program, Oracle Messenger could display a status message to show user’s current
availability for chat, thus user chat with one colleague or with multiple
colleagues by start a chat conference or a Web conference directly from Oracle
Messenger or from a chat conference when the participants are available. Oracle
Messenger can hold a two-way voice chat with another user as well as broadcast
chat messages to several users or to community groups. By using Oracle
Messenger user can send and receive files while chatting as well as manage
contact lists by add or remove contacts, create groups of contacts, and easily
move contacts from one group to another user.
Oracle Messenger, as a part of
Oracle Real-Time Collaboration, manages all communications using Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL) connections. Therefore, unlike other instant messaging programs,
all Oracle Messenger instant messages and chat conferences are secure. Guest
users can chat with persons using Oracle Real-Time Collaboration from outside
the corporate firewall, optionally using a secure connection with HTTPS, and
using an Oracle Real-Time Collaboration integrated service.
Using Oracle messenger an
administrator can create a group of contacts to perform some particular task or
process; for example, a group might be created to receive chat requests from
guest user customers needing support. Users can participate in a queued chat
with the group, so that available members of the group can monitor and respond
to the requests as appropriate. Individuals can broadcast messages to the
entire group. Users can participate in text-based chat conferences with several
participants, and a user can easily start a full Web conference from the chat
conference. Administrators can create a "community group" from groups
in a directory or database. Such groups are created by default when users are
provisioned using Oracle Internet Directory. Create groups based on management
hierarchy: Administrators can create community groups based on the company's
management hierarchy, such as lists of direct reports, or all members reporting
to a particular manager. Such groups are created by default when users are
provisioned using Oracle Internet Directory.
Oracle messenger will save the
archives of individual user chat sessions on the Oracle Messenger server and on
each client's server. Those archives are stored by date and by person
contacted, and contain the full text of all messages. Oracle messenger could be
accessed through Oracle Real-Time Collaboration Web Client pages. Therefore,
user does not have to install Oracle messenger, and could access Oracle
messenger wherever appropriate.
Posted at 01:27PM Jul 06, 2007 by Xuan Zhang in IM |
Lotus Sametime
Lotus Sametime is an
instant messaging client produced by IBM. Nowadays, Lotus Sametime enhances the
existing instant messaging capabilities, which include location awareness,
real-time spell check, screen capture, chat history, multi-way VoIP, and the
display of contact information. It also includes some new enhanced
capabilities. It has a point-to-point video, which allows user to easily expand
an instant message to a voice or video conversation with another user. It
provides a tabbed chat user interface, that user can simplify user’s desktop
and more easily manage multiple conversations by consolidating all active IM
sessions in a single Lotus Sametime window. The latest Lotus Sametime integration
with Microsoft Office and Outlook applications, providing user with the ability
to view online status and launch Lotus Sametime capabilities such as instant
messaging, voice or video chat, and Web conferencing sessions directly inside
of Microsoft Office and Outlook software.
Lotus Sametime 7.5.1
software introduces a number of application-wide enhancements. It provides Linux
server support, allowing user to implement Lotus Sametime with the cost savings
and openness of the Linux platform as well as additional language support. It
becomes more serviceability, reliability and traceability.
Posted at 01:26PM Jul 06, 2007 by Xuan Zhang in IM |
Profiles
Profiles is a profile tool
supported by IBM which is included in IBM Lotus Connections. By using
profiles user can search for people across an organization by name, phone
number, location, or job title and view business card information. User can
also find people based on the expertise by searching keywords in their profiles
that reflect their knowledge and responsibility. User can send a person an
instant message by clicking on their contact information. From a person's
profile, user can link to the bookmarks they have shared, the communities they
have joined and the blog postings they have made, and the activities have in
common. If used within the organization, users can view and navigate the
reporting structure of the organization. The profile information can be
populated from back-end systems using Tivoli Directory Integrator.
Posted at 01:25PM Jul 06, 2007 by Xuan Zhang in Profiles |
