Lotus chief discusses complex battle plan

摘要

Integration of Notes-based collaboration, new unified communications tools, content management and Web-based services and the potential to mash that all together with new-fangled development tools and social-networking innovations pouring out of IBM's research labs is just one of the major challenges facing IBM's Lotus Software division chief, Bob Picciano. Seven months into his new job, the 21-year IBM veteran, who started in research and spent time as a technical assistant to former CEO Lou Gerstner, will take his integration pitch to the people in January when he stands up for the first time at Lotusphere as the leader of IBM's Lotus software division. In a year with no new major Notes release to show off, Picciano needs to sell users on integrating pieces of the Lotus portfolio and catching the Web and Enterprise 2.0 wave. "It seems like this is one of those occasions where things are finally coming together.