Rheinmetall talks about their use of Lotus Connections, Quickr and Sametime
Suzanne O Minassian May 8 2009 09:54:33 AM
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“IBM has implemented functionalities and standard components for unified communications and collaboration, which considerably increases user acceptance.”—Markus Bentele, chief information officer, Rheinmetall AG
Rheinmetall decided "to replace a functionally insufficient collaboration platform with innovative standard software", and they recently shared their experience in a white paper now available here.
Rheinmetall integrated IBM Lotus® Quickr™ software for team-oriented departments and document management, IBM Lotus Sametime® software for realtime collaboration and IBM Lotus Connections software for social networking into a highly standardized and flexible collaboration suite. The software helped the company implement employee profiles, employee blogs, an activities folder, online and Web conferences, and virtual team rooms, with services that included team memos, blogs, Wikis, contacts, feed readers and document libraries.
“This means we have developed a truly integrative suite,” explained Bentele. “IBM has implemented functionalities and standard components for unified communications and collaboration, which considerably increases user acceptance.” These include consolidated lists that make it easier for the individual user to gain an overview of the newly created documents in the team rooms, which often number in the dozens. And subscriptions can be set up in the user’s most important team rooms. This means that users, including personal digital assistant (PDA) users on the go, are notified only by e-mail of selected changes. Bentele added: “Such components are essential for individual users inorder for them to escape being flooded by information. This matches our philosophy that the individual user can consciously open up such e-mail alerts and individually manage them.”
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