Buzzy for IBM Connections now available in Connections App Catalogue

A couple of months ago we announced the launch of Buzzy for IBM Connections. Buzzy brings intelligent instant apps to the Connections platform for both on premise and cloud users of Connections.

Well today we are very pleased to announce that Buzzy is now available in the App Catalogue for Connections Cloud. By adding Buzzy to the App Catalogue it now takes a matter of seconds to enable Buzzy for your environment so your users can start creating amazing apps all within Connections.

So to get you started here is a quick video showing exactly how easy it is.

In addition Ginsy has recorded a more detailed video demonstrating all the points of integration that Buzzy has with Connections.

There is also some more information on the following blogs:

The Buzzy Blog - Lift-off! Buzzy launches on the IBM Connections Cloud Catalog

IBM Collaboration Solutions Blog - Buzzy is Now a Part of the Connections Catalog!

So go ahead and have a go with Buzzy for Connections Cloud. We would love to hear your ideas for killer apps and don't forget that Buzzy for Connections is also available for Connections On Prem. If you would like to have a web conference to demonstrate Buzzy for Connections in detail please let me know - abrown@isw.net.au

Merry Xmas all!

Watson Workspace Cognitive Collaboration Integrated with Buzzy Instant Apps

Yesterday IBM launched the Watson Workspace Essentials which is the first release of Workspace that is enterprise ready following the previous pre-release. I have been using and watching from the continual improvement of Workplace since it was first pre-released and over this time I have found more and more of my conversations moving from Sametime and Slack over to Workspace.

In short Workspace is a real time collaboration app that provides group and individual persistent chat, plus some built in cognitive capabilities that basically helps me to cut thru the noise and quickly focus on what matters. There is some great integrations with other cloud services via IFTTT and Workato. One of the capabilities that we have been exploring more of is the developer experience.

Workspace leverages the underlying Work Services Platform which provides a Webhooks API, Graph API, and Cognitive API's. Using these tools we have been looking at how we can intergrate Workspace with Buzzy Instant Apps and Buzzy for IBM Connections. My colleague and namesake Adam Ginsburg (he surf's while I cook on the grill. That is the key difference) created a quick Geek Sneak preview video yesterday to show off some of the integrations we have created between Buzzy and Watson Workspace.

Cool eh! If you would like some more info or have a play with Buzzy just let us know here