IBM Lotus Notes and Domino continues to have sustained market share. Version 8.5.2 provides improvements to the user interface, integration with Lotus Symphony and Connections, and calendar and contact enhancements. New capabilities for DAOS provide data savings on disk. Resources and tools are available for developers, including the OpenNTF community. Lotus Traveler supports additional mobile platforms, and LotusLive Notes provides a cloud-based version of Notes.
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Lotus Notes and Domino Update - November 2010
1. IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Strategy
Ed Brill
Director, Product Management
2. Marketplace Scorecard
● Lotus Notes and Domino
▬ Sustained marketshare Y2Y (IDC, July 2010)
▬ Fastest growing business mobile email platform (IDC, September 2010)
▬ Vast majority of installed base running 8.5.x release (tracking surveys, support PMRs)
● LotusLive Notes
▬ Strong analyst and customer reception out of the gate
▬ Competitive consideration is 1/3rd of sales opportunities
● Lotus Symphony
▬ Over 12 million copies distributed
● Lotus Protector
▬ No false positives; 99.2% reliability (ICSA Labs)
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3. Notes 8.5.2 today: Smart & integrated Collaboration
Examples of key Features
• Easy to use UI
• Many new features to increase
personal productivity
• Instant Messaging (Sametime 8)
• LiveText & Widget Integration
• Overlay Calendar and iCal Support
• Free Lotus Symphony productivity
tools integrated
• Integration with Lotus Connections
2.x social software
• Open plug-in model (Eclipse)
• Freedom of choice for client
plattform (Win, Mac, Linux)
• Application development based on
latest Java platform technologies
(XPages)
• Significant TCO savings with
Domino 8.5.x
5. Notes updates in Notes 8.5.2
● Startup improvements, including pre-load Notes in OS
● LotusLive Notes capabilities, including:
▬ Seamless failover/failback capability
▬ Local replica cache mode (behind the scenes updating of mail replicas)
▬ SAML token based SSO for Notes & LotusLive services
● Save Notes email message to a file
● Specify default font & size for email text
● Preference choices for
▬ inbox sort by last/first name
▬ global return receipts & auto closing tabs on replies
▬ exclude CC contents for recent contacts
▬ mark contacts private
● Consistent window behavior for XPages in the Notes client
● Multithreaded replication
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6. Notes 8.5.2: Calendar user enhancements
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Calendar panes remember if they were open or closed
when you exit Notes
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See Teamroom calendars offline or on a mobile device
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Add private iCalendar feeds to your Notes calendar
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More internationalized options for meetings that fall on
the “weekend”
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See rooms and resources on your calendar
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See calendar entries by category
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Meeting subject changes get reflected in rooms and
resource reservations
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Other Calendar improvements
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7. Notes 8.5.2: Contacts user enhancements
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Make a contact or group private
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Send someone a group or location
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Choose to NOT add CC and BCC recipients to Recent Contacts
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More easily remove someone from Recent Contacts
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Other improvements to Recent Contacts
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8. DAOS: Data Savings are real and immediate...
50% Savings on
disk!!
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Used w/ permission from Chris Miller – IdoNotes (and
9. New DAOS capabilities in Domino 8.5.x
● Optimize network operations using DAOS
▬ “Smart” replication/reply
▬ Don't send 'known' attachments from client to server
▬ Forwarding mail messages with attachments
▬ Reply (to All) with History
▬ Don't send 'known' attachments from server to server
▬ DAOS key is sent from the client or server during object allocation
● Additional benefits
▬ Reduced network bandwidth consumption
▬ Reduced I/O
● “False alarm” for client-server replication not working...
▬ Mere seconds to replicate local replica of mail file
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10. More tools for developers and partners
Domino development clouds
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IBM.com
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Amazon EC2
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IBM Lotus Solutions Catalog
http://catalog.lotus.com
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12. “...a strong, vibrant developer community
devoted to enabling developers to
collaborate on IBM Lotus Notes/Domino
applications, and release them as open
source...”
● OpenNTF is an open source
community dedicated to the
development of Lotus Notes and
Domino applications
● Growth in 2009:
▬ Members: 67,000 / 8,500 new
▬ Traffic up 25% (3.2M page visits)
▬ 2X Downloads: 125,000+
▬ New releases: 300+ ready-to-use
“...more IBM-authored Notes/Domino source code in 2009 than all
previous years combined!”
13. Resources for Domino Developers
Lotus Domino Designer wiki
http://www.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf
OpenNTF –
Open source developer community
Planet Lotus:
http://planetlotus.org
XPages blog:
http://xpagesblog.com/
DeveloperWorks
▬ app dev landing page:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/products/notesdomin
o/
▬ Xpages Straight Up:
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/domdes-
xpages/index.html
14. IBM Lotus Notes Traveler
Push email for Nokia Symbian, Windows Mobile, and
Apple iPhone devices Automatic wireless delivery
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Email (including attachments)
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Calendar
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Address Book
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Journal
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To Do Lists
2-way synchronization
Over-the-air client installation
Email Folder support
Customizable alerts for new email
Encrypted mail
Policy administration and monitoring *
Works over all wired / wireless connections (CDMA, GPRS, GSM, WiFi, etc.)
Integrates with Lotus Mobile Connect for secure data channels Remote wipe and device lock
(*) features NOT currently available on the Apple iPhone Corporate directory lookup **
(**) feature NOT currently available on Nokia Symbian or Windows Mobile
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15. Lotus Notes Traveler in 8.5.2
• Linux server
• iPhone meeting invitations
• iPhone device management: password, password length, etc
• Corporate directory search for Nokia and Windows Mobile
• Single HTTP/S Data Channel (no ports needed beyond 80/443)
• Automatic client software update
• Scheduled sync
• Windows Mobile 6.5
• Android client – post-8.5.2
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16. RIM Blackberry and IBM Lotus – perfect together
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Support for Notes mail/calendar/contacts, applications
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Sametime client
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Quickr and Connections clients – sold through RIM or IBM
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Plans for Xpages support in Blackberry browser
17. Lotus Notes and Domino: Your Choice of a delivery
model
Lotus Notes and Domino has a wide choice of delivery
models to fit individual organization’s needs:
▬ On-Premise
▬ Appliance
▬ Cloud
▬ Hybrid
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18. IBM collaboration strategy for the Cloud
Collaboration beyond the enterprise is a global
pain point
▬ Need to drive top-line growth and innovation is driving
organizations to want to work more closely with their
customers and partners
▬ Need for cost reduction is driving organizations to reduce
headcount and to optimize the use of skills across the
extended enterprise Files My Network
Our strategy
Meetings Events
▬ Deliver a set of services that dramatically simplifies and
improves the business interactions organizations have with
their customers and partners
Chat Activities
Execution
▬ Provide the essential business services that every workgroup
needs in a way that is simple to acquire and easy-to-use Charts Survey Forms
▬ Integrated collaborative and social networking services
connected to relevant business services and applications
▬ Seamlessly work with people – outside or inside your company eMail
▬ Create a business network of connected businesses
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19. The LotusLive portfolio
Web Conferencing Collaboration e-Mail
LotusLive Meetings LotusLive Engage LotusLive Notes
A full-featured, easy to use Web An integrated suite of tools that combines
IBM’s most widely used, full-featured
conferencing service your business network with collaboration
software for e-mail, calendaring and
and conferencing services
scheduling and contact management –
Lotus Notes – now available as an
online service
LotusLive Events LotusLive Connections LotusLive iNotes
Provides tools to create, manage and Combines your business network with Web-based messaging service for e-mail
conduct webinars for up to 999 attendees collaboration services and personal calendar
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20. Introducing the New LotusLive Notes!
Full-featured Messaging on a Multi-Tenant Domino Platform
LotusLive Notes in 2010
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Cloud-based Domino Mail, Calendar, Contacts and IM/Presence Key Deliverables
– Multi-tenant mail and directory service
– Available by annual subscription ●
Beta (Managed) – began April 2010
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Service General Availability (sGA) – August 2010
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Seamless transition to the cloud for business and end-user continuity
– Existing Notes credentials avoids disruptions, rework and
productivity loss
– Encryption, decryption and digital signatures
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Secure, Scalable, Economical and Highly Available
– Low-touch administrative model
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Tuned for a Hybrid Model for companies with on-premises
and cloud users
– Predominant enterprise use further protecting customer investment
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Customizable mail experience
– Leverage existing company specific changes to
mail templates in the service
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Can be augmented with additional LotusLive capabilities
– Data Migration Services, Mobile accessibility, Archiving and more...
Also, currently available today as hosted, single tenant
offering upon request. Feature/Function/Pricing may ch
21. What is Lotus Protector?
An optimized security platform for Lotus Domino
customers
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▬ Spam and content filter for Internet e-mail
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▬ Internet e-mail encryption solution
Protector products understand Lotus Notes and
Domino and the ways our customers use it!
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22. Notes/Domino World class technology
integration
Deployment Flexibility
Per-User Software License
Physical Appliance
Virtual Appliance (IBM x 3250, x3350, x3650 M2)
23. Notes Inbox Integration
Gives end users complete control over ALL unwanted e-mail!
Objective Spam
Pharma, sexual, stock scams etc.
– Protector for Mail Security stops
objective spam cold at the gateway
Subjective Spam
Newsletters, mailing lists, event
invitations etc.
– Notes integration lets users block
subjective spam senders permanently
24. IBM Deployment -- Protector for Mail Security
Executive Office
● Deployed early 2010 for IBM corporate executive
▬ Blocking ~50 emails/day that passed through third party filter
Internal deployment
● Current solution requires 60 spam/virus filter servers plus six
IP layer filters
● Goal is to reduce to 30 Protector for Mail Security servers,
each filtering 120,000 emails/hour
● Completing six month pilot for Canada, Mexico, Caribbean,
▬ Using one Protector for Mail Security server on x3650
● Brazil rollout pending, followed by US and worldwide
● ICAP solution to replace on-Domino third party AV
▬ Allows move to zLinux
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25. What does it do?
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It extends Notes encryption to the Internet
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It secures e-mail using the most seamless
encryption available for a given recipient
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It provides options to recipient for preferred method
of communication
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It ensures content in transit is not intercepted or
modified
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It saves money on couriers, certified mail, overnight
delivery, faxes, etc.
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26. Notes/Domino World class technology
integration
Deployment Flexibility
Per-User Software License
Gatew
ay
Client Physical or Virtual Appliance
27. How does it work?
User
perspective
Domino
Notes Protector for
Mail
Encryption
Notes
28. How does it work?
Protector
for Mail
Encryption
Gateway
INTERNET
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Enterprise Key Server
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Encryption Policy Protector
Server for Mail
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Webmail UI Security*
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Satellite Server
Protector
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Notes Integration
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Client Keyring ●
Content Filter
for Mail
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Encryption Policy ●
Policy Server
Encryption
Client* Client *Optional
29. Lotus Symphony 3
● Lotus Symphony 3 represents the biggest advancement since we
launched public beta in fall of 2007
● Rebased on OpenOffice.org 3 code stream – we decided to be
consistent with the OO.org community versioning scheme
● New capabilities and user experience enhancements throughout
● Major focus on improved support for Microsoft Office file format and
interoperability with Microsoft Office users
New Features Interop Enhanced
• ODF 1.2 Support ●
Right Sidebar
• MS VB Macro
• Support OLE objects greatly
• Business Card, support
• MS Office 2007 enhanced and
envelope and Label
Import and fidelity extended
templates
improved
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Chart Support
• Add-on installer for
• Interoperability with Enhanced
Notes
• Signed Plugins OOo improved
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User Experience
• Graphics objects
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Richer Java & LS
rendering improved API's
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New Toolkit
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30. A vision for how people will work in the
future...
The application of Integrate business
the “Social applications and
Analytics” to collaboration to
prioritize what is streamline the way
most important NOW people work
Improving the quality A consistent
of information and experience to
avoiding expensive increase productivity
downtime at any time and at
any place
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