TMCnet Feature

IBM (News - Alert) has introduced seven new social networking and collaboration mobile apps designed to address enterprise-class requirements in India. The new software, available for download today from the highly used app stores, takes IBM industry-leading social networking, real-time collaboration, and online meeting capabilities from behind the company’s firewall and places it into the hands of tablet users.

The new programs are available on most tablets, including the iPad, and will allow users to collaborate more effective only projects. Users can now share data, images, and conduct meetings using their devices whenever they need to.

Tablet usage is on the rise, mostly due to their portability and product services. Increasingly, employees require enterprise connectivity from their personal smartphones and tablet devices.

More and more employees have begun depending on their gadgets and bringing them back and forth between work and home. A recent IBM study revealed that 73 percent of business leaders surveyed currently allow mobile devices or tablets to connect to their corporate networks.

“India is, undoubtedly, an emerging market for tablets and smartphones. More of these devices are making their way into enterprises, as employees entering the organization will expect to be allowed to use them. Employees increasingly seek to take full advantage of better browsers and innovative applications from app stores,” said Karthik Padmanabhan, country manager for Lotus and IBM Software Group in India and South Asia. “The ability to quickly access Angry Birds is fun, but being able to also access business applications and sales leads is beguiling today’s customers.”

IBM hopes to make the enterprise of the future, the enterprise of today. By providing these unique portfolios of social networking, mashups, and Web 2.0 technologies, IBM is helping organizations of all sizes become more innovative and agile. These products and services in the IBM social networking portfolio are an easy and cost-effective path to the promise of social networking.

Mashups can help organizations boost creativity, innovation, and responsiveness by unlocking and transforming existing data, applications and information feeds into new applications that address daily business challenges.

IBM still has plans to expand in the United States; with the recent announcement of i2, IBM will offer mobile software that increases the ability for law enforcement professionals to solve cases using COPLINK Mobile Plus. The technology is the most widely deployed tactical lead generation tool in the United States for the iPad, iPhone (News - Alert), and Android devices.