Ed Brill

Ed Brill Collaboration, technology, travel, Chicago, and more http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/ en-us Wed, 1 Feb 2012 20:36:08 -0500 Business Gets Social 2012 - formerly Lotusphere Comes to You - dates announced Wed, 1 Feb 2012 20:36:08 -0500 http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/business-gets-social-2012-formerly-lotusphere-comes-to-you-dates-announced Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/business-gets-social-2012-formerly-lotusphere-comes-to-you-dates-announced?opendocument&comments http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/business-gets-social-2012-formerly-lotusphere-comes-to-you-dates-announced

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Link: ibm.com: Business Gets Social 2012 - Software Roadshow > ]]> http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dxcomments/business-gets-social-2012-formerly-lotusphere-comes-to-you-dates-announced http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/business-gets-social-2012-formerly-lotusphere-comes-to-you-dates-announced?opendocument&comments Dominoplus introduces D+ Everywhere Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:17:00 -0500 http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/dominoplus-introduces-d-everywhere XPages Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/dominoplus-introduces-d-everywhere?opendocument&comments http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/dominoplus-introduces-d-everywhere Domino+ has developed a solution based on Lotus Domino, xPages, HTML5 and jQuery Mobile which allows Lotus Domino xPages applications to be used off-line when there's no data connection. It works in mobile devices which support HTML5 like modern Tablets and Smart phones.

The technology has been successfully used in an application for order processing at a client site in Madrid, allowing orders to be placed on site even if there was no data connection. The data is saved locally on the device and is synchronized with the server once a data connection has been established.

Our current version stores the data in the Local Storage and uses jQuery Mobile, but we can also use a local database like SQLite and Dojo Mobile instead of jQuery Mobile.As their website says, a great solution to go with IBM XWork Server...and land right into organizations that have no experience with Domino but are looking for mobile application solutions.

Link: Dominoplus.es: D+ Everywhere (in English) > ]]> http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dxcomments/dominoplus-introduces-d-everywhere http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/dominoplus-introduces-d-everywhere?opendocument&comments ibm.com: What versions of Lotus Notes support Citrix XenApp 6.5? Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:24:04 -0500 http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ibm.com-what-versions-of-lotus-notes-support-citrix-xenapp-6.5 Notes and Domino 8.5 Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ibm.com-what-versions-of-lotus-notes-support-citrix-xenapp-6.5?opendocument&comments http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ibm.com-what-versions-of-lotus-notes-support-citrix-xenapp-6.5 IBM will support Citrix XenApp 6.5 with Notes 8.5.3 Fix Pack 1 Basic and Standard clients, per the standard recommended Citrix XenApp installation guidelines provided, for the usual length of product life cycle/End of Service and/or terms of customer Support & Service agreement. Support will not request that customers reproduce issues in previous versions of XenApp (4.5, 5.0 or 6.0) that are supported with 8.5.3.However there are several caveats around the new 6.5 features, and around Notes components such as our sidebar plug-ins and embedded Symphony. It's a step forward with more to come. Read the full technote.

Link: ibm.com: What versions of Lotus Notes support Citrix XenApp 6.5? > ]]> http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dxcomments/ibm.com-what-versions-of-lotus-notes-support-citrix-xenapp-6.5 http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ibm.com-what-versions-of-lotus-notes-support-citrix-xenapp-6.5?opendocument&comments Ryan Baxter: The Introduction of OpenSocial at Lotusphere Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:00:00 -0500 http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ryan-baxter-the-introduction-of-opensocial-at-lotusphere ls12 Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ryan-baxter-the-introduction-of-opensocial-at-lotusphere?opendocument&comments http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ryan-baxter-the-introduction-of-opensocial-at-lotusphere One of the key uses of OpenSocial in Notes and Domino Social Edition and in Connections Next is embedded experiences. For those of you that don't know, embedded experiences allows you to embed the "experience" you would get in one application, in a completley different application. For example, it allows you to embed the experience from your favorite project management tool into an email, or an entry in an activity stream. This allows users to stay in context, and not have to jump back and forth between mutliple applications throughout the day. If you live in your inbox, you can stay there and get more work done without going off to multiple applicaitons throughout the day. For all of you that say Notes is not social, or email is not social, I disagree. Embedded experiences is email 2.0 and it allows email to become one of the most powerful and useful forms of communication in the organization!

The second most important benefit to adopting OpenSocial is its support for activity streams. It's important to understand that activity streams is its own specification. However activity streams needs OpenSocial. The activity streams spec just defines a data model, in other words it just defines what the activity stream should look like, there are no APIs. OpenSocial puts APIs ontop of this data model, allowing us to access the data. Connections Next exposes its activity stream through the APIs OpenSocial defines. In other words, the activity stream in Connections Next uses standards to expose its activity stream! IBM did not invent its own APIs we adhere to the specification.
One of the questions / discussions that I've seen a lot is whether you need IBM Connections to run the Notes/Domino Social Edition feature release. The answer is NO! You can, of course, use Notes Social Edition with Connections, but there is no requirement, with only one exception - serving Activity Streams to the Notes Social Edition home page. That's it. Of course you can use the Connections Files and Profiles entitlement that we've already provided with Notes 8.5.3, but no feature except Activity Streams has a requirement.

That's another way of saying that Notes/Domino Social Edition has plenty of new features on its own, including the embedded experiences which Ryan describes in so much detail in this and other blog postings. A major step forward in contextual collaboration.

Link: Ryan Baxter: Thoughts on Lotusphere 2012 >

You can also hear the latest Taking Notes podcast with Ryan along with Mikkel Heisterberg, #149, here > ]]> http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dxcomments/ryan-baxter-the-introduction-of-opensocial-at-lotusphere http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ryan-baxter-the-introduction-of-opensocial-at-lotusphere?opendocument&comments New book-IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3: Upgrader’s Guide Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:23:51 -0500 http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/new-book-ibm-lotus-notes-and-domino-8.5.3-upgraders-guide Notes and Domino 8.5 Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/new-book-ibm-lotus-notes-and-domino-8.5.3-upgraders-guide?opendocument&comments http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/new-book-ibm-lotus-notes-and-domino-8.5.3-upgraders-guide

IBM Lotus Domino software is a world class platform for critical business, collaboration, and messaging applications. With Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3, IBM has once again provided business users with an intuitive, fully integrated platform to enhance each user's experience with business communications, while reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increasing Return on Investment (ROI). You can create and share information effectively to make quick business decisions and streamline the way individuals and teams work. It is no longer just an email tool, but a means of extending business communications to a new level. In order to utilize all the powerful features of the new release, you need to upgrade your existing system to Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3.
Written by senior architects and specialists of IBM Software Services for Lotus, this book will be your guide and enable you to quickly upgrade your existing system and leverage the full capabilities of Lotus Notes 8.5.3. The authors explore the enhanced productivity tools available within this release and go through the new features of the Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 suite and document the technical features in a descriptive way, with examples and useful screenshots.
The book begins with an overview of the SOA characteristics of Lotus Notes and how it can help you assemble applications that can play a role in SOA. The book then moves on to the features and changes in Lotus Notes Client 8.5.3, before providing an overview of productivity tools: IBM Lotus Documents, IBM Lotus Presentations, and IBM Lotus Spreadsheets. The book then dives into topics such as Lotus and Domino 8.5.3 server features, deployment enhancements in Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3, Domino 8.5.3 enhancements and upgrading to Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3, amongst other topics. This book is your complete guide to the most powerful new features and changes in the Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 release.

Link: Packt Publishing: IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3: Upgrader's Guide > ]]> http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dxcomments/new-book-ibm-lotus-notes-and-domino-8.5.3-upgraders-guide http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/new-book-ibm-lotus-notes-and-domino-8.5.3-upgraders-guide?opendocument&comments Annual February Germany tour starts on the 6th Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:00:00 -0500 http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/annual-february-germany-tour-starts-on-the-6th Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/annual-february-germany-tour-starts-on-the-6th?opendocument&comments http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/annual-february-germany-tour-starts-on-the-6th

Munich, 6/7 February - edcom nachlese. A great annual event and a special place in my heart. I'll present my Lotusphere session on Messaging and Collaboration, but also the Q&A afterwards with vowe's "Good German" is a highlight. Ron Sebastian kicks the event off as he has likewise for many years.
Hamburg, 8 February - We4IT. I was approached early by We4IT, a partner that was one of the inspirations for IBM XWork Server. They have some other great speakers including Ron Sebastian continuing the tour, Niklas Heidloff, and Paul Mooney. I note that my friends at GIS are also running a Lotusphere Comes to You event in Hamburg tomorrow.
Düsseldorf, 9 February - Rheinland nachlese. As with recent years I'll have the closing session; unlike last year I won't be running to catch a train.
Frankfurt, 10 February - SP-Integration LCTY. My second time at this event. Because it is in the Frankfurt suburbs, I at least have my 24 hour excuse to rent a car and drive a bit in Germany...

After all of these, I'm not rushing home for once. A family member is on a figure skating team that happens to be competing in Neuchatel, Switzerland the subsequent weekend. So, I'm heading there to watch the competition and check out Berne as well.

Inevitably laying out this travel plan will raise the question of what other IBM collaboration/Get Social events are planned for Q1. I'll post links/updates as I hear more. Right now I personally am only also committed to events in March in Taiwan, which will be my first visit there. There are plenty more in planning, though, so stay tuned. ]]> http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dxcomments/annual-february-germany-tour-starts-on-the-6th http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/annual-february-germany-tour-starts-on-the-6th?opendocument&comments Lotusphere 2012: Mobility Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:22:51 -0500 http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-mobility ls12 Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-mobility?opendocument&comments http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-mobility
For Nokia, The Lumia devices are clearly aimed at recapturing some enterprise momentum. I visited the Lotusphere product showcase and had the opportunity for an incognito demo of the Nokia Lumia 900. I was skeptical last year when Nokia told us that look-and-feel would be the reason that buyers would choose this device, but the demo was pretty darn impressive. I didn't exactly sign up for one on the spot, but I understood why this device would be meaningful in our market.

For HTC, last week was their first time at Lotusphere. They didn't come quietly -- even Engadget noticed -- and they were more focused on their Android-based tablets than Windows Phone. Either way, though, HTC is making a run at the enterprise market, and Lotusphere customers reacted favorably.

There was other mobile news at Lotusphere, including a new, more-competitive version of the hosted Blackberry service in LotusLive SmartCloud Notes. Of the three major cloud email vendors, only IBM offers a full BES implementation (not BES Express) and some ability for user policy setting. We also back the offering with the experience of IBM Mobile Enterprise Services, experts at service delivery for smartphones.

We also announced plans for a high-availability implementation of Lotus Notes Traveler. Because of its storage architecture, Traveler can't work with Domino's clustering approach, so the mobility team had to design a solution specifically for the Traveler environment. This too is on the roadmap for 2012, though we are hoping to deliver the update earlier than the Notes/Domino Social Edition release.

It feels to me like the last remaining pieces for our mobile leadership strategy fall into place this year. We already moved up from niche to challenger last year by some analyst measurements, I expect to move all the way to the top as we continue to invest in this space in 2012. ]]> http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dxcomments/lotusphere-2012-mobility http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-mobility?opendocument&comments IBM Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 is now available Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:34:48 -0500 http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ibm-lotus-symphony-3.0.1-is-now-available Lotus Symphony Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ibm-lotus-symphony-3.0.1-is-now-available?opendocument&comments http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ibm-lotus-symphony-3.0.1-is-now-available

Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 is our latest release. There are many enhancements in this release including support for 1 million rows in spreadsheets, bubble charts and a new design for the home page.

This will also likely be the last release of IBM's own fork of the OpenOffice codebase. Our energy from here is going into the Apache OpenOffice project, and we expect to distribute an "IBM edition" of Apache OpenOffice in the future. We have contributed the Lotus Symphony code into the OpenOffice project, along with human resource across development/product management/marketing organizations. I'm excited by what I see happening at Apache, but for now, the new release of Symphony keeps the current project updated for existing and potential customers.

Link: ibm.com: Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 > ]]> http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dxcomments/ibm-lotus-symphony-3.0.1-is-now-available http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ibm-lotus-symphony-3.0.1-is-now-available?opendocument&comments Lotusphere 2012: Videos Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:36:31 -0500 http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-videos ls12 Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-videos?opendocument&comments http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-videos
The opening general session can be viewed via http://ibm.co/w9vfSC (registration required).

Beyond that, there is a ton of content on LiveStream.com/ibmsoftware. The other general sessions, many strategy and focus breakouts, and a series of "conversations with Lenny Liebmann" -- on camera interviews on a range of topics.

You can access the full Lotusphere video library here. My conversation with Lenny about the value of IBM's service & support program (S&S) is included, along with the stream of my INV101 Strategy session on Messaging and Collaboration.

I'll be writing still more about Lotusphere in the next few days. ]]> http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dxcomments/lotusphere-2012-videos http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-videos?opendocument&comments Lotusphere 2012: Social Business for SMBs Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:42:44 -0400 http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-social-business-for-smbs ls12 Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-social-business-for-smbs?opendocument&comments http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-social-business-for-smbs panel) highlighting the role of social business in small business. The three panelists were Roxanne Reynolds-Lair, CIO at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising; Ken LaVan, President of LaVan & Neidenberg, and John Roling, IT Director at Czarnowski.

The panel was a lot of fun and the reporters/analysts that attended rated it highly. We had an informal discussion about how IBM can provide social business solutions for smaller organizations. Bill Ives captured the event really well, both topics and answers. Comments from the reporters/analysts afterwards said that it was the best event of their week, and that (with hindsight) we should have opened the press conference up to other Lotusphere conference attendees.

Ed asked about the role of business partners for SMB. Roxanne said having a trusted partner is critical. These are co-creative relationships. Kevin said the partnership was critical for close support and John said they have a trusted partner to supplement their own efforts. Roxanne invites IBMers and partners in for timed presentations and sharing. They also do conference calls with multiple partners for idea sharing. John said they know the relevant IBM people on Twitter and they can ask questions from these people, usually getting quick responses.

I thought this session demonstrated the value of the IBM partner ecosystem and of how our solutions scale down as well as up. Thanks again to the IBM Communications team for the opportunity to moderate the panel. ]]> http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dxcomments/lotusphere-2012-social-business-for-smbs http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-social-business-for-smbs?opendocument&comments Lotusphere 2012: Lotus Notes/Domino Social Edition Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:15:00 -0400 http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-lotus-notesdomino-social-edition Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-lotus-notesdomino-social-edition?opendocument&comments http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-lotus-notesdomino-social-edition IBM announced Lotus Notes and Domino Social Edition, the next feature release of Notes & Domino. This new release will enter beta this quarter and is expected to ship in 2012.

Today's announcement features elements that have been publicly discussed for some time -- such as embedded experiences in Notes and iNotes -- and new components, e.g. the product name and some of the new capabilities. Some of the loudest applause during the Lotusphere opening general session came when a key component of this release -- the Notes Application Player Plug-in -- was demonstrated.

Though we've occasionally hinted and once demonstrated the plug-in before, today is the first time we've formally announced it and done a public demo. The plug-in runs in Windows browsers -- Firefox and we'll probably do one other -- and allows Notes applications to run unmodified in the browser. The plug-in is a one-time download, much like the Adobe Acrobat model, where once installed, the browser can access Notes applications directly.

Our intent in building the plug-in is to provide an approach to a common strategic direction we hear from customers today -- the desire to utilize a browser for all custom business applications. While the installed Notes client will always provide the richest, most-integrated mail and applications experience for Domino, increasingly we are asked for help in getting away from desktop deployments. Desktop clients are, for any software -- Notes, Microsoft Office, SAP -- one of the more expensive cost-of-ownership components for IT organizations today.

The vision for Notes/Domino Social Edition is to establish web and mobile as first-class experiences, not secondary efforts done after we've perfected a Notes client capability. For example, the Notes Traveler client for Android will be substantially improved on tablet devices, with better calendar views and presence awareness. The Application Player plug-in completes the picture for browser-based Domino users, making their application experience as rich as possible.

Now, some applications need more than the plug-in. It isn't going to do anything for appearance and usability -- the applications will look and act the same as they do in the Notes client today. Many companies will continue to explore application modernization to XPages, through in-house or partner work, or tools such as the GBS Transformer. For the basic, typical Notes application, though, the plug-in will run your Notes application - it is, after all, just Notes.

Notes/Domino Social Edition has several additional enhancements and components. The big one in Notes and iNotes is embedded experiences, sort of a modern approach to "store form in document" Notes applications. Embedded experiences are applications designed using the Open Social 2.0 standard and the Apache Shindig container. They will provide a more seamless user experience by keeping the end-user in context of where they are already working. Surveys, YouTube videos, workflow approvals can all be acted upon without having to open up a new window/container/browser. In the Notes client, there will also be incremental feature updates, especially in mail and calendar, designed to improve usability. iNotes will have an updated implementation of calendar, faster and more dynamic. The Domino Server will have new features such as SAML support. In the coming weeks, I'll get more specific in blog entries about the new features of Notes/Domino Social Edition.

What version number is Notes/Domino Social Edition? Answer: It isn't. It's a feature version, but it is built atop the simultaneously-forthcoming planned Notes/Domino 8.5.4 release. Our belief from countless customer feedback sessions was that the more we could deliver new features atop the 8.5.x codestream, the easier it would be for our customers and partners to adopt the new features. Movement to a version "9" requires so many IT organizations to consider a "rollout plan" differently than an 8.5.x kind of upgrade. If you want, you can just deploy 8.5.4 with no new features, or you can add the Social Edition upgrade atop 8.5.4 and expose these new capabilities.

I anticipate a zillion questions about the Notes Application Player Plug-in. A few FAQs I can get out of the way now: It will run on Windows only, doesn't support the use of email through the plug-in, is less than 100 MB to download and install, and will run apps that are built to be self-contained typical NSFs. It won't support composite applications or other componentry built to take advantage of the full Notes 8 / Eclipse framework. We haven't decided which browser besides Firefox to build for; Chrome would be more approachable. If you have others, help us assemble the FAQ now. ]]> http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dxcomments/lotusphere-2012-lotus-notesdomino-social-edition http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-lotus-notesdomino-social-edition?opendocument&comments Lotusphere 2012: Messaging and Collaboration Strategy, aka "8.5.3!" Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:16:44 -0400 http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-messaging-and-collaboration-strategy-aka-8.5.3 ls12 Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-messaging-and-collaboration-strategy-aka-8.5.3?opendocument&comments http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-messaging-and-collaboration-strategy-aka-8.5.3 many more watching via livestream (which is still available). Great attendance and it really energized me, and my copresenters -- no, rock stars -- from Petrobras.

Petrobras discussed their upgrade from Notes/Domino 6.5 to Notes/Domino 8.5.x. They laid out clear, quantitative benefits and financial results. 30 TB of storage eliminated; 42% network traffic reduction; backup cycle cut by 80%. Their discussion seemed to energize the crowd in the room, and as I later learned, their management back home on the livestream. Thank you to Alfredo, Pietro, and Djalma for sharing the Petrobras story.

Feeling the love myself after their section, I bounced back up on stage and asked the audience, "How many of you are running Notes and Domino 8.5.3?" I was stunned, floored, and flabbergasted to see nearly 2/3rds of the hands in the room go up. So I then separated the question into Domino and Notes, and still the result was the same. I was so shocked by this rapid uptake -- the English version of Notes/Domino 8.5.3 shipped only 100 days ago -- that I had to check two more times during the session to be sure it was really the response.

After I walked off stage, though, I learned that this stunning adoption rate for Notes/Domino 8.5.3 was even more shocking -- we hadn't even shipped 13 language versions yet (though they are now available today)! So yeah, the Lotusphere audience is self-selecting and all that, but within 100 days of release, we've had a great deployment and adoption rate of our newest release. Great endorsement of the Agile development methodology that we use for these products, and for all the work of the engineering team.

I have uploaded the presentation to slideshare. Feel free to ask questions, or bring them to Thursday's Lotusphere "Ask the Product Managers" session, at 11:15 AM.

IBM - Lotusphere 2012: Messaging and Collaboration Strategy

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]]> http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dxcomments/lotusphere-2012-messaging-and-collaboration-strategy-aka-8.5.3 http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-messaging-and-collaboration-strategy-aka-8.5.3?opendocument&comments Lotusphere 2012: IBM Docs beta Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:29:00 -0400 http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-ibm-docsbeta LS12 Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-ibm-docsbeta?opendocument&comments http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-ibm-docsbeta

The progress on IBM Docs -- beyond the snappy, simple name -- over the last year has been incredible. If you have not been checking out the technical preview releases on Greenhouse, you've missed some very rapid evolution. The tools are very feature-rich, yet simple to use. The are fast and lightweight. And as part of the IBM SmartCloud, they are easy to deploy both within your enterprise and to work with customers/partners/suppliers. We also recognize that there is interest in private cloud deployment of such tools, in conjunction with IBM Connections. IBM is working with key design customers to deploy private cloud implementations this year as well, and we expect to broaden that approach in the next year.

During the Lotusphere keynote, German banking organization GAD spoke about their Bank21 project, which will incorporate IBM Docs and other IBM collaboration solutions in a private cloud environment. GAD is our design partner for the private cloud approach, while the first widely-available market release of IBM Docs will be part of the IBM SmartCloud for Social Business later in 2012.

We are excited to be progressing IBM Docs rapidly towards release. Sign up for beta today on Greenhouse and help move this exciting project forward. ]]> http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dxcomments/lotusphere-2012-ibm-docsbeta http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-ibm-docsbeta?opendocument&comments Lotusphere 2012: The future of mail is social Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:24:00 -0400 http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-the-future-of-mail-is-social ls12 Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-the-future-of-mail-is-social?opendocument&comments http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-the-future-of-mail-is-social
Yes, I know - buzzword bingo there. Sorry. It's cool stuff.

I will talk more about Notes/Domino Social Edition in another post, but this feature release is focused on the blueprint we've been following for the last couple of years -- innovation, integration, convergence. For the messaging user, the Notes client will feature additional social mail capabilities designed to improve consumability and adoption. In both Notes and iNotes, a core new feature is embedded experiences, the ability to use Open Social 2.0 to play application logic inside the document container. This release features additional focus on web and mobile interfaces, recognition of the increasing preference for a choice between client deployment and lightweight user experience. Of course, since it's Notes, all your existing applications continue to run, with no architectural changes required.

IBM Connections Mail was announced conceptually at Lotusphere 2011. The new component of IBM Connections will provide end-users the direct ability to access their Domino or Microsoft Exchange mailbox in the context of Connections. However, this isn't simply a widget or container. Connections Mail embraces all the concepts of social mail -- for example, progressive disclosure to show only the most important information during initial triage, with the flexibility to access additional data as needed. Over time, Connections Mail will leverage social analytics, so that instead of an inbox concept, only relevant email is displayed to users at any given time.

IBM Connections Mail and Notes/Domino Social Edition build upon the entitlement that IBM provided to all Lotus Notes/Domino customers with the release of version 8.5.3 three months ago, where Notes customers can use IBM Connections Files and Profiles at no additional charge. The tight integration in the Notes 8.5 sidebar to IBM Connections makes the process of unifying email and social a seamless one. The next releases of these products obviously takes that one step further.

As we are demonstrating here at Lotusphere this morning, these solutions are designed to lead the industry away from email overload and whack-a-mole inboxes and towards a more focused, relevant and yes, social communication...regardless of your infrastructure today, IBM will help you get the most value from it.

Over the last few months, I've watched our industry navel gaze a bit as to what email means for the future. Here's our answer -- social mail capabilities are that future, in beta soon and shipping this year. ]]> http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dxcomments/lotusphere-2012-the-future-of-mail-is-social http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-the-future-of-mail-is-social?opendocument&comments Lotusphere 2012: Blogging/tweeting plans Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:22:13 -0400 http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-blogging-tweeting-plans ls12 Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-blogging-tweeting-plans?opendocument&comments http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-blogging-tweeting-plans
Of the day's highlights, my team has been working on at least four of the announcements. My goal in blogging them tomorrow is not to be first; it is to have a place to discuss these announcements with all of you, whether you are here in Orlando or not. Thus, I'm going to stagger a few posts out throughout the day, rather than post a slew of them at once during the opening session. There are several livebloggers who will be writing in real time from the opening session; see Matt White's blog for the stream.

For more real-time interaction, of course you can check out my Twitter feed throughout the day. ]]> http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dxcomments/lotusphere-2012-blogging-tweeting-plans http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-blogging-tweeting-plans?opendocument&comments