Live blogging Admin2011 keynote
Tags :Connections Sametime Android iOS Admin2011 Symphony
The View once again live streamed the keynote address that contained Kevin Cavanaugh, Ed Brill and Chris Crummey for Las Vegas, NV.
After years of it being said that attendees wanted the printed material, WIS announced it went green and would not print materials.
Debbie Lynd announced the Three Musketeers to the stage, Ed and Chris are up first.
Ed started covering:
- all the product releases, versions and some features
- three updates to LotusLive since Lotusphere
- Lotus Protector 2.8 about to ship (or is it IBM Protector now?)
- Traveler companion for iOS now caches the password
- Ed wants to talk about XPages Application Server licensing model
Chris Crummey stepped in for live demos:
- a Notes demo and social demo were on tap
- Live text was a huge showing of the initial part of the demo
From here I got lost in the flow and point of the demo. He stated he wanted to do a demo where social and Notes were so blurred that you didn't know which was being covered. But, then he switched over to the Connections experience which showed the defining line. Social integration and analytics.
Ed stepped back in and highlighted LotusLive Notes. They are using an optional FTP approach to send data into the staging servers. I am still unsure what happened to good old replication that we here at Connectria provide.
"Social Mail" is their idea of next generation messaging. Back to Chris for the demo.
Chris brings up iNotes as the demo client with Sametime, calendar and the OneUI look and feel. Makes me think "Social Mail" will head towards my posting of Saying Goodbye to the Notes Client I did back around the #ibmexperience announcements.
Kevin Cavanaugh takes the stage and talkes of Sametime 8.5.2 launch in May. You can watch a great webcast on "What's New in Sametime 8.5.2"
Chris launched a demo of the new web based IBM Connections client from the Mobile betas. He shows the IdeaJam Ideation blog from the mobile device as well to vote on topics.
Funny I would think working with files would be more important immediately than working with uploading photos. I can see some companies wanting to do this, but more work with files would be higher on my personal listing.
He then went into the native Sametime client on the iPhone, including groups.
Kevin went back into more Sametime 8.5.2 tools like NAT and Bandwidth Manager. (See above webcast for more info on those.) Presence and IM on the Android devices including a SUT Dialer for calls and preferred numbers. As well as Sametime Meeting clients for BlackBerry.
Kevin announces that the Connections mobile client is awesome and ahead of schedule. It will be in all the major app stores. I have heard rumblings from iWildfire not knowing about this coming.
From Kevin:
"Activity Stream services for IBM Connections 4 will also have an installable app to take things offline as well as pivot on those activities and launch into a full embedded experience using the Open Social 2 standard to launch actions from your mobile device."
With Open Social they can make items in the stream actionable. Meaning click to do something.
After a brief Symphony demo showing off color coded web editing for Lotus Symphony by Chris, we moved to his iPad. He mentioned iWildfire which I wonder how this fits with the new Connections mobile client.
He then shows the new dashboard, Morning Report, to show everything for the day on his iPad. It sees the messages, calendar, tasks and more. Basically back to the old dashboard of the Notes client. You can adjust some settings around showing unread and others. He uses the word analytics and the social business toolkit. I think widgets.
Kevin talks about the openness being brought into the product line with Open Social standards and 2.0. The work being shown was being run on an Open Social public sandbox site. We went to some demos of the work IBM has done and Kevin wants Open Social widgets to be brought to the next Lotusphere SocialSphere.
An interface was shown in a browser on the iPad, including file preview from the stream. Basically widgets hooking together social sites.
Ed then announced the IBM Champions, congrats to all the winners!
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On Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011 by Chris Miller
