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Wednesday 25th, February 2009
Introducing the Beautiful Molly Jayne25/02/2009 06:17 PMLocation : Home
Tuesday 20th, January 2009
Lotusphere News from a distance20/01/2009 12:35 AMLocation : Home Office
Well unfortunately I couldn't make Lotusphere this year as fortunately Jayne is due with our first baby in Feb. A little too close to be on the other side of the world.
So I am watching the news come in from afar and here is the latest news I have been able to find out. ISW has a number of our team at Lotusphere so I am sure we will get more info coming in soon as well.
And that is it for now. More as it comes in.
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So I am watching the news come in from afar and here is the latest news I have been able to find out. ISW has a number of our team at Lotusphere so I am sure we will get more info coming in soon as well.
- IBM announces that since Lotus Notes 8 was released they have added 12,236 new customers. From my knowledge there used to be approximately 50,000 so this is a huge increase in new organisations that have adopted Notes & Domino.
- Lotusphere is bigger this year. Customer attendance is up 2% on last year.
- RIM introduced their first Blackberry 10 years today. Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.16 released to support Domino 8.5 (only 10 days after the release of 8.5).
- New Blackberry Client for Lotus Connections 2.0.1 announced for release in early 2009. Supports all Connection services.
- New Blackberry client for Sametime as well. Also plans to support Quickr and Lotus Symphony.
- Blackberry XPages support in Domino Designer through an Eclipse plugin coming later this year.
- Lotus Bluehouse has been renamed Lotus Live - http://www.lotuslive.com
- Lotus Symphony for the Mac can be downloaded today including the ODF Toolkit for Open Document workflow
- Symphony 1.3 will support Office 2007 file formats.
- Lotus Notes is 20 this year.
- Quickr is integrated into the iNotes 8.5 client.
- XPages is a huge hit in Designer 8.5. This will revolutionise development of Domino Web Applications.
- Xpages will be supported in the Notes client in 8.5.1. This is truly a major new capability. Imagine the interfaces we can build for the Notes client now.
- LinkedIn Integration via the Notes Sidebar.
- Lotus Quickr will offer XPages support
- IBM is going to release SmartMarket - ibm.com/smartmarket . An store that partners can promote and distribute applications
- IBM and OpenNTF are going to form a partnership. IBM is going to provide more support for OpenNTF.
- Domino 8.5 offers 50% reduction in I/O
- Lotus Foundations will ship with VMWare support
- New release of ST coming in 2009 - ST8.5, including iPhone support
- Sametime 8.5 web client - No Java Applets required. You can export recordings of Sametime meetings as Quicktime
- Lotus Connections 2.5 - Can customise interface across the product. Profiles will support Microblogging (like twitter and Wall).
- Connections will have Widgets to integrate Flickr and Twitter etc. Will also have bi-directional sharing with LinkedIn and more. Connections extended to iPhone. Wiki's can be part of Communities with support for versions and ratings. Lots of new Connections capabilities. New file sharing capability in Connections.
- Quickr 8.2 for Domino to ship later this quarter, including LC integration and Domino 8.5 support
- Websphere Portal now to include entitlement for ePhox Live rich text editors. This is great news. Portal really needed Ephox for Rich editing of web content.
- LotusLive is a portfolio of integrated social software and collaborative services. Seems to be Connections, Sametime, Quickr all rolled into one service.
- LotusLive partnerships with Salesforce, LinkedIn and Skype
And that is it for now. More as it comes in.
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Tuesday 6th, January 2009
Exchange to Notes 8 Migration Case Study - Tasmanian Perpetual Trustees Limited06/01/2009 01:27 PMLocation : Office
IBM and ISW has just published a great case study on Tasmanian Perpetual Trustees Limited migrating from Exchange and Outlook 2007 to Notes & Domino 8 as well as their adoption of Workflow-Xpress.
More information here...
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More information here...
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Friday 5th, December 2008
TripIT and Lotus Notes 8.5 Federated Calandars05/12/2008 10:55 AMLocation : Home Office
I have been using the Notes 8.5 beta for a month or so now and one of the best features is the federated calendars.
Essentially this feature allows you to overlay additional calendars with your own. For example you might want to add some of your colleagues calendars or you might have an events calendar for your organisation. Well with Notes 8.5 you can simply select which calendars you want to overlay with your calendar. On the left hand panel of your calendar go to Show Calendars and you can choose to Add a Calendar...
You choose a calendar to add and you have the option of using a user's calendar, Notes Teamroom Calendar, and even a Notes application Calendar. The ability to bring together disparate calendars is awesome. We have been able to look at shared calendars in the past and use Group Calendars to kind of compare different calendars but this is just seamless calendar overlays.
An example of how I am using this new feature is leveraging TripIT. TripIT is a new Web 2.0 type service that enables me to forward all my airline and accommodation bookings to it. When I email a booking to it the clever team at TripIT somehow automagically reads the itinerary and adds it to my TripIT Calendar. Now I can access my TripIT calendar directly via a web browser or via my Blackberry Bold's browser but I can also subscribe to an iCal feed.
So all I do is Add a Calendar, select an iCalendar Feed as the source, enter the URL to my TripIT feed, select a colour, and their you go. Your flights etc are automatically added to your calendar!!
So all I do now is email all my flights to TripIT, there secret sauce reads the document, and they add it to my calendar!! Now there is a reason to upgrade to Notes 8.5 when it arrives!
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Essentially this feature allows you to overlay additional calendars with your own. For example you might want to add some of your colleagues calendars or you might have an events calendar for your organisation. Well with Notes 8.5 you can simply select which calendars you want to overlay with your calendar. On the left hand panel of your calendar go to Show Calendars and you can choose to Add a Calendar...
You choose a calendar to add and you have the option of using a user's calendar, Notes Teamroom Calendar, and even a Notes application Calendar. The ability to bring together disparate calendars is awesome. We have been able to look at shared calendars in the past and use Group Calendars to kind of compare different calendars but this is just seamless calendar overlays.
An example of how I am using this new feature is leveraging TripIT. TripIT is a new Web 2.0 type service that enables me to forward all my airline and accommodation bookings to it. When I email a booking to it the clever team at TripIT somehow automagically reads the itinerary and adds it to my TripIT Calendar. Now I can access my TripIT calendar directly via a web browser or via my Blackberry Bold's browser but I can also subscribe to an iCal feed.
So all I do is Add a Calendar, select an iCalendar Feed as the source, enter the URL to my TripIT feed, select a colour, and their you go. Your flights etc are automatically added to your calendar!!
So all I do now is email all my flights to TripIT, there secret sauce reads the document, and they add it to my calendar!! Now there is a reason to upgrade to Notes 8.5 when it arrives!
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Thursday 18th, September 2008
Video Case Study - Lotus Notes 8 Upgrade18/09/2008 10:40 AMLocation : Office
Further to the recent release of a case study ISW is pleased to publish (with IBM) this video case study:
Please feel free to rank the video well:)
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Tuesday 5th, August 2008
Anglican Church of Australia - Case Study05/08/2008 12:47 PMLocation : Office
ISW has just published a new case study with IBM on the recent Sydney Diocese Secretariat upgrade and migration to Lotus Notes & Domino 8.
Have a read here.....
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Have a read here.....
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Tuesday 8th, July 2008
IceTV Guide Via Notes Sidebar08/07/2008Location : Home Office
I just purchased a BeyonWiz DP-S1 PVR. It is a Dual HD receiver with 250 GB drive, wireless access, etc etc. For those in overseas etc reading this it probably isn't a big deal but PVR's are relatively new devices in Australia. In particular ones with downloaded TV program guides. The great thing about the BeyonWiz is that it supports IceTV's Interactive service which allows you to program the recorder via a web site. The Beyonwiz then periodically connects to the IceTV service and downloads the current schedule of things to record. So for someone that travels as much as I do and constantly rings home to ask for something to be recorded that is just great.
But it gets even better. IceTV have a service for mobile devices at http://remoterecord.com.au that allows me to log on from a Blackberry browser for instance. But even cooler is that using my Lotus Notes 8.0.1 Sidebar I have created a Widget that automatically logs onto the site and shows me the TV Guide. I can simply select what I want recorded from my sidebar and the Beyonwiz is updated!
Now that is a great use of the Notes 8 Sidebar Widgets if you ask me!
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But it gets even better. IceTV have a service for mobile devices at http://remoterecord.com.au that allows me to log on from a Blackberry browser for instance. But even cooler is that using my Lotus Notes 8.0.1 Sidebar I have created a Widget that automatically logs onto the site and shows me the TV Guide. I can simply select what I want recorded from my sidebar and the Beyonwiz is updated!
Now that is a great use of the Notes 8 Sidebar Widgets if you ask me!
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Tuesday 1st, July 2008
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