Customizable Information Management

The news of IBM preparing new software in push for Intranet market did not come as a surprise to me. I was expecting this from this giant company. The reason behind my thought is the growing market of Intranet software that has been effectively captured by the other software giants like Microsoft and Netscape. These companies have made a lot of profits from their Intranet software as its use is growing leaps and bound. Responding to this competition IBM has announced its strategy for building software for Intranet through its Lotus subsidiary. This step could also been seen as a measure to capture a lion share in this lucrative Intranet software market for earning more profit as well countering its competitors like Microsoft that has completely surpassed IBM in terms of users of its software as well as revenue generation. The acquisition of Lotus Development Corporation last year for $3.5 billion could be said to be a big leap towards this direction by IBM. Now IBM is using its technical expertise to develop this software.

According to computer industry experts the coming era is of Intranet software. It will be most revenue earner for the hardware and software vendors as most of the companies will either expand or improve their internal information management efficiency through Intranet software. This is ably substantiated with the fact that in the last two or three years the demand for Intranet software has nearly tripled. If this demand trend continues it will clearly surpass all types of software sales within few years. The day-by-day increasing demand of this software would obviously bring greater profits for Intranet software providers and this is what IBM is eyeing on. In today’s market, Netscape is the clear-cut leader with capturing nearly 92 of the companies out of hundred using its Intranet products. Microsoft has started posing a big threat with its growing customer base that is using its new Intranet products. IBM was completely out of this race and now even it is planning to take a plunge, as it could not defy this lucrative proposition for long.

IBM has come up with new software code named Domino, which has got many sophisticated features as per Intranet standards that will help the companies in managing their Intranet efficiently. According to IBM this software is designed in such a way that it will ably help the employees get all the required information as well as the changes made sitting at different geographical locations. The key feature of this new software is “replication” that would enable companies to constantly update the information across several separate computers. This measure proves the IBM resolve to challenge the supremacy of Netscape as well as Microsoft and this is surely going to prove much profitable for the users as well because they will get better technology to serve them owing to this competition.