IBM Connect launches 2012, becomes the conference name in 2013. I won my $1
Tags :IBM Connect Lotusphere
IBM launched the Connect portion of Lotusphere in 2012 as a conference within a conference, even though they had used the name for analyst conferences for years. IBM Connect 2012 was the place they wanted you to go, but without the full range of portfolio or sessions. A few hundred people entered the rooms for the IBM Connect event.
This year they are flipping the names around with the flagship being IBM Connect and Lotusphere becoming a track. Lotusphere will be a technical track inside of IBM Connect. One can only imagine there will be others across numerous softwares in the portfolio.
The content in the IBM Connect 'Lotusphere' program brings forward the best of our heritage collaboration portfolio, expanding the focus to include the full IBM social business platform, including social portal, web experiences, social content management, social analytics, and social commerce.
The only products retaining the Lotus name are Traveler and Notes/Domino and I see those being merged into the Connections family to make the social platform a single item. You will only have to say yes to IBM as a social platform and worry less about the pieces. Look at talks about IBM Connections Mail for example. It can access Exchange or Domino but is part of the Connections UI and naming.
I have guesses of what we will see renamed or folded. Sametime will be closely related with Connections. Lotus Traveler will be a mobile solution for IBM Connections Mail. Notes/Domino will somehow be moved into the IBM social platform since we now have Social Edition. Then we will see the Lotus brand in it's last year appearing as Lotusphere. I also expect to see all the software brands in force and enormous amounts of sessions that overlap on being social and how the tools fit with more limited sessions on how they work.
UPDATE: Some are saying Lotusphere is not a track and will not be mention. The website states as above and I found this in another portion:
Within the Lotusphere technical program, a rich array of technology sessions (exactly what a Lotusphere alum would expect!)
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- IBM Connect 2012 conference guide in PDF
- IBM Connect 2012 speaker preview announced
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On Monday, August 27th, 2012 by Chris Miller
