Applicable have been delivering solutions in the messaging and collaboration space for 10 years and the alliance with Collaboration Matters adds to the significant skills in delivering IBM Lotus Connections and IBM Lotus collaborative solutions. It adds SaaS offerings to Collaboration Matters with the ability to leverage Applicable’s proven track record in providing Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions into their customers.

Applicable's Chief Technology Officer Mark Ward commented “Being able to deliver these highly complex solutions in the cloud without compromise to functionality, usability or security is a key win for customers. We are able to combine the deep experience of Collaboration Matters' understanding of the cultural and business benefits in deploying IBM Lotus Connections with our experience of delivering highly available SaaS offerings.”

Collaboration Matters were seeking a partner who had the ability to offer a true always-on worldwide delivery of IBM Lotus Connections in a SaaS model to enable its customers to take advantage of the latest developments of IBM Lotus Connections in a cloud without compromise, delivering all the well understood benefits of cloud computing without concessions to features or functionality. Stuart McIntyre (Technical Director at Collaboration Matters) commented “This alliance with an established provider of IBM Lotus Connections cloud based solutions gives our customers the ability to gain the huge benefits of social computing from IBM quickly without the need to internally develop their IT infrastructure and in an innovative commercial offering. Collaboration Matters experience in social computing will add significant business analysis skills to Applicable's IBM Lotus Connections solutions”

One of the aims of the alliance is to bring together the 2 leading providers of social computing and SaaS to provide a compelling offering around the IBM Lotus Connections product. Applicable’s Sales Manager, Paul Mason, commented “this really secures our position as the UK’s leading IBM premier partner for delivering and hosting IBM Lotus Connections projects. IBM Lotus Connections truly empowers organisations to be innovative, enabling efficient execution of business strategies by calling upon the expertise of networks of coworkers, partners, and customers. This alliance further underlines our investment in what we believe is a large and growing market”

This alliance coincides with the announcement that Applicable have launched the UK and Australia’s first IBM Lotus SaaS  offering for IBM Lotus Domino, Quickr, Sametime and Connections. As an alternative to the traditional IBM’s Passport Advantage agreements, this new Applicable service will allow customers the option to purchase either data centre or customer premises licenses on a true per user / per month model with no minimum contracted term.