Announcing IBM Connections Premier and IBM Connections Compliance -- Now Available

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As announced in the IBM Social Software blog, yesterday IBM released IBM Connections Premier, the latest offering built on top of IBM Connections, the leading business social collaboration platform.  IBM Connections Premier combines engaging employee collaboration applications and compliance discovery solutions, including granular policy controls for content inspection, logging and archiving of social and instant messaging communications. With IBM Connections Premier integrated collaboration and compliance discovery solutions, your organization can protect your brand and reputation, meeting corporate, legal or governance requirements, and engage and enable your entire workforce.

IBM Connections Premier offers:

• Ability to enforce acceptable use policies that lets your organization define policies at global, group or user levels. Monitor for and address the use of inappropriate or abusive language and objectionable actions.
• Protection of your brand and reputation with near real-time monitoring and alerts. Detect, flag and block IMs and file transfers based on key words, phrases and regular expressions.
• Reduction of legal costs through fast and simple content review and retrieval.
• Enhanced return on investment (ROI) by extending the life of existing archive and e-discovery investments. Tag, export and archive content in its original format to e-discovery or enterprise content management platforms.

Check out this video which walks through a scenario to highlight the importance of secure collaboration and empowering confidence throughout the organization to accelerate innovation while keeping information safe:



To learn more, check out the announcement letter.

IBM Connections in Cloud Now Features Real-Time Audio and Video Chat

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Today, when you log in to IBM Connections in the cloud you should notice a nice little surprise:  you can now engage with your peers via audio and/or video chat. While you've always been able to instant message with your colleagues within IBM Connections, sometimes typing is just not fast enough. And with communication being roughly 70% non-verbal, video becomes an excellent capability to get business done... NOW!

Now, you can go from a post in IBM Connection and escalate to a voice call or a video call at no extra cost.

This is now available to Connections customers in the cloud. Plans start at $6/user/month so if you haven't started using this platform, you can start today with a 60-day free trial.

Of course, I had to test this out to check out how it looks. So reached out to Albert, and got him over video in just 2 seconds!

But wait... there's another surprise! Up until now you've been able to share files through Chat from your computer. Now you can now share files with a chat partner from your IBM Connections Files. Let's say that you get a question from the field asking for the latest roadmap for your product (you know this happens a lot right?).  Now I can take a file from Connections, and when I do this, the recipient automatically gets reader access to the file!  Magic!

Here's how that looks:

Enjoy your new capabilities !