<p>Those are some of the problems that IT and business leaders at large organizations continue to face with their enterprise collaboration and communication platforms, although these systems have been around for more than 20 years.</p><p>However, with ESN (enterprise social networking) software, which attempts to adapt consumer social media capabilities for workplace settings, some companies are hoping to sharpen their collaboration systems and make it simpler and more effective for employees to work together.</p><p>At the IBM Connect conference this week, officials from a number of large organizations talked about their ongoing projects in this area, and about their goals for improved productivity, higher employee engagement and sharper innovation.</p><p>But not everyone is convinced that the ills affecting enterprise collaboration will be easily cured with ESN products, which let employees create profiles, microblog, set up wikis, participate in discussion forums, share documents, build online communities, and rate, tag and review content.</p><p><a href="http://www.itworld.com/unified-communications/339872/ibm-connect-it-execs-talk-about-betting-enterprise-social">Keep reading...</a></p>