Lotus Connections è diventato uno dei prodotti in più rapida crescita nella storia del software IBM. E' uno strumento mirato a collegare le persone, che permette di condividere e ricercare skill e competenze, mappare le interazioni sociali e abilitare decisioni più veloci ed informate. Nella prima parte di questa sessione vengono illustrate le novità della versione 3.0 e viene dato un assaggio delle feature previste per la prossima release. Nella seconda parte vengono invece discusse alcune best pratices consigliate per la gestione dei deployment di produzione.

1. IBM Lotus Connections 3.0: le novità della nuova versione e best practices per un sano deployment di produzione Roberto Boccadoro Lotus Collaboration Solutions Architect

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4. Ovviamente nel corso degli anni ho lavorato su molti dei prodotti che Lotus ed IBM hanno rilasciato sul mercato, ed anche su qualcuno che non avete mai visto.

5. Al momento il mio ruolo in IBM è quello di Collaboration Architect, ovvero una figura di IT Architect specializzata nel portafoglio Lotus.

6. Il mio compito è quello di aiutare i Clienti ed i Business Partners a disegnare soluzioni che prevedano l'uso di vari prodotti Lotus. [email_address] 335/8073444

8. Lotus Connections “Next” Highlights

9. Best Practices - keeping your deployment happy and healthy

12. Providing more flexibility with stand-alone Forums application

13. Compliance and auditing to deliver value of social software to regulated industries

14. Improved user experience and navigation, including persons with disabilities

15. Functional enhancements

18. Based on user Profiles – tags, social network and actions

19. Available in Home page, Profiles and Communities

20. IBM is the first to provide this capability Value = Discover what you don't know and who you should know

22. Multiple Forums in a Community

23. Browse by topic, tag and search

24. My Forums, Public Forums, Ownership, and Following views

25. Question and Answer topic workflow Forums application

27. Easily share a File from your personal Files list with a Community

28. Ability to send invitations to new Community members

29. With 3.0.1: ability to integrate with your ECM system

30. With 3.0.1: IdeaBlogs

31. With 3.0.1: Create a more compelling community experience for visitors through video and photo sharing

33. Generation and filtering of the best ideas

34. Post ideas and gather feedback from customers in a more efficient and structured way

35. Allow voting and comments from customers to bring popular ideas to surface

36. Facilitate moving the best ideas to development of the idea via use of Activities

38. New ideas are shown in the widget

39. Shows the ideas with the most votes

41. A section is created called “Graduated Idea from Idea blog

42. The graduated idea is now an entry within the section

43. A link to the entry within the Idea blog is appended to the top of the entry body

45. Connects to ECM library (CM8 or FileNet)

46. Interact with ECM content from within a Community Community Access to ECM Library

49. Get the benefits of community participation, while also having the confidence of being able to moderate and govern activity and content in your customer communities

50. Protect the community from inappropriate content

51. Community members and owners can participate in the moderation process

53. Global moderation - Moderator role created to review and approve content on a server level

55. Community Files and Comments

58. Community owner reviews the flagged item and can take appropriate action by quarantining the content or dismissing the flag.

59. Global Pre-Moderation Community Pre-Moderation

61. Central preferences for how to get notified about different types of content

62. Ability to follow individual content, people,Communities and tags Email Digest and Improved Notifications Value = Reduce redundant work!

64. Instructional videos are provided

65. Customized instructions on how to get started New Getting Started Page

67. Left navigation will provide an easy way to filter content

68. Home page widgets can live under the left navigation Value = Faster access to the information you need

70. Apple iPad

71. Android 2.x devices

74. Events consumed and processed by a 3rd party tool via new SPIs provided by Lotus Connections 3

75. Enable the ability to track key words or phrases even when content has been deleted or updated Value = Boost productivity while meeting regulations

77. Update your status or view updates from your Network directly in Lotus Notes

78. Free download from the Solutions Catalog http://catalog.lotus.com Value = Get help from your network!

80. Drag and drop files to quickly upload

81. Search for files and people and download Files Connector for Lotus Notes

83. Access Microsoft SharePoint files

84. Open and add files to Microsoft SharePoint from within a Lotus Connections Community

85. Free download from the Solutions Catalog http://catalog.lotus.com Value = Add robust social capabilities to legacy Sharepoint content

87. Profile's photos and meta-data on each contact record

88. In-context view of social activity from Connections

90. Developed with WebSphere Portlet Factory

91. Browse and search your Network

92. View and make Status Updates

93. Activities, Blogs, Bookmarks portlets also updated for WS Portal V7

94. Free download from the Solutions Catalog - http://catalog.lotus.com Value = Easily add social capabilities to portal applications

96. Coming soon in Lotus Connections

97. Best Practices - keeping your deployment happy and healthy

99. Need anytime, anywhere access

100. Need to prioritize what's important and avoid distractions

103. Need to understand what is working and gain insight from trends

104. Need to support openness and choice Social Everywhere Deliver new or expanded value in the context of other applications

106. Microblogging Enhancements

107. Expanded social analytics capabilities

109. Post and retrieve information to/from the news feed aggregator

110. Extensible UI for additional 3rd party integration via OpenSocial Gadgets ARIA

112. Consistent user experiences for navigating all tools and interacting with content across the portfolio

113. Share and personalize content no matter where you are using the share button in the navigation

123. Top contributors on search terms

127. Overview on Community page

130. Keep LDAP group in sync with Community access

134. Create/Modify metrics

135. Metrics Overview Page Quick access to key metrics View the rest of the metrics for this theme

136. Drill Down Toggle between static and dynamic mode. Dynamic mode lets you drill up and down. Right click to drill up and down

137. Filter by Geography Filter metrics by geography Metrics grouped by geography

138. Custom Reports Display custom reports created through Cognos Report Studio.

140. Social extends the IBM Customer Experience Suite

141. TIMETOACT Group provides an administrative interface for Connections

142. New integration with Rational Team Concert and Connections Find new partner solutions regularly in the Greenhouse Catalog http://greenhouse.lotus.com/catalog

144. Coming soon in Lotus Connections

145. Best Practices - keeping your deployment happy and healthy

147. TDI Solution for Profiles (TDISOL) is the code that ships with the product.

152. sync_updates_hash_field – value must be a constant attribute in the LDAP directory.

158. WebSphere Application Server scheduling service is used for creating and updating the Search index. (Additional scheduled tasks include nightly optimization task and the social analytics index building task)

160. Important: when upgrading from 2.5 to 3.0 the index is re-created – you cannot reuse the index from a prior release.

162. Stop all the nodes that are running Search.ear.

170. CPU - metric to monitor

171. Memory - enterprise-scale deployments recommend at least 16 GB of memory

174. Increase to 100 to allow more simultaneous requests against the application server

179. We recommend a frequent review of the DB2 general error log – db2diag.log – looking for general and critical warnings.

181. Reorg - when significant amount of data is added to the db.

182. Rebind - after structural changes (such as a DB2 fixpack)

183. Thank you!

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