Why IBM Represents The Future Of Social Business Mark Fidelman , Seek Omega | Jul. The IBM executive doesn’t just leverage social business solutions, he and his team create them. ” And the imperative has been in the IBM social laboratory ever since. That is pretty much the reason IBM acquired SPSS in late 2009. MORE >>

You may not realize it, but IBM has actually been a player in the enterprise social networking space for quite some time. Who Connects Us shows the social path that links a user to a person. As you might expect, Connections plays nicely with IBM’s other tools, such as Lotus Notes and Sametime, but new in 3.0 MORE >>

IDC found that nearly all the vendors in this market showed double-digit growth from 2010 to 2011, with IBM and startup Jive delivering a whopping 70 percent growth over that period. Personal tools lead to practical business Social Media in the Enterprise Social media in Q1: commerce and discovery dominated. percent in that time frame. MORE >>

IBM has taken a novel approach through its experimental application, Social Lens. recently attended a media session at IBM and got a demo of the Social Lens application among others (see 2 010 Update on IBM Social Software Efforts: Part Two ). Here is a good idea and smart approach to content overload.     MORE >>

This is the second in a series on an IBM social media press event I attended last week following part one posted yesterday. Jeff Schick, VP social software, mentioned that IBM Research has done a study on the implications of using social and infusing collaboration into commerce experience. Joan DiMarco next spoke on IBM Research. MORE >>