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Flickr and facebook are just two of the places where you can see pictures from IBM’s Lotusphere 2009, the 16th annual Lotus and WebSphere Portal conference, held late January in Orlando, Florida. ChannelWeb has put up a slideshow capturing 17 scenes from this year’s event – 16 + 1 for next year.. 😉 Head over and check out their 17 scenes.
Above is my own favorite – the launch of LotusLive, Lotus full collaboration suite, offered in SaaS form.
Yesterday marked the 3rd day of IBM Lotusphere 2009, the annual customer conference on Lotus and WebSphere Portal solutions. Day 1 and 2 of the conference brought exciting new announcements, unvielved new solution and upgraded versions of Lotus products.
Unlike recent years where we had little exposure in Israel about Lotusphere, this year is very different. The reason – Or Yaacov, editor at The People – every day Or publishes one or two separate articles from Lotusphere, reaching a wide audience of IT professionals, and making the necessary noise in the local online media. Case in point – the title of today’s article (page 1) was ‘Exchange is not the solution to every problem and need’, a quote by Bob Picciano, Lotus GM.
So, for those looking for Hebrew articles on Lotusphere, here’s a list of articles I found. If you want to contribute, feel free to comment with the link and I’ll insert it to this post (along with the contributer of course.. ;-).
Efrat Kotler – IBM Lotusphere 2009 (TheMarker Cafe)
Ed Brill Interview – Lotus Notes for Mac and Mobile (The People)
Bob Picciano, Lotus GM Interview (The People)
Alloy, by IBM and SAP (The People)
IBM goes to the clouds and takes partners for the journey (TheMarker)
IBM announces LotusLive – Lotus portfolio in SaaS model (The People)
Lotusphere 2009 opens today (The People)
It’s happening people, started yesterday, throughout the week, IBM is holding its annual and largest Lotus event of the year – Lotusphere 2009. An estimate of 10,000 customers and business partners will attend the 16th Lotusphere, and I can guarantee some surprises and major announcements!!
The first one was announced 2 hours ago, at the Opening General Session, which you can follow, live, at the LotusphereBlog.com:
LotusLive.com (formely known as BlueHouse)
LotusLive provides essential collaboration services to simplify and improve your daily business interactions with customers, partners and colleagues. Work with people seamlessly inside and outside your organization and streamline communications. LotusLive helps you bring people and information together quickly and simply in an easy-to-use environment, designed with security in mind.
You can already head over to lotuslive.com and register for a free account, that would allow you to share and network with your colleagues, and even conduct live e-meetings with your network. I’m already there, look me up.
You can head over to the News section at Lotusphere.com, and learn of the new solution as they come available. If you’re an early adopter type of person, like me, head over to lotusphereblog.com, and learn first-hand – from public bloggers covering the event.
Or Yaacov, Editor at The People, is at Lotusphere, delivering live coverage of the event. You can catch his daily updates here.
Lotusphere 2009 is starting in just under 12 hours, and the net is already buzzing with news about Lotus’ big event. There are couple of ways to stay on top of what’s going on in Orlando this week, too many ways in fact, so here are my fav 5 (10 actually):
Lotusphere on twitter
Lotusphere Blog
Ed Brill (twitter or blog)
PlanetLotus.org
Alan, Bruce, LotusEvangelist, Bilal and Alex.
Lotusphere meets SouthPark
In preparation for Lotus’ big week, IBM have been releasing some sneak-peaks and spoilers at what’s coming up at the 16th Annual Lotus Event. Here are some of them.
IBM offers sneak pick at Lotusphere 2009
IBM confirmed to vnunet.com that there will be four new product announcements at the event, and that new online collaboration services will be unveiled. IBM Lotus programme director Chris Reckling plans to demonstrate how new social software tools are needed to meet new communication challenges.
USAToday.com – More firms are switching from Microsoft Outlook to Lotus Notes
The increasing market share Lotus is enjoying, both through retaining existing clients and gaining significant numbers of new customers, suggests that IBM’s Lotus platform strategy is highly successful and sustainable.
More than half of Fortune Global 100 are using Lotus Notes and Domino
Over the past 15 months ending in the third quarter of 2008, more than 12,000 new organizations bought their first Notes/Domino licenses, and more than half of the Fortune global 100 now use Lotus Notes and Domino. This includes more than 80 percent of the largest banks, consumer product, electronics, insurance, pharmaceutical and telecommunications companies — as well as more than 50 percent of America’s largest 100 companies.
IBM acquires Outblaze – online messaging, collaboration service provider
The messaging service will become part of the IBM Lotus “Bluehouse” online social networking and collaboration project that’s currently in open beta, IBM said. The company is expected to disclose more details at next week’s Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Fla., about how the Outblaze assets will become part of IBM’s online portfolio.
I’m a Mac, I’m a PC (and I’m a Linux)
Once again (for the 9th year), Genii Software came through and created the Lotusphere Agenda DB for PDA Synching and Session Planning. On top of the usual Notes DB, there’s Blackberry support and iPhone integration as well. Now you can plan which sessions, workshops and panels you’d like to attend during the 6-day conference, and plan accordingly. If you’re new to Lotusphere this is something you need to know. Veteran participants will recongzine and appreciate this tiny piece of resource.
Links:
Genii Software – Lotusphere Agenda DB
Lotusphere 2009
New to Lotusphere? Watch last year’s video (WMV, 4.8MB)
