IBM announced the availability of <A HREF="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21756.wss">IBM Lotus Quickr, team collaboration software</A> that includes IBM's first commercially available wiki and integration with everyday office applications from Lotus and Microsoft.

A common challenge among business computer users is that they are forced to leave their favorite application environment to collaborate with users inside or outside their company. Although new social computing tools are making collaboration easier than before, wikis and blogs are often used as standalone applications, making software integration and team productivity difficult.

Lotus Quickr offers a simple team collaboration model with a shared content library, team workspaces, wikis, blogs and business templates that are easy to use and can be extended to include other new social networking elements such as bookmarking and tagging.