IBM continues to carve out its own stake in the social enterprise app space — a market forecast by Forrester Research to grow 61 percent each year to reach $6.4 billion by 2016 — with the beta rollout of the next release of its enterprise social networking platform, IBM Connections. The beta, which IBM hopes to ship in the first half of this year, has several major enhancements: It supports the use of OpenSocial embedded apps; it has a sophisticated news or activity feed; and it has upgraded analytics.
IBM Hones Social Enterprise Tools
Posted by: Erika Morphy January 17, 2012 09:34 AMIBM continues to carve out its own stake in the social enterprise app space — a market forecast by Forrester Research to grow 61 percent each year to reach $6.4 billion by 2016 — with the beta rollout of the next release of its enterprise social networking platform, IBM Connections. The beta, which IBM hopes to ship in the first half of this year, has several major enhancements: It supports the use of OpenSocial embedded apps; it has a sophisticated news or activity feed; and it has upgraded analytics.