IBM has unveiled new software and research innovations aimed at improving the way employees across an organisation collaborate in a globally integrated enterprise.

IBM is announcing that it is opening up its development platform based on Web 2.0 technologies for developers to collaborate and contribute to software under development at www.Jazz.net. Jazz.net is an open, commercial community designed to help companies globally and transparently collaborate on the development of Jazz-based technology.

IBM is also announcing IBM Rational Team Concert Express, available later this year, which will help small and mid-sized development teams improve their productivity by enabling real-time collaboration across a geographically dispersed software delivery team.

"IBM is redefining how software development and delivery will be done in the future" said Dr. Danny Sabbah, general manager, Rational Software, IBM. "Open commercial development at Jazz.net is changing the way IBM products are delivered to customers by making the process truly a community effort."