Lotusphere - Strategy and Futures session

Chris Connor  18 January 2010 06:00:47 PM

Again might be a bit rough..but here is my look at things

Starts with a review of success of 2009

8.5.1 - More than a "maintenance release"
- Notes client user enhancements
- Domino Designer in eclipse
- New Editors
- Traveller
- changes to licenses
- Free designer
- LotusLive
- Lotus Mobile Connect as part of your entitlement
- DAOS
- Simplifed ID Management
- xPages
- Reduce operating costs by 30% or more

SO - Get onto Notes 8.5.1

Independent TCO Analysis says Notes and Domino 8.5.1 is up to 52% cheaper.

CASE Study

Interesting case study from GM 3000 users moved to 8 and now starting 8.5.1 at 1000 people a day!!

Feedback is that people love
      - Browser based client as well as traditional client
      - Intuitive
      - Calendar side bar
      - Type ahead

Mobility at GM seems to be big thing with iPhone / Traveller - personally it is time for me to get this up and running

Unified communications - Presence awareness, Single phone number for follow me - call the person not the device. Least cost routing.

Improved employee production through "one click" access.

Sharepoint 2010 / Microsoft

Debunking some cost myths - disk savings are better with Domino. IBM internal move to symphony has saved 20 cents a document!!!
Using the right form of collaboration can save time and money and increase productivity - focus is therefore here. This is why the Notes Client is becoming a collaboration desktop.

Lotus Notes and Domino Delivery models

Many choices now with on premise, cloud, appliance, hybrid to suit your plans and priorities.

LotusLive Notes in 2010 - over 18 million users

Cloud based Domino Mail, Calendar, Contact and IM
Seamless transition to the cloud for continuity
Secure, scalable, economical
Tuned for hybrid

BES / Traveller is coming, 5GB limit and sametime IM.

Available loosely speaking - mid year

Lotus Foundations / Office Now / Shoretel

1000 MS partners recruited to sell foundations!!
Exiting OfficeNow offering - works with xerox document applications from device (copiers etc) to Lotus Foundations

Traveller / Mobile
Notes encrypted email from iPhone is coming
Linux support
Optimised client
Partnership with Nokia is underway with good joint marketing.
Excellent demonstration with E72 looks interesting (mail, calender, contacts, sametime, telephony integration)
Andoid support has been announcement

Lotus Protector for Mail Security
Security and compliance services (spam filtering etc) - Integrates with inbox features
Real growth end of 2009
Used internally @ IBM
Grow @ 270%+
Now announcing Protector for Mail encryption - secure internet mail using PGP secure mail technology

Archiving options - with sonian
archiving in the cloud (so on premise or LotusLive Notes)

Alloy for SAP
Plans to align with collaboration agenda via openNTF. More features coming.

Developer Community - OpenNTF
67000 - (8000 new members)
400+ releases ready to use
Traffic up 25%
3million + visit

Cloud Development for Domino
Amazon EC2 based - develop and test in the cloud - no investment in hardware.

Catalog
Need to get our applications listed - priority!!

Lotus Vision 2020 - The 2020 plan!
Project Vulcan will start to be delivered in 2011
Windows and office is dead!!
But vulcan will still continue to support it!!
Symphony 3.0 is coming - beta early next month - so go download. VB support and more!!
Project concorde - web based editing for collaboration via LotusLive (Live secitons, co-editing, contextual commenting, web clipping and more - REAL WEB 2.0)
All Lotus product set will be available via the cloud
The notes interface will be focussed on Web 2.0 - UI will be unified in browser and Notes client - this is the long term goal.
Notes will grow based on its experience 20 years - offline client experience will build on that.It is obvious the game is changing - organisational collaboration is the direction.
Mary Beth Raven is doing new interface of integrated Mail, Contacts / Tasks (such as Linked In, Connections etc federated in a common place), ,Calendars (again Federated) Demo - advanced search and analytics. An amazing demo of the future "Notes Next" (or whatever it is going to be called). Follow the Notes design blog for more information as it evolves. Federation is the key - pulling data from different sources, cognos, connections, email, discussions, opportunities, tasks into one interface - it looks very Web 2.0.

Call to action
Save money - upgrade to 8.5.1
Go beyond email - think web 2.0
Get a strategy on security
Modernise applications with RIA - embrace xPages!
Plan long term - plan for 2020.

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