3. Overview
What?
IBM WebSphere Portal Server, Enable, Extend customers on active maintenance are
now entitled to use two key IBM Connections social services - Files and Profiles.
WebSphere Portal customers will now be able to deploy and access the Files and
Profiles services of IBM Connections at no additional charge.
When?
Announce and eGA on 2/21/2012
5. Which customers are eligible for this entitlement?
Entitlement includes the use of Files and Profiles features of IBM Connections 3.0.1 to clients
with active maintenance agreements of these licenses :
WebSphere Portal Server
WebSphere Portal Enable
WebSphere Portal Extend
Accelerators with WebSphere Portal Sever (IBM Content Accelerator with Portal Server)
These customers will now be able to deploy and access the Files and Profiles features of IBM
Connections at no additional charge.
How is the entitlement being provided?
Customers will not need to do anything to activate this entitlement - the download
package will be available to them under their Passport Advantage downloads.
There will be a 1:1 mapping for the entitlement for every PVU of Server, Enable, and
Extend
How does a customer move to full IBM Connections?
The path for customers to upgrade to full IBM Connections services will require using the
existing per user IBM Connections part number.
6. Are there restrictions on how the social entitlement
can be used with Portal?
No! This entitlement allows for integrated, hybrid, or side by side deployment of Files and Profiles
for internal and external solutions
Integration may include existing and upcoming social portlets , Web Application Bridge or simply a
link that brings together Portal and Connections Files and Profiles
For customized integration ISSL and IBM Business Partners can provide services to meet a
customers specific needs
Entitlement includes Mobile use of IBM Connections Files and Profiles
7. Why are we doing this?
Drive NorthStar Vision
Continue to drive social business and social portal messaging by providing key IBM Connections
services within WebSphere Portal offerings
Showing how are products can be used together to provide a overall exceptional web experience
solution
New Opportunities
Improve Connections penetration into our 2,900 + active Portal Customers; the top 300 of which
without IBM Connections have invested over $629M in Portal
Give Portal customers a “taste” of social services from IBM
Adoption of IBM Files and Profiles services will help provide an avenue to make every current
Server, Enable and Extend customer a sales opportunity for full Connections
Protect and drive S&S renewals and reinstatements throughout the year
Profiles becoming a new control point as companies are looking at external and internal “portal
refreshes”
Competition
Other social and portal platforms are beginning to or already provide social capabilities. The
adoption of IBM social capabilities through the entitlement will help lock potential competition
out
13. Upsell the full value of IBM Connections
Improve Employee Productivity
Share ideas and learn from others in vibrant social Communities of
practice
Experts share experience and insight via Blogs, Bookmarks and active
Forums participation
Collective Intelligence and Reuse
Leverage 'best practice' materials and tap your growing social network to
get important work done via Activities
Stay informed and discover who and what you don't know via Social
Analytics
Home Page search to quickly find relevant content vetted by others
Co-create and share collective knowledge via enterprise Wikis
Facilitate Innovation
Generation and filtering of the best ideas via Ideablog
26. Resources and Contacts
Sales Talk - Overview of entitlements, selling and positioning
This presentation is available in the SSA Community
Update Sales Kit
Slides covering social portal and new entitlements
FAQ
Link - http://w3-103.ibm.com/software/xl/portal/content?
synKey=E640048A37508M79#assets
Key Contacts
Djalma Britto – Latin America Sales Manager
Flavio Mendes – LA Tiger Team
Alejandro Ladeveze – LA ICS Channels
In 2009 Omron talked about their intranet work project for Omron Europe – for over 2200 employees. The project included using Portal to bring together content and services from Cognos, WCM, Google, and Lotus Notes with some collaboration services (instant messaging and discussion forums), content and people search capabilities. They used Portal to deliver a highly personalized intranet with a completely different look and feel – it mattered a lot to them what the user experience and visual impacts were. The solution is called Ozone and its key components are: WCM, Portlet Factory, Personalization, Search, Custom SSO, and overall customization. Objectives – in 2009: Strengthen European Communication and Collaboration (Keen)through knowledge management: easy sharing of technical, application and business knowledge and experiences through improved collaboration throughout the whole organization Improve operational synergies and unlock efficiencies through European sharing of information, tools and processes (Lean) through operational efficiency in high-value business process areas with more streamlined access to the tools, information, self-service, and people they need to do their job Their partner is Portico Consultancy. This project won an award “ 2010 Intranet Innovation Award, Step two Designs (Gold award: Frontline Delivery)”
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