News Analysis: Project Vulcan is IBM’s stab at integrating its Lotus messaging and collaboration suites with CRM and ERP business applications, and providing reports on the data with its own Cognos business analytics. The kicker is that IBM is striving to do this from a single platform, blending on-premises applications with cloud computing apps and extending these to the mobile enterprise. Piece of cake, right? Vulcan, which IBM will open to developers through its new LotusLive Labs in the second half of 2010, is evolving.
– ORLANDO, Fla. There’s
been a lot of discussion about IBM’s Project
Vulcan, the next-generation collaboration platform the company demonstrated here at Lotusphere Jan. 18.
How does one describe Project Vulcan? Yes, it looked like Facebook and
business intelligence rolled into one. Some initially …