Research In Motion (RIM) will offer new Lotus collaboration features and developer tools on its BlackBerry platform that will enable “greater access to live expertise and collective intelligence” through BlackBerry smart phones later this year.
The new features will help customers find expertise, form teams, share information, and stay in touch in real time, making them more effective and productive while on the go, the press release said.
"Team collaboration shouldn’t stall when employees are on the road or away from their desk," said Jim Balsillie, RIM’s Co-CEO. "RIM and IBM are strengthening the BlackBerry platform for Lotus with a portfolio of enterprise social networking and collaboration capabilities that will make BlackBerry smart phones even more effective in mobilizing businesses around the globe."
The initiative is in response to the “explosion of mobility worldwide”, the press release continued. IBM’s Institute for Business Value predicts one billion mobile Web users by 2011 and a “significant shift” in the way the majority of people will interact with the Web over the next decade.
