Lotusphere 2012: Messaging and Collaboration Strategy, aka "8.5.3!"

January 17 2012

As always, a highlight for me at Lotusphere is my time on the stage, and this year was no exception. INV101, Messaging and Collaboration Strategy, had about 1500 attendees in the room, and 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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  1. 1  GarryL  | 1/17/2012 7:21:12 AM

    Hi Ed,

    Really interested in the Notes plug-in to run apps (who isn't!).

    From a support point of view will you be supporting this in a terminal services environment? I ask as currently the full client is only supporteded within Citrix in a thin enviroment.

    Cheers.

  1. 2  Cesar Zavala  | 1/17/2012 7:31:25 AM

    Ed:

    Great presentation! I couldn't be at Lotusphere this year but I watched the livestream! It's great that the Lotusphere message is being shared.

    And I liked the Petrobras story, it feels very real, taking advantage of what we all have with Lotus.

  1. 3  mark hughes http://blog.hughesconnect.com | 1/17/2012 7:47:30 AM

    Ed when you have time can you send me a link to a good quality mail screen grab please of Notes SE?

  1. 4  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 1/17/2012 7:50:40 AM

    @3 my next blog post will have one.

  1. 5  Steve Medure  | 1/17/2012 8:22:12 AM

    Ed, great presentation! Any reason why the notes browser plug-in isn't being considered for Mac? It would be great to see the ability on that platform as well.

  1. 6  mark hughes http://blog.hughesconnect.com | 1/17/2012 8:47:56 AM

    @4 thanks!, also it said Firefox and... in the pres fro the plugin, Chrome by any chance?

  1. 7  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 1/17/2012 8:59:55 AM

    @5 the technology to implement it doesn't exist on the Mac (or Linux).

    @6 could be... we are still debating Chrome vs. IE or other alternatives.

  1. 8  Andreas Weinreich  | 1/17/2012 9:51:00 AM

    Ed, why Notes have only 5 minutes in the opening session? our team is spending 2 hours for 300 seconds ...

    @6: i know many customers running ie. it will take a long time to switch to other browsers. don't need a discussion 'best browser' because it's part of a it-strategy. we need a solution for the 'big-ones' ...

    by the way, do you know ibm will update this content? -> { Link }

  1. 9  mark hughes http://blog.hughesconnect.com | 1/17/2012 12:13:43 PM

    New question, in the new iNotes UI will there be a place to link to internal company xpage apps defined by an admin?

  1. 10  mark hughes http://blog.hughesconnect.com | 1/17/2012 12:17:24 PM

    ok maybe in the home page it will be customizable

  1. 11  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 1/17/2012 2:27:43 PM

    @8 no product got more than a few minutes, because we had these separate strategy sessions throughout the day. The overall social business message, some entertainment, some strategy, some customers make up the OGS, as they have every year. Notes/Domino had a typical proportion of the session as it has in all recent years.

  1. 12  Bill Geimer  | 1/17/2012 4:42:33 PM

    Ed. I caught the INV 101 session today. I want to thank IBM for its wide ranging effort to put LS sessions out on the Public Internet both in real time and from the server farm. In this economy, that is the right thing to do, and considering their understandable reluctance to do that for the sake of paying customers in the past, +1 to them.

    In any way, manner or form, 66% in 100 days is a high mark for a product, You must not have to rip and replace :).

  1. 13  Silvio Kleesattel http://www.bea-services.de | 2/2/2012 1:35:09 PM

    Ed, I saw on your presentation @ LotusSphere something about a new Symphony plug-in for IBM Connections and was wondering where I could find it? Is it available for Symphony embedded in Notes, too?

    Thanks in advance.