This is the second part of my interview with IBM’s Mike Rhodin, SVP, Software Solutions, about their moves in the software space. We continued our discussion by covering IBM's smarter commerce initiative. They also acquired Coremetrics for Web analytics of order tracking and Unica for automated marketing.     MORE >>

social media, social networking) - related domains that take up an increasing number of my research and client interaction cycles are: identity, analytics, and mobility. On the one hand - the need for comprehensive analytics when it comes to social activities is very real. While my core coverage is social computing (e.g., MORE >>

IBM, which has quietly supported many telecom players, is now stepping up its mobile profile, buying up Israeli mobile app provider Worklight and releasing a new device management tool for enterprise customers. The moves help IBM capitalize on the push toward mobile by companies as they manage an exploding number of devices and apps. MORE >>

One of the enablers of this tighter integration is the use of Connections with the OpenSocial Foundation,  a standards board that IBM  and other firms such as Microsoft, Google, Atlassian, and Jive collaboratively develop or utilize. To this end IBM has made its Connections activity stream open to third party apps.   MORE >>

You may not realize it, but IBM has actually been a player in the enterprise social networking space for quite some time. Social Analytics. As you might expect, Connections plays nicely with IBM’s other tools, such as Lotus Notes and Sametime, but new in 3.0 At the Enterprise 2.0 Social Everywhere. Connnections 3.0 MORE >>