<< Another new Lotus collaboration application, similar to Microsoft's SharePoint, is Quickr, a repository and portal where teams share documents and information. It supports wikis, team and individual blogging, document tagging, and social bookmarks, and has its roots in QuickPlace, IBM's current team workspace application. Facility services company Unicco, a QuickPlace customer, is interested in Quickr's integration with Sametime IM, the ability to see networked Quickr files as if they resided on the computer's hard drive, and the possibility of using wikis and blogs to improve worker productivity, says Bill Jenkins, the company's director of IT.

But Quickr introduces yet another team collaboration and document management platform into IBM's portfolio; there's also QuickPlace. And Quickr serves as an application development platform, as does Domino. It could be more than an IT team wants to support. "There's an enormous amount of redundancy right now," Forrester's Driver says. >>

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