Overview Guided Collaboration Tour - Lotus Connections

Lotus Connections is an IBM product for building and developing social network internally within an organization. Co-workers can share their favorites links, create and publish blogs,wikis, etc..

By creating a social network, an organizationcan improve its internal communication. Lotus Connections is an IBM product for building and developing social network internally within your organization. Co-workers can share their favorites Web-URL, create and publish blogs,wikis, etc.. Despite preliminary studies, decision processes and minor system testing it may be wise to conduct a pilot installation to verify the considered system.

Pilot installation is a way to consider the choice of system in a smaller context for learning and testing. During the pilot you can focus on studying the various product options and let employees get in touch with the different techniques and perhaps evaluate new work methods. After the pilot is tested you still have the opportunity to change your system plans(requirements).

While Lotus Connections is easy to use, it is a relatively complex product to install and configure. Infoware offers a packaged service as a product,"Lotus Connections Collaboration Guided Tour." The purpose of this product is for potential customers to quickly and easily get started with a pilot to get a good decision material in favor of Lotus Connections.

Product specification

The product is delivered as a virtual machine containing the components necessary to implement asocial network based on IBM LotusConnections in the client operating environment.

The virtual machine is designed to handle about 20 users and is adapted on the spot in the customers own environment. The implementation is done in a separate virtual environment that becomes a part of the existing operational environment.

The customer can within 180 days after delivery use the product to obtain knowledge and basis for a decision of the customer future investment in a collaboration platform.

Installation and adjustment

Installation is defines as a technological installationin the customer's own environment. In the defined installation a quality assurance serviceis included (installation test). The quality assurance verifies that the software isproperly installed and configured.

Services included

• Delivery of preconfigured virtual machine

• Adaptation of the virtual machine in the client operating environment

• Test of the components of Lotus Connections

• Handover to operational staff (2 h)