Lotusphere OGS = OMG
Category Lotusphere2008
While MacWorlds future is uncertain as a large tech-conference, Lotusphere shows no lack such lack of enthusiasm. The lines that wrap around the inside of the Dolphin Walt Disney Conference hall are huge. I have to admit a bias this year, as having been selected for Lotus' Blogging 25, I am sitting in the very front of THOUSANDS of people, while sitting in a yellow bean bag. Yes, that's right, I'm an IT professional with two kids in college, but the world will forever know me as one of the Beanie Bag Bloggers.
IBM/Lotus, on the other hand, is all about business. The session starts with the Blue Man Group as the warm up with their insane percussion rock symphony on PVC tubing. Bob Picciano, in his first moments explained that his wife Deidre is a developer for Lotus Notes. He doesn't just get Notes, it gets it served to him as dinner conversation.
To work within the realm of Live Blogging, here are my notes, but I'll be updating this post (and rewriting it) as I can.
16 qtrs of growth, IBM will announce 4th quater
12,236 new customers since ND8x
Dan Akroyd. Funny, insightful about "collaboration" with his film career. Story about actor and shooters, who works for whom ? Actors work for the camera crew.
Many of the Bean Bag Bloggers are using their Notes client, with a replica of their blogs (as I am). So, even though the wi-fi is spotty, the blogging goes one. When the magic of cloud dissapates with a broken connection, it's even more important to have a client which can work without a wire.
Martin Luther King Day
Attendance is UP (2%) for customers (less IBMers)
Theme is resonance
CocaCola, NetJets, HSBC
CocaCola Jean-Michel Ares, CTO
A system, not one company, world's largest bevarge company
Use SAP (Business Objects), Lotus and Google desktop. Not really sure which wiki, blogs or other "collaboration" tools are Lotus or not.
John Dunning, VP architectue ( fractional, private jet ownership of 800 jets)
- very distributed work force
- frequent logistical problems
- BomDia - portal on WAS with quckr and sametime
HSBC
social software
Ian Hayes
300,000 employees with over 9,000 offices
[A good speaker] Looking for a comprehensive collaboration suite, with VOIP, etc., no all-in-one vendor solution, Lotus has been chosen to be a partner. "Not really sure what the final solution should look like"
[Why isn't Ubuntu a partner ?]
Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO with RIM. 10 years ago [good speaker]
RIM supports ND8.5
RIM has 3 of top rated 5 cell phones in America.
RIM is interested in Foundations
Lotus 2.0.1 release in 2009
Client for Lotus Connections
Client for Lotus Sametime (file transfer
Symphony and Quickr integration
XPages support on BB, same platform
2morO@wrk -- new catch phrase
- hosted services
Last year Bluehouse
Now, "LotusLive"
- single destination
LotusLive.com
Big picture -- cooridinated with collaboration
Allistair Rennie (Alistar Renay)
Notes is key , 20th anniversary this year
Kevin Cavanaugh (VP Messaging/Collaboration)
20 year olds are disruptive
Alloy
Worked with Linked-in for sidebar plug-in
Activities can go off-line
Quickr plug-in
Attachment management (move multiples, easily)
more ical feeds with iNotes
iNotes looks hot, not just a little better, it really looks like the full client. It is integrated into Quickr for attachment libraries, and sending of links
Designer improvements, 8.5 is biggest jump since LS in 1995
XPages for web, but also for off-line.
Reusable custom controls in Eclipse framework
Working with RIM to deliver XPages to BB
Demo with a BB Storm, untouched app shows on the BB. This gets applause !
BES 5.0 will support Symphony (and 8.5), the demo looks great.
Lotus Quickr with XPages
Talk to BP, tough economic times, ibm.com/smartmarket -- open to all Lotus Notes partners to promote and distribute apps
Smartmarket will work with OpenNTF -- lots of cheering !!
Quick quotes on Domino efficiency (I agree, but . . . clients have to take advantage of it)
Foundations, the OS is small enough to have been burned onto a chip
Now it is being presented as a VM with a Notes option.
Printing with Xerox in the works
Bruce Morse on UC2
Sametime, works with existing telephony (no rip and replace)
Single phone entry association, it will make the call even if the destination user is off-line from ST.
Routing rules can be setup, and it will adjust the connectivity according to your environment.
Auto-three-way conference calls
iPhone ST announced for this year
New meeting architecture, that doesn't REQUIRE Java !
Chat initiation will be simpler, persistent meeting rooms, arranged around projects that contain documents, etc. (with ECL)
Rich Client Plugin (not sure of the client platforms) and a Browser
Content easily added in the setup
Quicktime standard
[Comment, this is much better arranged than some previous LS events. Not just selling big platforms, but really interesting solutions and no one is taking the floor for too long]
Jeff Schick
Social software for business
- consumer accessibility with business security and value
- Connections 2.5
- attention management
- flckr, twitter, and more integration -- corporate integration
- goes with iPhone, Nokia (webkit ?)
- Micro blogging in profiles
- wiki as core service
- easily customizable
- widgets can be added (e.g., file sharing)
- Nokia integration with Connections
Lotus Quickr
- 8.0.1 with ECM and Filenet
- Quickr services for Java, gives infinite storage
- Only company with an end-to-end storage solution.
Quickr connectors to the Filenet repository
Quickr 8.2 for Domino (ND8.5) [Daos integration ? That would be tremendous useful]
Mac and Linux support coming
Larry Bowden, WAS Portal & Mashups
75% of WAS Portals are customer facing
Key partnerships with web analytic companies
Ephox has been added as an entitlement (applause)
Mashups to asst. business with IT back logs, the IBM Mashup has been successful
Lotus Greenhouse has been successful for demonstrating Mashup utility
Integrated into Lotus products (e.g., Quickr).
Impressive Mashup demo is given
Sean Poulley
Lotuslive.com based on Bluehouse, is now LotusLive Engage
A portfolio of the best of Lotus, putting it on line for everyone, starting in qtr 1.
Interesting, very polished and professional, wonder how the pricing will work against competing offerings.
It looks as though LotusLive is a blended cloud solution for Lotus based organizations.
"Extend beyond the firewall "
[The web apps look good enough, that I'm actually having difficulty separating the web interface from the desktop client]
Integrated with BB
Partnering
-salesforce
-linked in (34 million)
-skype for voice/video
This will give 400 million
Sign up at lotuslive
[The partnerships are important.]
Kristen Lauria
smart planet ads, with Lotus tie-ins
Room 3012 to sign up for working smarter together
Bob P.
Elguji Software received CTO award. Go Bruce and Gayle !!
Loving the Bean Bag.
While MacWorlds future is uncertain as a large tech-conference, Lotusphere shows no lack such lack of enthusiasm. The lines that wrap around the inside of the Dolphin Walt Disney Conference hall are huge. I have to admit a bias this year, as having been selected for Lotus' Blogging 25, I am sitting in the very front of THOUSANDS of people, while sitting in a yellow bean bag. Yes, that's right, I'm an IT professional with two kids in college, but the world will forever know me as one of the Beanie Bag Bloggers.
IBM/Lotus, on the other hand, is all about business. The session starts with the Blue Man Group as the warm up with their insane percussion rock symphony on PVC tubing. Bob Picciano, in his first moments explained that his wife Deidre is a developer for Lotus Notes. He doesn't just get Notes, it gets it served to him as dinner conversation.
To work within the realm of Live Blogging, here are my notes, but I'll be updating this post (and rewriting it) as I can.
16 qtrs of growth, IBM will announce 4th quater
12,236 new customers since ND8x
Dan Akroyd. Funny, insightful about "collaboration" with his film career. Story about actor and shooters, who works for whom ? Actors work for the camera crew.
Many of the Bean Bag Bloggers are using their Notes client, with a replica of their blogs (as I am). So, even though the wi-fi is spotty, the blogging goes one. When the magic of cloud dissapates with a broken connection, it's even more important to have a client which can work without a wire.
Martin Luther King Day
Attendance is UP (2%) for customers (less IBMers)
Theme is resonance
CocaCola, NetJets, HSBC
CocaCola Jean-Michel Ares, CTO
A system, not one company, world's largest bevarge company
Use SAP (Business Objects), Lotus and Google desktop. Not really sure which wiki, blogs or other "collaboration" tools are Lotus or not.
John Dunning, VP architectue ( fractional, private jet ownership of 800 jets)
- very distributed work force
- frequent logistical problems
- BomDia - portal on WAS with quckr and sametime
HSBC
social software
Ian Hayes
300,000 employees with over 9,000 offices
[A good speaker] Looking for a comprehensive collaboration suite, with VOIP, etc., no all-in-one vendor solution, Lotus has been chosen to be a partner. "Not really sure what the final solution should look like"
[Why isn't Ubuntu a partner ?]
Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO with RIM. 10 years ago [good speaker]
RIM supports ND8.5
RIM has 3 of top rated 5 cell phones in America.
RIM is interested in Foundations
Lotus 2.0.1 release in 2009
Client for Lotus Connections
Client for Lotus Sametime (file transfer
Symphony and Quickr integration
XPages support on BB, same platform
2morO@wrk -- new catch phrase
- hosted services
Last year Bluehouse
Now, "LotusLive"
- single destination
LotusLive.com
Big picture -- cooridinated with collaboration
Allistair Rennie (Alistar Renay)
Notes is key , 20th anniversary this year
Kevin Cavanaugh (VP Messaging/Collaboration)
20 year olds are disruptive
Alloy
Worked with Linked-in for sidebar plug-in
Activities can go off-line
Quickr plug-in
Attachment management (move multiples, easily)
more ical feeds with iNotes
iNotes looks hot, not just a little better, it really looks like the full client. It is integrated into Quickr for attachment libraries, and sending of links
Designer improvements, 8.5 is biggest jump since LS in 1995
XPages for web, but also for off-line.
Reusable custom controls in Eclipse framework
Working with RIM to deliver XPages to BB
Demo with a BB Storm, untouched app shows on the BB. This gets applause !
BES 5.0 will support Symphony (and 8.5), the demo looks great.
Lotus Quickr with XPages
Talk to BP, tough economic times, ibm.com/smartmarket -- open to all Lotus Notes partners to promote and distribute apps
Smartmarket will work with OpenNTF -- lots of cheering !!
Quick quotes on Domino efficiency (I agree, but . . . clients have to take advantage of it)
Foundations, the OS is small enough to have been burned onto a chip
Now it is being presented as a VM with a Notes option.
Printing with Xerox in the works
Bruce Morse on UC2
Sametime, works with existing telephony (no rip and replace)
Single phone entry association, it will make the call even if the destination user is off-line from ST.
Routing rules can be setup, and it will adjust the connectivity according to your environment.
Auto-three-way conference calls
iPhone ST announced for this year
New meeting architecture, that doesn't REQUIRE Java !
Chat initiation will be simpler, persistent meeting rooms, arranged around projects that contain documents, etc. (with ECL)
Rich Client Plugin (not sure of the client platforms) and a Browser
Content easily added in the setup
Quicktime standard
[Comment, this is much better arranged than some previous LS events. Not just selling big platforms, but really interesting solutions and no one is taking the floor for too long]
Jeff Schick
Social software for business
- consumer accessibility with business security and value
- Connections 2.5
- attention management
- flckr, twitter, and more integration -- corporate integration
- goes with iPhone, Nokia (webkit ?)
- Micro blogging in profiles
- wiki as core service
- easily customizable
- widgets can be added (e.g., file sharing)
- Nokia integration with Connections
Lotus Quickr
- 8.0.1 with ECM and Filenet
- Quickr services for Java, gives infinite storage
- Only company with an end-to-end storage solution.
Quickr connectors to the Filenet repository
Quickr 8.2 for Domino (ND8.5) [Daos integration ? That would be tremendous useful]
Mac and Linux support coming
Larry Bowden, WAS Portal & Mashups
75% of WAS Portals are customer facing
Key partnerships with web analytic companies
Ephox has been added as an entitlement (applause)
Mashups to asst. business with IT back logs, the IBM Mashup has been successful
Lotus Greenhouse has been successful for demonstrating Mashup utility
Integrated into Lotus products (e.g., Quickr).
Impressive Mashup demo is given
Sean Poulley
Lotuslive.com based on Bluehouse, is now LotusLive Engage
A portfolio of the best of Lotus, putting it on line for everyone, starting in qtr 1.
Interesting, very polished and professional, wonder how the pricing will work against competing offerings.
It looks as though LotusLive is a blended cloud solution for Lotus based organizations.
"Extend beyond the firewall "
[The web apps look good enough, that I'm actually having difficulty separating the web interface from the desktop client]
Integrated with BB
Partnering
-salesforce
-linked in (34 million)
-skype for voice/video
This will give 400 million
Sign up at lotuslive
[The partnerships are important.]
Kristen Lauria
smart planet ads, with Lotus tie-ins
Room 3012 to sign up for working smarter together
Bob P.
Elguji Software received CTO award. Go Bruce and Gayle !!
Loving the Bean Bag.
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