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Extend the value of your Lotus Connections installation with Atlas for Lotus Connections! Looking for a way to encourage collaboration and empower employees to confidently connect with people outside their immediate work circles? Leverage this social networking and visualization tool to help employees find the shortest and quickest path to the information and expertise they need. Atlas can surface valuable data from the different components of Lotus Connections and display this information in a way that makes it easy to instantly identify key experts across an organization -- and how these experts are connected to other people in the organization. Let Atlas for Lotus Connections help introduce your employees to better networking across departments, divisions, and geographies.
To find out more about Atlas for Lotus Connections, see the Software Assets page or contact your IBM Software Services for Lotus representative. |
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Our comprehensive approach to effectively deploying social software technology involves:
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Business value and visioning: Helping you understand the business value of implementing social software by identifying your key business objectives, how communities within your organization can tap into the potential of this new technology, and how to avoid roadblocks to effective rollout. The result of this analysis is a social software roadmap and project plan.
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Foundation, skills, and pilot execution: Assessing the technical readiness of both your IT environment and your inhouse staff in terms of being able to support the rollout of social software in your organization. We can help you understand your existing architecture, identify skills gaps, and conduct training in those areas where your staff needs to get up-to-speed.
To help evaluate how users in your organization will respond to this new technology, the software can be deployed to a pilot group of users in order to give them the opportunity to get hands-on experience using the different components of Lotus Connections.
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Enterprise deployment: Making the components of Lotus Connections available throughout your organization by providing the technical expertise and field-based experience necessary to configure and deploy your social software solution as well as make usage, policy-related, and community setup recommendations.
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Governance, community, and organizational change: Helping you understand and address the challenges inherent with deploying any new technology that alters the way people work and how a company shares information. A successful deployment involves more than just getting the software installed -- it involves getting users to embrace the technology.
To help promote the effective use of Lotus Connections software, we can share best practices around how to establish productive communities and facilitate effective organizational change. With social software, this can involve establishing and clearly communicating corporate policies that facilitate the easy sharing of information and ideas while protecting the integrity of that information and providing the appropriate levels of security and access control.
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Program management: Providing guidance around the overall vision and management of your social software solution with the intention of helping you establish clear objectives, accurately define project scope and allocate appropriate resources, remove barriers to achieving business and program success, and mitigate risk. Effective program management puts in place the management, coordination, and communication strategies needed to ensure that the details of individual projects are well executed and the goals of the entire technology initiative are achieved.
Accelerating the value of social software: The IBM approach
Look to ISSL for help evaluating your requirements, planning a social software solution, configuring and deploying software, and providing experiential recommendations around how to successfully roll out Lotus Connections in your organization.
Contact your local ISSL services representative for more information about:
- Lotus Connections QuickStarts
- Measurement framework workshops
- Readiness assessments
- Architecture workshops
- Social network analysis
- Pilot deployments
- Production-scale deployments
- Social software environment reviews
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