The BlackBerry® Client for IBM® Lotus® Connections extends Profiles, Activities, Blogs, Communities and Bookmarks to BlackBerry smartphone users. The application offers highly secure enterprise social networking capabilities for people-based collaboration.
Application Features
- Profiles
- Search Profiles by tag and keyword
- Add a picture to your Profile
- Contact individuals by phone, email and SMS
- Look up a colleague’s reporting structure, office location and local time
- Play a name pronunciation file
- View a user’s About Me, Background and contributions to the enterprise social network
- Communities
- View Community details, members and Bookmarks
- Access members’ Profiles
- Email members individually or as a group
- Bookmarks
- Create, view, search for and open Bookmarks
- Add Bookmarks from the BlackBerry® Browser or the client
- Assign tags to Bookmarks to make them searchable
- Email Bookmark links
- Activities
- View Activities, Sections, Entries and To Dos
- Filter out incomplete or completed To Do items
- Convert email messages into an Entry or To Do item
- Access To Do list from Tasks on the BlackBerry smartphone
- Blogs
- Read and compose Blog entries
- Search by keyword, tag and author
- Email Blog author
- Managed from the BlackBerry Enterprise Server
- IT can enable or disable the “Tell A Friend” feature or wirelessly push the application to users
- Administrators can implement IT policies and set application permissions
- BlackBerry Social Networking Application Proxy
- Optimizes the data sent from IBM® Lotus® Connections to BlackBerry smartphones for improved performance
- Tracks which BlackBerry smartphones have accessed Lotus Connections and displays the services used
Highly Secure and Manageable for IT
Organizations can leverage their existing investments in the BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution, plus gain additional reporting and data optimization with the BlackBerry Social Networking Application Proxy.
Information Protection
- Existing permissions for Lotus Connections are recognized and shared content is only available to those who have permission
- The advanced security features of the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server employ high encryption standards to help protect intellectual property
