IBM on Tuesday unveiled the Lotus centre for advanced collaboration, the only one of its kind in Asia Pacific. The centre located at the IBM Software Lab in Pune will host dedicated technical expertise to help customers and partners adopt collaboration technology in their environment.

IBM aims to create this centre as a regional hub for Lotus advanced collaboration strategy and solutions.

IBM recently expanded a set of social software tools and capabilities for enterprise collaboration that brought popular features like micro-blogging from the home into the business environment.

The company also announced a new, enterprise collaboration service – LotusLive, that delivers the benefits of cloud computing to millions of mainstream business users with the reliability, privacy and security associated with on-premise enterprise collaboration software.