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What s New in the IBM Lotus Notes Client Kevin O Connell, Consulting Manager, IBM Asia Pacific
ID101 What's New in the IBM Lotus Notes Client Kevin O'Connell Asia Pacific Consulting Manager
Agenda Where we're headed Notes 8 Strong momentum Notes 8.0.1 Goals and Highlights Demonstration What's Next?
Email is the catalyst The average business user sent and received more than 130 business emails per day in 2007* *Source: Messaging and Collaboration - Business User Survey, 2007, Radicati Group
Innovative (features) and intuitive (interface) Integrated collaboration in context Lotus Sametime, Lotus Quickr, Activities, Lotus Symphony Universal access Web access (lite), mobility (Traveler+), replication Customized workspace Custom apps, Widgets (existing/ advanced), plug-in s
Mashups for Business Build and deploy next-generation composite applications Leverage easy-touse composite application templates Customize interfaces easily Get high value for attractive cost quickly Take advantage of client and server frameworks Lotus Notes/Domino or IBM WebSphere Portal Composite application framework External feeds and services Business Partner / supplier information Ad hoc fit for purpose applications Business intelligence Long-lived corporate IT applications
A Warm Reception Notes 8 has a clean new look, logical menus, and customizable layouts; for me, this design makes the client easier to use compared to Microsoft Outlook. Infoworld, August 2007 something that can morph users' inboxes into an integrated workspace encompassing calendaring, custom applications, email, instant messaging and office productivity tools. IT Pro UK, August 2007
Gaining the competitive edge... Download rate 4X any previous release No Rip and Replace, simple upgrade Many customers are rolling out Notes 8.0 now Everything is working and the users /LOVE/ Notes 8. "We see a lot of value in the ability to build composite applications within Lotus Notes. With the sidebar in Lotus Notes and Domino 8 I have one-click access to the applications and information I need to get the my work done." Many others planning on deploying 8.0.1
What do you like best about Notes 8? Conversations (How did I work before this?) Productivity Apps. They have replaced MS Office for me completely. contact list in send to amazing Integration of Sametime, Calendar and RSS in the sidebar The sidebar with all the integration possibilities In-line spell check
Extending the Value Almost 100 Partners have already delivered enabled solutions for Lotus Notes & Domino 8.0 The most solutions ever on a new release of Lotus Notes and Domino this soon after general availability 36 Partners have developed composite applications
IBM Lotus Notes 8.0.1 Continuing the momentum Mail Default to reply without attachments Quota Gauge Send documents from Symphony Document compression Composite applications Relative links Citrix 4.5 Support ToDo UI Calendar Dual Time Zone Delete warning
IBM Lotus Notes 8.0.1 Continuing the momentum Domino Web Access Lite IBM Lotus Traveler
IBM Lotus Notes 8.0.1 Continuing the momentum Lotus Quickr integration in Mail template Lotus Sametime 8.0 support Runs on Lotus Domino 8 Unyte integration Enhanced screen capture Lotus Connections Activities 1.0.2 support Use Domino as LDAP directory Live Text
IBM Lotus Notes 8.0.1+ IBM Lotus Quickr sidebar plug-in IBM Lotus Quickr personal file sharing Support for Ubuntu Linux
PlannedRoadmap for IBM Lotus Notes & Domino 2008 and Beyond Lotus Notes & Domino - Beyond Release 8.5 Lotus Notes & Domino 8.5 Lotus Notes & Domino 8.0.1 Lotus Notes & Domino 8.0 Today Q1 2008 2008 2009 2010 Note: Current plans. Information is subject to change
Lotus Notes 8.5 and Beyond C.R.E.A.T.E. Value Consume Notes, quickly and easily Time-to-Value for business & IT Timely, easy, fast & efficient deployment & upgrades Roam with Notes From machine to machine and from place to place Extend the value of Notes, enabling customers and partners Adoption by ISV & developers to build innovations Aggregate content & actions in Notes, helping to bridge home & work life Content/feed aggregation, unified search experience, Lotus Connections, Lotus Quickr, Lotus Symphony, Team using Notes calendaring & contacts Bringing people together through effective meeting management with rock solid reliability Experience Notes Delivered with a World-class user interface Value through Innovation
Consume Notes, quickly and easily Close partner relationships to ensure Notes meets your needs Improvements in performance and memory usage Upgrade to new templates (especially mail) faster Easier to merge your changes Easier to translate too Client management to ease rolling out clients Guidance in how to test your applications for new Notes releases Allow you to roll out new features incrementally
Roam with Notes Major improvements in Roaming User feature Support for roaming of Eclipse/Expeditor workspace settings More flexibility around which databases/settings roam More flexibility around where roamed data is stored (Domino server vs. File store) Along with general improvements when on the road Better Network awareness Better choice of replicas And, of course, continued improvement in other client options such as Domino Web Access Lotus Traveler
Extend the value of Notes Public APIs Calendaring & Scheduling Views used by Mail, Calendar, Contacts, etc. for your own applications Lotus Symphony RSS data Lotus Domino Designer on Eclipse Lots coming in Lotus Domino web development Eclipse programming for the scripting crowd More features/functions/apis in Live Text Improvements in Composite Applications Some in 8.0.1 Many more coming, such as Click-2-Action
Aggregate content & actions Federated search RSS/Atom data feed content throughout experience Unified task management Integration across the Lotus portfolio Quickr Sametime Unyte Connections Symphony As well as outside of the portfolio
Team using Notes calendaring & contacts Focus on usability & reliability Overlaid calendars ical subscriptions and interoperability Simple and effective meeting workflow
Experience Notes Tremendous accomplishments in Notes 8.0 but much more to come A few examples: Option to use Notes Classic document selection mode in views Gridded bookmarks Drag and Drop in more places Drag resizing of tables Easier to understand and use Archiving UI Improved alert notifications (such as for new mail) Spell checking autocorrect Multiple email signatures Better navigation/management of Sidebar
Notes 8.5 on Mac OS X 10.5
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