Chris PepinExecutive IT Architect
IBM Office of the CIO Global Infrastructure

Purpose of this presentation is to summarize the major news of Lotusphere 2009 to share with others that were unable to attend

My responsibilities at Lotusphere

Work at the Lotus Symphony booth in the product showcase. Award winners

Assist with the Sametime 8.0 Bird of a Feather session

Meet with the press and analysts

Meet with external customers

Meet with IBMers (e.g. WPLC product management)

Meet with vendors (e.g. RIM, Nokia, SAP)

Attend sessions of interest

Chris Pepin's personal responsibilities for Lotusphere 2009There were over 800 vendors in the product showcase

Pre-Lotusphere Announcements

MacWorld Notes 8.5, Symphony 1.2.1

Outblaze mail acquisition

Momentum press release, 145 million licenses of Lotus Notes

Even before Lotusphere, there were a number of key announcements of note

Overview

January 18-22 @ Walt Disney World, Florida

Theme - Resonance

Blue Man Group, Dan Akroyd, Jim Balsillie (RIM)

Over 7,000 attendees up 2% from last year

First conference was in 1993. History (wikipedia)

The theme from this years Lotusphere was "resonance," and resonance can create harmony when many objects resonate at the same frequency. Integration is key

Key News

Communities in the Cloud - LotusLive (formerly BlueHouse); LinkedIn, Salesforce.com, Skype

Alloy (formerly project Atlantic)

RIM Lotus Connections, Sametime, Quickr, Sametime Unyte, ODF support, XPages support

ActiveSync support for iPhone Lotus Traveler

Partner press releases

LotusLive new name for BlueHouse. The first offering, LotusLive Engage, is expected to be available in March (fee-based service).

LinkedIn (34 million members) Integration with 1) Notes client (feeds and profiles) 2) Lotus Connections (profiles) and 3) LotusLive.

SalesForce.com integration with LotusLive

Skype audio and video integration with LotusLive

Alloy is the new name for project Atlantic and is a joint project with SAP. The product, scheduled to ship at the end of March, integrates the Notes client with SAP. Integration: 1) Reports, 2) Leave, 3) Travel and 4) Workflow.

RIM Lots of news here. A new Lotus Connections client, Enterprise Messenger (Sametime), new Quickr client. BES 5.0 later this year

iPhone current iNotes Ultralite is browser-based (no sync). IBM has announced plans to deliver a push e-mail solution based on the ActiveSync protocol

Products

Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1

Sametime 8.5 and SUT

Lotus Connections 2.5

Quickr next

Lotus Symphony 1.3 and 2.0

Notes and Domino 8.5.1 planed for August

Sametime 8.5 and Sametime Unified Telephony (SUT) scheduled for 2H2009

Lotus Connections 2.5 is scheduled for 2H2009. Host of new features and capabilities. Wiki capabilities, micro-blogging (buzz), themes, Flickr and Twitter widgets,

Quickr next is scheduled for 2H2009

Lotus Symphony 1.3 is scheduled for later this year and 2.0 is scheduled for 1H2010

Questions?




cpepin@us.ibm.com

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01/26/09

IBM CIO Global Infrastructure

01/26/09

2009 IBM Corporation

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