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IBM brings social office suite to the cloud |
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IBM has announced plans to offer a cloud based version of its LotusLive Symphony office productivity suite, citing the increasing adoption of cloud computing and recent IDC research that showed worldwide spending on public IT cloud services to grow twofold from 2010 to 2013, when revenue is projected to reach $43.8 billion. IBM joins a group of the already present - Google, Oracle and Microsoft. Google has a substantial presence online in this space through its Google Apps suite, while Oracle launched Cloud Office in mid-December 2010. Microsoft too has some functionality in this area via its Office 365 service. IBM said it intends to offer the cloud-based version of LotusLive Symphony as it would give organizations a social platform that enables them to simultaneously collaborate on documents in the cloud. Features include tight integration with IBM's social business cloud service, LotusLive, users able to co-edit documents in real time or work privately, store and share documents in LotusLive, comment, chat and manage revisions with other authors in real time, and assign and manage sections and tasks across multiple authors. LotusLive Symphony is slated to for general availability during the second half of 2011. |
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