Why you should attend LCTY in the UK!
Stuart McIntyre - Lotusphere April 21 2009 01:45:34 PM
A super set of videos inviting you to Lotusphere Comes to You 2009 in the UK featuring some of the familiar faces from the Lotus UK team.Great effort guys - the appetite has truly been whetted ;-)
If you want to know more or to register, head over to the LCTYUK page, and also follow LCTYUK on Twitter!
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LCTY 2009 for Portland and Seattle announced
LotusphereBlog April 6 2009 10:10:20 PM
Great to see even more Lotusphere Comes to You events being announced around the globe:LCTY 2009 for Portland and Seattle Announced!
At Lotusphere Comes to You 2009, you will discover a community dedicated to empowering people, breaking down geographic barriers, extending company knowledge and expertise, and creating a smarter, more dynamic
workplace. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn how you can take collaboration to the next level.
You will experience the best of IBM Lotusphere 2009 without leaving your community. IT, Business Managers, Architects and Administrators will find these sessions to be key in helping their organizations achieve better
business outcomes.
Attend Lotusphere Comes to You and get insider information on:
* Social Networking
* Unified Communications and Collaboration
* Web 2.0 Solutions
* Portal
* Software as a Service
* And more
Seating is limited, so please register today and tap into the power of community.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Hilton Portland & Executive Tower
921 SW Sixth Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97204
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Seattle IBM Office
1200 5th Avenue, 9th Floor, Seattle, Washington 98101
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UK LCTY speakers announced
LotusphereBlog April 3 2009 07:23:01 AM
The build-up to the Lotusphere Comes to You (LCTY) 2009 events in the UK continues apace...First up, the keynote and guest speakers have been announced for the London and Manchester events as part of the full agenda.
Both events will be opened by Jamie Goodhead, Lotus Business Unit Executive (UK & Ireland).
Following this introduction, Bruce Morse, VP Unified Communications Software will deliver the 75-minute Keynotes Strategy session (as he did at LCTY08) followed by customer references. After lunch, both events will split into two tracks, with the following sessions being delivered:
Track 1
LotusLive: Experience the Possibilities - Bob Wong, Director Worldwide Online Collaboration Services Sales
Social Software: Creating Value Today - Brendan Tutt, Portal & Social Networking Business Leader (UK & Ireland)
IBM UC2 Software: Immediately Reduce Costs and Unleash the Collaborative Power of Your Company - Brendan Buckingham, Lotus Technical Sales Manager
Track 2
Extending Collaboration - Darren Adams, Messaging and Collaboration Business Leader (UK & Ireland)
Development Evolved - XPages, Mashups and Contextual Collaboration - Chris Freestone, Senior Lotus Technical Specialist
The Futures Bright… The Future's Yellow, whatever your flavour of desktop - Pete Hampton, Competitive Technical Specialist, Lotus Software,(UK & Ireland) and Ray Davies, Technical Lotus Sales Specialist
Both events will close with a guest speaker and drinks reception. I am delighted that the former Formula One driver and BBC commentator, Martin Brundle will be the guest at the London event on 30 April - Martin is hugely respected amongst the motorsport community and this should be a really exciting end to that event
The Manchester session on 28th April will have comedian, writer and producer Barry Cryer as the guest speaker - Barry is well known in the UK for his appearances on TV and radio comedy programs including Countdown, Blankety Blank, What’s My Line, Give Us A Clue, Just a Minute etc. There are now over 500 attendees registered for these two events so if you want to attend you'll need to register soon! All the details and registration links are over on the UK LCTY page.
In addition, we are delighted that there will now be a LCTY event in Scotland this year - 28th May 2009 at the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh. Not only that, but this extra event will have Ed Brill as the keynote speaker - a real coup for the Lotus community in Scotland! The Caledonian is a lovely traditional venue right in the centre of Edinburgh so I am sure this will be a sell-out event - more details will be released soon.
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Interested in the UK Lotusphere Comes To You 2009 events?
LotusphereBlog April 2 2009 10:18:12 AM
If you're planning to attend the UK Lotusphere Comes to You (LCTY) 2009 events (or are just interested in coverage or follow-up information) then you might like to join the "Lotusphere Comes to You (LCTY) 2009 UK Community" LinkedIn group.
As a reminder, the events are as follows:
28 April 2009 - Radisson SAS, Manchester Airport
30 April 2009 - London Hilton on Park Lane hotel, London
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Lotusphere Comes to You now available online
LotusphereBlog March 10 2009 06:45:15 AM
LotusUserGroup.org bring us the online element of Lotusphere Comes To You 2009:Lotusphere Comes to You ONLINE is a premier on-line event series featuring newly updated presentations from Lotusphere 2009, and some special, 10-minute briefing sessions from our sponsors. Designed to bring anyone who couldn't get to Orlando the critical information and the excitement they missed, this FREE online series will help you get more from your existing IT investment and boost collaboration across your enterprise.A list of the sessions is shown below:
Join us online for these webinars to learn more about the latest exciting news and announcements from Lotus. The sessions are free, but require pre-registration.
| Title | Date/Time | Description |
| IBM UC2 Software: Immediately Reduce Costs and Unleash the Collaborative Power of Your Company | March 24, 2009 at 11:00:00 AM | In 2009 you can immediately reduce IT and travel costs, while simultaneously improving communications and collaboration with office, remote and mobile co-workers, customers, partners, and extended networks. It's time to move beyond just IM and unleash the platform power of IBM Lotus Sametime to add communications capabilities to all aspects of your business life, and easily find, reach and collaborate with anyone, anywhere, in ways you never thought possible. Don't miss some exciting announcements, demonstrations to show you what we are talking about is real and previews into the future. Demonstrations will feature the squared of UC2 - where the real power is - when your users can easily just get things done because your tools like Lotus Sametime, Lotus Notes, Lotus Connections, Microsoft Outlook & Office and business applications are connected together...we'll even show you how to create a UC2 business mashup in under two minutes! |
| Lotus Online Collaboration: Experience the Possibilities | March 24, 2009 at 12:30:00 PM | Working together just got easier with new online collaborative services from IBM Lotus Software. We have developed an integrated set of collaborative and social networking services that empowers you to work together quickly and easily online. Featuring on-ramps from existing Lotus products and third party applications as well as new online services, see how these Lotus solutions will help you extend and enhance your existing investment and your business reach. Experience what’s possible with cloud services from Lotus. Discover where businesses will come to work! |
| Social Software - Creating Value Today, Establishing Opportunity Tomorrow | March 26, 2009 at 10:00:00 AM | Social software has become a business imperative. It connects employees, partners and customers together into communities which accelerate the sharing of ideas, collaboration on projects and the creation of value. Employees can become more productive. Communication with partners can be more effective, and customer relationships can be stronger. Come to the Lotus Social Software keynote session to learn how leading businesses are achieving these results today, and hear what is being planned for Lotus Connections and Lotus Quickr, tomorrow. |
| Future Directions for IBM Lotus Notes/Domino Products | March 27, 2009 at 11:00:00 AM | This session will provide a strategy-level overview of the Lotus Notes and Domino product family. We'll examine the new 8.5 release of Lotus Notes and Domino, along with plans for 2009 and our vision for collaboration in the future. We'll also cover product and strategy directions for the Lotus Protector family, SAP integration via Project "Atlantic", the Lotus Notes and Domino mobility strategy, and Lotus Symphony. You'll also learn about our market-facing themes for the year, such as "green" computing and integration. |
| IBM Lotus Application Development Strategy | March 31, 2009 at 12:00:00 PM | Come hear IBM's application development strategy as it applies to Lotus and WebSphere Portal branded products. We'll provide you with the insight developers need to make decisions on how build or modernize your solutions. You will also hear about some of the exiting new technologies we will be delivering as part of our roadmap for application development |
| How to Potentially Reduce Your Disk Costs Using Lotus Domino 8.5 | April 7, 2009 at 12:00:00 PM | As the gap between CPU cost and disk cost continues to grow, the Lotus Domino team has been hard at work providing mechanisms to help customers help reduce their total disk costs. This includes simple reduction in disk usage as well as allowing effective use of lower cost disks, and reduction of disk management. This session will provide an array of best practices and financial information on how to best use Domino and Domino 8.5 features in particular to help reduce disk costs immediately. |
| Deep Dive on New Web 2.0 Social Software Innovations | April 9, 2009 at 12:00:00 PM | This session will focus on exciting new capabilities from IBM's social software products including Lotus Connections The session will feature some of the latest Web 2.0 features, including social content sharing, Web 2.0 wiki capabilities with iWidget support to enable easy integration with Mashups, portal applications, plus other new social concepts from IBM research. Come see and hear about the latest Web 2.0 innovations and how they will deliver real business value across your globally connected enterprise, enabling you to work smarter. |
| IBM Lotus Domino Designer 8.5: A New Beginning | April 28, 2009 at 12:00:00 PM | Lotus Designer 8.5 provides developers a familiar but new perspective on developing Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino applications. You'll See how Lotus Domino Designer delivers services like search, code compare and editors that improve developer productivity. There are powerful new features that will revolutionize how you build Domino Web applications. We'll show you how XPages, Custom Controls and Themes allow you build Web 2.0 applications more easily than ever. Yes, its a new beginning for Domino Designer, and we'll share a glimpse of where heading next. (hint: LotusScript Editor "overhaul", need we say more?) |
| How to Implement Lotus Software and Telephony in a Multi-vendor Hardware Environment | May 5, 2009 at 12:00:00 PM | For IT managers in large or medium organizations who need to deliver the benefits of unified communications and collaboration to their organizations while leveraging their investments in existing networking and communications infrastructures; hear how you can deliver the Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony solution across the organization from a multi-vendor IT environment, simplify communications without ripping/replacing your communications equipment and optimize how employees interact with colleagues, customers, business partners and suppliers - all while minimizing costs, reducing risk and optimizing your current resources. IBM can work with you to make SUT tailored to your unique environment while leveraging your existing investments. |
| Introducing Alloy (Project "Atlantic") -- IBM Lotus Notes and SAP Integration | May 7, 2009 at 12:00:00 PM | Join this session to gain insight into Alloy (formerly project "Atlantic"), the first collaborative initiative between IBM Lotus and SAP. We'll cover v1.0 capabilities and discuss the product roadmap. You'll see a product demonstration and learn about the valuable customization options that allow you to leverage even more SAP data and processes inside of Lotus Notes. |
| Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino Archiving: Offerings, Roadmap and Sneak Preview | May 12, 2009 at 12:00:00 PM | Come hear about the upcoming IBM offerings for Lotus Notes/Domino e-mail archiving as well as improvements in the Lotus Notes client for end users. We'll talk about a spectrum of solutions from local Lotus Notes native archiving to enterprise-wide centralized archiving, including a joint collaboration between Lotus, Tivoli, and Information Management, based on CommonStore and IBM Content Collection and Archiving technology. We'll walk you through the various options that will be available, share our roadmap and vision, and also give you a sneak preview of things in the works. |
| XPages: Things You Can't Afford to Miss! | May 14, 2009 at 12:00:00 PM | Okay, you now know a little bit about XPages and maybe even started building your first XPages app. This session unveils the tips and tricks that will save you a lot of time in XPages development, from those who have been down this path before. If these sample topics pique your interest, then this session is a must for you. You'll see how to make custom controls talk to each other, how to implement DOJO controls in your XPages, how to make client-side JavaScript talk to server side JavaScript and how to easily localize your apps. We'll show how to bridge JavaScript and Java, and much more! |
| Health Check: How's Your IBM Lotus Domino Environment? | May 19, 2009 at 12:00:00 PM | Whether there's concern about poor Lotus Notes performance, you inherit an environment, or you're a new administrator wanting confidence in your choices, this session is for you. A health check that follows an organized method for auditing the servers, including the Lotus Domino Directory, server configuration, and security, can lead to consolidations, upgrades, and improvements to performance, security, and manageability of your environment. Want Lotus Notes to be loved and you cast as the hero(ine)? Take home a checklist to guide your own audits, best practice settings, and configurations to compare with what you find. We'll help you prioritize issues based on urgency and complexity to keep Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino running smoothly and serving the business. |
| Sametime Unified Telephony Overview | May 21, 2009 at 12:00:00 PM | This session will provide an overview of Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony, a brand new offering that enhances the voice capabilities in the basic Lotus Sametime product -- adding softphone capabilities, aggregated awareness, incoming call control (with options to join or route the call in easy and flexible ways), call history, and simple user-authored rules for handling calls in specific situations. You'll come away with a better understanding of these capabilities and how they would apply to your environments. |
| Enhancing IBM Lotus Quickr for IBM Lotus Domino with Web 2.0 Integration | May 26, 2009 at 12:00:00 PM | These speakers were the driving engineering force behind the popular Lotus Quickr Templates that shipped with Quickr 8 and have been continually updated. As well, they have been working with Quickr and its predecessors since 2000, developing applications for the world's largest Lotus Quickr customers. In this session, we'll introduce you to some innovations that make Lotus Quickr even more valuable to your teams - integration with external sources, tagging, categories, and more. Learn the techniques and pre-packaged code libraries that make Lotus Quickr development easy and valuable to your organization. Register for this session |
| WebSphere Portal: Enhancing User Productivity and Participation | May 28, 2009 at 12:00:00 PM | Portals provide a framework enabling customers to create web sites that integrate their applications and information, and as a result can help greatly improve the productivity of a site's users. As businesses grapple with how to best enable their employees and customers to be more productive and to share information and ideas across the broad spectrum of their interactions, WebSphere Portal provides the needed services. This presentation provides an overview of the key features of WebSphere Portal and how they combine to help businesses be more flexible and responsive to business opportunity and needs, and to leverage Web 2.0 and make their Web sites more participatory. |
For more information, and to register for these fantastic online webinars, use the link below.
Link: LotusUserGroup.org - Lotusphere Comes to You ONLINE - 2009
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Lotus Software - "Build a smarter planet"
LotusphereBlog March 2 2009 02:52:31 PM
The latest in the series of Lotus software ads:I really do like the feel of these videos - please help to spread them far and wide!
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Final version of the "Work Smarter Together" video
LotusphereBlog February 20 2009 09:53:24 PM
There were a couple of small adjustments that needed to be made to the version of this video shown at Lotusphere. Here is the final released version - we'd love to have your comments added to the video on YouTube, and rate it too if you like it!Note: I have now uploaded a higher quality version of this ad, so hopefully this helps...
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Lotusphere 2009 Community to Continue in LotusLive
LotusphereBlog February 4 2009 09:07:34 PM
Lotusphere 2009 Community to Continue in LotusLiveOn Friday, February 6, 2009 at 4:00 pm eastern time, Lotusphere Online 2009 will close. Registered conference attendees, including IBM participants, will still be able to meet, network, share and interact with other conference participants, as well as access presentation PDFs and soon, presentation MP3s, in LotusLive.
Sign up for your LotusLive Engage account today (if you haven't already signed up) so you can continue to participate in the community. Lotusphere 2009 attendees are being offered beta LotusLive Engage accounts to use with your teams, customer and partners in a secure and managed on-line space.
Take five minutes today and go to Lotus Live and register for a free open beta account. Each account is considered a company or organization, so you may add others from your company to that same account. Only a single individual from a company needs to register if multiple people attended Lotusphere. The first person registering becomes the owner and can quickly add others through the Administration links.
Lotusphere session PDFs are available now, and MP3s are being added; both will be easily accessible from your LotusLive account. We encourage you to complete your registration today at Lotus Live.
In addition to lots of other content you'll find in LotusLive, there is one new interactive PDF that we'd like to point out to you. We encourage you to share it broadly, it's called Working Smarter Together.
At Lotusphere you saw the innovative offerings that IBM continues to develop as the leader in collaboration solutions. With ongoing tightening of IT budgets, the demonstration and communication of tangible business benefits becomes increasingly important when evaluating new collaborative solutions for your business. The interactive PDF describes how our clients have realized business value by working smarter together, with Lotus collaboration solutions. Learn about how our clients have Connected with their customers to build stronger and deeper relationships, Collaborated internally and with their partners to become more agile organizations, Innovated to generate new ideas and offerings, and Optimized their work environments to gain efficiencies and cost savings. Look for the file called "Lotus_Collaboration.pdf". Search the tags for "Collaboration" or look in the Lotus Collaboration Collection.
On behalf of the IBM Lotus Software and WebSphere Portal senior management team, and their organizations, thank you again and best wishes in 2009. We'll see you in LotusLive.
The Lotusphere 2009 Team
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"We can work smarter together" video from Lotusphere 2009 closing session
LotusphereBlog February 4 2009 06:19:32 PM
Recorded and shown at Lotusphere2009:{snip}
We're told there are more of these great videos to come. Yay!
UPDATE: IBM Legal have asked us to take this offline until all participants have approved their inclusion. It will be back online ASAP.
UPDATE 2: The final version of this video is available here.
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The TeamStudio Spotlight Award 2009
LotusphereBlog February 4 2009 11:53:56 AM
Apologies for missing this one during the rush of Lotusphere week:Teamstudio Announces Winners of the 2009 Spotlight AwardsSo very many congratulations to Theo Heselmans of Xceed and also to the runners up and those with honourable mentions. Great to see such wonderful applications being created on the Notes&Domino platform.
Lotusphere, Orlando, FL - January 20, 2009
Teamstudio announced today the winners of this year's Teamstudio Spotlight Awards Contest.
The contest, in its second year, was created to raise awareness of how great, relevant and effective Lotus Notes applications can be. Entrants were asked to initially submit a brief write-up about their applications, which were then rated on 5 criteria: (1) complexity of task performed, (2) degree of automation, (3) size of user community, (4) business value, and (5) creativity and innovation of design. The judging panel comprised of industry experts Bill Buchan, Bruce Elgort, Joe Litton, Julian Robichaux and Craig Schumann then selected 3 finalists to demonstrate their applications to determine top winners.
The winning entry, eSurvey, was developed and submitted by Theo Heselmans of Belgium for Ernst & Young. This survey application impressed the judges with its complete functionality, attractive and intuitive UI. The elegant design enabled end-users to efficiently generate and deploy polished surveys to their audience--as well as generate comprehensive response reports--with maximum ease and flexibility.
Link: Teamstudio Announces Winners of the 2009 Spotlight Awards
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What was your highlight from Lotusphere 2009?
LotusphereBlog February 4 2009 11:21:41 AM
Over on the LinkedIn Lotusphere Group it was asked 'What was the highlight from this year's conference?'. There have been so many good responses, we thought it would be worth posting them here, and inviting more comments.Lars Olufsen - "For me, it was the Kick-Ass attitude of the new GM. For the first time in MANY years, it feels like IBM Lotus is "on the attack", and that opens a lot of POSSIBILITIES !!"So what was your highlight from Lotusphere 2009?
Garrett Wolthuis - "Bob Picciano was definitely a delightful surprise, especially his willingness to let his hair down and join in some karaoke! But if I had to pick one highlight it was meeting in person many of the people whose blogs and twitters I follow. A close second would be all the social networking information I gathered and the different ideas of ways to implement it in an enterprise setting. "
Jack Kelly - "Rule 6"
Bruce Lill - "The overall attitude of the ibm/lotus folks. They were up beat. friendly and willing to talk! it was like the old lotus days."
Keith Brooks - "Bob @ kimonos no question, I'm a Lotus man!"
Curt Stone - "Designer 8.5 and XPages - Tech Highlight. Ben Zander - Huge Hit. I heard great comments among attendees for Bob Picciano - Real person and getting in trenches. Love that from a leader. Getting Things Done sessions "
Peter Fay - "Closing General Session was a highlight (as usual). Connecting with old Lotus colleagues and Lphere Alumni. Following the @Lotusphere happenings through Twitter. Partner and IBM solutions in the Showcase. Charley's Steakhouse on International Drive...hold the veggies :). Taking Friday off and hangin' in Orlando with a friend"
Sarah Carter - "Being able to follow the whole proceedings while on booth duty through twitter and blog entries. Truly the most successful social networking, collaborative event to date."
Bill Buchan - "Bob P was a surprise. Talking with a client about his HUGE environment (we trade better in recession). Laughing at the guy trying to sell corporate jets during OGS"
Chris Warner - "Coming away from the conference excited about Notes/Domino development again... seeing huge improvements in Quickr coming... Bob P's leadership is fantastic... and since no one has mentioned him, Dan Aykroyd's story in the OGS :-)"
Patrick Kwinten - "Lotus/IBM commitment in investing in the LN platform beyond 8.5."
Marco van Oostende - "Mary Beth in Yellow. Speaking of dedication!"
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Podcast wrap-up of Lotusphere 2009
LotusphereBlog February 4 2009 07:30:00 AM
Bruce Elgort and the 1352Report team get together to review Lotusphere 2009:Of Announcements, Conferences, and Men Named “Bob P.”Link: 1352Report - Of Announcements, Conferences, and Men Named “Bob P.”
Lotusphere 2009 Wrap Up:
* The Opening General Session
* The Closing General Session
* Gurupalooza
* Sessions
* Speedgeeking
* Kimonos
* Attendance
* Carl the Blue Man
* Business Development Day
* Symphony Karoke
* Meet The Developers
* and much, much more…
Update: It looks like an incorrect file has published on the 1352Report site. The correct one can be found here for now. Thanks to Matt White for the tip.
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Summary of news headlines from Lotusphere 2009
LotusphereBlog February 4 2009 07:15:05 AM
An excellent collection of some of the key news headlines from Lotusphere 2009, compiled over at mynotesblog.com:Built on open standards, LotusLive is designed to allow for simple integration with third-party applications. It features a "click to cloud" functionality to tie existing applications residing on customer servers with LotusLive services. (IDG News)Great work guys!
In the space of a week, has Notes transformed itself from legacy bogeyman into the precursor of a cloud-based future with Lotus Live? (ZDNet)
Lotus Notes to become more LinkedIn. (The Washington Post)
i.b.m. is releasing and online version of the most popular line of software lotus live. the cloud computing frees users have having to install it on their own computers. it lets them create networks with business partners and customers. (First Word, Bloomberg TV National Programming)
LotusLive.com will combine Web conferencing, collaboration and e-mail into a single integrated "cloud computing" system using technology from IBM Lotus's Sametime Unyte Events, Connections and Notes products. "This is about market extension," Picciano said, telling business partners that LotusLive will appeal to a whole new set of customers as well as existing clients. (CRN)
LotusLive is a hosted collaboration suite that includes pretty much everything you would think it would include -- e-mail, file sharing and various online collaboration bits. It slots in competitively, more or less, with Windows Live and maybe a bit with Google Apps as well.” (Redmond Channel Partner)
IBM, the world's largest technology services company, and German software company SAP AG plan to roll out their first jointly developed software product in March, the two companies said on Monday. (Reuters)
Research in Motion Co-CEO Jim Balsillie celebrates RIM Blackberry's 10th anniversary in enteprise mobility by pledging support for IBM Lotus Quickr, Lotus Symphony and additional support for Lotus Connections. (eWeek)
IBM has been one of the world's biggest providers of enterprise communication and collaboration software since it acquired Lotus in 1995. However, in recent years with the rise of Web 2.0 technologies like blogging, wikis and RSS, vendors like Google, Zoho and Yahoo's Zimbra have simplified the adoption and use of communication and collaboration software by offering it via the Internet, making it more affordable to smaller companies along the way. (eWEEK)
IBM (IBM.N), the world's largest technology services company, and German software company SAP AG (SAPG.DE) plan to roll out their first jointly developed software product in March, the two companies said on Monday. (Reuters)
IBM made several announcements today at the annual Lotusphere conference in Orlando, including a new portfolio of integrated cloud services, new Lotus software and development tools for RIM's BlackBerry platform, and Alloy -- the first software product to be jointly developed by IBM and SAP. (eChannelLine)
First, this is by far the best OGS that Lotus has done in years. The tone was right, the energy was high, the pace was great. All of the brands got about the same amount of time and the demos were quick and to the point. Well done IBM. (JohnDavidHead Blog)
International Business Machines Corp., the world’s third-biggest software maker, will release an online version of its Lotus programs, a bid to attract new customers by tapping into so-called cloud computing. (Bloomberg)
IBM (NYSE:IBM) Lotus will take a major step into the software-as-a-service market Monday when it announces the general availability of LotusLive.com, the on-demand collaboration and communication system known until now as "Bluehouse" that's been in beta for a year. (CRN)
I'm at a keynote, midweek for Lotusphere. And, it's absolutely packed. Social Networking has been a home run hit for IBM/Lotus with Connections and Quickr, when other competitors are struggling to make past first base. Bob Picciano just strolled by and shook hands with everyone sitting in press row (I'm here as a blogger). (Leadership By Numbers Blog)
By keeping out of the telephony platform wars, IBM is doing a service to the industry, because it is in IBM's interest, given SUT's positioning, to recognize and grapple with the multivendor, highly diverse, and complex telephony environments that virtually all enterprises have and will continue to have for quite some time. IBM's answer isn't: Migrate your telephony to our UC platform. It's: Our UC platform works with your telephony environment. (Information Week)
The moves are designed to help IBM keep pace in a market where customers are expected to continue spending on the cloud and Web 2.0 despite the budget squeeze in these recessionary times. (InternetNews.com)
Bob Picciano, general manager at IBM Lotus Software, said: 'The new Lotus collaboration features and developer tools on the BlackBerry platform will deliver productivity beyond the office extending IBM software and services so that individuals can access all of the resources they need to keep their business moving, anytime, anywhere.' . . .Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO of Research In Motion, said: 'RIM and IBM are strengthening the BlackBerry platform for Lotus with a portfolio of enterprise social networking and collaboration capabilities that will make BlackBerry smartphones even more effective in mobilizing businesses around the globe.' (Computer Business Review)
IBM's Lotusphere 2009 conference is underway in Orlando, and the company has been trumpeting the new offerings it has in store for this year, and how it will continue its battle with Microsoft Exchange. (VNUNet.com)
Microsoft owns the desktop (for now). Google owns the Web (also for now). But this Software-as-a-Service stuff is wide open, and a huge player kicked up its pace in the SaaS race this week. IBM unveiled LotusLive this week in Orlando at -- where else? -- Lotusphere. LotusLive is a hosted collaboration suite that includes pretty much everything you would think it would include -- e-mail, file sharing and various online collaboration bits. It slots in competitively, more or less, with Windows Live and maybe a bit with Google Apps as well. (Redmond Channel Partner)
I have just come out of a conference session on moving from Microsoft Office to Lotus Symphony which was packed. I have spoken to many people talking about the costs of their Office maintenance being unsustainable, particularly in the current climate. I have spoken to people who have potential double-digit million dollar Office renewals who are now considering Lotus Symphony. (ComputerWeekly, UK)
At Lotusphere 2008, IBM previewed a number of collaboration software projects in its Innovation Labs. IBM continued that theme at Lotusphere 2009, where it became clear that IBM researchers are working on more granular collaboration projects that could end up as new products with IBM Lotus or feature subsets. (eWEEK)
Ahead of the release of Lotus Connections 2.5 in the third quarter, global financial institution HSBC shared its best practices for a successful Connections implementation this week at IBM's Lotusphere conference. (IT Business Canada)
IBM's move into supplementing its installed Lotus Notes app with hosted solutions echoes the strategies being rolled out by Microsoft with its Windows Live online tools. To add fuel to the fire, last week Big Blue drew Microsoft's ire when it claimed that Lotus Notes was gaining ground on Microsoft Exchange, claiming that Lotus Notes holds a 50 percent market share among top-100 U.S. businesses. (Redmond Channel Partner)
Seeking to break out from behind the firewall, IBM/Lotus is cloning its collaboration family for the cloud and embarking on a direction that could define the future of its applications. The company last week changed the name of its year-old Bluehouse cloud services project to LotusLive and signaled that it is officially in the software-as-a-service race. (Network World)
But with solution providers struggling to figure out just how they fit into the whole software-as-a-service world, fulfilling the promise of making channel partners a key element of the LotusLive initiative could be the vendor's biggest contribution to the future success of both Lotus and its partners. (CRN)
Concentrated access to a parade of Lotus executives to answer my questions is very useful. Seeing what customers are doing, and generally being around thousands of people committed to improving collaboration gives me a great deal of energy. I go to many conferences as an analyst, but the level of involvement at Lotusphere is always refreshing. (TechCrunch)
Link: MyNotesBlog.com - Overveldende kommentarer i media fra Lotusphere 2009
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eWeek - Messaging & Collaboration Slideshow: Granular Collaboration in IBM Innovation Labs at Lotusphere 2009
LotusphereBlog January 30 2009 10:30:11 PM
A very interesting slideshow from eWeek, detailing many of the research projects demonstrated in the Innovation Labs at Lotusphere 2009:Messaging & Collaboration Slideshow: Granular Collaboration in IBM Innovation Labs at Lotusphere 2009Link: eWeek - Messaging & Collaboration Slideshow: Granular Collaboration in IBM Innovation Labs at Lotusphere 2009
At Lotusphere 2008, IBM previewed a number of collaboration software projects in its Innovation Labs. IBM continued that theme at Lotusphere 2009, where it became clear that IBM researchers are working on more granular collaboration projects that could end up as new products with IBM Lotus or feature subsets. Take a walk with eWEEK as we scan what's new in IBM's Innovation Labs.
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