LotusLive Symphony

The software for increase in business performance helps users to create, change and share documents, spreadsheets and the presentations. IBM of Lotus Symphony is the intuitive and simple solution in use for increase in business performance which is distributed for free. The software of Lotus Symphony provides the functions necessary for accomplishment of the most widespread tasks of creation and editing documents, and is ideal both for commercial, and for personal projects.

Lotus Symphony Documents Tools for creation, change and sharing of simple and difficult documents for the commercial or personal purposes.

Lotus Symphony Presentations Provides creation of the graphic presentations which can be shown to audience in the slideshow mode. It is possible to create the presentations from scratch or to use ready templates with a various design.

Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets Using templates, it is possible to create easily models of often used spreadsheets or new spreadsheets.

Application development Lotus Symphony supports use of open technologies and provides the simplified environment for development and deployment.

IBM develops cloud version of the Lotus Symphony office suite which will be offered as a part of a portfolio of the placed IBM LotusLive applications. Online versions of the word-processor, the spreadsheet and the editor of the presentations of IBM should appear to summer of this year. The placed version will allow to work on the same document to several users, to add comments and to manage versions. Online edition Lotus Symphony will be paid, thus that the local version of this office suite which is based on code base of OpenOffice, is offered to IBM free of charge.

Collective functioning with documents in the "cloud" LotusLive Symphony environment is ensured by integration with LotusLive service. To some extent the new service LotusLive Symphony is a link between local office applications of Lotus Symphony and LotusLive web service.

In addition the IBM company announced new tools for business within web applications of LotusLive. Except the improved mail, the IBM company promises to improve functions of social networks considerably. The promised Activity Stream function will collect in the single interface data streams from the websites of social cooperation, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and SAP, and these flows will be integrated with internal information resources of the organization customer. The IBM company promised that functions of social networks in the LotusLive platform will be available on a set of client devices, including smartphones and tablets.

One more announcement of IBM concerns integration of an Internet pager of Lotus Sametime into mobile devices. In particular, functions of instant messaging in the environment of Lotus Sametime will be available on offices of Apple iPad and iPhone, on Android- smartphones and on the Nokia smartphones.

As for integration with third-party products, the portal of social interaction IBM Connections will be able to work with the Microsoft Exchange servers and the websites Microsoft SharePoint. For creation of own elements of social interaction third-party developers and partners of IBM will receive the packet of IBM Social Business Toolkit opening access to program interfaces.