Introduced in 2003, the brand was largely disbanded by 2007, with its core technologies and many of its products rebranded as Lotus or WebSphere.
[3] In 2004, Workplace 2.0 was released, to run inside of a desktop rich client and in a web browser.
IBM Workplace Collaboration Services is a single product providing a set of communication and collaboration tools such as e-mail, calendaring and scheduling, awareness, instant messaging, e-learning, team spaces, Web conferencing, and document and Web content management.
[9] It has been superseded largely by Lotus-branded products, such as Notes, Domino, Sametime, Quickr, and Connections.
It has a plug-in for running Lotus Notes 7 applications, and a set of productivity tools for office documents, forked from OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 (the last version released under the Sun Industry Standards Source License).
[11] Workplace Managed Client introduced a collaboration tool called Activity Explorer.