Bangalore: IBM India on June 16 announced the availability of IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging, a Web- based messaging offering that it said can help organisations to cost-effectively extend enterprise messaging to workers without a dedicated workspace or current e-mail access.

"Lotus Workplace Messaging provides a scalable, reliable solution at a fraction of the cost of a traditional enterprise messaging systems," an IBM release said.

It is designed for "desk-less" workers within an organisation, such as factory floor workers, shop assistants, airline employees and other workers that typically do not have access to e-mail.

"This set of users tend to send and receive a lower volume of messages compared to traditional office and knowledge workers and they require an intuitive solution that is easy to use and needs little or no training. Locus Workplace Messaging can help deliver on all of these end-user needs while helping to maintain the high level of reliability, availability and scalability," it said.

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