IBM Unveils Lotus Center For Advanced Collaboration In Pune

IBM has unveiled the Lotus Center for Advanced Collaboration (LCAC), the only one of its kind in Asia Pacific. The centre, located at the IBM Software Lab in Pune, will host dedicated technical expertise to help customers and partners adopt collaboration technology in their environment. Customers can leverage this centre to get access to the latest offerings and best practices from IBM Lotus collaboration offerings, and create roadmaps and strategies that best suit their business needs.

IBM aims to create this centre as a regional hub for Lotus advanced collaboration strategy and solutions.

Dr Ponani Gopalakrishnan, vice president, India Software Lab, IBM, said, “The LCAC will develop specialised focus on high value areas like social networking tools and capabilities for enterprise collaboration, SaaS, cloud computing based on-premise enterprise collaboration software, Lotus Notes and Domino offerings and advanced messaging and real-time collaboration. The centre will develop an ecosystem that will showcase industry solutions, best practices, user case studies, and demonstrations with worldwide solution experts and resources accessible locally for a much more integrated work environment.”

IBM also announced a new, enterprise collaboration service – LotusLive – that delivers the benefits of cloud computing to mainstream business users with the reliability, privacy and security associated with on-premise enterprise collaboration software.

With aggressive pricing starting as low as $3 per user, per month, the new IBM LotusLive iNotes cloud service allows overburdened IT departments to take advantage of IBM in enterprise collaboration for a range of on- or off-premise messaging capabilities, including mobile mail that interoperates with Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange.

Available immediately, IBM’s cloud-based service for e-mail, calendaring and contact management is designed to work with existing on-premise e-mail or operate as a standalone solution to reduce overall IT costs and complexity.