Messaging Pipeline: An Enterprise Collaboration Wish List

December 20 2005

With 2006 right around the corner, four IBM Lotus Software executives have teamed up to provide CMP's Messaging Pipeline with insight into next year's wish list for enterprise collaboration. According to IBM, the top five enterprise collaboration wishes on the list include audio and instant messaging convergence, service oriented architectures, activity-centric collaboration, open standards options and compliance tools that drive efficiencies. With these five capabilities, businesses can start implementing new strategies and technologies that will help them achieve more collaborative and on-demand work environments.
Featuring insight from my colleagues Adam Gartenberg, Arthur Fontaine, Chris Lamb and Holly Tallon.

Link: Messaging Pipeline: An Enterprise Collaboration Wish List  >

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  1. 1  Bruce Elgort http://www.bruceelgort.com | 12/21/2005 10:23:07 AM

    I would be curious to know what the Notes/Domino worlds wish list is for future IBM/Lotus collaboration products. Anybody care to start?

  1. 2  Ben Rose http://www.jaffacake.net | 12/21/2005 11:50:41 AM

    An updated spell checker might be nice. Mine doesn't have 'email' or 'groupware' in it.

  1. 3  mark hughes  | 12/21/2005 11:53:01 AM

    Maybe Hannover addresses this, but better rich text all the way around

  1. 4  Jeff Picco  | 12/22/2005 2:10:39 AM

    The big thing that I keep hearing is that collaboration needs to become easy and very intuitive. Right now there are just too many clicks to do one thing. Short example - if I e-mail a few people and we start going back and forth, that should become a "colalboration space" instead of e-mails locked away in our inbox. Or we should be able to kick off a ST meeting from that space or the e-mails with a single click.

  1. 5  David Bell  | 12/22/2005 8:13:17 PM

    "Or we should be able to kick off a ST meeting from that space or the e-mails with a single click."

    Have you looked at Notes 7 yet ? Actually its not one click, but you can start a variety of ST meeting types from within an email using the online recipients as attendees.

  1. 6  Peter Wilson  | 12/22/2005 10:51:44 PM

    Can Notes 8 include some basic editing features like a decent Undo feature. Come on guys...

    Pete

  1. 7  Charles Robinson  | 12/23/2005 2:56:51 PM

    Since this is enterprise collaboration specific I'll save my Domino Designer list for Lotusphere...

    A Zimbra-style conversation thread (threaded across all folders) that is easily accessible and toggle-able (is that a word?) would be really nice for e-mail. The activity-centric idea seems a lot like the tagging feature in Zimbra, and it would be great to see this incorporated into the conversation thread idea.

    How about better Sametime support for thin client environments? Sametime 7.0 still causes my Windows Terminal Services servers to lock up about once a week. To go along with this how about...

    EASIER ACCESS TO SAMETIME CHAT LOGS!! My users complain constantly about this one. They have to go digging for the chat log database rather than having a log readily accessible from the Notes client (not Sametime Connect) directly. This coupled with the server lockup problem has me looking very seriously at Jive Messenger and their Spark IM client. I have it integrated with Notes and DWA for testing and it doesn't cause any problems.

  1. 8  Bruce Elgort http://takingnotes.openntf.org | 12/24/2005 11:43:38 AM

    Sametime chat logging is now available in the Notes 7.0 client under "Views".

    Bruce

  1. 9  Charles Robinson  | 12/27/2005 1:24:04 PM

    @8 - Bruce I must be blind because I don't see it... or does it require the 7.0 mail template? My 7.0 server and client deployment plan never got off the ground after testing uncovered that it still caused my W2k3 Terminal Services server to lock up periodically.

  1. 10  kimani  | 3/10/2006 3:51:58 PM

    How about ability to punt (kick) a participant in a ST meeting or chat from the room?