Software combines collaboration and portal offerings.
Press Release Summary:
Software Solution for On Demand Workplace delivers Web-based collaborative software portfolio in portal environment. Integrated WebSphere® Portal Enable for Multiplatforms provides portal platform for enterprises that rationalizes and simplifies IT infrastructure by providing unified user experience and single point of interaction. Included Workplace Collaboration Services provides collaborative environment with messaging, team space, Web conferencing, and document services.
Original Press Release:
IBM Software Solution for On Demand Workplace, the Industry's Most Powerful Collaboration and Portal Offering
At a glance
IBM Software Solution for On Demand Workplace's powerful capability delivers a common J2EE infrastructure for a single price. It can help organizations increase user productivity, simplify IT management, and decrease total cost of ownership.
This offering includes:
Collaboration platform: IBM Workplace Collaboration Services
Portal: IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for Multiplatforms
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).
Overview
Customers are demanding software that is easier to buy, easier to use, and easier to manage. IBM Software Solution for On Demand Workplace offers powerful collaboration and portal software, in one cost-effective package. It combines the collaborative strengths of IBM Workplace Collaboration Services with the integration power of IBM WebSphere® Portal Enable for Multiplatforms, in one easy-to-buy, easy-to-use, and easy-to-manage offering.
IBM Workplace Collaboration Services, the premier product for everyday collaboration, provides businesses the flexibility to start by solving a single business need, such as training the sales force, or a broader set of business needs, such as achieving more efficient teaming, communication, and decision making.
The integrated collaborative environment delivered by Workplace Collaboration Services includes instant messaging services, team space services, Web conferencing services, document services, messaging services, Web content management services, learning services, templates and forms, productivity tools, and a common collaborative environment.
WebSphere Portal Enable for Multiplatforms is a portal platform for enterprises seeking to achieve business value and confidence from their IT investments by delivering a complete set of portal platform services. WebSphere Portal rationalizes and simplifies IT infrastructure through an enterprise portal platform that provides a unified user experience and a single point of interaction to applications, content, business processes, and people. WebSphere Portal Enable for Multiplatforms is an industry-leading portal platform and one that can deliver a complete set of portal platform services including integration services, portal framework services, portal application services, content services, and collaboration services.
With a common platform and a single product number, IBM Software Solution for On Demand Workplace is easy and cost effective to deploy. In addition, it's the industry's first software package that combines a complete Web-based collaborative software portfolio in a portal environment.
IBM Workplace Collaboration Services optionally incorporates a rich user experience, which is enabled by the use of IBM Workplace Client Technology. To take advantage of this rich user experience, which includes rich-client access to messaging, documents, instant messaging, and data access, plus the ability to create custom rich-client applications, you must license both IBM Workplace Collaboration Services and the IBM Workplace Managed Client. Refer to the Description section for more information.
Availability date
August 9, 2005
