RIM Previews BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections at Lotusphere 2008

????The challenges of globalization are forcing companies to become more nimble, using an increasingly geographically-dispersed and virtual workforce to remain competitive,???? said Jeff Schick, vice president of social software, IBM Lotus. ????Together with RIM we are excited to be delivering the industry’s business-ready social software on the BlackBerry platform.????

The new BlackBerry Client for Lotus Connections features:

• Mobile access to Profiles: Users can find internal subject matter experts with an intuitive and flexible search. Users can consider details about current role, background, and areas of interest to identify internal subject matter experts, and contact them instantly.
• Mobile access to Dogear: Users can save precious time on research by accessing their colleagues’ ????pre-vetted???? bookmarks, searching them by tags and adding new bookmarks directly from a BlackBerry smartphone.
• Easy set up: With its intuitive user interface customers can be up and running quickly and using Lotus Connections from their BlackBerry smartphones.
• Proven wireless architecture: The BlackBerry Client for Lotus Connections leverages the proven architecture and security model of BlackBerry Enterprise Server, allowing IT groups to centrally manage and control mobile access to IBM Lotus Connections.

The BlackBerry Client for Lotus Connections will be previewed this week at Lotusphere 2008 (BlackBerry booth #516) and is expected to be available as a free download later this year. For more information please visit: www.blackberry.com/go/lotusconnections.