Trends Report

IBM's Project Vulcan Pushes The Information Workplace Envelope

Analytics And Openness Distinguish IBM's Approach

March 18th, 2010
Rob Koplowitz, null
Rob Koplowitz
Tim Walters, Ph.D., null
Tim Walters, Ph.D.
With contributors:
Matthew Brown , Sara Burnes

Summary

IBM's recently announced Project Vulcan is the latest effort from a major vendor to articulate what the future holds for the world of information work. Although it is still taking form — and like any new idea, may ultimately fail — Project Vulcan extends the vision of an integrated, contextualized Information Workplace (IW) with a combination of proven core products, innovative user experiences, an open development strategy, and a key role for social analytics. Information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals should track — and where possible participate in — Vulcan and other emerging IW solutions to prepare for substantial future transformations in the way people share and interact with information in the workplace.

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