IBM tries to seed its own cloud computing platforms

INDUSTRY giant IBM is attempting to seed its own cloud computing platforms, as the market for online software and services accelerates.
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But instead of sharing pictures of the latest beer bash on Facebook, or pitching a fragment of gossip on to Twitter, IBM wants the user community inside its new cloud computing hopeful to collaborate around the serious world of enterprise computing.

IBM's BPM BlueWorks is a cloud computing platform aimed at those in the business process management game.

According to Jerry Cuomo, chief technology officer for IBM WebSphere, BPM BlueWorks is in customer testing now and is being readied for a mid-June launch. He described BlueWorks as a series of experiments and said more features would be added through the year.

"Were saying, 'Hey, business user, go build business processes. We want you to rigorously build business processes, not build them on napkins'," he said. "'And when you build them we want to have you build them in a community of other builders'.

"This is our answer to Salesforce.com meets Facebook. Instead of exchanging images you are building up a community where you can exchange business strategy and business processes, whether it's in your company or across your supply chain or maybe it's a group of bankers who met at the Impact 09 conference and want to stay in touch."

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BY Stuart Kennedy
Source：AUSTRALIAN IT

Stuart Kennedy travelled to the Impact 09 conference in Las Vegas as a guest of IBM

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