Category Archives: IBM

Jan 29 2010

IBM Presents NEC Partner Solution for Lotus Foundations

10 Ways you can make Communications in your Small Business into Smart Business was the mantra for this story.  While the focus on how easy it is to install and manage was the starting point, and great for dealers that want to focus on making money with their time not on configuring servers, the real question for the end customer is how does it change what I can do.

The slides says it all – if how easily and effectively your employees collaborate in your business has an effect on decision making, communicating with customers, staying on top of opportunities, and solving problems more effectively then you can choose the ingredients you need to make that happen.  Pretty cool!!

Jan 19 2010

NEC WINS IBM Lotus CTO Award!!

Bringing together NEC technologies to create powerful solutions is what really strikes the hearts and minds of IBMers. In fact, it really strikes when you are utilizing IBM software technologies. At the Lotusphere show this week some of our NEC developers joined to showcase some leading technology concepts through actual prototypes.
Using and NEC device that can be easily worn on your belt it can connect audio and video and can provide data feeds from devices such as healthcare equipment (in the case of an @Home Patient Care scenario). Interesting, but only really valuable when you realize that this data can all be converged (or “Mashed up”) at a web portal (yes, IBM Websphere Portal) so that a Nurse or Doctor can assist this patient. Moreover, if the portal can also mashup services like Lotus Connections to establish an online knowledge base of experts/specialists and historical cases and it can mashup services like LotusLive to enable instant collaboration you
get an entirely new level of business value. Servicing customer situations with “a real expert” is expensive, and they’re usually in limited supply. Therefore if we can connect with remote people (patients, field support/service personnel, etc.) using multimedia technologies our efficiency and customer service quality can increase significantly. Naturally communications among humans invariably requires and audio connection and utilizing NEC’s Sphericall software services enables these applications to easily connect the different users as needed – not as phone calls dialed through a keypad, but through and automatic set of workflow instructions that just know people are trying to communicate.
In fact, the idea of the wearable device is so slick because there is not even a concept of dialing! You hit a button and the audio, video and data signals are set up to a dispatcher to help you, pretty important for elderly home health care.
NEC calls this approach the Visual Field Support (VFS) framework and the framewo
rk includes technologies from both NEC and IBM.
This week the IBM Lotus Chief Technology Office team reviewed demonstrations by numerous vendors and found the VFS framework to be one of the more compelling uses of combined vendors technologies
. As a result they awarded NEC with their annual CTO Award!!
Congratulations to the NEC Japan team!!
Jan 19 2010

THE STREETS OF LOTUSPHERE

Entering the Dolphin hotel in Orlando for the annual IBM Lotusphere event you will observe the logo’s of IBM Lotus strategic partners, the first identity of NEC shows up here…

Officially, Lotusphere opened on Sunday with their annual Business Development Day. This is an opportunity for Lotus Partners to hold business discussions with IBMer’s and other Business Partners, discovering new opportunities, preparing the for the forthcoming week of events, and establishing new relationships. If anyone has this process of “relationships” = “business” figured out IBM does!