ibm.com: IDC White Paper - The Future of Mail is Social
Fri, Feb 17th 2012 9:40a Ed Brill IBM has just posted a new white paper on the evolution of email, written by IDC analyst Michael Fauscette. The paper discusses the history of email, how companies are viewing email in the context of collaboration and social business, and then takes a converged view of the future of email and its evolution into a social business tool. Social mail consideration and adoption are then discussed. As social collaboration tools become more available and are deployed to more employees, some companies a [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Changes to my March+April schedule
Sun, Feb 12th 2012 5:11p Ed Brill In a previous blog entry announcing last week's trip to Germany, I also mentioned plans to visit the Business Gets Social roadshow in Taiwan in March, and a possible stop at the Belgian Lotus User Group (BLUG). Well, a personal conflict came up around that timeframe, and I had to back out of both. Instead.... I will be keynoting the 2nd Australian Lotus User Group (AusLUG) on 29/30 March in Melbourne. Subsequent to that, I'll be in Singapore on 4 April for the Business Gets Social roadsh [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New from IBM Press: XPages Portable Command Guide
Sun, Feb 12th 2012 5:11p Ed Brill IBM Press has followed up on last year's "Mastering XPages" book with a new title on XPages.... XPages Portable Command Guide offers fast access to working code, tested solutions, expert tips, and example-driven best practices. Drawing on their unsurpassed experience as IBM XPages lead developers and customer consultants, the authors explore many lesser known facets of the XPages runtime, illuminating these capabilities with dozens of examples that solve specific XPages development pro [read] Keywords: ibm
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Information Week: Jive CEO: Social Tools Are Essential, Not Extras
Wed, Feb 8th 2012 1:55p Ed Brill We agree in principle... Social software is the best way for organizations to organize "their single biggest investment, which for most companies is their people," [Jive CEO Tony Zingale] said. "They must adopt social business strategy or risk falling behind their competitors."Couldn't have said it better ourselves. However, I'm surprised where he goes from there: IBM Connections is the "refurbished Lotus email system"Um, OK. Even the reporter isn't buying it:His slams agains [read] Keywords: connections
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Wired: Clive Thompson on Analog Designs in the Digital Age
Tue, Feb 7th 2012 2:00p Ed Brill On my flight over to Europe this week, I read Clive Thompson's column and was intrigued:When we get to the last week of February, open your Google Calendar and choose the Month view. You'll see the previous three weeks grayed out. Only the next few days will be "active." If you want to see what you've got planned for more than the next couple of days, you have to flip forward to March. Now ask yourself: Why does Google Calendar--and nearly every other digital calendar--work that way? It [read] Keywords: lotus
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Dominoplus introduces D+ Everywhere
Mon, Jan 30th 2012 7:31a Ed Brill When I was in Spain last fall for the ESLUG event, I met Alejandro and the team from Dominoplus. They were excited to show me their "D+ Everywhere" application, which uses XPages to deliver offline mobile applications over HTML5. Now they have commercialized the solution, so I can highlight it more broadly:Domino+ has developed a solution based on Lotus Domino, xPages, HTML5 and jQuery Mobile which allows Lotus Domino xPages applications to be used off-line when there's no data connection. It [read] Keywords: domino
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ibm.com: What versions of Lotus Notes support Citrix XenApp 6.5?
Sun, Jan 29th 2012 6:30a Ed Brill After hearing from many customers that support for Citrix XenApp 6.5 was important even before the release of Notes/Domino Social Edition, a plan for supporting 6.5 has emerged:IBM will support Citrix XenApp 6.5 with Notes 8.5.3 Fix Pack 1 Basic and Standard clients, per the standard recommended Citrix XenApp installation guidelines provided, for the usual length of product life cycle/End of Service and/or terms of customer Support & Service agreement. Support will not request that customers [read] Keywords: domino
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New book-IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3: Upgrader’s Guide
Fri, Jan 27th 2012 7:30a Ed Brill Packt Publishing has just released another new Notes/Domino book: IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3: Upgrader's Guide. The authors are IBMers Barry Rosen, Tim Speed, and Scott O'Keefe. This updates their earlier book on Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.1. IBM Lotus Domino software is a world class platform for critical business, collaboration, and messaging applications. With Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3, IBM has once again provided business users with an intuitive, fully integrated platform to enhance [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Annual February Germany tour starts on the 6th
Wed, Jan 25th 2012 2:10p Ed Brill In what has become a nearly-annual tradition since 2005, I'll be in Germany in ten days, for Lotusphere Comes to You events in Munich, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, and Frankfurt. Munich, 6/7 February - edcom nachlese. A great annual event and a special place in my heart. I'll present my Lotusphere session on Messaging and Collaboration, but also the Q&A afterwards with vowe's "Good German" is a highlight. Ron Sebastian kicks the event off as he has likewise for many years. Hamburg, 8 Februar [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotusphere 2012: Mobility
Tue, Jan 24th 2012 7:40p Ed Brill One of last week's announcements that I didn't quite get to on the blog was the plan to support Windows Phone with the upcoming release of Lotus Notes Traveler. Specifically, IBM called out the intention to support Nokia and HTC devices on Notes Traveler. Yes, this is a reversal from my previously-stated position that Windows Phone wasn't interesting in the enterprise and thus, we wouldn't be investing. What persuaded me was our partnership with Nokia, and relative newcomer to the dance HTC, [read] Keywords: domino
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IBM Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 is now available
Mon, Jan 23rd 2012 5:40p Ed Brill From the Lotus Symphony website: Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 is our latest release. There are many enhancements in this release including support for 1 million rows in spreadsheets, bubble charts and a new design for the home page.This will also likely be the last release of IBM's own fork of the OpenOffice codebase. Our energy from here is going into the Apache OpenOffice project, and we expect to distribute an "IBM edition" of Apache OpenOffice in the future. We have contributed the Lotus Symphon [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere 2012: Videos
Mon, Jan 23rd 2012 9:30a Ed Brill For the first time, many of the Lotusphere sessions are available online, simultaneously with the conference. Better yet, they are still available this week :-) The opening general session can be viewed at http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/conference/ogs/ Beyond that, there is a ton of content on LiveStream.com/ibmsoftware. The other general sessions, many strategy and focus breakouts, and a series of "conversations with Lenny Liebmann" -- on camera interviews on a range of top [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotusphere 2012: Social Business for SMBs
Fri, Jan 20th 2012 8:00a Ed Brill Lots more to write about Lotusphere 2012. Someone asked me yesterday where I had been all week; this was another year where I spent far more time in meeting rooms and back offices. One such activity was a real privilege -- on Wednesday morning, I hosted a press briefing/panel (yes a panel) highlighting the role of social business in small business. The three panelists were Roxanne Reynolds-Lair, CIO at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising; Ken LaVan, President of LaVan & Neidenberg, [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere 2012: Messaging and Collaboration Strategy, aka "8.5.3!"
Tue, Jan 17th 2012 4:50a Ed Brill As always, a highlight for me at Lotusphere is my time on the stage, and this year was no exception. INV101, Messaging and Collaboration Strategy, had about 1500 attendees in the room, and many more watching via livestream (which is still available). Great attendance and it really energized me, and my copresenters -- no, rock stars -- from Petrobras. Petrobras discussed their upgrade from Notes/Domino 6.5 to Notes/Domino 8.5.x. They laid out clear, quantitative benefits and financial results. [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotusphere 2012: IBM Docs beta
Mon, Jan 16th 2012 8:41a Ed Brill Today at Lotusphere 2012, IBM unveiled the beta release of IBM Docs, formerly known as LotusLive Symphony. The beta release is available now on Greenhouse, http://greenhouse.lotus.com . IBM Docs is a completely cloud-based set of social document editors -- word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool -- that are focused on the needs of teams to share and improve productivity, both inside and outside the firewall. IBM Docs authors will be able to store documents in IBM SmartCloud Engage (former [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotusphere 2012: Blogging/tweeting plans
Sun, Jan 15th 2012 8:30p Ed Brill We have a lot of exciting news and announcements coming in the Lotusphere 2012 keynote in just about 10 hours. Of the day's highlights, my team has been working on at least four of the announcements. My goal in blogging them tomorrow is not to be first; it is to have a place to discuss these announcements with all of you, whether you are here in Orlando or not. Thus, I'm going to stagger a few posts out throughout the day, rather than post a slew of them at once during the opening session. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Lotusphere 2012: Live long and prosper
Fri, Jan 13th 2012 7:19a Ed Brill Good morning from Orlando. It's always disorienting to be in these hotels when it's not Lotusphere. Today at the Dolphin, some sales meeting is wrapping up. The attendees do not seem demographically to match Lotusphere... ...but that will all start changing today. And in 24-36 hours, I know I'll be in the zone, with thousands of my closest friends and colleagues. There is a lot of exciting news and innovation coming in the next week at Lotusphere and IBM Connect 2012. Obviously I'm not [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM expands social business initiative, "Great Mind Challenge"
Wed, Jan 11th 2012 3:01a Ed Brill This morning, IBM is issuing two press release highlighting social business initiatives. Both of these are pretty cool and timely in advance of next week's Lotusphere and Connect 2012 events. The first announcement is an academic initiative between IBM and San Jose State University. SJSU's Professor Larry Gee, who will be at Lotusphere next week, directs this new component of IBM's "Great Mind Challenge", previously only conducted in India. The Challenge will also be offered as part of [read] Keywords: ibm
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New Redbooks Wiki: Lotus Domino Development Best Practices
Tue, Jan 10th 2012 3:50p Ed Brill Hot off the virtual presses...47 articles designed to help you make the best out of your Domino/XPages applications:This wiki covers what is needed to build or enhance an application, regardless of client, and the general practices to make development easier, less time consuming, and easy to support changes within the lifecycle of an application. It also includes instructions on infrastructure and operational improvements which can benefit performance and maintainability of your environment.Than [read] Keywords: domino
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Where to find me at Lotusphere 2012
Sun, Jan 8th 2012 8:39p Ed Brill In many respects, even a week out, the answer is still "I don't know yet". I only have two public sessions at Lotusphere 2012: The Messaging and Collaboration Strategy session on Monday the 16th at 2:15 PM in the Dolphin North Hemisphere ballrooms, and hosting Ask the Product Managers on Thursday the 19th at 11:15 in the Swan ballrooms. Everything else on that calendar is individual meetings, press interviews, analyst connections, or behind-the-scenes staff activity. Sure, in the evenin [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotusphere 2012, the students, and a career fair
Sat, Jan 7th 2012 1:00p Ed Brill I have been so busy getting ready for Lotusphere 2012 that I have not been blogging much about it! That changes now, starting with this post, an upcoming entry on our Social Insights blog, and announcements in the coming days. At Lotusphere 2011, our friends at GBS (GROUP Business Software) teamed with IBM to bus in a group of students from University of South Florida and other colleges to participate in a special college day. It was great to have this participation from a set of future leade [read] Keywords: ibm
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The CIO called me
Tue, Jan 3rd 2012 12:20p Ed Brill Happy New Year! During the holidays, I blogged my 2011 year in review and became an all-Apple family. Of course, that wasn't all that was going on. We're just days away from Lotusphere 2012, and we had a year to close out. Down to the last days of the year, I was working with a few customer deals as we always do. One, a customer I had worked with throughout 2011, was a particularly inventive deal, whereby we approached a multi-national organization with the best way to consolidate and centr [read] Keywords: ibm
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An all Apple family
Tue, Dec 27th 2011 6:50a Ed Brill Back in April, I proudly declared my second anniversary of living completely Microsoft-free. Not much has changed in the last six months, though their acquisition of Skype has momentarily returned a piece of "Microsoft" software to my kit-bag. There are alternatives to Skype, though, so I'm getting back to that mantra. Beyond Microsoft-free, though, the point of that blog entry was how much Apple technology had entered my life in the last few years. Earlier this month, IBM started a conver [read] Keywords: connections
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New Notes/iNotes 8.5.3 and Citrix scalability white paper
Wed, Dec 21st 2011 4:30a Ed Brill Recommendations from the performance team on how to optimize Citrix XenApp 5.0 and 6.0 and Notes/iNotes 8.5.3...This white paper provides an overview and recommendations for how to get the most from the IBM Lotus® Notes® 8.5.3 client on the Citrix® XenApp™ 5.0 and Citrix XenApp 6.0 servers. Specifically, it shows that by tuning the environment, you can realize significant improvements when running the Notes client on XenApp.Updated for the latest releases. Since I can see the q [read] Keywords: domino
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Demo of Notes/Domino 8.5.3 new teamroom template
Tue, Dec 20th 2011 7:10a Ed Brill The IBM Lotus Notes/Domino product pages have been updated with a link -- no registration required -- to a five minute presentation/demo showing the new Teamroom template available with Notes/Domino 8.5.3 Upgrade Pack 1. The new template is XPages-based and is optimized for mobile browsers. The demo video not only highlights the new template capabilities, it also walks through how easy it is to upgrade from earlier Teamroom designs. Link: ibm.com: IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 Mobilize your so [read] Keywords: domino
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IBM 5in5: IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives within Five Years
Mon, Dec 19th 2011 9:10a Ed Brill This is a pretty cool view into the future from IBM Research, especially one that is relevant to the messaging marketplace:In five years, unsolicited advertisements may feel so personalized and relevant it may seem spam is dead. At the same time, spam filters will be so precise you’ll never be bothered by unwanted sales pitches again. Imagine if tickets to your favorite band are put on hold for you the moment they became available, and for the one night of the week that is free on your ca [read] Keywords: ibm
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New releases week, part 2: LotusLive new release
Tue, Dec 13th 2011 3:01a Ed Brill OK, second day, second new release. The channel announcement is live by now in some markets... Today we are releasing an update to the entire LotusLive service. Some highlights: Connections Files update to version 3.5. Drag and drop, soft delete, customizable end-user views. New Connections community management settings Mobile Meetings clients (previously announced) and new LotusLive Notes features, including: An "over-the-wire" method to transfer mailboxes into the service. Previously, [read] Keywords: connections
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Network World: Microsoft updates Exchange 2010
Tue, Dec 6th 2011 9:21a Ed Brill Could it be that it has been a whole year since I posted anything about my competition in Redmond? I guess I hadn't really consciously realized that I had moved away from the competitive battle here on the blog, but there has been so much going on at IBM that there hasn't been a need to distract with the competition's weak points. However, I couldn't pass this up in yesterday's Network World:Microsoft has updated its Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, posting a service pack with a number o [read] Keywords: ibm
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A few useful links and topics from the last few days
Mon, Dec 5th 2011 9:35p Ed Brill I've been posting stuff like this on my Facebook persona page and on Twitter, but I thought it might be useful to expose these links to the blog audience as well. Enterprise MobileNext: As previously blogged, I was at the inaugural Enterprise MobileNext conference last week in San Francisco. IBM VP Nigel Beck and I delivered a keynote on Thursday, and had the opportunity to talk (along with Alistair Rennie, Bharti Patel, and other IBMers) to many of the customers and vendors present at the [read] Keywords: domino
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Michael Sampson’s new book, Collaboration Roadmap
Sun, Dec 4th 2011 11:30p Ed Brill Somewhere in the Pacific Rim, it's Monday the 5th, the official publication date of Michael Sampson's new book, Collaboration Roadmap. I strongly recommend that any IT manager or professional in the field of collaboration, social business, or even base collaborative technologies like email, should check out Michael's book. It was my privilege to write the Foreward for Collaboration Roadmap. This gave me the opportunity to read the whole text, cover to cover, and discover a tremendous [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Headed to Enterprise MobileNext Forum, San Francisco
Tue, Nov 29th 2011 5:00p Ed Brill It's been a long day of watching air traffic control in Chicago, but if all goes well, in a few hours I'm headed to San Francisco for the Enterprise MobileNext Forum, taking place tomorrow and Thursday. Enterprise MobileNext is a new conference, bringing together a few hundred key senior IT strategists and decision-makers to plan the future of enterprise mobility. I was honored to be part of the Advisory Board that put the conference together, and will be joining Alistair Rennie on Thursday [read] Keywords: ibm
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Deutsche Post DHL and IBM integrate "E-Postbrief"
Mon, Nov 28th 2011 9:10p Ed Brill While this news probably doesn't affect anyone outside of Germany directly, I do think it's useful to highlight for two reasons -- 1) the importance of integration between Notes/Domino and other messaging-related technologies/implementations and 2) the speed with which IBM was able to do this (notably, faster than Microsoft). Earlier this month, the Deutsche Post (German Post Office) announced the integration of Lotus Notes with E-Postbrief. Notes users can send secure mail utilizing variou [read] Keywords: domino
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ibm.com: Cabin Attendants Union improves its document management
Sun, Nov 27th 2011 8:00p Ed Brill As regular readers know, we've made a lot of adjustments to Domino Express in exactly the last twelve months -- adding 2-way clustering, ending other technical restrictions, changing the definition of an Express-eligible organization for Messaging/Collaboration Express to 1000 users per Domino domain. While I can't ever get into specific sales figures, the results have been very positive, especially in terms of selling new licenses. I often get asked about examples of very small organizatio [read] Keywords: administration
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"New Fangled Notes" informercial
Wed, Nov 16th 2011 8:00a Ed Brill A shout-out to UK partner Portal for a creative effort, reminiscent of one of the first Notes Dennis Leary commercials, to explain in simple terms some surprising innovations of Lotus Notes today... Full details on their website's "New Fangled Notes" page > [read] Keywords: lotus
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IBM’s 2011 Tech Trends report
Tue, Nov 15th 2011 7:20a Ed Brill Hot off the presses this morning is IBM's 2011 Tech Trends report. More than 4000 IT professionals from all over the world -- 93 countries -- participated in the survey. The results cover a wide range of topics, including analytics, mobile, cloud, and social -- a buzzword bingo! In mobility, I was intrigued by the following, "Planned mobile development platforms": In the realm of social, Forty-eight percent of respondents cited “adoption by employee and/or customer” as [read] Keywords: ibm
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New on ibm.com: Lotus Notes Traveler Deployment Cookbook
Sun, Nov 13th 2011 11:50a Ed Brill This is a good use of a wiki...Lotus Notes Traveler provides mobile support for Lotus Notes and Lotus iNotes users, including real-time replication of e-mail, calendar, address book, journal, and to-do lists. This Cookbook serves as a deployment guide for Domino administrators to help you get the most from your Notes Traveler installation with a minimum of fuss. It provides highlights of what you must know about before you deploy to any size organization and what you should avoid. Be sure to re [read] Keywords: domino
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Sametime on iOS - pilot testing
Fri, Nov 11th 2011 9:36a Ed Brill It's been no secret that we are working on an installed IBM Sametime application for iOS, just as we have recently shipped one for Android. I had the opportunity earlier this week to spend a full day working from the internal pilot of Sametime on iOS. Short summary -- great app, well-designed. As you can see in the screen shot, I was only working over 3G, not wifi. The speed and responsiveness was just fine. The battery life was great, too, because the when the app is not active, it backs [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM’s Introduction to XPages courseware - free
Thu, Nov 3rd 2011 10:01a Ed Brill IBM's services team has taken a bold step this week -- posting the courseware for Introduction to IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 XPages (D8L55) on the IBM Lotus Greenhouse at no charge. Yes, free as in free beer! Why free? As part of the OpenCourseWare movement, pioneered at MIT a decade ago. The IBM Education team is taking a step forward to advance informal learning through the sharing and use of free, quality educational materials to build skills in the marketplace. From Sonia Malik in our E [read] Keywords: domino
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Computerworld: IBM opens up smartphone, tablet support for its workers
Mon, Oct 31st 2011 2:00p Ed Brill Really good article about IBM's approach to mobile devices and tablets. The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend is fully in play, while respecting need for corporate governance and security. Android and iOS quickly emerging as the two mainstream platforms, though 30,000 IBMers (like me) are using Blackberry (of course, I have an iPad as well...).... Initially, IBM workers will have email, contacts and calendar access through IBM Lotus Traveler, Bodin said. In addition to installing agent soft [read] Keywords: agent
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Language versions of Notes/Domino 8.5.3
Wed, Oct 26th 2011 12:50p Ed Brill Most-frequently asked question this week -- when are the language versions of Notes/Domino 8.5.3 coming? IBM doesn't pre-announce the release dates for a variety of reasons. The best available information I have, though, may help with planning. We are expecting the first group of languages - Chinese (simplified/traditional), Korean, Japanese, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish - around the second week of November, 2011. The second group of languages - Danish, Dutch, Finnis [read] Keywords: domino
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CNNMoney: IBM CEO Palmisano to step down
Tue, Oct 25th 2011 4:10p Ed Brill The headline is a little mis-leading, since Palmisano remains as Chairman, but Ginni Rometty moves up to CEO and President, as announced today by IBM. What I like about this article is this: Palmisano's tenure was an extremely successful one: After taking the tech giant's reins from Lou Gerstner in 2002, Palmisano transformed the company from a systems and services firm into a supercomputing and analytics mega-machine. The makeover paid off. Shares have soared 73% during Palmisano's te [read] Keywords: ibm
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Four hotels, five countries, six days
Mon, Oct 24th 2011 7:10p Ed Brill Admittedly, even for me, last week was a little wearying. I've already written about ESLUGsphere in Madrid and the business partner summit in Wroclaw, which were the two main reasons for last week's European visit. I rounded out the week with a visit to Cardiff, Wales, finally completing a tour of the United Kingdom. Though I was only on Welsh soil for 18 hours, I made sure to tick a few boxes -- including some sightseeing of famous vistas that had been used in the filming of Doctor Who. [read] Keywords: collaboration
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"Ask the Product Managers" at Lotusphere 2012?
Sun, Oct 23rd 2011 4:14p Ed Brill Last week, one of my colleagues asked me if we were going to do "Ask the Product Managers" again at Lotusphere 2012. After this year's debut of the session, I was pretty sure I wanted to repeat it...until I was asked to reflect upon it. On the positive side, the session was a good opportunity to meet many of the product managers across the IBM Collaboration Solutions team. We also used it as a way to start punctuating the conference, by having each PM mention something about the conferenc [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Another good event: Central/Eastern Europe collaboration partner summit in Wroclaw
Thu, Oct 20th 2011 3:20p Ed Brill I spent the last couple of days in Wroclaw (pronounced vaguely like "Vrat-slaf"), Poland, with 60 IBM business partners from across central and eastern Europe. To demonstrate the importance of the forum, we brought another 25-ish IBMers (maybe it was more) for sessions, roundtables, and meetings with the various partners from across the region. There was also time for a bit of social business as well, making friends with some of the locals. I've been asked but unable to go to this eve [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Yesterday’s Spanish Lotus Users Group - muy bien!
Tue, Oct 18th 2011 2:18a Ed Brill About seventy people attended yesterday's ESLUGSPHERE event at the IBM Forum in Madrid. Like other user groups around the world, the Spanish team and I have been able to build a good relationship over the last few years, thus when they asked if I would join the agenda, I was happy to do so. The weather in Madrid is glorious this autumn, and on Sunday night, several of us dined al fresco at a small Andalucian restaurant on a residential street. I was happy to be off the tourist trail (though [read] Keywords: connections
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The Apache Software Foundation Statement on Apache OpenOffice.org
Fri, Oct 14th 2011 9:07a Ed Brill I like this assertiveness by the Apache Software Foundation -- taking what seems to be a pretty emotional discussion around where OpenOffice is going and puts it into plain and simple terms.As with many highly-visible products, there has been speculation and conjecture about the future of OpenOffice.org at Apache. More recently, destructive statements have been published by both members of the greater FOSS community and former contributors to the original OpenOffice.org product, suggesting that [read] Keywords: ibm
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Next week: Open Mic on Lotus Notes Traveler, Wednesday 12 October
Fri, Oct 7th 2011 4:00a Ed Brill I should probably blog these more often, as the last one on Citrix got very good response from edbrill.com readers. You are invited to join an Open Mic Webcast on "What's the Latest with Lotus Notes Traveler?" to be held Wednesday, October 12th at 11:00 AM EDT (15:00 UTC or GMT -4) for one hour. In the first half hour, we will share a presentation discussing Traveler features and functions. The second half of the Webcast will focus on your questions to be answered by a panel of IBM Develo [read] Keywords: ibm
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Roadmap for Notes/Domino from here
Thu, Oct 6th 2011 9:20a Ed Brill Now that we've shipped Notes/Domino 8.5.3, there seems to be some confusion about what comes next on the Notes/Domino roadmap. We'll be discussing this in detail next week with an initial group of customers at our Leadership Alliance event, and of course, at Lotusphere 2012. But to clarify for now since there is discussion -- We are building a feature release for 2012. It won't be called Notes/Domino 9; it will be called Notes/Domino something (let's say "foo" for now). Architecturally, [read] Keywords: domino
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Some great new ibm.com resources for Notes/Domino 8.5.3
Tue, Oct 4th 2011 3:40p Ed Brill Today's delivery of Notes/Domino 8.5.3 included lots of great new technology, but was also a launching pad for a number of new marketing pieces. Here are some useful resources that go hand-in-glove with today's announcement: The Notes/Domino 8.5 product page on ibm.com has been updated with all sorts of 8.5.3 information The "test drive" page on ibm.com has been updated to show that the trial versions are available (including, once again, Domino server), and the plug-ins to use IBM Connecti [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New license terms in Notes/Domino 8.5.3, including changes to Domino Express
Tue, Oct 4th 2011 9:30a Ed Brill In addition to new entitlements and new features, Notes/Domino 8.5.3 has a completely re-written set of license agreements. Earlier this year, IBM legal and operations commenced a set of activities to simplify IBM software licensing. The goal was to make the license text much clearer in terms of what is NOT allowed, as opposed to trying to document what IS allowed. We got rid of a lot -- historical clauses, positive and negative opposites, extraneous terminology. Thus, the new licenses are a lot [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Mobile collaboration leadership
Tue, Sep 27th 2011 8:50p Ed Brill About a year ago, I declared that IBM had turned the corner from follower to leader in the mobile space. I was mocked for the statement, but not only do I stand by it, I feel like we are even further out front now. How so? I had the opportunity today to present a slide showing our current and planned future device support for IBM collaboration and Lotus solutions on the relevant enterprise mobile platforms -- Apple, Android, Blackberry, and Nokia. It's pretty impressive: Now, of course [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Open Mic webcast this Wednesday, Notes in Citrix environments
Sat, Sep 24th 2011 5:00p Ed Brill I get lots of questions about Notes and virtualization approaches, with Citrix continuing to be the primary requested environment. This week, our experts will be hosting an open mic on the topic...IBM will host an Open Mic webcast with Lotus Development and Support Engineers on 28 September 2011. The topic will be "IBM Lotus Notes in Citrix environments." Date: 28 September 2011 Time: 11:00 AM EDT (15:00 UTC, or GMT -4), for 60 minutesLink: Open Mic Webcast: IBM Lotus Notes in Citrix envir [read] Keywords: domino
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Calm before the storm
Sun, Sep 18th 2011 10:00p Ed Brill Late last week, I was rather forcibly asked about my availability for an upcoming international customer meeting, and I had to say, uh, could we do it in November? Only in trying to parse that did I realize how busy things are in the coming weeks. As is clear from my last blog post, the next two weeks are pretty busy gearing up to launch Notes/Domino 8.5.3. There's a lot going on with the new release, and we need to ready ibm.com content, sales training for IBMers and business partners, FAQs [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Notes/Domino 8.5.3 launch dates set
Fri, Sep 9th 2011 10:40a Ed Brill I've been slowly teasing this out as we near the finish line, but we now have a launch date and activities set up. Unless something last minute changes, our planned announce/ship date for the Notes/Domino 8.5.3 family is Tuesday, 4 October 2011. We will have new news at the time of launch, so stay tuned for that. Meanwhile, LotusUserGroup.org has opened registration for the launch webcast, taking place on Thursday, 6 October 2011:Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 provides numerous feature en [read] Keywords: domino
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OpenNTF: Announcing the winners of the XPages Development Contest
Tue, Aug 30th 2011 5:03a Ed Brill I am really pleased to see that the first-ever OpenNTF.org development contest, this one around XPages custom controls, has been a huge success:Winners: Ferry Kranenburg for his Multi Database Search Control Dennis Chen for his ZK Spreadsheet for XPages Rami Muurimaki for his XPages PDF Exporter Custom Control The winners can select to receive a 64gb Wifi iPad or a 32gb 3G iPad. The contest had a total of 22 individual contributors who submitted 49 entries which contained 54 custom co [read] Keywords: xpages database
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50,000
Tue, Aug 30th 2011 2:17a Ed Brill With Bill Geimer's comment on yesterday's posting about IBM social mobility, this blog now has received fifty thousand valid, non-spam comments over the course of eight years and eight months. It's impossible to identify the first comment, as we migrated the blog after a few months into Dominoblog. Some of the posts that attracted the most comments include... "If I could add ONE feature to Notes 7.x..." -- demonstrating the need for ideation and what became ideajam.net "Differenc [read] Keywords: domino
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Information Week: Forrester Names 4 Leading Enterprise Social Platforms
Sat, Aug 27th 2011 7:21p Ed Brill Excellent to see recognition of IBM Connections and IBM's overall social business story as a leader in Forrester's assessment of enterprise social software platforms:"To me, the story here is IBM, not Jive," [Forrester analyst Rob] Koplowitz said. IBM Connections ranked high across the board and beats Jive in some areas, such as localization into many languages. "In this type of emerging market, where we're just starting to see leaders emerge, a company like IBM you might assume [read] Keywords: connections
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Shorter path to Notes/Domino 8.5 certification
Thu, Aug 25th 2011 8:43a Ed Brill My colleagues in education programs have recently announced an update to the Notes/Domino 8.5 certification paths. The new exams will be available next month, in September 2011, and have reduced the number of exams that an individual needs to pass from three down to two. The new paths are: IBM Certified Application Developer - Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 Pass Application Development Core Exam 1 covering the classic Domino environment AND Pass Application Development Core Exam 2 covering develop [read] Keywords: administration
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Congratulations, Mary Beth Raven
Tue, Aug 23rd 2011 2:08p Ed Brill By now, you've probably seen Mary Beth Raven's posting on the Notes Design Blog announcing her new opportunity at Solidworks. Many of you have already offered her congratulations on her new endeavor, and I join you in honoring Mary Beth's achievements and wishing her the best. I don't often write farewell blog entries, but Mary Beth's public association with Notes since the start of the "Hannover" project deserves special attention. When someday I get to write a book on the history of [read] Keywords: connections
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Charleston, South Carolina
Sun, Aug 21st 2011 8:53p Ed Brill I'm just back from eight days on vacation in South Carolina. I have become slightly paranoid about broadcasting a family vacation, so I was reasonably quiet about it until now that we are back. Yes, I realize that some of you live or vacation where we just were, and that by blogging/tweeting/facebooking about it, I would have had some additional tips or insight from fellow travelers. Still, I think we did pretty well at going the places we needed to go (dinner at McCrady's, carriage tour, aqua [read] Keywords: blogging
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Offline mail in the browser
Thu, Aug 11th 2011 10:47a Ed Brill We're having an interesting discussion internally about the use of email offline in a browser, and I am interested in finding out about usage today and patterns for the future from a broader audience. In Lotus iNotes, we offer the ability for a browser email user to work offline. The feature has been part of the product since first release back a decade ago. And long-time Notes fans know that that implementation grew out of earlier projects like Lotus Weblicator. However, in LotusLive Not [read] Keywords: ibm
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42 is the ultimate answer...allons-y!
Sat, Aug 6th 2011 5:23a Ed Brill Don't panic, I'm just paying tribute. One of the joys of the iPad is having a device with ten hours' battery life along on my frequent overseas flights. Earlier this year, I started using that time to catch up on the BBC TV show Doctor Who. In my youth, I was about as fanatic a Doctor Who fanboy as there ever was: videotaping every episode, owning all the books, going to conventions, memorizing lines. Sadly, I think I could still recite nearly the entirety of the show "The Five Doctor [read] Keywords: facebook
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Presentations now in LotusLive Symphony tech preview
Fri, Aug 5th 2011 9:00a Ed Brill Well look at that... And how pretty! The third tech preview for LotusLive Symphony is now out on Lotus Greenhouse. The new update provides presentations support in addition to documents and spreadsheets. As we have been demonstrating with the previous tech preview releases, our focus in LotusLive Symphony is on collaborative documents, including real-time co-editing, tasks and assignments, sectioning, and versioning. For those involved with Greenhouse, please check out the new t [read] Keywords: lotus
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My Savi (Plantronics) Office
Tue, Aug 2nd 2011 6:03a Ed Brill As long-time readers know, I seem to have something of a thing for earbud phones. When I work from my home office, I'm mostly on conference calls, and holding a phone is tiring. Using VoIP on the computer with a headset was tying me down; bluetooth didn't have much range, and occasionally I need to wander off for a snack or to take the dog out. Thus, I had settled last year on using a traditional cordless handset with speakerphone, using DECT 6.0 with quite a nice range, but tied to my analog [read] Keywords: ibm
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Computerworld: Flexcon upgrades Lotus Notes
Fri, Jul 29th 2011 6:53a Ed Brill Computerworld has a story about how to approach what they call "legacy" systems, systems that have been in place and functioning for a long time with no change -- nor investment -- within IT organizations. One of the four case studies is Massachusetts US-based manufacturer Flexcon."We had not done any upgrades in quite a while, and we patched [only] to fix specific problems. There were a lot of upgrades we had not done," Benjamin explains. "We needed to get things up to date." ... [read] Keywords: domino
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IamLUG is next week...sorry I won’t be there, but you should be!
Mon, Jul 25th 2011 6:56a Ed Brill Despite its central position in the summer calendar, August is quickly shaping up to be a busy month -- too busy, in fact. For the first time in a long time, I am having to drop out of a previously-intended commitment, namely to be at IamLUG in St. Louis next week. Believe me when I say I'm honestly bummed to be missing out on St. Louis in August, because for me as for many, IamLUG represents a mid-point between Lotusphere events, a time to reconnect, a time to be among friends and colleagues. [read] Keywords: ibm
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New IBM US Federal cloud collaboration offering
Wed, Jul 20th 2011 10:13p Ed Brill Thursday, IBM will be announcing a new set of cloud offerings for the US Federal government, on our existing IBM Federal Community Cloud environment. A key to the new offerings is their operation in a US FISMA-compliant data center. The new offerings include IBM Connections, IBM Sametime, IBM Lotus Domino/iNotes (with Notes Traveler and BES capabilities), and will be available in the fourth quarter of 2011. IBM's Federal Community Cloud, launched late last year, is specifically designed to hel [read] Keywords: administration
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AllThingsD: IBM’s Cloud Is Big in Japan With Two New Data Centers
Thu, Jul 14th 2011 11:26a Ed Brill Great news on expansion of both LotusLive operations and the IBM SmartCloud offerings such as Domino...IBM has boosted its cloud computing offerings in Japan with the opening of two data centers in that country, the company will announce today. The first is located in Makuhari, Japan and will be devoted to IBM’s SmartCloud Enterprise service. ... It’s the sixth data center for IBM’s SmartCloud. In March it said it would spend $38 million to build a data center in Singapore. [read] Keywords: collaboration
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AllThingsD: IBMâs Cloud Is Big in Japan With Two New Data Centers
Thu, Jul 14th 2011 11:00a Ed Brill Great news on expansion of both LotusLive operations and the IBM SmartCloud offerings such as Domino...IBM has boosted its cloud computing offerings in Japan with the opening of two data centers in that country, the company will announce today. The first is located in Makuhari, Japan and will be devoted to IBM’s SmartCloud Enterprise service. ... It’s the sixth data center for IBM’s SmartCloud. In March it said it would spend $38 million to build a data center in Singapore. O [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM at 100: We’ve always been about communication
Thu, Jul 7th 2011 1:20p Ed Brill I missed this during my travels last week, but how incredibly cool. The United States Postal Service last week issued a stamp in the "Pioneers of American Industrial Design" series featuring designer Eliot Noyes, who was responsible for the design of the original IBM Selectric typewriter in 1961. There are some great stories on the IBM "Icons of Progress" page around the Selectric typewriter. As part of IBM's Centennial, I volunteered to be the IBM Expert associated with the Sel [read] Keywords: collaboration
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DominoPoint Italy conference recap
Mon, Jul 4th 2011 8:20a Ed Brill Now that was cool. Or, am I supposed to say, hey Jeff, that was a sucky conference, I wouldn't ever want to return again, but if someone HAS to go in the future, I will make the sacrifice. I wrote this recap from the courtyard of the Valbona Castle, a real 13th century military castle located about an hour outside Padova, Italy. It was a beautiful day, 24 degrees or so out, and the sunlight shone down into the courtyard. This castle was the venue for this year's DominoPoint "DDive", a co [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Getting ready for an Italian DDive
Mon, Jun 27th 2011 1:17p Ed Brill It's hard to believe we're already at the halfway point in 2011. It feels like just yesterday we were leaving Lotusphere and off and running. I'm very excited about my next trip to Europe later this week. This weekend, I'll be speaking at the annual "DDive" event of the Italian Notes/Domino user community, DominoPoint.IT. What is DDive? It's a user group, a networking event, and a social event all in one -- Italian style. The DominoPoint guys have been after me for years to get t [read] Keywords: domino
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Congratulations to new IBM Champions for Lotus and IBM Collaboration Solutions
Wed, Jun 22nd 2011 10:50a Ed Brill Moments ago at Admin2011, I had the privilege to announce the 2011 crop of IBM Champions for Lotus Software and IBM Collaboration Solutions. These fifty represent strong evangelists, community contributors, knowledge sharers, and all around good people from the Lotus community worldwide. We received many more nominations than we had slots available for Champions, so being selected represents real IBM recognition of your efforts. The Champions are: Adam Brown Bill Malchisky Bruce Elgort [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Quick hits from PACLUG
Wed, Jun 22nd 2011 1:08a Ed Brill Just some quick observations from today's successful PACLUG event in Las Vegas. Thank you to David Stephens for being the energy behind this event, and to many others including the WISPubs/View staff, Brian Benz, Jon Raslawski, Ann Marie Darrough, Holli Heard, etc. for making it all work. Very good discussion in my Notes/Domino strategy session today, including good brainstorming for a working name for the Notes "Next" release I really enjoy the interactive forum of a session like that whe [read] Keywords: admin
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"Like" me on Facebook
Fri, Jun 17th 2011 7:16a Ed Brill Earlier this week, I took a step in the direction away from "profersonal" (a term my professional/personal friend Jason Seiden has coined) and set up a separate Facebook page for, well, me. Me as in Ed Brill, Director, Messaging and Collaboration, IBM Software Solutions, as opposed to me--opinionated father, photographer, hobby writer for Highland Park Patch, etc. I have been a huge believer for two decades in living life online. I share personal milestones about my family, my hobbies, and [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM turns 100, reflecting on my 16%
Wed, Jun 15th 2011 12:23a Ed Brill This morning, IBM is celebrating it's centennial -- one hundred years in the technology business. It happens to basically coincide with my own 17th anniversary, although technically as far as actually being an IBMer, that started a year after I joined Lotus. So for fair math let's say I've been part of IBM for 16% of its lifespan, which is way more than the two years I thought I would spend at Lotus before moving on to a new opportunity. Much will be written this week about IBM turning 100 [read] Keywords: agent
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Fourth release of LotusLive Notes is live today
Tue, Jun 7th 2011 1:03p Ed Brill Earlier this morning, we announced the availability of the fourth release of LotusLive Notes. The new release is primarily designed around quality improvement, but adds some new features for customized mail routing, additional language support for LotusLive Notes Traveler, and additional monitoring capabilities. As I've commented on before, I'm pleased and impressed with our engineering and delivery team's ability to turn the crank rapidly on new releases, true to the model of software as [read] Keywords: domino
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Domino Express - Unintended Consequences
Mon, Jun 6th 2011 9:53p Ed Brill Earlier tonight, a business partner blogged about different ways that small businesses could refactor their Domino licensing to take advantage of the changes my team and I have made in Domino Collaboration Express licensing over the last few months. The blog entry is a good encapsulation of a part of my strategy presentation over the last few months -- in short, that it appears I over-steered in listening to the community on needed changes in Domino Express that may have resulted in putting cust [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Help - new Notes/Domino Wiki page to list Domino hosting providers
Thu, Jun 2nd 2011 1:04p Ed Brill This is what a wiki is for. I asked my team to compile a list of the xSPs who provide Domino hosting services globally. Because of the highly distributed nature of IBM's channel relationships, this turned out to be harder to do than I had hoped. Never mind the complexity, though, we have technology and humans who can solve the challenge. We put up a wiki page on the Notes/Domino wiki to compile a list of all the Domino hosting providers. At V1, it only has US, Japan, Sweden, and Canadian [read] Keywords: domino
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