Challenging Google in the cloud computing market for messaging and collaboration software, IBM landed Panasonic as a customer for its LotusLive SAAS programs. More than 150,000 workers at the Japanese electronics maker will use IBM’s hosted e-mail, social networking Web conferencing, file sharing, instant messaging and project management applications. The company unseated Microsoft’s Exchange e-mail server and a number of other collaboration solutions, including IBM’s original on-premise Lotus Notes and Domino server. The news comes days before IBM kicks off Lotusphere in Orlando, Fla.
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IBM has landed a major customer for its cloud computing
initiative in Panasonic Corporation, with 150,000 employees of the Japanese
electronics maker using IBM’s LotusLive hosted, Web-based collaboration software.
When fully deployed this year, it could be the largest
SAAS (softwar…