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From the News Desk
Wednesday, 19. December 2007
IBM Extends Social Networking At Work with Atlas
IBM has recently announced the availability of a new corporate social networking visualization and analysis tool aimed at helping users better navigate their personal and corporate social networks.
IBM Atlas for Lotus Connections helps users answer questions about key experts on given topics and how they are connected. The software also gives users access to other users contacts. Atlas is designed to work with Lotus Connections, a set of tools to build social networks that IBM launched in June.
"Atlas looks at the data within Connections and does some visualizations of the information," said Chris Lamb, senior product manager. "The main point is that it is a way to visualize the social data from a line-of-business perspective and a personal level."
Altas has four components, My Net, Find, Reach and Net, that help users identify the important connections and relationships between themselves and various groups and corporate networks.
The Net component provides a view of groups that have formed within an organization due to work on similar projects, IBM said. The point is to help users find ways to improve communications among various nodes throughout the company. My Net provides a similar view but focuses on a user's personal network.
Reach is the social dashboard feature in Atlas that lets users navigate among six degrees of separation that divide them from a colleague. The point of Reach is to show users the shortest path to reach an expert, and rank the expert based on the level of interaction across the network.
The last component is Find, which can provide search results that leverage social networking-related data, such as blogs and reporting structures, according to IBM.
IBM has been testing Atlas in-house for about a year, said Lamb. It is initially being targeted for individual company use, though that could expand to individual use at a later time.
IBM is selling Atlas through its Software Services for Lotus group. Lamb declined to provide specific pricing information.
IBM Atlas for Lotus Connections helps users answer questions about key experts on given topics and how they are connected. The software also gives users access to other users contacts. Atlas is designed to work with Lotus Connections, a set of tools to build social networks that IBM launched in June.
"Atlas looks at the data within Connections and does some visualizations of the information," said Chris Lamb, senior product manager. "The main point is that it is a way to visualize the social data from a line-of-business perspective and a personal level."
Altas has four components, My Net, Find, Reach and Net, that help users identify the important connections and relationships between themselves and various groups and corporate networks.
The Net component provides a view of groups that have formed within an organization due to work on similar projects, IBM said. The point is to help users find ways to improve communications among various nodes throughout the company. My Net provides a similar view but focuses on a user's personal network.
Reach is the social dashboard feature in Atlas that lets users navigate among six degrees of separation that divide them from a colleague. The point of Reach is to show users the shortest path to reach an expert, and rank the expert based on the level of interaction across the network.
The last component is Find, which can provide search results that leverage social networking-related data, such as blogs and reporting structures, according to IBM.
IBM has been testing Atlas in-house for about a year, said Lamb. It is initially being targeted for individual company use, though that could expand to individual use at a later time.
IBM is selling Atlas through its Software Services for Lotus group. Lamb declined to provide specific pricing information.
