At Lotusphere today, IBM announced an integration they developed to connect Atlassian Confluence with Lotus Connections. Lotus Connections is a platform for social computing that includes blogs, workflow, and now the world's most popular enterprise wiki.

We were told that the solution would first be rolled out internally before being made available to customers. IBM has been using Confluence for a few years now.

From our point of view, it's more great news for Confluence's sex appeal in the enterprise. While wikis allow for unstructured and free-form collaboration and sharing, many companies are seeking an all-in-one collaboration and workflow platform. Lotus Connections with Confluence gives them the best of both worlds.

And of course there's also the SharePoint Connector for Confluence that we jointly announced in October with Microsoft. Isn't it comforting to know that no matter where you start, you can always connect with Confluence.