My bag's heavy with IBM business cards. I must say it felt a bit weird having to write my name & email address on the back of people's own business cards every time they asked for my non-existent business card but hey, at least I don't have to carry my business cards around. Hmm.
The best thing about the conference was probably the networking piece. We now know some people perfect to help with our strategy work and over the next few weeks we'll be leveraging those contacts to progress our visioning/design/... In fact, following some of the one-to-one discussions we had during LoLA about where we are in our strategy definition work, IBM seem also very keen on giving us their best to make sure we don't become people-ready.
Overall, lots to look forward to in terms of working with IBM over the next few months. I will be setting up a "room" in Bluehouse to facilitate discussions with the relevant people in IBM - should be a fire test for their newest cross-organisational collaboration flagship : )
Next RDV @ Lotus Sphere 2009 !
Friday, September 26, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Sneak Peek @ Notes 8.5 client
It (unsurprisingly) looks very much like Notes 8 but the developers have thrown in a couple of extra features. What I really liked was :
o Widgets in the client - Connections, QuickR, Sametime, etc. all accessible via the Notes client (not new, I know) but the way a user can seamlessly slide into the next collaboration tool with a simple click was quite impressive.
o The To Do's - you can in Notes 8.5, when writing up a mail, create a table of tasks allocated to people. When the mail is sent out, those tasks get separately sent as To Do's to the allocated people's mailboxes. I see in my crystal ball major uptake of this functionality in meeting-crazy Mars.
o Also cool is the ability to drag and drop emails from the mailbox to the To Do's list or even funkier, to the Calendar! And that, abracadabra, creates a meeting for you with the subject line <-- subject line of email, invitees <-- To's and cc's of email. Don't you love it.
It's funny though how much similar Notes 8 and Outlook look, and apparently it's not even by design ; )
o Widgets in the client - Connections, QuickR, Sametime, etc. all accessible via the Notes client (not new, I know) but the way a user can seamlessly slide into the next collaboration tool with a simple click was quite impressive.
o The To Do's - you can in Notes 8.5, when writing up a mail, create a table of tasks allocated to people. When the mail is sent out, those tasks get separately sent as To Do's to the allocated people's mailboxes. I see in my crystal ball major uptake of this functionality in meeting-crazy Mars.
o Also cool is the ability to drag and drop emails from the mailbox to the To Do's list or even funkier, to the Calendar! And that, abracadabra, creates a meeting for you with the subject line <-- subject line of email, invitees <-- To's and cc's of email. Don't you love it.
It's funny though how much similar Notes 8 and Outlook look, and apparently it's not even by design ; )
QuickR Next & Enterprise Content Management
Not much to blog here as Brian's already done it, but some work definitely coming up around Document Collaboration with QuickR hooked to an ECM. At the moment I don't think we have any widely used ECM in Mars (except our very own versions of it, H & S drives, which Mat is busy plotting to get rid of asap), so this will likely be a comprehensive piece of work. Perhaps a Proof of Concept which we can also aim at attempting a change in user behaviour as far as sharing is concerned?
Domino & Notes : Business Benefits
Two of the best sessions I attended was Parts I and II of an IBM marketing stint by the Notes/Domino (Microsoft Inquisition) sales team.
They talked about IBM market shares, industry predictions/stats (interesting to note btw that IBM are nearly suing Gartner because of a couple of "wrong" reports Gartner published quite widely). Some facts :
o Based on industry data, the TCO difference per user between a Domino and an Exchange shop is less than 60 cents (Domino @ $153.16, Exchange $153.70).
o Average cost of migration per user is $300.
o The cost of migration of applications from Domino onto a non-Domino platform, for a 2500 applications environment of average complexity, is about $6 000 000.
IBM are now also doing Notes applications migration cost analyses (the like EMC have recently done for us) with obviously the aim of convincing existing customers of the lack of value there is in the migration.
IBM can also help provide the ammunition required by their "allies" - ie. strategists - in their customer communities to help gain buy-in for Domino at decision-making levels in the company. This is one offer I will be happily taking advantage of over the next 4-6 weeks! If not the content, the approach I'm sure will help : )
Overall, the team seemed geared up to pull off some extreme IBM marketing over the next few months and will be doing anything short of dropping pink flyers from helicopters to make sure the world out there knows that Notes 8 is beautiful, Symphony beyond Office and Sametime Embedded a "first class citizen" :D
They talked about IBM market shares, industry predictions/stats (interesting to note btw that IBM are nearly suing Gartner because of a couple of "wrong" reports Gartner published quite widely). Some facts :
o Based on industry data, the TCO difference per user between a Domino and an Exchange shop is less than 60 cents (Domino @ $153.16, Exchange $153.70).
o Average cost of migration per user is $300.
o The cost of migration of applications from Domino onto a non-Domino platform, for a 2500 applications environment of average complexity, is about $6 000 000.
IBM are now also doing Notes applications migration cost analyses (the like EMC have recently done for us) with obviously the aim of convincing existing customers of the lack of value there is in the migration.
IBM can also help provide the ammunition required by their "allies" - ie. strategists - in their customer communities to help gain buy-in for Domino at decision-making levels in the company. This is one offer I will be happily taking advantage of over the next 4-6 weeks! If not the content, the approach I'm sure will help : )
Overall, the team seemed geared up to pull off some extreme IBM marketing over the next few months and will be doing anything short of dropping pink flyers from helicopters to make sure the world out there knows that Notes 8 is beautiful, Symphony beyond Office and Sametime Embedded a "first class citizen" :D
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Quickr Next
The last session on Tuesday was a demo/feedback session for some provisional new features of Quickr. The single most interesting new feature is the "Personal Place" - think of it as a web based replacement of the trusty H: drive. It also enables seamless transfer of documents into team spaces, and from there into enterprise content management systems.
The connector for windows file explorer allows familiar access to the documents, but the true power is the ability for users to work on any of those documents with others, including full versiong and editing control.
It will be interesting to see how the MS products compare...
The connector for windows file explorer allows familiar access to the documents, but the true power is the ability for users to work on any of those documents with others, including full versiong and editing control.
It will be interesting to see how the MS products compare...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
SameTime Unified Telephony (SUT)
It's been a year since I last looked at SUT, and it's moved on leaps and bounds since then (it's actually a product rather than flash mock-ups!)
For those that don't know, SUT is the main Lotus play for the telephony integration which sits on top of SameTime, the Lotus Unified Communications platform.
The main idea behind SUT is that the user controls how they want to be contacted (Softphone, Deskphone, Cellphone, Voicemail etc) along with 'rules' for how to route their calls depending on things like their online status, location, time of day etc. What this means in practice is that you don't need to 'guess' where the person is or worry about calling them at an inconvenient time. It's all integrated right into the SameTime client, which then includes additional rich presence (i.e. it shows you whether I am currently on a call)
The product is now up and running, and while there are still some issues to work out with the network vendors around billing and call control, the product direction is now very focussed and it's looking really slick. It is clearly targetted purely at large enterprises, and I'll be talking with Steve next week to see how we can lay our hands on some early kit!
For those that don't know, SUT is the main Lotus play for the telephony integration which sits on top of SameTime, the Lotus Unified Communications platform.
The main idea behind SUT is that the user controls how they want to be contacted (Softphone, Deskphone, Cellphone, Voicemail etc) along with 'rules' for how to route their calls depending on things like their online status, location, time of day etc. What this means in practice is that you don't need to 'guess' where the person is or worry about calling them at an inconvenient time. It's all integrated right into the SameTime client, which then includes additional rich presence (i.e. it shows you whether I am currently on a call)
The product is now up and running, and while there are still some issues to work out with the network vendors around billing and call control, the product direction is now very focussed and it's looking really slick. It is clearly targetted purely at large enterprises, and I'll be talking with Steve next week to see how we can lay our hands on some early kit!
Productivity Tools for the Mobile Worker
A more detailed look today at some of the new/improved products in the mobility area.
The two most interesting products are Lotus Traveller - version 8.5 adds a lot more security features such as device wiping and device security compliance checking/enforcing, and Lotus Mobile Connect, which effectively is a native client-less VPN gateway for Lotus Notes - this is the product that enables the Ultra-Lite iNotes that is optimised for the iPhone.
What is really handy is that the products can operate in a 'proxy mode' within the DMZ (similar to our BES environment), and only the gateway servers need to be at the new version of Notes (8.5). This solution also handily delivers email to internet based users, which I vaguely recall was of interest to some of our users...
The backend email servers need to be at least up to 7.02
Finally, the last item worthy of note is the IBM Websphere Everyplace Mobile Portal (you've got to love those snappy product names), which is a bolt-on product to websphere which automatically adjusts the website to best fit your mobile device. Check out the IBM home site from different devices to see how/whether it works!
The two most interesting products are Lotus Traveller - version 8.5 adds a lot more security features such as device wiping and device security compliance checking/enforcing, and Lotus Mobile Connect, which effectively is a native client-less VPN gateway for Lotus Notes - this is the product that enables the Ultra-Lite iNotes that is optimised for the iPhone.
What is really handy is that the products can operate in a 'proxy mode' within the DMZ (similar to our BES environment), and only the gateway servers need to be at the new version of Notes (8.5). This solution also handily delivers email to internet based users, which I vaguely recall was of interest to some of our users...
The backend email servers need to be at least up to 7.02
Finally, the last item worthy of note is the IBM Websphere Everyplace Mobile Portal (you've got to love those snappy product names), which is a bolt-on product to websphere which automatically adjusts the website to best fit your mobile device. Check out the IBM home site from different devices to see how/whether it works!
Simplifying Notes ID Management
My first session today was a (far too) detailed look at the new identity vault mechanism that will be delivered as part of Notes 8.5
The basic mechanic seems to be that all the id files are stored in an identity vault (a specialised notes database), and allows specific functionality for the user to download their id file as required.
As the id file is now accessible centrally, this enables some 'forgotten password' type functionality which sounds good, but unfortunately is not compatible with the "Notes Shared Login" which is the functionality that allows single sign-on integration with the Windows account.
Strangely enough, when people were commenting that this "didn't seem very sensible or aligned with the rest of the Lotus vision", the response was that the best solution was to integrate everything direct with Active Directory!
Ho Hum, and I had such high hopes too...
The basic mechanic seems to be that all the id files are stored in an identity vault (a specialised notes database), and allows specific functionality for the user to download their id file as required.
As the id file is now accessible centrally, this enables some 'forgotten password' type functionality which sounds good, but unfortunately is not compatible with the "Notes Shared Login" which is the functionality that allows single sign-on integration with the Windows account.
Strangely enough, when people were commenting that this "didn't seem very sensible or aligned with the rest of the Lotus vision", the response was that the best solution was to integrate everything direct with Active Directory!
Ho Hum, and I had such high hopes too...
Monday, September 22, 2008
The Pursuit of Happyness & Chris Gardner... what "some" of the audience didn't tell you
By the time it was time for the surprise guest speaker to come on stage and wrap up the day, I was focusing hard on testing how far down my chair I could slide without actually falling off it. All I could hear was a vague buzz buzz... buzz buzz buzz... and then suddenly "Pursuit of Happyness"! That made me sit up rather quick and promptly feather up my layers (for the naive ignorant, that's part of a haircut) because I had these 2 uplifting microseconds of feverish blissful hope that the guest speaker was Will Smith! :D It wasn't though; as Chris Gardner rightly said, Will would probably not fit the budget ; )
Jokes apart, he was brilliant. There were of course the cheesy moments when people actually applauded the worst nightmares this guy's had in his life (doh!), but to hear the story from the man himself was very deeply moving. For those who didn't know, in real life his son was actually only 14 months old when they became homeless, not 5 years old as in the movie. Also, for those who didn't know, some of the audience was not reduced to tears. They fell.
Pleasantly surprising close to the day though. IBM we're told have a history of getting some rather special people to talk at their conferences; apparently they had Neil Armstrong Himself share his experience a few years ago. Anyway, I'm buying the Pursuit of Happyness book as soon as I'm back in the UK. And Brian said he'll be watching the movie, so I'm guessing some of the audience although they'll never admit to it did get a bit touchy feely about things eh? ; )
On this note, more after the breakout sessions tomorrow.
Jokes apart, he was brilliant. There were of course the cheesy moments when people actually applauded the worst nightmares this guy's had in his life (doh!), but to hear the story from the man himself was very deeply moving. For those who didn't know, in real life his son was actually only 14 months old when they became homeless, not 5 years old as in the movie. Also, for those who didn't know, some of the audience was not reduced to tears. They fell.
Pleasantly surprising close to the day though. IBM we're told have a history of getting some rather special people to talk at their conferences; apparently they had Neil Armstrong Himself share his experience a few years ago. Anyway, I'm buying the Pursuit of Happyness book as soon as I'm back in the UK. And Brian said he'll be watching the movie, so I'm guessing some of the audience although they'll never admit to it did get a bit touchy feely about things eh? ; )
On this note, more after the breakout sessions tomorrow.
"Peeling back the onion skin..."
... must be a taster of Management Speak 2.0 !
Most of today was indeed around peeling back the onion skin around the strategy of those 5 areas (see Brian's post further down); this time IBM definitely seems to have thought through the next few years thoroughly and the promised suite of products look impressive.
Before getting into the details though, a have-to-mention word about the "decor" of the main conference room. See they have this totally awesome 2-m-in-diameter yellow sphere - not that it could have been any other colour mind you - hanging over the stage, with a couple of projectors projecting these dynamic revolving fractal-like totally cool monochrome shapes and graphics on it. Absolutely mesmerising. So much so it actually managed to keep me quiet for quite a while. That's how cool it is. I want one for christmas.
Other than that, Connections in particular looked appealing, both in terms of functionality & UI, although there seems to be some major overlap between what Connections does and what Bluehouse does. The official IBM line on it is that Connections is focused more on internal company collaboration and Bluehouse on cross-company collaboration. Call it a marketing stunt but it appears that Connections is the fastest growing software in the history of IBM, with 500 new customers every Q.
As far as SaaS is concerned, it seems like IBM have definitely stepped into the space but although BlueHouse is already out there, it feels like it is still early days. In fact this October they are running some POC-type activities on Bluehouse with a number of partners & customers. There was also mention of IBM's new initiative around external hosting of email in multitenant environments. Once again, still early days but a space we will definitely be keeping an eye on.
"Elegant integration" was another theme that was brought up and indeed the suite of products on the table seem to seamlessly blend into each other. Presence is obviously key, but what I thought was "elegant" was how you can Sametime from Connections by clicking on somebody's name, from Sametime hop onto the phone or Lotus Notes and start an email to your favourite person by a single right click, from LN go into QuickR to see what documents your person has posted, from the document onto the Document Management solution etc. Pretty cool stuff. IBM seems to be quite far ahead as far as UC is concerned.
All the sessions today were general ones and very much focused on strategy. Tomorrow we break out into groups and work on the sections in more detail. Should be good.
Most of today was indeed around peeling back the onion skin around the strategy of those 5 areas (see Brian's post further down); this time IBM definitely seems to have thought through the next few years thoroughly and the promised suite of products look impressive.
Before getting into the details though, a have-to-mention word about the "decor" of the main conference room. See they have this totally awesome 2-m-in-diameter yellow sphere - not that it could have been any other colour mind you - hanging over the stage, with a couple of projectors projecting these dynamic revolving fractal-like totally cool monochrome shapes and graphics on it. Absolutely mesmerising. So much so it actually managed to keep me quiet for quite a while. That's how cool it is. I want one for christmas.
Other than that, Connections in particular looked appealing, both in terms of functionality & UI, although there seems to be some major overlap between what Connections does and what Bluehouse does. The official IBM line on it is that Connections is focused more on internal company collaboration and Bluehouse on cross-company collaboration. Call it a marketing stunt but it appears that Connections is the fastest growing software in the history of IBM, with 500 new customers every Q.
As far as SaaS is concerned, it seems like IBM have definitely stepped into the space but although BlueHouse is already out there, it feels like it is still early days. In fact this October they are running some POC-type activities on Bluehouse with a number of partners & customers. There was also mention of IBM's new initiative around external hosting of email in multitenant environments. Once again, still early days but a space we will definitely be keeping an eye on.
"Elegant integration" was another theme that was brought up and indeed the suite of products on the table seem to seamlessly blend into each other. Presence is obviously key, but what I thought was "elegant" was how you can Sametime from Connections by clicking on somebody's name, from Sametime hop onto the phone or Lotus Notes and start an email to your favourite person by a single right click, from LN go into QuickR to see what documents your person has posted, from the document onto the Document Management solution etc. Pretty cool stuff. IBM seems to be quite far ahead as far as UC is concerned.
All the sessions today were general ones and very much focused on strategy. Tomorrow we break out into groups and work on the sections in more detail. Should be good.
I bleed yellow
Believe it or not, some of the guys are wearing canary yellow t-shirts proudly acclaiming the yellow nature of their blood! A bit sad really, and they wonder why they are not people ready ... tut tut...
BlueHouse Jam Session
Yesterday we attended the Bluehouse Jam Session only to discover that it was actually targetted at early adopters of Bluehouse, ie a couple of SMB's & a few IBM partners, and not at all the strategic & visionary type session we had expected. It was therefore not the most relevant session for us and we ended up leaving after about an hour but a couple of points were raised which I thought were interesting insights into BlueHouse. Keeping in mind that Bluehouse is presented as being the Next Big Thing in Collaboration SaaS,
1. Email is not integrated in Bluehouse! Whaaat? will Will say :) According to IBM, BlueHouse is their brave attempt at liberating companies from chronic overdependence on email (sounds familiar?), hence the lack of our favourite tool in Bluehouse. My personal feeling is our users are too used to email for us to offer them this kind of revolution, & not evolution, forgive the pun :D
2. Bluehouse was initially targetted at SMB's but given the demand IBM is now presenting the offering to large businesses as well. On the other hand, SMB's are already experiencing issues around identity management & user access & provisioning which while perhaps workable in SMB's where the number of users is smaller, would be unacceptable for us. More on this once I've found out more about what IBM thinks the challenges are going to be once they go big business on the BlueHouse front and how they are planning to deal with them.
On the other hand, BlueHouse like all the other products we have seen so far are totally slick as far as the UI goes. Absolutely wicked :)
And now I'm running late for dinner so I'd better go! To be continued ...
1. Email is not integrated in Bluehouse! Whaaat? will Will say :) According to IBM, BlueHouse is their brave attempt at liberating companies from chronic overdependence on email (sounds familiar?), hence the lack of our favourite tool in Bluehouse. My personal feeling is our users are too used to email for us to offer them this kind of revolution, & not evolution, forgive the pun :D
2. Bluehouse was initially targetted at SMB's but given the demand IBM is now presenting the offering to large businesses as well. On the other hand, SMB's are already experiencing issues around identity management & user access & provisioning which while perhaps workable in SMB's where the number of users is smaller, would be unacceptable for us. More on this once I've found out more about what IBM thinks the challenges are going to be once they go big business on the BlueHouse front and how they are planning to deal with them.
On the other hand, BlueHouse like all the other products we have seen so far are totally slick as far as the UI goes. Absolutely wicked :)
And now I'm running late for dinner so I'd better go! To be continued ...
Lotus Leadership Alliance 2008
I'm here, and as Karoona already mentioned my Starwood hotel membership thing paid off with a nice room overlooking the ocean. A bit wierd looking down at passing helictopers though!
I've just finished the sessions of the first day, which have been about the Lotus strategy in 5 areas :
In other news, there were some nice tasters on mobile device integration across Blackberry, iPhone, Windows Mobile and Symbian devices - it looks like we will finally be able to retire OneBridge!
There is an interesting product called Foundations Start which is an appliance type model for small businesses or branch offices. In theory it covers both Messaging & Collaboration as well as Client Architecture. Possibly a solution for "Office on a Box"
Lots more to say but I will save it for the detailed sessions over the next two days.
The last session of the day was a surprise guest speaker, which turned about to be Chris Gardner who wrote the autobiography "The pursuit of happyness" which you may have read/seen. He is a hugely motivating speaker, although I did notice that some of the audience were reduced to tears ;-) If you get the chance to hear him tell his story then I'd encourage you to take the opportunity!
I've just finished the sessions of the first day, which have been about the Lotus strategy in 5 areas :
- Notes & Domino Roadmap
- Ultimate Web Experience
- Unified Communication & Collaboration
- Social Software
- Online Collaboration
In other news, there were some nice tasters on mobile device integration across Blackberry, iPhone, Windows Mobile and Symbian devices - it looks like we will finally be able to retire OneBridge!
There is an interesting product called Foundations Start which is an appliance type model for small businesses or branch offices. In theory it covers both Messaging & Collaboration as well as Client Architecture. Possibly a solution for "Office on a Box"
Lots more to say but I will save it for the detailed sessions over the next two days.
The last session of the day was a surprise guest speaker, which turned about to be Chris Gardner who wrote the autobiography "The pursuit of happyness" which you may have read/seen. He is a hugely motivating speaker, although I did notice that some of the audience were reduced to tears ;-) If you get the chance to hear him tell his story then I'd encourage you to take the opportunity!
Sunday, September 21, 2008
In a severely distorted format because Copy Paste does not work well from Excel, here is the agenda for the conference :
Sunday, September 21 2008 - Making Connections
10:30 - 5:00 Registration and social events
12:00 - 5:00 Bluehouse Beta Workshop, Lotus Connections Advisory Group Workshop
Monday, September 22, 2008 - Strategy, Platforms, and our Roadmap for Integration
8:30 - 8:45 Opening session Prep
8:45 - 10:15 Opening General Session: Overall vision and strategy, Where we've come this year; Where we're going, Keynote: Putting it all together - Integration and Linked Value across the product line and in your environment
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:45 IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Roadmap: 8.5 and Beyond
11:45 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Delivering the Ultimate Web Experience
2:00 - 2:15 Break
2:15 - 3:15 The IBM Unified Communications and Collaboration Strategy and Roadmap
3:15 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:45 The IBM Lotus Social Software "Collaboration 2.0" Strategy
4:45 - 5:00 Break
5:00 - 6:00 Lotus Online Collaboration Services - Software-as-a-Service Strategy
7:00 - 9:00 Dinner and Evening event
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - Nuts and bolts: Messaging, Team-Collaboration, Document Management, Deployment, and Tools
Break-Out Sessions
Roundtables and workshops
UX Collaboratory sessions
7:15 - 8:15 Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 Town Hall: Open forum for comments and questions to all Monday presentations
9:30 - 9:45 Break
9:45 - 11:00 IBM Lotus Notes PIM - Continuing to Extend User and Team Productivity
Working Together: IBM and RIM Collaborate to Enhance IBM Lotus Domino and the BlackBerry Experience
What's Next in IBM Lotus Sametime
Accelerating IBM WebSphere Portal Time to Value
IBM Lotus Quickr and IBM Content Management
Be our GPS - your feedback on our newest ideas
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:30 Productivity Tools for the Mobile Worker
IBM Lotus Domino Storage - Past, Present, and Future
"Communications-Enable" Your Business Processes for Web 2.0 with IBM Lotus Sametime
Creating Custom IBM WebSphere Portal Applications
Domino Document Manager
Be our GPS - your feedback on our newest ideas
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:45 (With ECSC) Archiving Roundtable: Understanding Your Needs…Sharing Our Vision
Reinventing IBM Lotus Domino Designer and Lotus Domino Web Application Development
Using IBM Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony
IBM Mashup Center- Technical Deep Dive
Marketing Workshop Part 1: Understanding the Business Benefits of IBM Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Domino
Be our GPS - your feedback on our newest ideas
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:15 Strategies for Deploying IBM Lotus Notes 8
Simplifying ID Management with IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5
Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony: Technical and Deployment Architecture
IBM Lotus Web Content Management
Workshop Part 2: Customizing Your Advocacy Strategy and Content
Be our GPS - your feedback on our newest ideas
4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:45 Workgroup 1: Notes/Domino Deployment support and best practices
Application Development for the IBM Lotus Notes Client: NSF, Widgets, Composite Applications, Plug-ins, and More
Workgroup 2: Leveraging UCC
Workgroup 4: Wish list for IBM WebSphere Portal in 2009
Workgroup 3: IBM Lotus Quickr Roadmap and Requirements Prioritization
Be our GPS - your feedback on our newest ideas
7:00 - 10:00 Dinner & beach party
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - The voice of the customer - Looking ahead
Break-Out Sessions
Roundtables
UX Collaboratory sessions
8:15 - 9:30 Innovating with IBM Research
Bare Metal Server to Lotus Domino in 30 Minutes Without a Domino Admin - Lotus Foundations
Adopting Social Software in the Enterprise
On Time, On Task, and In Touch: Lotus Notes Calendar, Task Management, and Social Networking
Deploying and Extending IBM Lotus Quickr
Be our GPS - your feedback on our newest ideas
9:30 - 9:45 Break
9:45 - 10:45 The Future of Hosted Meetings
IBM Lotus Symphony -- Why You Should Pay Attention
Expand and Extend Your Investments with IBM Social Software and Web 2.0
The Lotus Vision through the Eyes of our Project Manager Persona
Using Business Partner Solutions to Extend Your IBM Lotus Quickr Investment
Be our GPS - your feedback on our newest ideas
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:15 (With ECSC) Workgroup 1 PrepNotes/Domino Deployment Support and best practices
(With ECSC) Workgroup 2 PrepLeveraging UCC
(With ECSC)Workgroup 3 PrepMaking Collaboration 2.0 Work for the Customer
(With ECSC) Workgroup 4 PrepPortal Admin, Apps, and WCM Top 10 Recommendations
Be our GPS - your feedback on our newest ideas
Be our GPS - your feedback on our newest ideas
12:15 - 1:15 Lunch
1:15 - 3:00 Closing Session
3:00 - 3:15 Conference Wrap-up and UX Collaboratory raffle
Bluehouse is IBM's answer to SaaS in the collaboration area. I hope there will be a product demo in the workshop today; I'm looking forward to see the "integrated collaboration workspace", CRM & BI included!
On this note, the cleaning lady has arrived so I'll let her clean my room of all the sand, and by the way Brian did manage to get a room BOTH higher up AND with an ocean view, plus he didn't bring his camera, so I will be protesting. Not quite sure how yet.
More on Bluehouse this evening!
Sunday, September 21 2008 - Making Connections
10:30 - 5:00 Registration and social events
12:00 - 5:00 Bluehouse Beta Workshop, Lotus Connections Advisory Group Workshop
Monday, September 22, 2008 - Strategy, Platforms, and our Roadmap for Integration
8:30 - 8:45 Opening session Prep
8:45 - 10:15 Opening General Session: Overall vision and strategy, Where we've come this year; Where we're going, Keynote: Putting it all together - Integration and Linked Value across the product line and in your environment
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:45 IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Roadmap: 8.5 and Beyond
11:45 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Delivering the Ultimate Web Experience
2:00 - 2:15 Break
2:15 - 3:15 The IBM Unified Communications and Collaboration Strategy and Roadmap
3:15 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:45 The IBM Lotus Social Software "Collaboration 2.0" Strategy
4:45 - 5:00 Break
5:00 - 6:00 Lotus Online Collaboration Services - Software-as-a-Service Strategy
7:00 - 9:00 Dinner and Evening event
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - Nuts and bolts: Messaging, Team-Collaboration, Document Management, Deployment, and Tools
Break-Out Sessions
Roundtables and workshops
UX Collaboratory sessions
7:15 - 8:15 Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 Town Hall: Open forum for comments and questions to all Monday presentations
9:30 - 9:45 Break
9:45 - 11:00 IBM Lotus Notes PIM - Continuing to Extend User and Team Productivity
Working Together: IBM and RIM Collaborate to Enhance IBM Lotus Domino and the BlackBerry Experience
What's Next in IBM Lotus Sametime
Accelerating IBM WebSphere Portal Time to Value
IBM Lotus Quickr and IBM Content Management
Be our GPS - your feedback on our newest ideas
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:30 Productivity Tools for the Mobile Worker
IBM Lotus Domino Storage - Past, Present, and Future
"Communications-Enable" Your Business Processes for Web 2.0 with IBM Lotus Sametime
Creating Custom IBM WebSphere Portal Applications
Domino Document Manager
Be our GPS - your feedback on our newest ideas
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:45 (With ECSC) Archiving Roundtable: Understanding Your Needs…Sharing Our Vision
Reinventing IBM Lotus Domino Designer and Lotus Domino Web Application Development
Using IBM Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony
IBM Mashup Center- Technical Deep Dive
Marketing Workshop Part 1: Understanding the Business Benefits of IBM Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Domino
Be our GPS - your feedback on our newest ideas
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:15 Strategies for Deploying IBM Lotus Notes 8
Simplifying ID Management with IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5
Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony: Technical and Deployment Architecture
IBM Lotus Web Content Management
Workshop Part 2: Customizing Your Advocacy Strategy and Content
Be our GPS - your feedback on our newest ideas
4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:45 Workgroup 1: Notes/Domino Deployment support and best practices
Application Development for the IBM Lotus Notes Client: NSF, Widgets, Composite Applications, Plug-ins, and More
Workgroup 2: Leveraging UCC
Workgroup 4: Wish list for IBM WebSphere Portal in 2009
Workgroup 3: IBM Lotus Quickr Roadmap and Requirements Prioritization
Be our GPS - your feedback on our newest ideas
7:00 - 10:00 Dinner & beach party
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - The voice of the customer - Looking ahead
Break-Out Sessions
Roundtables
UX Collaboratory sessions
8:15 - 9:30 Innovating with IBM Research
Bare Metal Server to Lotus Domino in 30 Minutes Without a Domino Admin - Lotus Foundations
Adopting Social Software in the Enterprise
On Time, On Task, and In Touch: Lotus Notes Calendar, Task Management, and Social Networking
Deploying and Extending IBM Lotus Quickr
Be our GPS - your feedback on our newest ideas
9:30 - 9:45 Break
9:45 - 10:45 The Future of Hosted Meetings
IBM Lotus Symphony -- Why You Should Pay Attention
Expand and Extend Your Investments with IBM Social Software and Web 2.0
The Lotus Vision through the Eyes of our Project Manager Persona
Using Business Partner Solutions to Extend Your IBM Lotus Quickr Investment
Be our GPS - your feedback on our newest ideas
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:15 (With ECSC) Workgroup 1 PrepNotes/Domino Deployment Support and best practices
(With ECSC) Workgroup 2 PrepLeveraging UCC
(With ECSC)Workgroup 3 PrepMaking Collaboration 2.0 Work for the Customer
(With ECSC) Workgroup 4 PrepPortal Admin, Apps, and WCM Top 10 Recommendations
Be our GPS - your feedback on our newest ideas
Be our GPS - your feedback on our newest ideas
12:15 - 1:15 Lunch
1:15 - 3:00 Closing Session
3:00 - 3:15 Conference Wrap-up and UX Collaboratory raffle
Bluehouse is IBM's answer to SaaS in the collaboration area. I hope there will be a product demo in the workshop today; I'm looking forward to see the "integrated collaboration workspace", CRM & BI included!
On this note, the cleaning lady has arrived so I'll let her clean my room of all the sand, and by the way Brian did manage to get a room BOTH higher up AND with an ocean view, plus he didn't bring his camera, so I will be protesting. Not quite sure how yet.
More on Bluehouse this evening!
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Good moooooorning, Hollywooooooooood!
Although it's not quite morning yet. Let me explain.
Yesterday evening my (very cold*) plane touched down on time after a (super long) flight and out we walked into the (blistering*) heat of Miami airport. The notoriously famous immigration procedure which mothers tell their kids about when they don't want to sleep at night (the kids, not the mothers) actually only lasted 10 minutes and even made me chuckle to myself. See, when the nice lady at the desk found out I was attending an IBM Conference she said she in her heart of hearts much preferred "Apples" to "IBM's Microsoft", to which I nodded compassionately and even gave her a little sigh of sympathy, but didn't correct her out of fear that she might send me to Guantanamo Bay, which would have been bad. But she didn't, which was a relief.
(*) - whingeing about temperature, done!
Sadly that was the last good thing to happen in Miami airport. The luggage was 1 hour late, and of course, when the 10 000 suitcases started coming mine was the 10 000th to come out. Funny was how many guys they had working around the conveyor belts randomly lifting off some suitcases (but not others) and putting them on the floor all round the conveyor belts while the passengers drove themselves nuts dashing like headless chickens between the conveyor belts and the stack of suitcases and then back to the conveyor belts to look for their luggage. Maybe it's the american touch to the art of luggage claim.
Anyhow, by the time I left the airport it was already dark so didn't get to see any beaches or the sea or even any sunshine, sob sob, which leaves me very disappointed but looking forward to tomorrow. My Colombian driver pointed out in his delightful accent that the temperature was 32 C and the humidity, oh my god the humidity, at a seasonal 90%! Shopping tomorrow will feel like shopping in a sauna, should be a new experience.
Finally arrived at the (massive, 1500-room, on the beach) hotel at 08 30 and after some artful flashing of smiles at reception I was shown a very nice room, with a balcony, high high up in the skies, with a gorgeous city view. I'm going to be really gutted if Brian gets a room either 1) higher up or 2) with an ocean view. If he gets a room higher up AND with an ocean view I'll go on strike.
I can't though, because of course I forgot my camera and will need his.
So, dinner was in the uber romantically lit (ie not very lit) Japanase fusion resto downstairs with live flamenco music played by 2 fiery Spanish stallions. They were so good (at the music, I hasten to add) I stayed there until midnight and then came back and managed 2 hours of sleep before my body started thinking of Slough and how it needed to be there in a couple of hours and woke up.
It's now 5 40 and I've been up for nearly 2 hours doing strategy work. Sigh. Maybe I'll go for a swim and watch the sun rise.
And maybe tomorrow I'll blog something that actually has to do with IBM and Messaging, and maybe even Collaboration! And Mat will then not use his God admin rights to overrule as he says my minuscule author rights and delete my blog because it says nothing about EUT or the conference (yet).
But may I object beforehand, it does have to do with EUT and I certainly am on tour. Well, like my objection will count anyway ; )
I'll post the conference agenda later on today when I'm not in way-too-early-in-the-morning-crazy mood. Stay tuned!
Yesterday evening my (very cold*) plane touched down on time after a (super long) flight and out we walked into the (blistering*) heat of Miami airport. The notoriously famous immigration procedure which mothers tell their kids about when they don't want to sleep at night (the kids, not the mothers) actually only lasted 10 minutes and even made me chuckle to myself. See, when the nice lady at the desk found out I was attending an IBM Conference she said she in her heart of hearts much preferred "Apples" to "IBM's Microsoft", to which I nodded compassionately and even gave her a little sigh of sympathy, but didn't correct her out of fear that she might send me to Guantanamo Bay, which would have been bad. But she didn't, which was a relief.
(*) - whingeing about temperature, done!
Sadly that was the last good thing to happen in Miami airport. The luggage was 1 hour late, and of course, when the 10 000 suitcases started coming mine was the 10 000th to come out. Funny was how many guys they had working around the conveyor belts randomly lifting off some suitcases (but not others) and putting them on the floor all round the conveyor belts while the passengers drove themselves nuts dashing like headless chickens between the conveyor belts and the stack of suitcases and then back to the conveyor belts to look for their luggage. Maybe it's the american touch to the art of luggage claim.
Anyhow, by the time I left the airport it was already dark so didn't get to see any beaches or the sea or even any sunshine, sob sob, which leaves me very disappointed but looking forward to tomorrow. My Colombian driver pointed out in his delightful accent that the temperature was 32 C and the humidity, oh my god the humidity, at a seasonal 90%! Shopping tomorrow will feel like shopping in a sauna, should be a new experience.
Finally arrived at the (massive, 1500-room, on the beach) hotel at 08 30 and after some artful flashing of smiles at reception I was shown a very nice room, with a balcony, high high up in the skies, with a gorgeous city view. I'm going to be really gutted if Brian gets a room either 1) higher up or 2) with an ocean view. If he gets a room higher up AND with an ocean view I'll go on strike.
I can't though, because of course I forgot my camera and will need his.
So, dinner was in the uber romantically lit (ie not very lit) Japanase fusion resto downstairs with live flamenco music played by 2 fiery Spanish stallions. They were so good (at the music, I hasten to add) I stayed there until midnight and then came back and managed 2 hours of sleep before my body started thinking of Slough and how it needed to be there in a couple of hours and woke up.
It's now 5 40 and I've been up for nearly 2 hours doing strategy work. Sigh. Maybe I'll go for a swim and watch the sun rise.
And maybe tomorrow I'll blog something that actually has to do with IBM and Messaging, and maybe even Collaboration! And Mat will then not use his God admin rights to overrule as he says my minuscule author rights and delete my blog because it says nothing about EUT or the conference (yet).
But may I object beforehand, it does have to do with EUT and I certainly am on tour. Well, like my objection will count anyway ; )
I'll post the conference agenda later on today when I'm not in way-too-early-in-the-morning-crazy mood. Stay tuned!
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