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Quickr
Content Stores
Introducing IBM Lotus
Quickr
Most complete set of connectors to
desktop applications and an open
connector architecture for developers
Rich collaborative content and team
services integrated with entire IBM
portfolio
Out-of-the-box business templates
(e.g. Innovation Place) leveraging
composite application support
Integration with Lotus Domino® and
JCR content stores initially, and
future* plans for IBM FileNet P8 and
IBM Content Manager support,
providing comprehensive, scalable
end-to-end content management
options
* Support planned for a future release of Lotus Quickr; may require separate purchase
Fastest way to share everyday business content with your teams…
Lotus Domino IBM JCR IBM FileNet * IBM CM * Other
Shared
Content
Team
Workspaces
Anywhere,
Anytime
Workflow
Wikis
Team
Blogs
Business
templates
Quickr
Content Stores
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Lotus Quickr provides a universe of
capabilities…
Lotus Domino IBM JCR IBM FileNet * IBM CM * Other
Shared
Content
Team
Workspaces
Anywhere,
Anytime
Workflow
Wikis
Team
Blogs
Business
templates
Quickr
Content Stores
Library management, check
in & out, version control,
views, security, custom
meta-data for a variety of
business content types
Self-service, customizable team
sites with an extensible
infrastructure (membership
mgmt, search capabilities), that
support a full team lifecycle
A collection of reusable
collaborative components
(libraries, calendars, tasks,
blogs, lists, Web content
authoring...) to build
powerful applications
Templates for immediate
out-of-the-box value and
support of common
business processes,
including Innovation
Place, project & meeting
management
Basic workflow for
notification and approval
Offline services, extranet
access, versatile portlets, to
expand and facilitate
collaboration
* Support planned for a future release of Lotus Quickr; may require separate purchase
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Lotus Quickr is open and flexible …
Infrastructure -
Support for
multiple:
Repositories
Directories
Server
operating
systems
Desktop
operating
systems
Programming
models
Web 2.0 and
industry
standards:
Eclipse
Atom or RSS
ODF
AJAX
Web Services
REST
Java
Linux
Lotus Domino IBM JCR IBM FileNet * IBM CM * Other
Shared
Content
Team
Workspaces
Anywhere,
Anytime
Workflow
Wikis
Team
Blogs
Business
templates
Quickr
Content Stores
* Support planned for a future release of Lotus Quickr; may require separate purchase
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Lotus Quickr connectors integrate right into your favorite applications…
Lotus
Notes®
client
Microsoft Office /
IBM Productivity Editors
Windows
Explorer /
“My Documents”
Lotus
Sametime®
Making sharing & collaboration transparent and natural
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Lotus Notes connector
Open and save
attachments into
library or team
workspace
Replace e-mail
attachments with
shared links
Integrated into file
menus and “right click”
“Reminder” prompt
encourages
participation
Supports Lotus Notes
7; Lotus Notes 8
support planned for
future fixpack / release
Helps reduce e-mail attachments, content duplication, and “version anxiety”…
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Microsoft Office connector
Open and save documents
into library or team
workspace
Assign document properties
(meta-tags)
Integrate with workflow for
approval routing
Use your editor of choice
(no forced upgrade)
Microsoft Office XP, 2003,
2007…
IBM Productivity Editors
Facilitates collaborative document authoring and version management…
Also planned for
IBM Productivity
Editors with
ODF support
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Lotus Sametime connector
Navigate content
through a simple tree
interface
Drag and drop from
local system to
libraries and team
workspaces
Integrated action
menu
Quick contextual
access to shared
documents
Provides easy access to shared content right from real-time client …
Send links in chats
Invite colleagues to
download the
connectors
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Microsoft Windows Explorer connector
Makes it easy and natural to move content to collaborative environment…
Navigate content
through familiar tree
interface
Drag and drop content
from local system to
libraries and team
workspaces
Integrated action
menu
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Components for managing
projects, including:
Document libraries
Team calendar and
milestones
Lists for managing
structured content
Discussions forums, team
blogs, & wikis
And more...
Self-service with a step-by-
step guide to set up the
places
Team workspaces
Easily create online places for projects and teams
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End users can create custom team workspaces using flexible
Lotus Quickr templates and components
Team blog
Wiki
Project
dashboard
Many
more…
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Check-in, check-out, version
control
Customizable views to organize
content
Multi-level security (library, folder,
document)
Search across multiple libraries
Workflow for routing & approving
content
RSS/Atom feed support to share
or consume content
Extensibility: custom meta-data,
document types and templates
Quickly set up libraries to store and share content securely
Content Libraries
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Lotus Quickr solves key customer needs
To maintain competitive position, innovate, and grow revenue, organizations require
solutions to enable them to collaborate across the enterprise and beyond—to more
effectively manage their information and projects
Let me... Work the way I want
Get control of my content and
information
Integrate my mail client
with my shared places and
libraries
Organize my files in a
secured environment
Share simply and easily
Reuse and expose content
across applications
Stop using my inbox to
dump content
Reduce the duplication
and inconsistencies of
content
Be more productive
Work more effectively
with my colleagues
I want to...
Lotus
Quickr
lets me...
Access and manage
content naturally from
within the applications I
use everyday
Collaborate anywhere
and anytime
Take my content and
projects offline
Better collaborate with
partners and customers
Quickly set-up places
to share content with
anyone I want
Manage projects
securely
Add users to my
spaces myself
Provide tools to track
and manage my team
activities
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Lotus Quickr integrates easily & provides
flexibility
For end users, Lotus Quickr connectors integrate into
desktop applications
Increases adoption of collaborative tools
Simplifies collaboration among users with different styles and preferences
Improves effectiveness
For IT, Lotus Quickr leverages current software and
hardware investment
Works with multiple versions of Notes clients, Domino and Microsoft Office (no
forced upgrades)
Supports open standards
Roadmap: Support for additional repositories and clients
Designed for a heterogeneous environment; doesn’t force adoption of a single
set of tools
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Lotus Quickr provides anytime,
anywhere access
For end users:
Take an entire team workspace offline to work wherever you are
Access team workspaces from outside the firewall to collaborate with strategic
partners
Access the same content from multiple applications
For IT:
RSS / ATOM feeds provide an easy way to post Lotus Quickr
content to other applications
Use Domino replication to move Lotus Quickr content
to the edges of your network for better performance
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Lotus Quickr = simplicity
For end users:
Personal edition of Lotus Quickr lets you get started easily
Lotus Quickr connectors let you collaborate with minimal disruption to your
normal work patterns
Setting up intranet or extranet team workspaces takes a few simple steps
Templates make it easy to create business-specific team workspaces
Use of Web 2.0 technologies makes UI more compelling and more similar to
what they use at home
For IT:
Leverages your current skills
Provides self-service options
for end users
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So let me define what Lotus Quickr 8.0 is. The product tagline or short description, is about “sharing everyday business content with teams”. The keyword here is “content”, Quickr is not just about sharing “documents”, you know, the artifacts that you create in MS Office. It is more than this, it includes of course diverse file types (like PDF, ODF, etc..), but it is even broader than this and covers web-based content: wiki pages, blog posts, calendar events, etc..
Nice description but ... What is the box ?
The easiest way to describe Quickr is in using the three layers on the graphic on the right:
first, Quickr is of course a browser experience but also a set of client connectors that deliver content and team collaboration to the end-users inside the applications that they are using every day. In other words, connectors are extensions to the most widely applications such as Lotus Notes, Sametime, MS Office, Windows Explorer, that allow a user to create, share and manage content - without having to use the browser. This native experience is critical to closing the collaboration gap, as connectors will make it natural and easy for people to share and collaborate.
Second, in the middle, Quickr is a set of open services to create and manipulate content, such as team spaces, document libraries, wikis, etc... These services are open and public, so the Quickr content can be naturally embedded into other applications, not just a stand-alone content that is out of the way. It is good to have open services but out of the box value is also important. So Quickr will also provide a set of business templates (project management, innovation places, etc.) so your customers can be productive day one.
Third layer, at the core: Quickr will provide a choice of content stores in the box, available either as a) the Domino repository or b) as a relational database, also referred to as the Java Content Repository (JCR). More importantly, the strategy is to provide integration with diverse content stores, first to FileNet in late 2007, and then to other content stores. The design goal is to isolate end users from the repositories, so users don’t have to worry about where the content resides. It should be transparent to them which provides more freedom for IT to manage their infrastructure without impacting end users.
To summarize, out of the box Quickr delivers the following: client connectors, the set of open services for the functionality and a choice of repositories.
Let’s spend more time talking about the capabilities or services that are included in Lotus Quickr….
We also want to mention an important quality that really differentiates Lotus Quickr from the competition… notably Microsoft. Lotus Quickr is open, flexible, and extensible. We’ve already talked about support for multiple content stores. Lotus Quickr also runs on multiple servers, supports multiple desktops and integrates with multiple directories. And Quickr supports industry standards like Eclipse, RSS / Atom feeds, Open Document Format, AJAX for user interfaces, and of course Java and Linux.
This Lotus Quickr welcome page is representative of a new, fresh, Web 2.0 user interface… designed to make people want to use the product. Our goal is to provide a rich browser experience that surfaces the full range of Lotus Quickr capabilities. In addition to this browser experience we also provide the Quickr connectors to access many Lotus Quickr functions directly from popular desktop applications.
These Lotus Quickr Connectors are a key differentiator for the product… an important part of how we plan to help organizations close the gap between their desire to collaborate and the actual practice of collaboration.
Initially, we’re providing four connectors – for Lotus Notes, for Microsoft Office and the IBM Productivity Editors, for Windows Explorer, and for Sametime. We’ll provide more in the future (like Microsoft Outlook) and we also anticipate that our Business Partners will leverage our open architecture to build additional connectors. Let’s take a look at them up close…
These are screen shots of the Lotus Notes Connector… both for Notes 7 and for Notes 8 (code-named Hannover). You can see that you have the ability right from an e-mail to attach a link to a document that is in one of your Quickr places. Right from your Notes client… from within the e-mail.. you can navigate to find the right document in your Quickr place, just like you would navigate through the window that shows the folders on your C-drive when you want to send an attachment. That’s the key here… you don’t have to leave what you’re doing to go find the appropriate document and do “copy as link”… you use the same familiar “gesture” that you would use to attach a document.
Another key capability of this connector that people really love when they hear about it --- the little pop-up window that gently nudges you when you revert to your “send an attachment” behavior. Essentially, it says “do you really want to send that attachment? wouldn’t you like to put the document in a Quickr place and send a link instead?” Seems like a simple concept but it can make a huge difference in managing your in-box and actually starting to transform behavior…
By the way, the Notes connector works with Notes 7 and Notes 8… so you can start collaborating with Lotus Quickr before you have upgraded your desktops to Notes 8.
The Microsoft Office connector lets you take advantage of Lotus Quickr capabilities directly from Office applications … PowerPoint, Excel, and Word. You can see that when you are in Office, you have an actions drop down that gives you capabilities like being able to check a new document into a Quickr place. If you have created workflow for a document, you might have additional actions (that are grayed out in the example) like being able to approve or reject a document. An important thing to note here… our goal is to support the versions of these desktop tools that are the most common, which means Office 2000 and 2003. In the near future, when adoption starts to increase, we will of course support Office 2007. This is an important advantage for customers. They don’t want a solution that forces them to upgrade all their desktops to the latest version of Office.
A final point to mention. We will provide a similar Quickr connector for the IBM Productivity Editors. These are the editors that we provide as part of the Notes 8 client.
The Sametime connector takes advantage of the Eclipse framework that we use for the Sametime 7.5 client. You can see we have a “shelf” for the Lotus Quickr connector where you can easily navigate through your Quickr places to find a particular document. You can choose to chat with someone about that document and it inserts a link into the chat.
So if we step back a minute… what you’ve seen with these Quickr connectors is what we consider to be a key benefit of the product. They provide the ability to access your content and collaborate from where you are without having to switch to a separate application. We believe – and the overwhelming response we’re already hearing from the customers and press and analysts who have reviewed the product – that this has the potential to make a huge difference in how people work. By letting them work the way that they normally do… and still share content and collaborate … we actually have the potential to make big changes in how they work.
Let’s look at the last Quickr connector for Windows Explorer. This is also a connector that people really like… You can navigate naturally through your Quickr places just like you normally navigate through the folders in your C-drive. You can drag and drop into and out of Quickr places. You have a “right click” action menu that lets you do things like check-in, check-out, and approve or reject.
Now let’s go back and look more closely at the browser interface for Lotus Quickr where you can really leverage the full power of its capabilities. r Quickr is designed to be self-service so that business users can create a Quickr place or team workspace like the one that you see here. We provide a number of components that you can select from to create a Quickr place. Most places will start with a content or document library. You can add things like a team calendar and team milestones for the project. You have options for creating content that we’ve now expanded to include wikis – an increasingly popular method for collaborative authoring. (note to presenter: if you’re not familiar with wikis, check out wikipedia.com). You can have discussion forums and you can also create a blog inside your Quickr place.
These are some visual examples of the type of components that we’ll provide … you can easily assemble them to create your own Quickr places.
Let’s go back and talk a little more about the content library … one of the fundamental components that every Quickr place will have. The content library provides the capabilities that you would expect to help you organize and manage content. You get version control with check-in and check-out capability. You can set up granular security on your content. We also provide basic workflow … not sophisticated workflow like Business Process Choreographer … but the basic workflow that people use to get documents through an approval cycle.
You also have the ability to subscribe to content in the library so that it is published to your favorite reader. (Note to presenter… RSS is Really Simple Syndication)
This page summarizes some of the key benefits of Lotus Quickr. They are pretty self-evident from the bullets on the chart.
Remember we talked about the beginning about the attributes that customers told us were important in a collaboration product? Integration, anywhere-anytime, and simplicity. Let’s conclude by talking about those attributes… it’s a good way to review what we’ve said about Lotus Quickr.
First, integration. People think of this in different ways … and we provide integration in a number of different ways with Lotus Quickr. First, the Connectors that integrate easily into the way that people work. This enables people to easily collaborate together even if they have different working styles and preferences.
Lotus Quickr also integrates with your current environment. It integrates with the versions of desktop tools that you use today rather than forcing you to upgrade. It supports different server operating systems and different directories.
Lotus Quickr is also designed to work with different content stores or repositories… starting with Domino and JCR but expanding to FileNet, SharePoint and others.
And of course we embrace open standards, which gives you the flexibility to easily integrate Lotus Quickr into other applications that you have and to extend it with your own customization.
Anywhere … anytime. CEO’s have identified how critical extranet collaboration is. That’s a key “anywhere” capability that differentiates Lotus Quickr. It is easy for an end user to add an extranet user to a Quickr place.
Of course the Quickr connectors give you access to your Quickr content from other applications… that’s anywhere. And you can subscribe to Quickr content in your favorite RSS reader… anytime, anywhere.
We’ve also built Lotus Quickr as an open extensible application that ISVs with expertise in various mobile devices can use to build connectors. Mobile plug-ins for QuickPlace are already in the market, for example. We will be working with ISVs to build similar capability for Lotus Quickr.
Finally, simplicity. I hope that everything you have heard today…. all the sample screens that you’ve seen, the story of Quickr connectors … all this has convinced you that we are laser-focused on the end user experience and simplicity.