Saturday, July 26, 2008

Collaborate to compete!

But will this enable IBM to nurture more innovations?

After enthralling the tech world with noteworthy technologies like virtualisation, green tech and printing solutions, this time, IBM is gearing up to help the employees collaborate in globally integrate enterprise. With globalisation being the buzzword, multinationals are fighting hard to maintain their connection with geographically dispersed workforce. And to implement its collaboration efforts, IBM has initiated its development platform based on Web2.0 technologies. This development platform, called www.jazz.net, is an commercial community, which helps companies collaborate on the development of Jazz-based technologies.

“Jazz is a wonderful example of the technical innovation that is occurring on the Eclipse platform,” said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation.

This Jazz interface was previously confined to IBM fraternity only, but now it can be accessed by all the development communities. “IBM is redefining how software development and delivery will be done in the future,” said Dr. Danny Sabbah, General Manager, Rational Software, IBM. IBM is also planning to bridge the digital divide in the workforce with Project Bluegrass, which follows three key factors – collaboration, communication and visualisation. Project Bluegrass takes the IBM Jazz technology and provides a platform wherein developers can work and communicate along with interactive visual representations.

Well, with its collaborative approach on full swing, we can soon expect some more innovations from IBM in the employee-communications space.

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Source :
IIPM Editorial, 2008
An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative