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Getting to know the portfolio, web 2.0 style

Published June 12, 2007 Uncategorized Closed
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I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately, in preparation for my new role. There’s plenty of stuff available at the external software website, and obviously at our internal site, but in the spirit of web 2.0 I’ve been doing some free search, to find out what going outside, with the customers and users.
IBM Lotus Sametime is IBM’s award winning instant messaging collaboration application, which allows for more than just chats.. you can web-conference, voice-conference (VoIP), share and much more – and there are over 15 million users worldwide.. not to mention the security it provides to the corporate business.
My free search also included YouTube (of course), and even there I found this excellent overview video, showcasing Sametime.

There’s also this video about IBM’s latest application in the collaboration era, called Lotus Connections. 5 services in 1 applications, which allows total collaboration for the enterprise.

New challenges ahead

Published June 8, 2007 Uncategorized Closed
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It has been quite a week for me, over at work..
For the past 2 years now I have been leading the local IBM Forum team, which serves as the customer and technology center for IBM and its business partners.
Starting July 1st I’ll be responsible for Workplace, Portal and Lotus Collaboration (or WPLC) sales at IBM Software Group. Needless to say I’m very excited about this.

WPLC is not such a diverse field, with Lotus Domino and Notes, Workplace, Lotus Sametime and Websphere based Portal, but it’s highly innovative, and allows for excellent collaboration within the business. Not to mention that WPLC includes almost 50 different products that gives you a wide range of choice, when it comes to building your knowledge platform.

As you know it’s always good to take advantage of technology, so I did some searching using my Google Reader and Google Homepage to find some Notes bloggers. And I found a lot…
So, for my first (and un-official) post at WPLC, here are some bloggers you might want to read. I know I’d like to meet them as well…
Ed Brill, Mary Beth Raven, Alan Lepofsky, developerWorks’ Inside Lotus, Chris Pepin and Rob Novak. There are many many more – drop me a line if you read something you like..

Back to Lotus Notes 8 (Beta 3)

Published May 30, 2007 Uncategorized Closed
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I’ve been with IBM for 6 years now, and Lotus Notes is the email client I’m used to, although I do work with Outlook at home from time to time. How do you know if someone is a Notes user? if he uses the phrase ‘new memo’ instead of ‘compose’ or ’email’…

I wrote 2 months ago about my recent upgrade to Notes 8 client, but the early beta was too heavy for my laptop, and slowed down performance, so I rolled-back to 7.
Now I’m back. The new Notes 8 Beta 3 (see demo) is available for some time now internally at IBM, for early adopters, but now it’s also available for customers.

The beta 3 Notes (and Domino server) are much more faster than before. In fact, there’s hardly any different from my previous 7 version.
New interface is much better now, with clear icons, in a web 2.0 style (rounded style with cute animation), there’s an improved calendar and address book, built-in Sametime (IBM internal messaging application) and collaboration tools and also a support for Office documents – you can create and edit ppt/doc/xls files directly in Notes, and even run your presentation (slideshow mode) directly from the client. There’s also an interface to Lotus Activities, a new web-based workspace for virtual teams, still under beta testing, and internal only.

Needless to say that Notes 8 was built and designed on top the recent innovations in collaboration and communications, and is an excellent platform for organizations who has information sharing and managing in mind. You can start today – download the beta code now.
You can also read and view a visual tour of Lotus Notes 8,recently conducted by Computerworld.

Pictures courtesy of Ed Brill, available in Flickr – check out ibm.com/lotus/getn8now

Web 2.0 for Big Blue (aka ‘the Enterprise’)

Published May 15, 2007 Uncategorized Closed
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I attended a semi education today, held by IBM’s GTU, part of their quarterly relationship events with the developers community. The education was titled ‘Web 2.0 for the Enterprise‘, and featured a lecture by David Boloker (Strategy CTO, Emerging Internet Technology, IBM SW Group) and a live demo by Vova Soroka (Senior Manager, Collaboration Technologies, IBM Haifa Research Labs).
David talked a bit about Web 2.0 technologies, especially the implications for the enterprise and how IBM is putting it to use, using the recently announced Lotus Connections. I’ve heard David in the past, at a recent Lotus event 3-4 months ago, and his insights are always current and up-to-date.
The second half of the education was a live demo by Vova Soroka. Vova and his team followed-up on David’s introduction to web 2.0 technologies (ajax, rss, web-services, mushups, wikis, etc) and took the audience through IBM’s web 2.0 tools:

  • Fringe (enhanced employee directory)
  • Connections (a shared, browser-based workspace)
  • SameTime SONAR plug-in (IBM internal IM with a ‘popularity’ plug-in that analyzes your interactions and scores your buddy list)
  • and a new QEDWiki platform, that’s available for download at IBM’s alphaWorks site.

I’m not a developer, so I won’t get into the technical details of each tool, but I will say that it has been an eye opener for me. I consider myself an early adopter, and like to test beta versions of different internal IBM softwares, but the possibilities of web 2.0 for the enterprise are endless. Especially if you’re working at IBM… 😉

You can see a video of Rod Smith from IBM, on ‘Mushing up Business Value with Web 2.0’, from the recent Web 2.0 Expo, held this April in San Francisco. You can access some of the sessions’ material over at the presentations archive.
Also, a 9 minute demo of QEDWiki:

Can’t see the video? click here.

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