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IBM Lotus Quickr

Lotus Quickr
Developer(s) IBM
Stable release
8.5
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Collaboration platform, collaboration, web 2.0
License Proprietary
Website ibm.com

IBM Lotus Quickr is social team collaboration software, used by teams of people to share content. Lotus Quickr works inside and outside firewalls.

Lotus Quickr can be described as three things:

Lotus Quickr has six main components:

At Lotusphere 2010, IBM previewed the next release of Lotus Quickr. Future plans include an easier to use Lotus Quickr library, simplified version control, and a redesigned discussion forum, and support for Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS). Announcements at Lotusphere 2010 also included a new Lotus Quickr client for Blackberry.

Lotus Quickr connectors are like mini-applications or plug-ins that are snapped into desktop applications. The connectors offer the following features and benefits: People can continue to work in their familiar desktop applications. The connectors enable the easy movement of content from Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, Windows Explorer, Microsoft Office or Lotus Symphony into Quickr.

The software offers scalable content repositories, content management and team services such as and team blogs.

The Lotus Quickr content services include Web services and REST style services for accessing content, allowing developers to build their own extensions and connectors to Lotus Quickr. Initial support for the NSF and JCR backends was announced with future support coming for IBM DB2 Content Manager and IBM FileNet P8.

Professional project and portfolio management templates for Lotus Quickr are available from Trilog Group, an Official IBM Design Partner. Marketed as ProjExec for Quickr, the solution offers project teams a robust alternative to Microsoft Project and SharePoint. It also integrates with Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime and more recently with IBM Connections to deliver an Enterprise-class social project management platform.


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