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.
Frankfurt, 10 February - SP-Integration LCTY. My second time at this event. Because it is in the Frankfurt suburbs, I at least have my 24 hour excuse to rent a car and drive a bit in Germany...
After all of these, I'm not rushing home for once. A family member is on a figure skating team that happens to be competing in Neuchatel, Switzerland the subsequent weekend. So, I'm heading there to watch the competition and check out Berne as well.
Inevitably laying out this travel plan will raise the question of what other IBM collaboration/Get Social events are planned for Q1. I'll post links/updates as I hear more. Right now I personally am only also committed to events in March in Taiwan, which will be my first visit there. There are plenty more in planning, though, so stay tuned.
Announcing IBM SmartCloud Archive Essentials
Thu, May 17th 2012 11:40a Ed Brill At today's IBM SmartCloud Forum event here in Chicago, we announced that we'll soon begin offering IBM SmartCloud Archive Essentials. This new, pure SaaS service is tightly integrated with IBM SmartCloud Notes, and will provide customers with a secure, searchable copy of any or all user mailboxes. Customers are increasingly interested in automating compliance and information lifecycle governance (ILG) tasks. Email is still the #1 source of discoverable content for legal and regulatory act [read] Keywords: domino
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Over one MILLION downloads, and now the future of Lotus Symphony - Apache OpenOffice
Wed, May 16th 2012 9:20a Ed Brill Earlier today, IBM delivered on a promise. Last July, in throwing our support to the new Apache OpenOffice podling project, we committed to contribute the source code of Lotus Symphony -- a fork of OpenOffice -- back into the mainline project. This morning, that contribution is complete. With today's action, we are re-uniting behind one OpenOffice, and will work with the Apache OpenOffice community to take the best of Symphony forward along with the best of OpenOffice. We will do this i [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM Mobile strategy for Social Business
Tue, May 15th 2012 9:00a Ed Brill Earlier today, I posted the latest version of the IBM Social Business presentation on mobile strategy. The presentation covers solutions available from IBM software for mobile social business, business intelligence, and commerce, as well as a deep dive on Lotus Notes Traveler, IBM Connections Mobile, IBM Sametime Mobile, IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices (nee BigFix), Lotus Mobile Connect, and custom application development through XPages or IBM Worklight. I suspect when you review this [read] Keywords: connections
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ibm.com: Hospitals in Russia’s Regions Turn to IBM to Transform Healthcare
Fri, May 11th 2012 10:40a Ed Brill Some cool Domino-based solutions being deployed for smarter healthcare in Russia... IBM is also working with KMIS and the Emergency Hospital of Petrozavodsk in the Republic of Karelia in North Western Russia to implement electronic medical records and an automated hospital information management system for its eight therapy and three diagnostic departments. The new system which is based on IBM Notes and Domino software provides unified access to many types of medical data, allowing doctors [read] Keywords: domino
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ibm.com: Hospitals in Russiaâs Regions Turn to IBM to Transform Healthcare
Thu, May 10th 2012 9:50p Ed Brill Some cool Domino-based solutions being deployed for smarter healthcare in Russia... IBM is also working with KMIS and the Emergency Hospital of Petrozavodsk in the Republic of Karelia in North Western Russia to implement electronic medical records and an automated hospital information management system for its eight therapy and three diagnostic departments. The new system which is based on IBM Notes and Domino software provides unified access to many types of medical data, allowing doctors a [read] Keywords: domino
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SmartCloud for Social Business - e-commerce
Thu, May 10th 2012 8:00a Ed Brill Recently, as part of the rebranding from LotusLive, the IBM SmartCloud for Social Business added a pretty important capability -- "buy online". In the past for LotusLive, this was a somewhat-complicated process through PassportAdvantage Express. The new e-commerce engine allows online purchase of key services including SmartCloud Engage, SmartCloud Meetings, and SmartCloud Notes. For small customers especially, which continues to be one of the key market segments for software-as-a- [read] Keywords: ibm
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Apache OpenOffice 3.4 announcement
Tue, May 8th 2012 3:25p Ed Brill I was out of the office most of the day so didn't have a chance to link this earlier... The Apache OpenOffice Project today announced the availability of Apache OpenOffice™ 3.4, the first release of OpenOffice under the governance of the Apache Software Foundation. Apache OpenOffice is the original open source office productivity suite, designed for professional and consumer use. "With the donation of OpenOffice.org to the ASF, the Foundation, and especially the podling project [read] Keywords: ibm
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Notes/Domino future roadmap workshop
Mon, May 7th 2012 10:20a Ed Brill Thanks so much for over 100 comments worth of valuable input on where we should be taking Notes/Domino in the future. We took this chart into the meeting as one of many inputs, coming from edbrill.com readers: Other inputs included the design partners, feedback from events like Lotusphere, competitive analysis, SPRs/APARs/PMRs, strategy coming down from IBM software group at large, sales input, and many many many other input vectors. Triaging for a mass-market product is always one of [read] Keywords: connections
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Management level view of the social mail concept now on YouTube
Tue, May 1st 2012 5:31a Ed Brill OK, so this six-minute YouTube video violates one of the frequent requests made of IBM marketing: we aren't showing the product. Instead I try in a little more than five minutes to explain what we mean by a "social mail" experience, and what we are building for the next release of IBM Connections (and in the future, other mail experiences we deliver): The IBMSocialBiz channel on YouTube has many other videos we have produced in the last few months, including one filmed at Lotusphere wh [read] Keywords: connections
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