IBM Mobile Connections Now Free

IBM sells a social media and community building tool that competes with Socialtext and Jive and combines wikis, social streams, discussion forums and integrates with IBM's Sametime for presence/IM communications. It is called Connections and today IBM announced that mobile versions of Connections are free to download.


The free mobile versions are available on the Android, iOS and Blackberry phones through the links on their respective app stores. They connect to either a Windows or Linux Connector server. But wait, there is more. There are also desktop versions.

 IBM announced that it has beefed up the mobile versions with some bonus features, and of course they differ depending on the phone you are using:

• Partial wipe for Apple iOS devices, This is new and allows an IT administrator to wipe only the company data from the device while preserving a worker's personal data. There are many other MDM products that offer this feature, it is nice to see IBM promoting this too. 
• Click-to-call from Android OS device calendar. Available in beta now, Lotus Notes Traveler will allow IBM email users to call people listed in their calendar views with just one click. 
• Online meeting support for BlackBerry only, OSv6 is required for this client. 

IBM is probably one of the biggest users of the product.