Toronto, June 6-7 2016
What’s New and Coming in
IBM Connections
Baan Slavens, IBM
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be given that an individual user will achieve results similar to those stated here.

The world has
changed
owns no
vehicles
createsno
content
has no
inventory
owns no
real estate

He who is not courageous enough
to take risks will accomplish
nothing in life.
-Muhammad Ali

Source; greatideasstarthere.com

Changing the way
people work with
collaboration
means…
Understanding who
your users are.
What are their
biggest pain points.
What information do
they need to make
key decisions.

Source: What’s wrong with collaboration tools today: http://www.cmswire.com /cms/social- business/w hats-wrong-with-social-collaboration-tools-everythi ng-028737.php
People want a
modern workplace
where tools help
them, not hinder
them

As we embrace the change….
We are recognized as industry leaders….
IBM is a Leader
for 7
consecutive
years in the
Gartner Magic
Quadrant for
Social Software
in the
Workplace2
Leader in 3 Waves!
Forrester Wave File,
Sync and Share
(cloud & on-prem)
and Enterprise
Social Platforms1
IBM is a Leader
for 3
consecutive
years in Aragon
Research Globe
for Enterprise
Social Software4
IBM is the
Worldwide Market
Share Leader for 6
years in a row!
IBM is a Leader in
WW and European
Enterprise Social
Network
MarketScapes3
1
Source: The Forrester Wave™: File Sync and Share, Q3 2013; and The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014
2
Source: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace, October 26, 2015
3
Source: Worldwide Enterprise Social Networks and Online Communities 2015-2019 Forecast and 2014 Vendor Shares, Doc # 257492 July
2015. IDC Marketscape: WW Enterprise Social Networks 2014 Vendor Assessment, Doc # 252332, November 2014. IDC Marketscape:
European Enterprise Social Networks in 2014. Doc # LP02W December 2014.
4
Source: The Aragon Research Globe™ for Social Software, 2015: Knowledge at the Core
5
Source: Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting an Enterprise Social Networking Product 2014, January 2014. Ovum Decision Matrix: Enterprise
File Sync and Share 2014, September 2014.
* Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to
select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization
and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research,
including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Leader in 2
reports! IBM is a
Leader in the
Ovum Decision
Matrix: Enterprise
Social
Networking
Product &
Enterprise File
Sync and Share,
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Agenda
• IBM Connections 5.5
• IBM Connections Mobile
• Planned Updates
• Future

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IBM Connections 5.5

Team Communications
Focus your team on information they need to see
Apps are
responsive to
allow drag-n-drop
of apps between
columns
Ability to
hide/remove all
apps including
Members,
Bookmarks &
Description to
create a specialized
landing page
Community
navigation auto-
collapses to free
up space for other
apps
Rename apps to
target your
audience
(ex. Members >
Marketing
Associates)

Team Communications
Change the layout of your Community landing page
New layouts to
control how the
Overview page
looks
Edit the community
description in line to
make it easier to
adjust content to
desired location

Discoverable Private Communities
Only the title,
description and tags
are shown and all
other content
remains protected
Create private
communities that
others can find and
requestto join

Organize your Community
Restructure Communities as Content Grows
Move a community
to a sub-community
or vice-versa

Real Time Alerts
Focus on items that needs your attentions
Stay up-to-date with
things that require
your attention

Nested Folders
Create, view, and
manage nested folders
across platforms

Nested Folders
Web
Nested folder
hierarchies in
personal and
community
files
Explorer / Finder – like
experience with independently
scrollable panes

Nested Folders
Windows Explorer
Create, view, manage,
and share nested
folders from your
desktop
Drag and drop entire
folder hierarchies to and
from IBM Connections

Nested Folders
Verse Mail Integration
Link to and
share files and
folders via
email

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IBM Connections Mobile

Nested Folders
Mobile
Create, view, and
manage nested folders
from your phone or
iPad

IBM Connections Editor
Tap on the Edit
button to launch the
IBM Connections
Editor app

IBM Connections Editor
Easily saves back
to IBM Connections
Full featured editing
capabilities

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Planned Updates

Q2 Updates
Q2

Metrics for Communities
Measure adoption and usage of IBM Connections Communities
• Help community owners
and admins to gauge
adoption and usage of
their community and IBM
Connections overall
• See top contributors,
trends, popular content
and more.
• Filter reports by area (e.g.
Ideation, Files, Wikis, etc)
Q2
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice

Metrics for Admins
Measure adoption and usage of IBM Connections Cloud
• Metrics summarize how
people are using IBM
Connections
• Refine metrics by
selecting options such as
the time period to report
or a particular application
to focus on
• Collect Global metrics
about overall usage of IBM
Connections, and collect
Community metrics to
analyze usage of a
particular community
Q2
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice

Search Enhancements
Find what you need, get back to what you need faster
• Search has been
streamlined to help you
find Connections Cloud
content faster and it
remembers the pages you
visited.
• A new search icon is
available regardless of
where you are on the
page. Open the search
panel to search. Or use
the panel to go back to
pages you've previously
visited.
Q2
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice

Files Enhancements
Drag and drop for nested folders in personal or community files
• Drag & drop files to nested
folders: Select a file or folder
and drop it onto a folder.
• Performance enhancements
for file sync - the server
pushes file changes to client
devices
Q2
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice

Desktop Plug-in Enhancements
Save As, file size limits and Mac OS
Q2
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice
• Save a Microsoft Office
document to a nested
folder for personal or
community files.
• Provide Connections Files
Cloud and IBM Verse
customers with
namespace functionality
• Mac plug-in: Improved
context menu support
within Finder

IBM Notes Plug-in
Connections Cloud enablement of Status Updates
• The IBM Notes plug-in
now supports Status
Updates in Connections
Cloud
• Stay in touch with the
people in your
Connections network
without ever leaving Notes
• Catch up with your
network, leverage your
social network in context
• Hover over people to view
their business card and
quickly access their
content
Q2
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice

IBM Connections Mobile
Edit Multi Files with the IBM Editor
• Multi-file support in the
IBM Connections Editor -
open more that one file at
a time, copy content from
one file to another.
Q2

IBM Connections Mobile
IBM Editor
• Support mobile device
management, mobile
application management,
and mobile content
management solutions
from Good Technology
and AirWatch.
• Create content directly in
Blogs and Wiki’s. Edit
existing content.
Q2

IBM Connections Mobile
IBM Editor
• Rich Text editing in Blogs
and Wikis allows users to
create or edit them directly
in the mobile application.
• Support @mentions in
Forums
Q2

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Future

2H 2016
A look ahead
Designs subject to change
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice

IBM Connections for Office Online
Edit IBM
Connections files
with the Office
Online Web Apps,
helping
organizations to
integrate their
social business
with their Office
Online expertise,
enjoying the best
of both platforms
Round-trip editing –
editfrom Connections
or Office Online – it’s
your choice!
Automatic versioning –
your changes are saved
as new versions when
you’re done editing
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice

SharePoint Files App in IBM Connections
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice
Work with SharePoint files
without having to leave IBM
Connections.
The new SharePoint Files app
replaces the current SharePoint
widget, and supports
SharePoint Server 2013
(support for SP 2016 is in plan).
Available on Connections Cloud
and Connections 5.5 (via an
IFR).
Advantages of the new app
include:
§ Edit SharePoint documents
inline, using the MS Office
editors on the SP site
§ Work with the whole
SharePoint library
§ Easier to configure
§ Dynamic resizing of the
iFrame
§ Multiple SP sites
§ Create documents

SharePoint Files App in IBM Connections
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice
View, download,
edit, and upload
SharePoint
documents from IBM
Connections.
Edit SharePoint
folder and document
properties to keep
information accurate
and up to date

SharePoint Files App in IBM Connections
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice
Create SharePoint
documents, using
the MS Office apps
on the SharePoint
site.

Enhanced External Collaboration
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice
Enhanced External Collaboration is a smarter way to manage
collaboration on IBM Connections Cloud between internal and external
users.
We already support guests on IBM Connections Cloud and this
enhancement improves the experience for users, administrators, and
organizations so that collaboration with customers, partners, and suppliers
is easier to set up, manage, and use.

Enhanced External Collaboration
Control whether external collaboration is allowed or not
Specify who can create content that can be shared externally
Allow internal users to create communities, files, and activities
that can be shared externally
Gain visibility as to who invited whom, when, and from what
company
Prevent sharing with a user of particular email domain(s)
Suspend or remove access from any Org-owned data
Communicate across geographic data centers
View a subset of entitlements of the users in an Org
Content is owned by the Org, not the visitor
No extra charges for external collaboration; unlimited visitors
Bulk-invite visitors
Determine what data is exposed in a visitor’s profile
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice

Enhanced External Collaboration
Control whether external collaboration is allowed or not
Specify who can create content that can be shared externally
Allow internal users to create communities, files, and activities
that can be shared externally
Gain visibility as to who invited whom, when, and from what
company
Prevent sharing with a user of particular email domain(s)
Suspend or remove access from any Org-owned data
Communicate across geographic data centers
View a subset of entitlements of the users in an Org
Content is owned by the Org, not the visitor
No extra charges for external collaboration; unlimited visitors
Bulk-invite visitors
Determine what data is exposed in a visitor’s profile
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice

Enhanced External Collaboration
Phase 1
Migrate Guests to become Visitors
Visitors can be invited from the context
of content – i.e., from a community,
activity, contact, or file – or from the
“Invite Visitor” item on the toolbar.
Bulk provisioning of visitors
Graphic indicators to identify visitors
and shared content
An enhanced invitation mail
Admin dashboard – view and revoke
visitor access
New APIs for adding visitors to
Activities and Search
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice

* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice
Expanding Collaboration
IBM Connections and Box Integration
• Add Box to Communities
in Connections
• Provide options for file
sharing capabilities

* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice
Expanding Collaboration
IBM Connections and Box Integration
• Select Box target folder
• Folder and Files become
part of the Connections
Community

Give you clarity, control, and insights you
need to confidently make informed
decisions.

Collaboration Landing Page
People and
Communities
important
to me My tasks
and things
owed to
me
Plan my time
and see
what’s next
My newsfeed
organized by my
interests and
Communities
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice

Mobile Action Center
• Engaged by swiping
from right of each
applications
• Exists throughout our
mobile portfolio
• Combines relevant
information in one
space, helping the user
understand what’s
happening across their
apps, what they need
to do, and where they
need to be
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice

Mobile Action Center
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice

Document Provider Extensions
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice
Provide the flexibility
to selecteditor of
preference for IBM
Connections Files

Mobile Search and Navigation
• Navigation is simple and
adaptive Users can easily
navigate to the people,
content and applications
they access most
frequently
• Search is obvious and
intuitive The system
anticipates what the user
is looking for
• Keep my head above the
flood of information
Filter to what is important
to me
* Plans and designs are subject to change without notice

Resources
Meeting the Deadline with IBM Connections Docs
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/social-
business/2015/09/30/meeting-the-deadline-with-ibm-
connections-docs/
IBM Docs Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUEeQmxO0j4
IBM MarketPlace
http://www.ibm.com/marketplace/cloud/online-document-
editor/us/en-us
IBM Connections Docs Product Page
http://ibm.com/software/products/en/ibmconnectionsdocs
Integrating IBM Docs 2.0 with Box.com
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21981293
IBM Social Landing Page
http://ibm.com/social
Latest product info, research, podcasts, and more
http://www.ibm.com/lotus/connections
YouTube Videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/IBMSocialBiz
IBM Connections Team Blog
http://ibmsocialsoftware.com
Assets, discussion, and opinion about driving the adoption of
IBM Social software
http://ibm.com/blogs/socialbusiness
Customer Success Stories
http://www.ibm.com/social-business/us/en/customers.html
Book- Doing Business with IBM Connections
http://michaelsampson.net/doingbusinesswithconnections/
App Catalog
http://catalog.lotus.com
IBM Internal: IBM Connections Roadmap
and PM community:
http://bit.ly/ConnectionsRoadmap

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