IBM Mail Next update for July 2014

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There was another IBM Mail Next session presented at Social Connections IV recently. I went ahead and embedded that video as well.

The IBM Social Mail Roadmap, Kramer Reeves & Hans Petter Dalen

IBM Mail Next updates as of July 2014 as presented by IBM for a SocialBizUG webcast. Design Advisory Program updates, web updates and timelines. These are my notes as they happened. You can now watch the webcast embedded above and get the slides here

Key announcements

Kramer talked IBM Mobile First and iOS-ready apps and the Apple announcement

Now on to the good stuff..... a long list with tons of screen images

Design Advisory Program update

basically they will open it more but they have a select list of people in the advisory group
they chose the cloud first for the testing but want you to go to the IBM cloud
If you are using SmartCloud Notes then you are on the path for IBM Mail Next ("Cloud First")
They want you to move to SmartCloud if you are on premises
"Move to a web based environment" from Kramer Reeves

SmartCloud Notes update

Group calendar
HA for Traveler
Restrict valid IP addresses for IMAP
business card like results with profile photos for name finder

2014 and beyond

Mail Next
new on-boarding manager
local archiving with Connections Mail Add-on
Offline mail access with Connections Mail Add-on
Delegated admin

Web update

you will log into SmartCloud (for now)
IBM Mail Next is a preview choice
Google like left column for who sent the message
Compose a message is very much like the new Google way, insert in bottom right (see image) or tear off
Autosave is built in
People row across top for quick access
Icons for working with attachments (preview, share and save)