Confluence connects with Lotus Connections
January 21, 2008 3:49 AM
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.
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2 Comment(s)
IBM also announced an integration with SocialText (you can find details on SocialText blog). So looks like Confluence is not the only wiki they are trying to integrate. Any idea, why these multiple deals with wiki players?
By Wiki fan at May 14, 2008 11:29 AM
I think the reason for multiple deals with wiki players is a pragmatic move on IBM's part - they want to be connected to as many tools that have a presence in the enterprise. Wikis are still a young and growing technology in organizations, and it makes sense for IBM to make sure Lotus Connections works with as many tools as possible.
From my standpoint as Wiki Evangelist, I think we need more of this trend of vendors working together to make sure that people can choose whichever product best meets their needs without worrying about data portability between tools. I spoke about this last week at DocTrain West, and many people in my audience agreed with the idea that vendors trying to build one-size-fits-all applications just results in the "jack of all trades, master of none" situations we've all experienced with massive enterprise software implementations. A combo of specialist tools, where each tool is extremely good at what it does, and where all the tools can easily connect to each other and share data is a much better and more sustainable goal.
Cheers,
Stewart
By Stewart Mader at May 15, 2008 11:55 AM