Lotus Quickr. By Samuel

The IBM's new product Lotus Quickr provides shared content with version control in the form of documents directories with check-in and check-out features based on user privileges. This program provides online team spaces where members can share and collaborate by utilizing team calendars, discussions forums, blogs, wikis, and other collaboration tools for managing projects and other content. This program is very effective becuase it makes it easier for parties to collaborate with each other, which conducts more efficiently. Belgium's the largest contruction company, has put the collaboration tools of Quickr to good use for example. The condtruction projects within have many parties the must collaborate effectively so that they can get the project done on time with the best cost. For example when these projects are conducted on a global scale, the parties are seperated across the world, and become very complexed. This program makes the process much more effective when dealing with long distance collaboration with companies. I believe that this software can reduce both the volume of large transations and large attachments sent through e-mail and the impact of the e-mails of the companies systems, and as a result becoming more efficient.