Next Week: Join Me at the IBM Connections Files and Communities Webcast

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Next week, I'll be participating in a webcast to talk about all the new capabilities that we've added to IBM Connections Files and Communities. The webcast was put together by the team over at SocialBizUG.org.

David Brooks, the lead architect for the IBM Connections platform, will be joining me just like he did at IBM ConnectED earlier this year. Our goal is to give you an update of all the cool things that are now part of the product.

As a reminder, back in March, we introduced IBM Connections Files on Cloud, an easily accessible file sharing and sync offering.  We'll talk about this new offering and recent upgrades to Connections Communities that allow seamless team communication and collaboration beyond traditional boundaries.

Join this webcast to find out how these new capabilities allow users to:

• Stay in sync across mobile devices (including both Android and iOS devices) using different personal settings
• Leverage the new file sync and native mobile app capabilities to work anywhere and access content anytime
• Securely collaborate with customers and business partners 
• Improve productivity with content that is provided in context 
• Stay connected with colleagues using profiles that provide business cards to their contacts

To register for the webcast, click here. See you next week! If you missed it, here's the recording.

IBM Connections Adds Secure File Sync and Share Offering On-premises

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Following the release last quarter of our secure file sync and share offering in cloud, today we have just released the equivalent offering for those customers who would like to deploy this on premises. This new offering gives customers a new way to buy IBM Connections and get just the Files portion of the platform. This makes it easy to get started and customers can grow and buy the entire IBM Connections suite once they are ready to use other capabilities such as Communities, Forums, Ideation, etc.

The capabilities have already been highly praised by analysts such as Forrester and OVUM. In fact, check out this report from OVUM to find out why IBM Connections is a strong candidate to provide all the benefits and features an enterprise user might need from a file sync and share solution.

This offering includes:

• Mobile apps for iOS and Android
• Desktop plugins for Microsoft Windows and Mac (including integration into Microsoft Office 365 Desktop apps such as Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel)
• External file sharing (ie. share files with people outside of your organization)
• Share files with individuals or groups
• Lock files for editing to prevent conflicts
• View files online without having to download
• Control who can view/edit your files and who can re-share them 
• View who has downloaded your files and which version they have
• See how the file has been shared throughout your organization
• and more... ! 

Available add-ons:

• Compliance and Governance support 
• Real-time co-editing of files without downloading 

Here's a demo of the plugins and mobile apps in action:



Enjoy!