IBM announces the upcoming release of the Lotus Notes hosting service

IBM is about to launch the Lotus Notes hosting service

IBM announced at the InterOP meeting this week that it will provide the Lotus Notes hosting service, locking in 1000 ~ For enterprises with 10000 employees, the related hosting services include basic email, calendar, and additional collaboration tools.

Bob picciano, general manager of IBM Lotus software and WebSphere Portal, estimates that the monthly subscription rate for each managed Lotus Notes service employee will range from $8 to $18. In this software and service market, Microsoft is also active. It is estimated that Microsoft and IBM will have years of hard work in the enterprise software and service market.

In July this year, Microsoft revealed the prices of online services, integrates Exchange Online, Office Sharepoint online, office communications online, office live meeting, and other online functions, including email, calendar, collaboration, real-time messaging, and online meetings, the monthly subscription rate for each user of the suite is $15. enterprises can also subscribe to services as needed, with a single price ranging from $2.5 to $10.

In addition to entering the software services market, IBM has also strengthened the company's capabilities in corporate social services, including announcing and providing a dedicated CRM System) ienterprises transplanted to mobile devices to integrate their social network platforms. Ienterprises is expected to publish the social network CRM module in October this year, which can be used to connect iextensions CRM and Lotus connections. At that time, users will be able to connect and synchronize the information of the above two systems, for example, business personnel can access customer contact information stored on Lotus connections while logging on to the iextensions CRM system.

In addition, IBM has created an IBM center for social software, a social software incubator, plans to integrate IBM's internal, customer, academic institutions and other resources to jointly research, develop and test social software, and create new social software concepts and applications.