IBM Connections Docs

IBM® Connections Docs is a socially enabled online office productivity suite that makes it easier for business teams to create and allow for collaborative editing of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation documents in real time. This online document editor provides key collaborative services such as coediting, file management and contextual commenting (so you can see who typed what). IBM Connections Docs helps save time by reducing the review and rework cycles associated with creating team-based business documents.

IBM Connections Docs helps you:

• Significantly improve productivity and save time by coediting documents and content in real time.
• Reduce IT costs through lightweight browser deployment, and eliminate costly desktop office suites that have advanced features that are not used.
• Support both Microsoft Office and OpenDocument file formats to maximize sharing and portability.
• Work seamlessly with Apache OpenOffice for rich desktop editing to provide a full-featured social document creation and editing solution.
• Provide choice and flexibility in deployment. IBM Connections Docs is available as software as a service (SaaS) on IBM Cloud as well as on-premises deployment as an add-on to IBM Connections, IBM Notes® and IBM WebSphere® Portal.

Significantly improve productivity

• Eliminate complexity and time spent consolidating multiple edits from various team members and managing multiple versions of documents.
• Benefit from easier-to-see author presence awareness, which lets you know who previously accessed and edited the document and who is currently making changes.
• Meet more team deadlines by editing content together in real time and also supporting asynchronous coediting capabilities for those offline.

Reduce IT costs

• Provide users with cost-effective online productivity applications without desktop software.
• Reduce infrastructure costs by deploying IBM Connections Docs Cloud.
• Reduce planning and management costs. With SaaS, you can purchase what you need, when you need it.

Support both Microsoft Office and OpenDocument

• Collaborate on word processing, spreadsheet and presentation documents with team members or contributors outside your company.
• Create new documents or upload and edit existing Office or OpenOffice files.

Work seamlessly with Apache OpenOffice

• Supports Open Document Format (ODF) standards.
• Allows users to create rich business documents in OpenOffice (or any suite that supports ODF) and then share and collaborate with their colleagues by uploading to IBM Connections Docs; no translation needed.
• Users can download a file from IBM Connections Docs and work with it in OpenOffice (or any suite that supports ODF).

Provide choice and flexibility in deployment

• Provides quick, on premises deployment (also available as SaaS).
• Gives users the ability to work collaboratively in real time or independently—whichever best suits their working style in any given situation.
• Integrates with IBM Connections.
• Allows you to use your IBM Software Subscription and Support benefits to get the latest IBM Connections Docs releases as they become available.