SharePoint & Lotus

Some months back, I posted our plans to add enterprise social features to the software delivery process. Today, I am showing you a screencast of our progress on integrating IBM Lotus Connections with IBM Rational Jazz.

The video below shows you how Jazz users have direct access to forums, wikis, blogs, file sharing, and bookmark sharing, from within the Rational Team Concert web interface.

When you hover a Jazz user in Rational Team Concert you see a business card with information from both the enterprise social network on Lotus Connections and from Jazz. The business card shows you the user’s full profile and his social network activities, and lets you add the user as a colleague and download his contact details.

You can associate Jazz work items with Lotus Connections activities to coordinate efforts across organizational boundaries. Linked activities let technical and non-technical roles work together on shared goals, in ways that were not possible yesterday.

From the new social viewlet in the project dashboard, you get a window into the contents on the Lotus Connections server. From here, you can view and search users, communities, blogs, activities, bookmarks, wikis, and files. With Twitter-like status updates you easily stay up-to-date with your team and workgroups.

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