Project Vulcan is Brilliant
Category Lotusphere
Lotus executives and a group of bloggers convened last night to review press announcements, Lotusphere highlights, and Project Vulcan.
Lotus Owns Messaging Mobility: With the current build out of a complete mobile client for Android (on both 2.0 and 2.1 SDK platforms), IBM now dominants mobile presence for enterprise messaging and collaboration. Lotus Quickr and Lotus Connection integration with Blackberry devices, and the Traveler companion plug-in for Apple's iPhone have demonstrated both the technical depth of Lotus' integration as well as their vendor neutrality.
Lotus Foundations Continues to Surge in Growth: The Lotus Foundations server appliance is an innovative solution to a complex problem: how to provide big-iron reliability and performance to the small business office. It's also emblematic of how well Lotus has been focused on nurturing it's Business Partner relationships, as Foundations is only distributed through partners. New vendor relationships with Mitel, Shoretel and NEC have been added to the roster, along with Xerox.
Sametime 8.5 is being released on the J2EE platform with the ability to support applet-free web conferencing; no downloads required.
Lotus Quickr and Lotus Connections well be fully compliant to CMIS standards. Throughout the week, the information about the Alfresco tie-in with Lotus Quickr has been becoming more evident, and the CMIS commitment makes sense of it. Alfresco rounds out the portfolio for back-end processing, providing a necessary alternative to FileNet.
Project Vulcan is a deliberate ploy to excite developers with the creative possibility of building and integrating business-grade, collaboration technology into their own platform. It's not product, but it is the exposure of the parts and pieces that IBM/Lotus has defined as core to the future of Rich/Thin/Mobile collaboration work.
It's providing a streamlined experience with 'social analytics' - performing smarter match-ups for content owners and associating search with social analysis. In fact, Jeff Eisen says its 'about analytics in general.' It's a loosely coupled architecture, relying on RESTful APIs.
It's a fascinating play, that in combination with LotusLive Labs, is giving developers an environment to create their own applications based on the back-end, cloud services of Lotus using REST, CSS, and HTML5.
Technorati Tags: IBM/Lotus, Project Vulcan, Lotus Foundations
Lotus executives and a group of bloggers convened last night to review press announcements, Lotusphere highlights, and Project Vulcan.
Lotus Owns Messaging Mobility: With the current build out of a complete mobile client for Android (on both 2.0 and 2.1 SDK platforms), IBM now dominants mobile presence for enterprise messaging and collaboration. Lotus Quickr and Lotus Connection integration with Blackberry devices, and the Traveler companion plug-in for Apple's iPhone have demonstrated both the technical depth of Lotus' integration as well as their vendor neutrality.
Lotus Foundations Continues to Surge in Growth: The Lotus Foundations server appliance is an innovative solution to a complex problem: how to provide big-iron reliability and performance to the small business office. It's also emblematic of how well Lotus has been focused on nurturing it's Business Partner relationships, as Foundations is only distributed through partners. New vendor relationships with Mitel, Shoretel and NEC have been added to the roster, along with Xerox.
Sametime 8.5 is being released on the J2EE platform with the ability to support applet-free web conferencing; no downloads required.
Lotus Quickr and Lotus Connections well be fully compliant to CMIS standards. Throughout the week, the information about the Alfresco tie-in with Lotus Quickr has been becoming more evident, and the CMIS commitment makes sense of it. Alfresco rounds out the portfolio for back-end processing, providing a necessary alternative to FileNet.
Project Vulcan is a deliberate ploy to excite developers with the creative possibility of building and integrating business-grade, collaboration technology into their own platform. It's not product, but it is the exposure of the parts and pieces that IBM/Lotus has defined as core to the future of Rich/Thin/Mobile collaboration work.
It's providing a streamlined experience with 'social analytics' - performing smarter match-ups for content owners and associating search with social analysis. In fact, Jeff Eisen says its 'about analytics in general.' It's a loosely coupled architecture, relying on RESTful APIs.
It's a fascinating play, that in combination with LotusLive Labs, is giving developers an environment to create their own applications based on the back-end, cloud services of Lotus using REST, CSS, and HTML5.
Technorati Tags: IBM/Lotus, Project Vulcan, Lotus Foundations
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