Today IBM announced LotusLive Symphony, a revolution in online collaborative document editing.  With a preview release later this quarter and final release later this year, LotusLive Symphony delivers word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations for users looking to improve efficiency and collaboration during the content authoring process.  Like all of the LotusLive story, one of the unique differentiators for LotusLive Symphony is its ability to provide that value to interactions with customers, suppliers, and business partners in addition to colleagues within an organization.

Image:Lotusphere 2011: Introducing LotusLive Symphony

In our mind, document editing is about more than cell formulas, formatting, and animation.  LotusLive Symphony offers capabilities such as real-time or private co-editing, live sections, author presence awareness, contextual commenting, assignment and notifications, and task and attention management cues.  Initially designed for use with LotusLive, we are also exploring ways to deliver these capabilities in an on-premises environment through an initial customer partnership.

We announced LotusLive Symphony a year ago as Project "Concord", and now have made significant progress and are ready for Technical Preview release 2.  That will go live on Greenhouse.lotus.com after Lotusphere.

If you are at Lotusphere and want to learn more, check out INV110 on Wednesday at 10 AM. For everyone else, here's the video:

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  1. 1  Chris Miller http://www.IdoNotes.com |

    I have the pleasure of interviewing Jeanette Barlow, Product Manager for LotusLive Symphony. You can hear it right after the OGS from my blog.

  1. 2  Chris Miller http://www.IdoNotes.com |

    The interview is up for those that want to hear more..

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  1. 3  Senthil Kumar http://senthilkumars.blogspot.com |

    Wow, this is cool Ed. Thanks

  1. 4  gary au http://www.garyau.com |

    Will it issued as independent product ? or will I enjoy it in future version of lotus domino ? or I can just use it in LotusLive ?

  1. 5  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com |

    @4 initially designed for LotusLive, though as I said in the blog post, we are looking at other ways. It would not be part of Domino directly.

  1. 6  gary au http://www.garyau.com |

    Thanks , if it is possible , at least allow editing of document / spreadsheet / presentation via web base editor , in lotus document library template ....

    It make us have private 'google doc' and edit document everywhere.

  1. 7  Julian Woodward http://blog.woowar.com |

    Late to the party on this (been meaning to watch that vid since L'sphere) ... but I have to say it looks extremely good. Will have to have a play in Greenhouse!

  1. 8  Stanley Davis  |

    Are there any updates on the status of LotusLive Symphony?

  1. 9  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com |

    Stanley, suggest you check out the technical preview for LotusLive Symphony in the IBM Greenhosue -- http://greenhouse.lotus.com click on "Labs" at the top.