IBM Connections

IBM Connections
Written By
Darryl K. Taft
Darryl K. Taft
Published: Jan 19, 2012
Updated: Feb 2, 2021
2 minute read
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IBM Connections

There are 635,000 internal users of IBM Connections, including contractors.


Blogs

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IBM has 20,000 blogs, and in 2005, a set of IBM employees-using a wiki-created the first set of guidelines for their colleagues who wanted to blog.


Bloggers

IBM has more than 105,100.


Communities

IBM has more than 74,800 communities, touching on just about everything Big Blue, from hardware and software to services and partners.


Activities

IBM has more than 203,300 activities, designed to make it easier for IBMers and their teams to organize their work and plan their efforts.


Bookmarks

There are more than 1.33 million bookmarks, all designed to help Big Blue employees more easily find and access the Websites they routinely visit.


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Shared Files

There are 475,000 files shared (and 9.5 million downloads).


Wikis

IBM has 50,000 wikis, another way to enable employees to more easily collaborate.


Locator Service

There are 31,000 IBM experts enrolled in Big Blue’s Expertise Locator service.


Sametime

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IBM has 400,000 unique users of its Sametime instant messaging within Big Blue.


Daily Users

There are about 360,000 unique daily users of Sametime IM at IBM.


Concurrent Users

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During peak load at IBM, there are 230,000 concurrent users of Sametime.


Messages Per Day

On any given day, there are 50 million Sametime instant messages shared within IBM.


Messages Per Second

All that IMing translates to about 578 Sametime instant messages sent per second within IBM each day.


Log-Ons

There are 1.1 million Sametime log-ons each day at IBM.


LotusLive

Every month, there are 30 million meeting minutes for LotusLive Meetings at IBM.


Facebook

IBMers also leverage Facebook, the world’s largest social network: There are 198,000 current Big Blue employees on Facebook.


LinkedIn

Another 281,000 current IBM employees are on LinkedIn, with 16 million first-order connections and 615,000 IBM followers.


Twitter

Twitter is another popular social networking tool at the company, with more than 20,000 identified IBMers on the site.


Indy Blogs

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There are thousands of individual IBMers blogging on independent sites.


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developerWorks

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IBM’s how-to developer Website has 8 million users and 300,000 profiled members.


GreaterIBM Connections

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The GreaterIBM Connections group for current and former IBMers and retirees supports more than 100,000 IBM alumni on its network.


Market Leader

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Research firm IDC ranked IBM No. 1 in worldwide market share for social platform software for 2009 and 2010.


Cloud

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IBM LotusLive has become IBM SmartCloud for Social Business. It’s designed to simplify access to business-grade file sharing, social networking, communities, online meetings, instant messaging, email and calendar. In addition, IBM SmartCloud for Social Business will deliver a cloud-based productivity suite allowing users to co-edit documents in real time.


Mobile

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IBM’s new social software supports most popular mobile devices, including tablets. The software runs on Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android and RIM’s BlackBerry platforms, and will soon be on Microsoft’s Windows Phone.

Darryl K. Taft

Darryl K. Taft

Content Writer

Darryl K. Taft covers the development tools and developer-related issues beat from his office in Baltimore. He has more than 10 years of experience in the business and is always looking for the next scoop. Taft is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and was named 'one of the most active middleware reporters in the world' by The Middleware Co. He also has his own card in the 'Who's Who in Enterprise Java' deck.

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