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Collaboration University - London opening session (live)

After Rob Novak opened the conference, he turned over the stage to Ken Bisconti, Lotus/IBM as the keynote:

Ken promised only one marketing slide at the beginning to the obvious appease of all the attendees.  The business questions revolved around driving the effectiveness and responsiveness of the organization and workforce.  Composite applications are coming together, including in Notes Hannover using the Notes Rich Client platform through Eclipse.  Lotus Expeditor (need keyword to learn here) will become the framework builder in this scenario.  Enterprise content management has high end needs including very specific to departments and very general to everyone in the organization.  These include collaborative content services (Quickplace), ad-hoc and informal collaboration (Websphere Portal, Workplace Documents, Dom.Doc) all the way to structured team space services (non-IBM).  All of these are accessed with flexible UI interaction of Lotus Notes, Sametime, Portal and Microsoft Office.  Storage needs and repositories are the next logical need.  Creating such things as a Sametime plug-in to access these backend repositories are becoming a demanding need in enterprises.  Enhancements in Notes continue to help manage these storage needs.  Those are all 'traditional' access methods.

This moves us into real-time and instant ways of collaborating.  He covered the past 18 months of the Sametime path and growth into new levels.  This all leads the path to presence driven organizations.  The Sametime client is coming for Windows Mobile and Symbian to show the move into presence driven.  He also went on to say look for announcements on the RTC Gateway in a month or so.  He showed a high level architecture view of the RTC Gateway (which I will speak to later).

I can leave blogging a moment as he went into live Sametime 7.5 demos..

Ok we interrupt the demo to laugh as Ken initiates a voice chat with Mark Pagnier (IBM) and asks if Mark can hear him.  Mark answers yes...from the back of the room in the last row.  Ok, you get the humor here.

Now, how is Lotus moving from hierarchies (picture a Domino domain) to network hierarchies (picture spaghetti).  This includes virtual teams expert networks and knowledge communities.  There is a new initiative that has not been announced that is moving towards discovering the right information.  Of course, Dogear was shown to elaborate 'social bookmarking'.  Ken once used the (rhymes with 'hang high') word but I don't think I can type that anymore.

In closing, the IBM Workplace Strategy appeared on the screen including all Dynamic Workplace apps (Domino, Portal), Unified Communications (Sametime) and Collective Knowledge (upcoming).

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On Wednesday, September 27th, 2006   by Chris Miller        

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