IBM announced it is extending its lead in the portal market by taking advantage of features in Lotus Quickr and Lotus Connections that give end-users simple tools from within a company's website to create, connect and share content, plus get access to communities resources and contacts through professional networking tools.
Accelerators are business specific packages that easily integrate existing portal and address a specific business need. With the delivery of three new accelerators, IBM now offers customers all five of the initial accelerators identified as part of a new strategy announced April 2007 for the portal market. The Dashboard accelerator was announced late April while Workforce Management for HR self-service was made available in July.
