Alison Diana

ORLANDO, Fla.–At Lotusphere, videoconferencing and unified communications developer Polycom unveiled product updates and a partnership with IBM designed to bolster its social business strategy and simplify enterprises’ integration of video, as well as a new video-as-a-service cloud offering. “We’re observing that video is becoming more pervasive. It’s really gone far beyond what you may expect […]

ORLANDO, Fla.–HTC, a maker of smartphones and tablets, hopes its new partnership with IBM, coupled with the mobility hardware maker’s success in the consumer space will help launch strong sales into the enterprise market. The company only recently began targeting enterprises, said David Jaeger, executive director Global Enterprise and Services at HTC, in an interview […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – Businesses are using collective intelligence to speed up company growth, improve efficiency, enhance products and services, and strengthen the employee environment, according to new research from IBM. Over the next five years, 80 percent of chief marketing officers (CMOs) said they must improve their ability to develop deep relationships with customers and […]

ORLANDO, FL–At Lotusphere 2012, IBM unveiled the beta version of its next iteration of IBM Docs, formerly known as Lotus Symphony. Available now on Greenhouse, the cloud-based set of social document editors includes a suite of office-productivity applications such as a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation tool. IBM Docs was designed to help teams share […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – IBM kicked off Lotusphere 2012 today, with a general session that demonstrated the many uses, benefits and faces of social business. This year’s Lotusphere and Connect conferences underscored the importance of socially-enabling business processes-from the three-song set by Ok Go-a band whose success was partially fueled by the popularity of its award-winning […]

This year marks the debut of IBM Connect 2012, a two-day event that will run parallel to Lotusphere 2012 and focuses on an array of topics surrounding becoming a social business, creating value and improving business outcomes. To be held in Orlando, Fla., from Jan. 16 and 17, Connect is designed for C-level executives and […]

Making good music is seldom a solo effort. And making complex, sophisticated IT solutions hum harmoniously often calls for individuals with a diverse set of skills. In the case of Virgin Entertainment Group, reinventing and integrating the 23-store chains business intelligence, POS (point of sale) and data warehousing solutions required a team of experts from […]

Even though the federal reserve has stopped raising interest rates, at least for the time being, borrowing money is still a costly proposition. For solution providers, which work on ever-tightening profit margins, higher interest rates can deal a harsh blow to an organization’s bottom line. Interest rates affect everything from financing inventory to the ability […]

As part of its efforts to combat the potentially life-threatening and consistently painful hereditary angioedema, Lev Pharmaceuticals needed a sophisticated IT solution that included secure and consistent remote access to the Internet and the companys databases, as well as a sophisticated workflow setup to track, monitor and secure patient and research information. Lev Pharmaceuticals acquired […]

Small may be good, but big is better—at least in the eyes of an exploding number of solution providers busily buying other channel companies to bolster bottom lines, expand into new regions or markets, and gain access to additional skills. Perimeter Internetworking is one such company. Not content to be a midsize player in the […]