How IBM Builds Vibrant Social Communities - 0 views
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simonmart on 15 Jun 12And why not? IBM's products are more akin to a fine wine than to a canine commodity. "IBM itself deploys our technologies for our own business purpose," says Schick. "We're a user of Sametime, we're a user of Lotus Notes, we're a user of IBM Connections. We use all of our collaboration technology across the 430,000 employees and another 75,000 contractors that are inside of IBM at any given moment." Schick has been pivotal to IBM's work in social technology for decades. He's been a developer, he's been in the field working with clients, he has run lines of business like enterprise content management, he's the creator of IBM Connections, and now he's in charge of the company's entire collaboration space, including messaging, unified communication and office productivity technologies overall.