#4 IBM Dublin, Republic of Ireland Tuesday 3 rd June 2008 Daniele Vistalli, Avnet Technology Solutions, Italy and Neil Burston, formerly Avnet Technology Solutions, UK now Oak Ridge Business Solutions Experiences of Lotus Connections 2.0 Beta

IBM Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Tuesday 3 rd June 2008

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Avnet Technology Solutions VAD – Value Add Distributor Global Multi-Vendor Solutions Consultants Business Development Partner enablement Social network platform

VAD – Value Add Distributor

Global

Multi-Vendor

Solutions Consultants

Business Development

Partner enablement

Social network platform

The Avnet problem space . . . Vested interest Investors interest + = Global + Multilingual + Multi Vendor + Need to find expertise + Need to share the expertise + Major business integrations

Vested interest

Investors interest

The Beta Program

Self help

Our deployment (not just a pilot) “ Unsupported” setup, 1 virtual machine, 5Gb ram, 30Gb disk Linux - SLES 10 SP1 DB2 9.1, memory manager tuned to use a limited amount of memory WAS 6.1.0.13, one profile, 6 app servers (one per feature) LTPA everywhere (Portal / Web environment) LDAP is Tivoli Directory Server (on another box) TDI is “importing” a subset of it (only internal Avnet team) Front-end “EDGE” using Websphere Edge Components Caching Proxy

“ Unsupported” setup, 1 virtual machine, 5Gb ram, 30Gb disk

Linux - SLES 10 SP1

DB2 9.1, memory manager tuned to use a limited amount of memory

WAS 6.1.0.13, one profile, 6 app servers (one per feature)

LTPA everywhere (Portal / Web environment)

LDAP is Tivoli Directory Server (on another box)

TDI is “importing” a subset of it (only internal Avnet team)

Front-end “EDGE” using Websphere Edge Components Caching Proxy

Dirty Techie bit (Lessons learned) Use Linux/AIX (much better Websphere / filesystem performance ) Use a reverse caching and compression proxy or your network will complain (great performance booster ) Go beyond documentation : discover bookmark-let urls, community cards (like person cards) and more Overuse it, integrate people-cards and bookmark-lets in existing application. Wherever it makes sense

Use Linux/AIX (much better Websphere / filesystem performance )

Use a reverse caching and compression proxy or your network will complain (great performance booster )

Go beyond documentation : discover bookmark-let urls, community cards (like person cards) and more

Overuse it, integrate people-cards and bookmark-lets in existing application. Wherever it makes sense

Examples of what we did From Sharepoint to Activities or Dogear or Blogs or Communities Just 2 hours, to make it real !!! Users loved it !!! Portal integration Connections integration

From Sharepoint

to

Activities

or

Dogear

or

Blogs

or

Communities

Observations

Conclusions Better Install Better features Better integration

Final thoughts + = ??