News items and reading of interest to shared spaces today:
Jabber Inc. announced a joint marketing agreement with Akonix Systems, enabling customers to use Akonix products for reporting and compliance management regarding internal and external IM sessions. That means that IM sessions between enterprise users of the Jabber platform and external users of the public IM networks (AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo, among others) can be captured by Akonix for subsequent analysis Jabber
IBM WebSphere Portal 5.0.2 includes capabilities from Lotus Workplace Web Content Management, for creating, publishing, managing and archiving Web based content eWeek
The Investor's Business Daily reported that some companies are choosing to leverage consumer-grade IM services rather than investing in enterprise-grade IM platforms. With the addition of an IM management or monitoring product, such as those from Akonix, FaceTime or IMLogic, the intent is to save the licensing fee being charged by a Microsoft or IBM Lotus. It's an interesting approach, but it means that companies will find it much harder to extend presence-capabilities beyond just the IM client, capabilities which enterprise class products give to a greater degree. IBD
The TeleWork Consortium released a report on the annual per user cost of additional highways in Northern Virginia that's funded out of public subsidies ... $2800 per commuter per year. That's a lot of dosh that could be re-directed to encourage the development of alternative infrastructure to enable remote collaboration and group working TeleWork Consortium Toni Kistner (NetworkWorldFusion)
As part of its overhaul of internal IT, IBM is working on a project to increase collaboration between global employees. The main idea is to add interactive communications capabilities to the IBM internal portal, using technology from IBM Lotus and WebSphere InfoWorld
IBM Research is working on various projects to extend the open source Eclipse integrated development environment, including integrated collaboration via instant messaging (and most likely presence too). Eclipse is an important component of IBM's Workplace strategy, with an Eclipse-based end user client in the works eWeek
The Toshiba Corporation is using a product lifecycle management solution from MatrixOne to enable cross-functional teams from marketing, planning, design, procurement and manufacturing to collaborate effectively. The secure virtual workspace for suppliers, designers and buyers is called MatrixOne Team Central MatrixOne
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