An update on IBM Lotus Messaging and Collaboration Strategy from September, 2010. Covers Notes/Domino 8.5.2, Protector, LotusLive, Project Vulcan, and more.
IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Strategy Update, September 2010
1. IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Strategy Ed Brill Director, Product Management
2. Notes & Domino Platform: How much are you taking advantage of? contact.png A screen capture shows the Lotus Notes rich desktop client. Portal_6_theme_1 calendar.png mail.png oracle.png IBM.png Linux Unified Communication, Instant Messaging E-mail, calendar, contacts Documents, presentations, spreadsheets Social networking— wikis, blogs, mashups, activities Personal and corporate content/document library Feeds, My Widgets, Live Text Collaborative and business applications Leveraging ALL your current investments
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4. Get the webcast and white paper on ibm.com/lotus/notes Webcast Replay and Forrester Case Study Report on Lotus Notes/Domino V8.5 Economic Benefits
5. Independent TCO Analysis from Applicable, Ltd. IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Up to 52% Cheaper TCO Comparison IBM Lotus Notes/Domino vs. Microsoft Office/Exchange 2007 Source: http://www.applicable.com Sept, 2009
53. New releases: 300+ ready-to-use “ ...more IBM-authored Notes/Domino source code in 2009 than all previous years combined!” “ ...a strong, vibrant developer community devoted to enabling developers to collaborate on IBM Lotus Notes/Domino applications, and release them as open source...”
93. Create a business network of connected businesses Files My Network Meetings Events Chat Activities Survey Forms Charts eMail
94. The LotusLive portfolio LotusLive Meetings A full-featured, easy to use Web conferencing service LotusLive Events Provides tools to create, manage and conduct webinars for up to 999 attendees LotusLive Connections Combines your business network with collaboration services LotusLive Notes IBM’s most widely used, full-featured software for e-mail, calendaring and scheduling and contact management – Lotus Notes – now available as an online service LotusLive Engage An integrated suite of tools that combines your business network with collaboration and conferencing services Web Conferencing Collaboration e-Mail LotusLive iNotes Web-based messaging service for e-mail and personal calendar
114. A vision for how people will work in the future... The application of the “Social Analytics” to prioritize what is most important NOW Integrate business applications and collaboration to streamline the way people work A consistent experience to increase productivity at any time and at any place Improving the quality of information and avoiding expensive downtime
We took all of the data we had from our customers and asked Forrester analysts to produce a TCO study of Notes and Domino in business terms. Forrester used their Total Economic Impact methodology to measure costs, benefits and risk. After interviews with customers to gather data, they documented a 147% ROI, with only a 12 month payback period. So it you have not done so already, and you need to save money NOW on your IT infrastructure, upgrade to 8.5.1. Get the Forrester study off our website.
The Forrester study does not do competitive comparisons. But others have. When Applicable, a UK hoster of both Exchange and Domino, built optimal Exchange and Domino systems and measured costs. They put IBM way ahead of Microsoft by up to 52% from a total operational and licensing cost perspective. Notes/Domino 8.5 is clearly a watershed release for admins, developers, end-users, and even executives.
The Collaboration Agenda is about matching the right form of collaboration to the right situation and getting the most productivity possible for a particular industry out of collaboration investments. That is why the Notes client has grown into a collaboration desktop that can be customized to highlight many different forms of collaboration and to adapt to the needs of particular industries. Partners and the OpenNTF community are helping to make that vision reality. At Lotusphere last year, LinkedIn, Tripit, Salesforce, and OpenSpan promised plugins and they have delivered.
At Lotusphere 2009, we announced Alloy by IBM and SAP. The first release of this product shipped from both vendors in March, 2009. We saw significant interest in Alloy in numerous customer discussions during the year. During 2009, we've learned a lot about how the Alloy solution can deliver on integrated workflows and custom business process for Notes and SAP customers. We also shipped a first Service Pack which makes the deployment and extensibility even easier. In 2010, we plan to extend Alloy by aligning it with the Collaboration Agenda and focusing on industry-specific and partner-driven solutions. We plan to add additional capabilities for integration of SAP Applications to be used by Domino developers. The next major version of the product, which will come with a new name to reflect a broader mission, is currently planned for the second-half of 2010 beta. We are seeing partners working with Alloy already, and we want to broaden the appeal for partners. Itelligence has extended the standard Alloy capabilities to provide Time Recording. Users can now capture their working hours within a Notes Application and submit it to their SAP System. Additionally, IBM has just posted 7 additional SAP Workflow approvals to OpenNTF. The code posted to openNTF includes Purchase, Invoice, Sales Order and Time Record approvals, amongst others.
We will also do that by creating flexible delivery methods for collaboration. On-premises systems still provide the most economic collaboration solutions for companies with 5 to 10 thousand employees or more. Appliances such as Foundations are the most economical solution for small business with a few hundred employees or fewer. Cloud-based solutions such as LotusLive are now bringing improved collaboration economics to medium sized businesses. Businesses are diverse, and hybrid combinations of on premises, cloud, and appliances are likely to make sense for more companies than any one form of delivery. All of you know how to run an on-premises collaboration system. And as we just discussed a Domino mailbox hosted on premises is the cheapest way to provide mail for many of our customers. Domino is easy to administer and two administrators can manage thousands of mail boxes on a very modest hardware infrastructure. But for some our customers who have only a few thousand mailboxes they are not getting the full benefits of Domino scalability. Cloud-based mail, such as Gmail, provided in a browser now sells for about $4 a month. A well run Domino system for thousands of users, in a browser or via a rich client, can beat that price. But if you have only a few thousand users you may not have the scale to support two administrators, or, for that matter to fully utilize a modern server. Or alternately, you may not have current skills or may have other IT priorities that are getting in the way of optimizing your on premises environment. In that case LotusLive Notes may well be your most satisfying and economical choice.
The main difference between Protector for Mail Security and other products is that we treat all unwanted content, not just obvious spam. Any spam filter worth its salt should stop content that is obviously spam – and Protector for Mail Security does this at an enterprise-grade level of 99.5% or better. This includes pharma, fake merchandise, and stocl “pump and dump” scams. This is spam that targets users and tries to separate them from their money. Another type of content is just as unwanted by end users, but isn't necessarily spam. It's newsletters, seminar invites, adverisements etc., that fill up people's mailboxes and take time and attention away from real work. With Protector for Mail Encryption, the Notes inbox integration makes it easy to block these senders, permanently, at the gateway. They go away forever, never to clutter your inbox again. Who loves this? Excecutives and other important “consumers” for your IT department. In fact, major organizations like Colgate Palmolive have deployed Protector for Mail Security for this feature alone!
IBM Lotus Protector for Mail Encryption builds on the legendary security of Notes/Domino, making it as easy to encrypt e-mail to Internet addresses as to Notes users within the enterprise. This new IBM product is built with technology from PGP Corporation, a leader in the encryption industry. Ensures that any e-mail, whether internal or external, can be easily sent in a secure encrypted format Integrates tightly with Notes and Domino to eliminate additional training and support requirements Assures that content isn't intercepted or modified in transit Saves money on alternative methods such as courier, express mail, and faxes Supports flexible encryption methods and open standards, so that external recipients always have the most seamless and contextual e-mail experience Extends the Lotus Protector security platform, and integrates with the optional Protector for Mail Security spam and content control solution
This build slide shows how the encryption works for the sender and recipient. The main point is that Protector for Mail Encryption extends Notes encryption without replacing it. If Notes-to-Notes encryption is available, it's always used; only when Internet encryption is required does Protector step in. If a user of the Protector for Mail Encryption client wants to send an encrypted (and/or signed) note, he just uses the appropriate UI as shown. (If the user only has a Gateway license, the Notes encryption UI only works for internal users, although the inclusion of a policy trigger would still invoke encryption for external users at the Gateway.) <click> Upon the “send” event, the Protector client creates two copies of the Note. The version sent to Notes recipients uses Notes RSA-based keys, and proceeds as usual. <click> The version destined for external recipients goes to the Protector for Mail Encryption Gateway for processing. This is where the Gateway's intelligence comes into play. It will look at the destination for each external address, and try to find a public key for it. If the sender encrypted with the recipient's public key from his local keyring, it's just sent along. If the Gateway already has knowledge of the key (from a prior transaction), it's encrypted to that key and sent. Depending on configuration, the Gateway can also query for the key at the recipients “keys.<domain>.com” URL, or in the Global PGP Gateway that many companies federate with. In some countries (Denmark for example), special public key servers can also be used. In all these “key found” cases, it's a regular S/MIME or OpenPGP communication, and for both sender and recipient it feels like a regular e-mail transaction, inbox-to-inbox. If the recipient's key is not available – a “key not found” or KNF state – then the system has a couple of options, according to how it's configured. In a “push” model, it can send an e-mail with an encrypted PDF attached, for which the recipient will need a password; this can either be pre-established or provided separately. <click> Otherwise, the recipient will be sent a link message (“pull” model), directing him back to the Gateway server via a Web URL. In many cases the sending company already has established a username/password for the recipient (e.g., a bank or utility relationship with a customer); the Protector for Mail Encryption Gateway can be tied to that system. Otherwise the user can create an account for himself, generating a second e-mail for two-factor authentication just like creating a Gmail or other account. Once authenticated, the recipient can view and reply to the message using a standard Webmail UI. The mail can be stored on the server for a configurable interval, or kept indefinitely. Here is where Protector for Mail Encryption offers capabilities beyond many competitors. If the recipient is a sophisticated end user and already has his own S/MIME or OpenPGP key, he can upload the public key using the Web UI, and establish a &quot;key found&quot; state for all future communications. If the user is less sophisticated but wants that integrated experience, he can download the Satellite plug-in and do it that way (the Satellite code is essentially a local keyring without the complexity of knowing/caring what a keyring is). The bottom line is that the system supports whatever mode the recipient prefers; it's not a &quot;one size fits all&quot; solution like many gateway vendors.