April 2010
Lotusphere Comes to You 2010
IBM's Lotusphere Comes to You events are in London and Edinburgh this year. Portal Partnership will have a stand at both locations. For more information and to register please click.

March 2010
Event - Social Collaboration for Business
Location: Mary-Lou Room, The Groucho Club, Soho, London
When: 23rd March @ 14:30 followed by dinner.

September 2009
New IBM Lotus Connections Software Brings Consumer Social Networking Features to the Office
IBM today announced an expanded set of social software tools and capabilities for enterprise collaboration that brings popular features like micro-blogging from the home into the business environment. Leading companies such as NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH and Sogeti are among the early adopters of IBM's collaboration platform, Lotus Connections 2.5. 

September 2009
IBM Lotus Gains in Global Collaboration Against Microsoft
In the first half of 2009, IBM logged thousands of new customers, bringing the total to 15,421 companies that have chosen IBM over Microsoft since 2008 in the $3.1 billion dollar Worldwide Integrated Collaborative Environment market.

May 2009
IBM Ranked No. 1 in Web Portal Software Market Share
IBM today announced that IT analyst firm Gartner, Inc., has ranked IBM as the worldwide market share leader in the Portal Products and User Interaction Tools enterprise software segment. The ranking was based on total worldwide software revenue for 2008.

May 2009
IBM Helps Customers Work Smarter With New Software and Services for BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0
ORLANDO, Fla. - 05 May 2009: Wireless Enterprise s symposium (WES) -- IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced they will help businesses work smarter with software and services on the BlackBerry® platform, with support for the new BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 5.0.

April 2009
Lotusphere Comes to You 2009
Portal partnership supported IBM again this year at both Lotusphere Comes to You events, in Manchester and London. The two events were very busy with customers and partners, and provided plenty of sessions for us all to maximise from the latest offerings.

April 2009
IBM Delivers Cloud Social Networking and Collaboration Service for Business
In a challenging economy, companies no longer have all the resources they need. Finding ways to work with customers and partners in new ways is a matter of survival. LotusLive Engage enables companies to communicate and collaborate in new ways without increasing the resources in their IT departments.

March 2009
Lotus Foundations 1.1 announced today
Lotus Foundations is a complete small business server with email, anti-virus, anti-spam, calendaring, contact management, file sharing, team collaboration and an office productivity suite - allowing businesses to benefit from all of these capabilities seamlessly with little IT effort.

March 2009
Optional Business Applications announced for IBM Lotus Foundations
IBM® Lotus® Foundations Start provides the essential software required to run a small business with 5 to 500 users.

March2009
IBM Announces Alloy - seamless access to SAP through Notes and Domino
In the challenging business world today, companies more than ever need to respond to the quickly changing, competitive environment in order to survive. There is no doubt that the world is interconnected and businesses must collaborate to grow and succeed.

February 2009
Lotusphere Highlights 2009
This year PP sent a team of 7 to attend Lotusphere, IBM's flagship event for Lotus brand customers and business partners. We were delighted to leave with 7 new technical certifications, ensuring we continue to be the best amongst in our customers and prospects alike.

January 2009
IBM, RIM Mobilize Business With Lotus Software and Developer Tools for the BlackBerry Platform
ORLANDO, FL - 19 Jan 2009: LOTUSPHERE -- IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM) (TSX: RIM) today unveiled new Lotus collaboration software and developer tools on the BlackBerry(R) platform that will bring collective intelligence to BlackBerry smartphones. The new features will help customers find expertise, form teams, share information, and stay in touch in real time making them more effective and productive while on the move.

January 2009
IBM Lotus Introduces New Portfolio of Integrated Cloud Services
ORLANDO, FL - 19 Jan 2009: LOTUSPHERE -- IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced LotusLive, a cloud-based portfolio of social networking and collaboration services designed for business. LotusLive will extend customers' current investments and link to everyday business services. LotusLive.com is now the place to find all of Lotus' cloud solutions including email, collaboration and Web conferencing services.

January 2009
At Lotusphere IBM and SAP Announce Alloy
ORLANDO, FL - 19 Jan 2009: LOTUSPHERE -- Today at the annual Lotusphere conference, IBM (NYSE:IBM) and SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) announced the planned March release for their first joint software product called Alloy(TM). At Lotusphere, IBM and SAP showcased successful early results of this product with several customers, including Colgate-Palmolive and Arla Foods.