Lotusphere 2005 first impressions and pictures
Tags :Conferences
You will find the growing photo album
right
here in slideshow format!!!
Take a look often and I will repost the link all the time.
Well I awoke early in the morning for the Business Development Day breakfast
where we had the pleasure of sitting at the table with Ambuj the entire
time plus through the Opening Session. As I mentioned
before, Connectria did win
another Lotus Award (Beacon) and that makes 3 and counting. But the
real news was the announcements of the growth in Lotus software sales and
some initiatives of what they are planning for 2005.
Look at Workplace being meshed more into Domino with joint sales revolving
around Domino instead of competition or confusion between the two. I
posted thoughts the other day on the naming conventions. But the
direction with the new WSE offering makes allows a greater penetration
into so many markets that might be closed right now due to costs or justifications.
Now the biggest improvement is the simple installation via cd compared
to the full Workplace install. They also stated that is being built
into future versions of the full install. But to have it as a quick
deployment makes it a very easy product to sell.
From there I heard a lot about the weather and people stuck all over. But
I ran by the JumpStart sessions in the Swan to see some good ones from
Tom
Duff and Kathleen
McGivney. (see pictures link
above for a couple shots) They both were going quite well and had
great attendance. Pretty much every session I went into had good
attendance.
I then headed to an Executive Roundtable meeting about sales and marketing
initiatives and how the Business Partners need help, direction or want
things changed. I can definitely say changes are in the works and
they listened well to our ideas. There are a lot of changes I wanted
done and will make that a separate entry.
So next is the welcome reception where I will grab a bunch more pictures.
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On Sunday, January 23rd, 2005 by Chris Miller
