With Project Vulcan, IBM is looking to filter out the noise associated with social networking across the IBM Lotus messaging and collaboration portfolio. The initiative will appear in a developer environment beta in the second half of 2010 from LotusLive Labs, a new research effort that the company plans to open to partners to propel IBM’s cloud computing efforts for collaboration. Social analytics created under the aegis of Vulcan will be used to offer workers recommendations for expertise, relevant content and business events.
– ORLANDO, Fla. IBM
Jan. 18 said it is working on a new effort to add social analytics to its Lotus
collaboration software portfolio to help businesses filter out some of the
noise in their social networks.
Dubbed Project Vulcan, the initiative will appear in a developer environment
beta in the …