"We're serving the needs of business users first, " says Sean Poulley, IBM's vice president of Web collaboration services.
They also offer big data analytics, high performance computing, web and collaboration applications, and archiving and storage.
The other side of the coin is giving back to the social Web or an enterprise collaboration environment.
Applications that have been or are being moved to the cloud include email and Web services (77%), storage (74%) and collaboration solutions such as Web conferencing and instant messaging (72%).
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With Anybots' web-based interface, collaboration can happen at light speed without the cost and wasted time of business travel.
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Mr. Medvedev described the power of the web as a force for collaboration, innovation, transparency and economic growth for citizens and entrepreneurs.
Powering this vision is a suite of IBM products such as Lotus Notes for email, contacts, and calendaring, Lotus Connections, the social networking environment, Lotus Quickr, the document repository, and Lotus Sametime for unified communications and real time collaboration such as web conferencing and instant messaging.
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Fried is the founder of 37Signals, a Chicago firm that sells Web software for project management and collaboration under the names Basecamp and Backpack.
Moderated by Don Tapscott, author of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, among other books, panelists were unanimous in their belief that the ubiquity of the Internet, along with the emergence of Web-based platforms that enable mass collaboration and crowd-sourcing, hold the key to rapid creation and development of new startups.
Ever since the World Wide Web was invented ten years ago, international scientific collaboration has grown tremendously.
We store our files online, use collaboration software and share calendars and contacts on the web.
With online collaboration, the number of sources of information across the Web is exploding.
Over the past couple of years, IBM has been working on technology for collaboration that include not just email but instant messaging, web meetings, blogs, wikis, Facebook-type communities and Twitter-like activity streams.
Because of the web and the explosion of information learning has become more informal, collaboration online has become the new classroom, and kids are learning more and more in and out of the traditional four walls of a classroom.
Office 365 offers Office Web Apps plus access to hosted versions of Outlook e-mail, Sharepoint collaboration, and Lync instant messaging (formerly Office Communicator), as well as the ability to download the full version of Office 2010 Professional Plus.
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Mr O'Reilly is something of a technology guru himself and is widely credited with coining the term Web 2.0 to capture the trend towards greater creativity, information sharing and collaboration among internet users.
Office 365 brings together cloud versions of the most trusted productivity and collaboration products with the latest version of Microsoft's client software and companion Web applications.
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" Larry cites CEO Eric Schmidt's academic background and the academic orgins of the Internet (by which he means it's an open collaboration, not a vendor relationship.) The cool thing about the Web when it launched, he says, was that there was no real barrier to putting things online, "so people put up all sorts of crap.
Both native apps and Web apps will be powered by increasingly sophisticated and pervasive cloud resources: storage, computation, collaboration, transactions, location services, content distribution, and remote 3D video rendering.
And while we're at it, ASUS' WebStorage also offers instant photo uploads, Microsoft Office Web Apps integration (so you can edit Office documents online using the official interface) and file collaboration.
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From award-winning IP communications to mobility, customer care, Web conferencing, messaging, enterprise social software, and interoperable telepresence experiences, Cisco brings together integrated network-based collaboration solutions based on open standards.
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