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IBM has introduced a new hosted e-mail offering,Office Professional Plus, LotusLive Notes, that it really is pricing at $5 per consumer each month.
IBM is touting the latest addition to its LotusLive family as providing e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging. Other pieces of the LotusLive family of hosted services also provide Web conferencing, social networking and collaboration. The integrated suite of providers goes for $10 per user per month.
Microsoft last year lower its hosted providers pricing so that Exchange On-line is $5 per person per month, and its integrated Business Productivity On the net Providers (BPOS) bundle is $10 per consumer per month. Microsoft also provides a stripped-down hosted Exchange and SharePoint customers, recognized as Deskless Worker clients, for $2 per consumer monthly (or $3 per user per month for a bundle of the two).
IBM introduced an offering final yr recognized as LotusLive iNotes, which the company also touted as a hosted e-mail providing. It had been priced at $3 per user per month and integrated hosted email, calendar and speak to management capabilities.
According to Wikipedia, you can find various distinctions in between the two. LotusLive Notes enables a customer to make use of their installation of Lotus Notes to access an installation of the Lotus Domino e-mail and calendar server that's hosted and managed by IBM Lotus. (It;s the new identify of Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging, Wikipedia says.) LotusLive iNotes is a Web-based e-mail/calendaring services that is built around the assets IBM acquired fom acquiring Outblaze, a Hong Kong-based application support provider (ASP), Wikipedia says.
LotusLive iNotes “really targets smaller businesses with a basic email offerings,” an IBM spokesperson said. (In other words, it's more like Microsoft;s Deskless Worker.) LotusLive Notes “helps businesses protect their current e mail investments by serving like a virtual extension of a provider;s on-premises Lotus Domino domains,” the spokesperson added. (So LotusLive Notes sounds more like Exchange On the web.)
“LotusLive Notes single point of entry to e-mail, calendaring, contacts and immediate messaging from the IBM cloud. New to this release is ‘hybrid; capabilities for integrating with an existing Domino infrastructure, enabling enterprise administrators to continue to manage users and groups utilizing the on-premises tools with which they are familiar,” the spokesperson added.
New capabilities that are part of LotusLive Notes include e-mail retention of content of users; e-mail messages for later legal discovery; onboarding, data migration and custom mail template solutions (via IBM Software Companies); and support for 21 additional languages.
The onboarding company and free trial options could be a draw, but the relatively tiny quantity of partners for LotusLive Notes could hamper the providing,Office Professional 2010 Key, said IDC analyst Robert Mahowald.
However, “IBM has a large base of prospects with 1000+ users which are old-school Notes shops, and for which they have engineered some good selling scenarios for on-premise + LotusLive deployments. So as an IT individual you get flexibility in how you want to deploy this, on-premise,Windows 7 Code, and subscribe to some things- your choice. That;s very much like Microsoft, and it helps them both stand out against Google - in addition to the fact that even in outsourcing scenarios, IT departments still value real-time portals on help desk tickets, usage patterns for internal charge-back, etc,Office 2007 Key, which Google does not supply out with the box (though it can be added through integrators),” he said.
The day before IBM;s LotusLive Notes rollout, Microsoft announced plenty of new prospects for its BPOS bundle, including DuPont, Spotless Group Ltd. and Sunoco Inc. Microsoft also recently touted that it had convinced one particular with the biggest messaging migration tool vendors, Binary Tree,Office Enterprise 2007, to move from Google to BPOS.
It;s not just a three-way horse race among IBM, Microsoft and Google in the hosted business-app space, Mahowald noted. Adobe has some of the cloud collaboration services, but lacks e-mail, he said. Cisco has yet to put thesee providers into a “container” the way Microsoft and IBM have. Zoho is in there too.
One thing that has been important for Google and Microsoft, Mahowald said, “is a tie to the office productivity tools: Microsoft has Office Over the internet, IBM has Symphony (that is free, but NOT on the internet), Google has Apps, Zoho has Apps, Adobe has their internet version, but Cisco does not.”