IBM Connections

Make everything social and bring your brand to every experience

• Activity streams provide a list of recent, relevant social and integrated business process activities occurring in your personal network or community. You can view and quickly take action on content and events in context, without navigating to another process or application.
• Embedded experience allows you to work in a single, familiar environment. This feature provides access to business critical actions from a wide variety of applications including third-party applications.
• IBM Connections Mail is a new, simple and compelling way to perform essential email and calendar tasks right from IBM Connections, your social software platform. IBM Connections Mail helps empower a 21st century workforce by creating a social email experience.
• Integrated email and calendar allows you to access both IBM Domino® and Microsoft Exchange messaging services. This feature brings mail and calendar into your social context by integrating key messaging and calendar views and functions into your social environment.

Eliminate guesswork

• Access a full-featured set of social analytics for Connections components in the form of reports and recommendations.
• Discover trends in content, social activity and expertise to help you make better, more informed decisions and deepen relationships.
• Discover who and what you need to know via recommendations.
• Drive positive and productive adoption to keep customers, partners and employees engaged, contributing and valued.

Unlock creativity everywhere

• Access all of your Connections data from mobile browsers and no-charge native apps.
• Use supported devices including Apple iOS 4.0 and 5.0, Android 2.2 and above, Blackberry OS6, Nokia (micro-browser only), and RIM Playbook (micro-browser only).
• Get your app at the Google Play store
• Get your app at the Apple App store
• Get your app at BlackBerry World

Integrate with IBM software and third-party applications

• Extend your social business solution by accessing people and information in many of your existing IBM software such as IBM Sametime® and IBM Notes® Social Edition.
• Connect an IBM Connections community to IBM Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems including IBM FileNet® Content Manager and IBM Content Manager.
• Delight customers by infusing social into their experience of your brand through integration with the IBM Customer Experience Suite. The IBM Employee Experience Suite brings social capabilities to the employee web experience to enable effective collaboration.
• Use IBM Connections to collaborate with stakeholders in the software development process. Connections integrates with IBM Rational® Team Concert™ to help development teams work together more effectively.
• Add security and real-time policy management controls with Vantage for IBM Connections.

Integrate with Microsoft applications

See how to add full-featured social capabilities to Microsoft SharePoint (00:02:55)

Use the IBM Connections Plug-In to enhance Microsoft SharePoint environments with additional social and collaborative functionality.

Facilitate easier sharing of any file on the desktop with the Windows Explorer extension for IBM Connections Files.

Extend Microsoft Office with social capabilities using IBM Connections Plug-ins.

Bring social capabilities to Microsoft Outlook using the IBM Connections Plug-in for Microsoft Outlook. View a demo (00:05:55)