Lotusphere Comes To You - if you came ( #LCTY in St Louis) live blogging
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Registration looked good, plenty of badges. Awesome room and presentation center I have had the pleasure of being at previously inside of Washington University at the Charles Knight Executive Center. All the presentation material will be available on LotusLive for attendees which was nice. I wonder if they will create a new account or use our existing one?
Ed Brill - Keynote
The Collaboration Agenda (I dissected it here back in January at Lotusphere) mentioned at Lotusphere was the opening portion of the slideset. Ed moved right into the building blocks to help companies work smarter, which is the Lotus Collaboration software. Partners are a key part of the growth of the strategy. The Collaboration Agenda (CA in my notes from here one for simplicity) is about translating technological innovation into industry-specific contexts. It is not about products but about basing solutions around needs.
18,378 new customers have been added since the launch of Lotus Notes and Domino 8 with growth in LotusLive as well.
LotusKnows was the next impact statement from Ed talking about the influence it had had and the advertisement placement everywhere.
The technology roadmap is based on customer evolution as much as the drive to enhance the products themselves. Desktop productivity was a highlight with Lotus Symphony. He moved deftly into LotusLive and LotusLive labs talking about such things as the Slide Library.
Ed showed a video on Project Vulcan, hosted by Ron Sebastian. It was a good demo walk through. I hope this video is out there for everyone to see.
Smarter Collaboration: Integrated Lotus Portfolio
A huge client demo was part of this. Widgets, Activities and more. I did ask a question around sources for best practices on security controls and deployment for all of these widgets. Yes it might have been a slight set-up but I see IBM sales push widgets constantly with no idea of the complexity of including and deploying 3rd party widgets into your environment.
"Lotus Knows you should stop begging and stealing from people and borrow from them instead" - yes this was an actual slide. The idea is learning how to search and find information, leveraging communities of interest. Lotus Connections is the key here. Many, many slides and commentary on Connections and social sharing.
The PeoplePod plug-in was cool, wish we had it to play with. He then moved into live demos and click-to-call technology.
IBM Websphere Portal - the awesome Jon Raslawski
Jon did a bang up job explaining the why to use Portal without making it a huge sales pitch. The partner references were not just a name, but the story and the integration portions and making your day perform better.
Social Collaboration Delivers Real Business Value - Randy Frink, and Americas Business Unit Executive
Social networking is part of our fabric as human beings. Lotus Connections and Quickr install base grew 34% and millions of users.
Social collaboration helps people work smarter. We moved through Quickr Connectors, Connections and about how you share and locate not only your data, but co-workers.
He discussed Lotus Connections Next and Quickr Next. Enhanced mobile support for Andriod. As well as microblogging and better profile support.
Notes and Domino Strategy - Ed Brill
Ed rapidly moved through 8.5.x, licensing, packaging and more in a nicely paced presentation. I think this is a core of what poeple wanted to know and what licensing works for them. Mainly with Travelr, CAl's, free Designer and Mobile Connect.
Notes 8.5.2+ and the naming on iNotes/DWA plus lite mode and ultralite mode. Ultralite will move to support Andriod and more. Ed said it, I repeat it. Learn XPages!! (I personally might suggest the upcoming developer webcast in Series 3 of ConsultantInYourPocket).
OpenNTF.org was also highlighted which was nice to see. In 2009 traffic was up 25% to 3.2million page views. 67,000 members and registered.
IBM and SAP managed to get a slide. Not a lot of hands went up but I know it is important.
Now slides on delivery of Notes showing on-premise, appliance, cloud and hybrid. LotusLive Notes will be getting a substantial update this year, according to Ed. Slide had a ton of info:
- Cloud based Domino Mail, Calendar, Contact and Instant Messaging
- Seamless transition to the cloud from business
- Runs Domino
- Per user/per month licensing
- Archiving with Sonian
- Moving to 5gb mailbox with options for mobility and archiving
- lower entry of 50 users
- customers still handle user id management
I know we still currently offer a better deal on this, but I will watch closely.
Lotus Protector was next up. it is a product line, not just a single product. IBM has now moved to Protector for internal spam control. It is a per user software license on physical or virtual. Up to 360k emails per hour filtered. it is optimized for the appliance model.
Project Concord, or web based collaborative document editing, supports both individual and teams. It isn't just Symphony on the web. Web clippings, co-editing and more make you more productive. Look for this in 2nd quarter in LotusLive Labs.
Collaboration In the Cloud - Ted Brufke, NA Sales Leader
LotusLive is of particular interest to us as we have been doing this model for years. Keep in mind that LotusLive iNotes is NOT Lotus Domino based. Their idea is to have you not manage your IT infrastructure.
LotusLive iNotes is~$3/user/month targeting users in factories, overserved or not served at all.
LotusLive Notes and LotusLive Engage with enhancements and partner offerings (Skype, SalesForce, etc).
Sametime Roadmap and Unified Communications
The first portion was talking about who could use the unified technology, such as healthcare.
He moved into plug-ins to jump you from Sametime Connect to Sametime 8.5 meetings and also peeked at audio and video. Up to six people in the video environment. They did a nice live demo over the network to another MCTY city. He preloaded presentations and was able to change and navigate between them quickly. Markups and the rest of the expected tools were there. The discussion area was the tiny bottom left box, but could be expanded and also sorted to show only the questions or action items.
Meeting recording was demod next. With Sametime 8.5 it records in mpg or mov format. I am waiting for the hardware and software requirement questions to begin.
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On Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 by Chris Miller
