Can IBM SmartCloud Unseat Google Docs, Office 365?
December 9, 2012
When IBM unveiled SmartCloud Docs this week, Ed Brill’s fingerprints were all over the announcement. As director of product line management for IBM Collaboration Solutions, Brill wants to compete aggressively against Google Docs, Office 2013 and other productivity suites.
But take a closer look and you’ll see that Brill and IBM have a much larger strategy in mind. It includes a complete cloud suite plus continued investments in on-premises software and appliances — backed by channel partners. "We believe in the cloud but we also believe in [on premises] software and appliances. We’re not allergic to software like Salesforce.com, and we’re not like Google saying everything should be delivered as a service."…
Instead, IBM is develivering a "complete set" of collaboration tools both on premises and in the cloud. SmartCloud Docs — featuring cloud-based document, spreadsheet and presentation capabilities — therefore is only one piece of a much larger SaaS and on-premises strategy at IBM. But it’s an important piece. With the Docs launch, "we feel like our portfolio in the collaboration space is now very complete," said Brill…
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