38. IBM Connections at work in IBM
Profiles
IBM’s internal BluePages application provided the basis for Profiles. Currently over
600,000* profiles are hosted with over 1 million searches per week. It is the hub of both
user requests and all applications authentication for IBM. (* employees and contractors)
Communities
IBM hosts over 36,041 online communities, each with shared resources and
discussions. More than 18,243 are private communities.
Blogs
IBM’s blogging platforms host 33,010 blogs, 240,946 entries with 97,367 users and
71,473 tags.
Bookmarks
IBM’s internal social bookmarking system has 1,135,971 total bookmarks with
3,106,020 tags and with a user population of 32,314.
Activities
IBM’s internal Activities service contains 176,099 unique activities with 2,412,070
unique entries and with 361,406 registered, 'distinct', members.
Files
IBM’s internal social file sharing & storage service contains 239,642 files shared
479,041 times with 118,943 files added to collections.
Data is as of February 23, 2011