Today's knowledge workers must be agile and creative in the face of rapidly evolving market opportunities. The Lotus Web 2.0 platform delivers the flexibility to quickly assemble the right information, documents, and expertise by offering a rich palette of data and collaborative services in order to assemble new and unique applications. Lotus Connections, Lotus Quickr, and Lotus Mashups are the foundation of this platform.

Easily assemble new applications with interoperability across the entire span of business applications and the internet. Lotus Mashups is a lightweight environment for rapidly assembling Internet and enterprise content into simple, flexible and dynamic web applications.

IBM® Lotus® Connections is social software built for business. Scalable and secure, it provides an interactive Web 2.0 style user experience for collaborating with your professional networks inside and outside the enterprise. The five integrated services of Lotus® Connections, profiles, blogs, Dogear (shared bookmarks), communities and activities, support community-wide collaboration and knowledge sharing across and beyond the enterprise. Flexible and open in its architecture, Lotus® Connections can also be integrated for use within the office productivity tools, e-mail, instant messaging and portal software that you may already have.

IBM® Lotus® Quickr™ is team collaboration and content management software that can help you access and interact with the people, information and project materials you need to get your work done. Lotus Quickr has a rich set of features such as content libraries, team discussion forums and blogs, wikis that let you author and edit content, and connectors that make sharing easy, right from your favorite desktop software such as Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, and Microsoft Office. Quickr supports teams inside or outside the company firewall.