Panasonic Ushers In Cloud Computing Era With IBM LotusLive

Panasonic, a player in the consumer and industrial electronics space, has ushered in the cloud computing era by adopting IBM LotusLive’s suite of collaboration services.

The new services will allow its workforce to communicate and collaborate more efficiently with its global network of customers, partners and suppliers through a cloud-based community.

Panasonic will adopt IBM’s LotusLive.com services for Web conferencing, file sharing, instant messaging and project management. The company will also implement LotusLive Connections for business social networking between employees, partners and suppliers to find and share the right insight when needed. As part of this investment in open IBM technology, Panasonic will migrate employees from Microsoft Exchange or other collaboration software to LotusLive for e-mail, calendaring and contact management.

Panasonic selected IBM for its global e-mail and collaboration platform to help them transform their workforce into a globally connected and integrated team. Due to the open architecture of LotusLive, Panasonic can build on its existing and future investments in their IT infrastructure, without increasing the resources of their IT departments.

“LotusLive is an integral vehicle for our employees to truly function as a globally-integrated enterprise,” said Mitsuhiro Aoyama, Vice President-Corporate Information Systems Company, Panasonic Corporation. “It will allow us to work securely with our extended enterprise of Panasonic partners and customers as if they are all in the same location, bringing the promise of quicker, more efficient teamwork and commerce worldwide.”