IBM unveils new social networking community
Published:11-June-2009
By CBR staff writer
To develop and deliver new technologies online
IBM has unveiled a new social networking community developed to help its partners to connect and collaborate with each other to bring new technologies to market.
The new community is expected to enable companies to achieve real-time access to IBM subject matter experts to support sales leads and client implementations.
The company said that partners would create personalised profiling tools to develop online communities through which their skills can be visible to other partners, connect with them on new technology innovations and joint sales leads.
Thus the partners could develop and deliver new technologies online through interactive forums before test-marketing or taking offerings directly to clients.
Rich Hume, general manager of IBM Global Business Partners, said: "With today's launch of new skills-building and community opportunities for our partners, we are facilitating more effective, efficient selling in this unique economic environment and jointly laying the groundwork along with our partners for the infrastructure of tomorrow."
IBM has also unveiled the Business Partner Development Series, an online education and networking forum that connects partners on key skills building designed to help them identify new partnerships and create new routes to market. The online resource would provide partners with a single view of new skills offerings available to help them build enhanced infrastructures for clients.
IBM is responding with PartnerWorld Communities, bringing together the social computing technologies and online community building tools to connect more than 100,000 partners worldwide on emerging business opportunities such as analytics, cloud computing, green IT and economic stimulus projects.
