As mentioned, IBM today hosted a Mobile Strategy Day at the grand opening of the Massachusetts Software Labs in Littleton. Speakers included Steve Mills, Bob Picciano, Alistair Rennie, Al Zollar, Craig Hayman, and several other senior IBM executives. The attendees were analysts and press, and along with the presentations, they saw demos from IBM Research and the various IBM software brands. And, as tweeted earlier today, we used this opportunity to announce the beta of Lotus Notes Traveler for Android devices.
In Alistair's presentation, he covered the range of tools IBM's Software Solutions Group offers to be productive on mobile devices, increasingly a primary device for knowledge workers. He also surveyed some IBM Research projects and a roadmap for mobility in the future. We issued a separate press release talking about one of those research projects, "Email triage", which helps mobile workers with decisions around what activities and actions to undertake.
Here are some of the resources from today's event, in addition to those linked above: Alistair's presentation and a video on Email triage.
THANK YOU to several business partners (Teamstudio, Teamwork Solutions, SNAPPS, and eBF) who assisted in getting mobile application examples and customer stories!!!!
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Ben Rose http://www.jaffacake.net | 6/16/2010 5:28:39 PM
Email Triage? Aka "death by buttons". You could play Minesweeper on that thing!
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Benjamin | 6/16/2010 6:26:25 PM
I wonder why this reminds me of GTD (Getting Things Done by David Allen) so much... ;-)
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Ulrich Krause http://www.eknori.de | 6/16/2010 11:56:23 PM
My first thought was : WOW. Then the speaker says: " We are using the activity component of Lotus Connections ... " *sigh*
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Peter Presnell http://www.yellowverse.com | 6/17/2010 12:15:39 AM
@2 (Ben). I agree the UI for the product probably needs a lot of work. But I think it is important to look past that to the underlying concept. I spent some time looking at this product at LotusSphere and was hoping this would be a product that would be taken seriously by IBM. It shows when we migrate an application from one device to another that it is not just about redesigning the exiting application to fit into the available real estate. Rather we really need to consider the possibility that a whole new set of requirements may need to now be considered. People accessing e-mail on a mobile device (IMO) cannot respond to e-mail the same way they do on a desktop because they are probably screen challenged, keyboard challenged and time/attention challenged. Adding a triage layer seems to fit well with how I need to process my mail when I am connected via a mobile device. It is also interesting that by adding the concept of triage to my mobile device we then need to reconsider the functionality of our core mail product to allow for the triage processing that has now taken place. And having introduced the concept of mail triage, where else could this be used? e.g. What about administrative assistant who often triages the mail for their bosses? It makes you wonder just how many applications could ultimately be affected by growth in the use of mobile devices!
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Shawne Robinson | 6/17/2010 12:50:20 AM
Congratulations on the mobile media day, IBM Mass Lab launch and support for Android devices! I didn't know that Lotus Notes Traveler supports RIM devices ({ Link } ) ;)
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Stefan Pointner | 6/17/2010 12:57:35 AM
Wow! I see a lot of opportunities for that in the market! Easy to understand within minutes, addressing painpoints any (mobile) user has and tight integration within existing infrastructures.
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Christian | 6/17/2010 1:30:16 AM
Can i use this with Domino?
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Brett H | 6/17/2010 4:24:15 PM
@4 Same here mate...
I was sort of hoping for a Domino/XPages based version of 'Air Forms' { Link }
Anything happening in this space or is it going to be left for the likes or CommonTime?