IBM announced an expansion of its collaboration software portfolio, introducing new products and features to help customers improve productivity, business networking and knowledge sharing. The announcements were made at IBM's Collaboration Summit in New York City.

In the past year, <A HREF="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22325.wss">IBM has upgraded every product area in its collaboration portfolio,</A> including Web 2.0 features in Lotus Notes and Domino 8; professional networking tools for the enterprise with IBM Lotus Connections; easy document sharing through IBM Lotus Quickr; rich, browser-based Web 2.0 electronic forms with IBM Lotus Forms; expanded unified communications and instant messaging in IBM Lotus Sametime 8.0; and enterprise mashup capabilities in IBM WebSphere Portal.