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IBM Lotus Quickr is social team collaboration software, used by teams of people to share content. Lotus Quickr works inside and outside firewalls.

Lotus Quickr can be described as three things:

Content stores or repositories - where you store your personal and team content
Team Collaboration - that let you store, organize, access, and share content and team projects
Connectors - that provide the end user interface to Lotus Quickr content

Components

Lotus Quickr has six main components:

Content libraries: organize and share content
Lotus Quickr + ECM: extend enterprise content management investments
Team places: create online places for projects or teams
Connectors: work where you are without switching applications
Templates: use prebuilt team places to get started fast

Through entitlement options with IBM Lotus Connections

IBM Lotus Connections

IBM Connections is a proprietary Web 2.0 social software application developed by the Lotus Software division of IBM. The goal of Lotus Connections is to empower companies to be more innovative and help them execute more quickly by using dynamic networks of co-workers, partners and customers...

, Lotus Quickr users can also access Lotus Connections Wikis and Files, at no additional charge.

At Lotusphere 2010, IBM previewed the next release of Lotus Quickr. Future plans include an easier to use Lotus Quickr library, simplified version control, and a redesigned discussion forum, and support for Content Management Interoperability Services

Content Management Interoperability Services

Content Management Interoperability Services is a specification for improving interoperability between Enterprise Content Management systems. OASIS, a web standards consortium, approved CMIS as an OASIS Specification on May 1, 2010....

(CMIS). Announcements at Lotusphere 2010 also included a new Lotus Quickr client for Blackberry.

Product enhancements

Lotus Quickr connectors are like mini-applications or plug-ins that are snapped into desktop applications. The connectors offer the following features and benefits:
People can continue to work in their familiar desktop applications. The connectors enable the easy movement of content from Lotus Notes

Lotus Notes

Lotus Notes is the client of a collaborative platform originally created by Lotus Development Corp. in 1989. In 1995 Lotus was acquired by IBM and became known as the Lotus Development division of IBM and is now part of the IBM Software Group...

, Lotus Sametime

Lotus Sametime

IBM Sametime is a client–server application and middleware platform that provides real-time, unified communications and collaboration for enterprises. Those capabilities include presence information, enterprise instant messaging, web conferencing, community collaboration, and telephony capabilities...

, Windows Explorer

Windows Explorer

This article is about the Windows file system browser. For the similarly named web browser, see Internet ExplorerWindows Explorer is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. It provides a graphical user interface...

, Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office is a non-free commercial office suite of inter-related desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft in August 1, 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of...

or Lotus Symphony

IBM Lotus Symphony

IBM Lotus Symphony is a suite of applications for creating, editing, and sharing text, spreadsheet, presentations and other documents, and is currently distributed as freeware. First released in 2007, the suite has a name similar to the 1980s DOS suite Lotus Symphony, but the two programs are...

into Quickr.

The software offers scalable content repositories, content management and team services such as wiki

Wiki

A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...

s and team blog

Blog

A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...

s.

The Lotus Quickr content services include Web services and REST

Rest

Rest may refer to:* Leisure* Human relaxation* SleepRest may also refer to:* Rest , a pause in a piece of music* Rest , the relation between two observers* Rest , a 2008 album by Gregor Samsa...

style services for accessing content, allowing developers to build their own extensions and connectors to Lotus Quickr. Initial support for the NSF and JCR

Content repository API for Java

Content Repository API for Java is a specification for a Java platform application programming interface to access content repositories in a uniform manner. The content repositories are used in content management systems to keep the content data and also the metadata used in content management...

backends was announced with future support coming for IBM DB2

IBM DB2

The IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition is a relational model database server developed by IBM. It primarily runs on Unix , Linux, IBM i , z/OS and Windows servers. DB2 also powers the different IBM InfoSphere Warehouse editions...

Content Manager and IBM FileNet

FileNet

FileNet, a company acquired by IBM, developed software to help enterprises manage their content and business processes. The FileNet P8 platform, their flagship system, is a framework for developing custom enterprise systems, offering much functionality out of the box and capable of being customized...

P8.

Professional project and portfolio management templates for Lotus Quickr are available from Trilog Group, an Official IBM Design Partner. Marketed as ProjExec for Quickr, the solution offers project teams a robust alternative to Microsoft Project and SharePoint. It also integrates with Lotus Notes

Lotus Notes

, Lotus Sametime

Lotus Sametime

and more recently with IBM Connections to deliver an Enterprise-class social project management

Social Project Management

Social project management is a non-traditional way of organizing projects and performing project management. It is, in its simplest form, the outcome of the application of the social networking paradigm to the context of project ecosystems, as a continued response to the movement toward...

platform.

Free templates are available from SNAPPS, an Official IBM Design Partner, for Lotus Quickr to enable faster deployment.

Third party applications that enhance the user experience include an improved Online rich-text editor

Online rich-text editor

An online rich-text editor is an interface for editing rich text within web browsers, which presents the user with a "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" editing area...

from Ephox which helps contributors create compelling content quickly in Team places, the wiki and blog components.

External links

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