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IBM is bringing its Lotus Symphony productivity suite to the cloud with the launch of LotusLive Symphony, a cloud-based office productivity suite. IBM believes that LotusLive Symphony, along with other software and services launched today, will help “businesses embrace the social business models through cloud computing.”
Currently at the technology preview stage, the new cloud-based office productivity suite will square off against comparable products like Google Apps, Microsoft Office Web Apps, Zoho Office Suite and Oracle Cloud Office. It will be widely available in the second half of 2011.
“LotusLive Symphony is new set of social collaboration tools in the cloud that allows you and your customers or colleagues to work on documents, spreadsheets and presentations - together. You can co-edit, organize and manage the creation process in real-time, using LotusLive Symphony's Web-based tools,” the company announced on the official Lotus Symphony.
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falcondown01
February 01, 2011 at 6:25am
I agree Maktaka. (B)Lotus notes and other related software has been a big struggle to use and learn. Additionaly it not user friendly nor does it seem to be intuitive. I have used other products that make more sense right out of the box versus this which I am forced to use. So agreed, I am sure this venture won't make it very far except for those of us that are forced to use it.
Maktaka
February 01, 2011 at 12:07am
As a forced user of Lotus Notes of several versions over the past couple years, I can safely say that IBM makes terrible software and that this will assuredly continue their legacy of making terrible software for companies that care more about buying IBM products (or conversely, not buying Microsoft) than deploying software that allows their employees to be more productive.
