Session Title: Innovation with Integration: IBM’s “Next Generation” Intranet Portal
Session Track: ID503
Track Three: Planning and Managing Your Collaboration Infrastructure

Continuous innovation of IBM’s enterprise portal, in a rapid, non-disruptive, evolutionary manner is a major goal of the “ODW Next” project. The On Demand Workplace (ODW) is IBM’s single point of entry for employee intranet access (w3.ibm.com). It serves as the “front door” to IBM’s internal transformation activities, providing a personalized work environment for more than 350,000 employees, in over 100 countries. The approach of ODW Next is to couple a live innovation platform – a “perpetual beta” – alongside the production environment, to obtain the maximum benefits of live usage and continuous feedback from a statistically significant number of global employees, while minimizing risk to the steady state production systems.