Lotus Notes and Domino
Product family strategy and update
Ed Brill
Director, Product Management

A catalyst for productivity – More than just an inbox
Social networking—
blogs, mashups,
activities
Instant Personal
messaging content library
Documents,
Feeds,
presentations,
My Widgets,
spreadsheets Live Text
E-mail, calendar, Collaborative and
contacts business applications

Consistent pattern of frequent Notes/Domino releases
September, August,
2002: September, 2007: January 6,
2005: Notes and
Notes and Notes and 2009: Notes/
Domino 8
Domino 6 Domino 7 Domino 8.5
September, February,
October, 2008:
2003:
2006: Notes and
Notes and
Notes and Domino 8.0.1
Domino 6.5
Domino 7.0.2

Notes/Domino 8 upgrades ahead of historical trend

Notes/Domino Ecosystem

Notes/Domino 8.5 ships!

Lotus Notes - an Integrated Platform
Compelling to users
• End user productivity
• Desktop choice: Linux, Windows, Mac
• Mobility: Nokia, BlackBerry, Windows
Mobile, web (Lotus iNotes)
Rapid Application Development
• Eclipse-based Designer
• XPages to modernize web applications
• Leverages existing expertise, apps
Cost savings 30+%
• Admin 30% / Storage 50%
• IBM saves 70+ petabytes = $M

Lotus Notes 8.5 – Top ten improvements
10. Drag/Drop of Text within Rich Text Editor
9. Offline support for Activities
8. Choose from multiple addresses for a person in typeahead
7. Ability to make your own views look like the PIM views
6. Forward contact as vCard (along with better import/export)
5. iNotes improvements (e.g. Calendar support in Lite mode)
4. Roaming user available with new file-based option
3. Support of Lotus Notes ID Vault and Lotus Notes Shared Login
2. MAC and Ubuntu Linux Support
1. Calendar Federation

Lotus Domino 8.5 – Top ten improvements
10.Notes Shared Login
9. LZ1 compression inside databases
8. Domino router enhancements
7. Transaction log improvements (up to 50% CPU reduction)
6. Domino Configuration Tuner
5. Domino Designer in Eclipse
4. Notes ID vault
3. XPages
2. Document compression (introduced in 8.0.1 as well)
1. Domino Attachment and Object Service (DAOS) + I/O improvements

Notes/Domino 8.x survey results – March/April 09
Areas of TCO savings experienced (% of Total responses)
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
Disk savings Server App Dev Improved Other (DAOS/
~40-60% consolidation modernized service quality ODS,
support,training

11
11
Projected upgrade savings for one 70K user organization
$1,430,206 in annual TCO savings (a 23% reduction) through centralization,
server reduction and modernization of Lotus Notes and Domino Software.

Lotus Notes & Domino – LotusLive Notes
 A cost effective way to provide organizations with a complete
messaging solution
– Ideal for organizations with < 10,000 – 15,000 users
 Reduce overhead (e.g.: hardware, administration)
– IBM is responsible for the infrastructure, customers have control of their
environment
 Generate predictable costs without capital expenditures
– Fixed per user pricing: US$8 - $14 per user per month
 Rapidly roll out your messaging infrastructure
– IBM provides the infrastructure and administration
 Secure & reliable
– Benefit from IBM security standards framework and resources

Lotus Foundations Start is an all-in-one software appliance
Email and collaboration
Choice of email clients: Lotus Remote
Notes®, Lotus iNotes and support for Access
Backup AntiSpam
Microsoft® Outlook®
AntiVirus
Lotus SymphonyTM office
productivity tools: spreadsheets,
presentation and documents
Network infrastructure, firewall, VPN, Firewall Web
secure remote access VPN Server
File management
Backup, Disaster Recovery
File
AntiVirus and AntiSpam & Print Office
Server Mail Productivity
VM Ware Hypervisor
(Run MS Windows Applications) Server

Lotus Foundations Branch Office
 Support deployment of Lotus Foundations Start as branch office solution for
organizations with existing Lotus Domino infrastructure at head office.
 Deploy Lotus Foundations in branch office but manage Lotus Foundations
Domino server as another Domino server in the enterprise
 Lotus Domino systems and user administration for Foundations - done from
Lotus Domino enterprise server
 Lotus Foundations administration - done either from branch office or locally
 External mail is routed to enterprise node.
 Domino users local to the Lotus Foundations Domino instance can be
automatically provisioned with user access to capabilities such as file server
etc

8.5 Application Development Themes
 Provide developers with a modern development
tool IDE
Do for developers what Notes 8 did for end users
– Improve usability and productivity
– Address various developer pain points from previous
versions
Attract new developers to the platform
 The Web Has Never looked better
Allow developers to build attractive, modern web apps
that leverage Web 2.0 technologies with less work
Provide means to incrementally update existing
Domino Web applications

Domino 8.5 –Introducing XPages
 What are XPages?
– A new design element for Domino Designer
– A runtime designed to generate modernWeb applications
 Brings State-of-the-Art Web technology to Domino 8.5
– Leverages Java Server Face based, proven Java runtime,
from Lotus Component Designer
– XPages are designed for generating modern Web
applications
• Built-in Web 2.0 features
 Solves problems expressed by the Domino community
– Known limitations are addressed
• UI/data separation, HTML generation control, server state,
localization, extensibility, etc.
– Same modern rendering technology can target multiple
clients

Even Great Looking Domino Web Apps Can Benefit from 8.5!
\"XPage technology drastically reduces the time it takes us to
develop Domino applications. We no longer need to spend
time developing client side JavaScript/Ajax code since many
of things we built in this manner are now core features of
XPages. Additionally, the ability to more easily leverage
standard techniques like CSS makes building a compelling
user experience much easier.\"
Bruce Elgort
Eljugi software llc

Alloy by IBM and SAP – Released March 2009
Reports management
• Give Users information to make
good decisions
Travel Management
• Request, review & approve trip
details quickly
Workflow Decisions Management
• Manage and expose SAP
Workflow decision steps in Notes
Leave Management
• Manage vacations from Lotus
notes calendar
Custom Integration
• Add contextual information to
facilitate better decisions

Future Directions for Lotus Notes and Domino

What are we deploying with the Catalog?
 Eclipse Feature and Plug-ins – Global Add-On
Stock Toolbar
Sidebar Panel
Context Menu extension

the professional network preview!
 LinkedIn brings the power of your professional
network into your Inbox
 Seamless integration and access to Network Updates,
Profiles, People Search, and more
 LiveText integration for context sensitive search
 Up to date information for your business contacts
results in smarter collaboration
 Will be available as a plug-in for Lotus Notes and a
Component for building Composite Applications
 “Business productivity is now a function of how
effectively you can find, connect and
collaborate with people and information you
can trust.”

Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 early beta – May 2009
 Includes support for ActiveSync –
support for Apple iPhone
 Email (including attachments)
 Calendar
 Contacts
 Will be tested by ~300 customers/
business partners
 Test driving will be available on
Lotus Greenhouse starting 5/15

Domino Designer
 New Editors
 A new Eclipse-based LotusScript editor
 A new Eclipse Java editor
 Xpages continues
 Performance improvements
 Designer Usability improvements
– New XPages dialog
– Working sets
– Finishing touches – some little things...
 New out of the box XPages Controls to expand
capability
– Outline – Menu bar – Tool bar
– Tag cloud
– Popup Dialog, using the Dojo library
 Xpages Data Sources – XML, Rest, SOAP, Relational

Improvements for the End User – Notes “9”
 Improve Search -Total Recall; simplified way of finding
things more easily
 Group Calendar
 Intelligent subscription of feeds within mail inbox
 Work with others more seamlessly – Contacts and Mail
Federation
 Track work more efficiently – Unified Task Management

Lotus Symphony

IBM Lotus Symphony
Frustrated with business productivity tool costs and upgrades? Could your time and budget be better spent elsewhere?
Documents
 Integrated office productivity tools
 No additional charge
 Based on Lotus Symphony software
Presentations – Helps reduce ongoing licensing costs and
dependence on a single software vendor
– Available to virtually anyone and everyone
– Use at work and at home
Spreadsheets

Five Themes of Lotus Symphony Development
 Lotus Symphony is part of a long-term, key investment strategy by IBM
– Promote use of ODF to help facilitate innovation in market
– Long term: Advance IBM's position as market leader in new, dynamic models for
document creation and manipulation
Beyond Breakthrough document manipulation experience
Office
Programmable Programmability for ISVs, extensible and open
Extensible
Cross integration with Lotus portfolio,
Linked Value with Portfolio first choice for office tools of Lotus users
Usability, capability, stability,
interoperability, deployability and
Meet Needs of Users, Deployable platform support

Lotus Symphony is award-winning
 Infoworld US:
 “Lotus Symphony is the most polished of this
particular pack of productivity suites.”
 CNET:
 “Microsoft is not just overpriced – for most users
it’s overkill. That’s why I’ve been increasingly
recommending IBM Lotus Symphony, a rounded
office suite that just so happens to be free.”
 CRN:
 “With so many great products entering the
Channel this year, choosing which ones could be
deemed product of the year was not an easy
decision. But our winners this year certainly
stood out as the best of the best, and we
congratulate all of our winners of the CRN Test
Center product of the year award.”

IBM Lotus Symphony – Roadmap (2009-2010)
Focus Areas:
 MS Office Interoperability -- MS Office 2007 Support, VB Support
 Code re-base to Open Office 3
 Programmability
 ODF 1.2 Support
Symphony 2.x
2H 2010
VB Macro cont'd
Solution Enablement
Linked Value
Symphony 2.0
1H 2010
OO 3.x code base
Symphony 1.3 ODF 1.2
Q2 2009 VB Macro
MS Office 2007 Support MS Office 2007 Support cont'd
DataPilot Tables cont'd
Enhanced LotusScript APIs

Resources

Resources
●
Notes and Domino home page at http://ibm.com/notes
or http://ibm.com/domino (plus advertising at http://
ibm.com/lotusnotes )
● Notes 8 training materials at ibm.com/developerworks/
lotus/notes
● Notes/Domino 8.5 now available at ibm.com/lotus/
notesanddomino
● Access all Notes/Domino-related bloggers at
www.planetlotus.org

Lotus Notes/iNotes -- 25% discount
 Appeals to both new customers to the Lotus Notes and Domino 8.x platform and
existing customers who are looking to renew/reinstate maintenance
– Discount on all Notes and iNotes (including Domino Express) new license
products by 25%
– Discount on Notes and iNotes maintenance after license (MAL) by 25%
– Promotion running 90 days – May 12 to August 5, 2009
 Note: CEO bundles and Domino server pricing not included in promotion

IBM Multimedia Library for Lotus Notes
A comprehensive collection of more than 1,000 Lotus tutorials and video clips
showing users how to perform essential tasks.
Target Audience:
• Enterprises with end users
Benefits:
• Affordable solution for Lotus customers
• Support for 11 languages
• Reduced tech support calls and costs
• Individual clips can be “drip fed” to
employees via e-mail to prepare for a
product rollout or upgrade.
• Clips include step-by-step text instructions
• Can be embedded right into the Notes
client
* English, French, Canadian French, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, German, Japanese, Chinese Simplified
and Chinese Traditional

Thank you!
ed_brill@us.ibm.com
www.edbrill.com
Twitter: @edbrill