The document outlines IBM's Lotus mobility strategy for connecting to networks, accessing email, communicating via Sametime, using applications, and working offline. It discusses products like Lotus Mobile Connect, Traveler, Sametime Mobile, WebSphere Portal, Everyplace Mobile Portal, Mashups, and Expeditor that provide these capabilities across different devices and contexts. The overall strategy is to enable secure and productive access to business information anytime and anywhere.

1. IBM Mobility Strategy for Dummies

2. Step 1 - Connection
First you want to connect to your company network…
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IBM Lotus Mobile Connect
• What does it do?
• Creates a secure (VPN) connection between your device and the company gateway
• Selects automatically an available network connection (configured on the device)
• Switches between these network connections while maintaining the session: Seamless Roaming
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3. Lotus Mobile Connect
Secure connection across all modes of access (desktop, browser, mobile)
Secure
Connectivity
Challenge: Sensitive information across networks
Secure and seamless access to business information
Wide variety of networks (wireless, wire line, transient)
Secure
High cost of moving data
VPNs
Sametime
Solution: Secure VPN with seamless roaming
Strong data encryption / Authentication
User Secure wireless / wire line roaming over 35+ networks
authentication
Customizable least cost routing
Transparent network transitions (e.g. from WiFi - corporate campus /
Browser
“coffee shop” to GPRS connection – in the car)
Data
encryption
Open Security Standards
Optimized
access RSA, AES, DES
FIPS 140-2, Common Criteria EAL3+
Sametime
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4. Step 2 - Mail
Then you want to check your mail…
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IBM Lotus Notes Traveler
• What does it do?
• Push mail solution for Domino to Windows Mobile Clients.
• What about other platforms?
• Blackberry – Blackberry Enterprise Server
• Nokia – Intellisync
• Mixed environments: Excitor, Commontime , etc.
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5. Lotus Traveler on Windows Mobile Device
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6. What if your device is not (yet) supported ?
IBM Lotus iNotes
Available to test beta on greenhouse.lotus.com: iNotes- ultra light mode
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7. Step 3 – Sametime
After you have checked your mail you want to get in touch…
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IBM Lotus Sametime Mobile
• What does it do?
• Sametime on Windows, Symbian and RIM Blackberry OS devices
• Comes with IBM Lotus Sametime Standard V8.0
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8. Architecture
HTTPS
Managed Virtual Private Network
Firewall
Firewalll
Lotus Sametime
Lotus Mobile Connect
(optional)
DMZ Trusted Domain
Sametime Mobile features
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Initial devices supported
Full Buddy List availability
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Quick-search within Buddy List
BlackBerry (4.0+) –
2-way chat between users
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Nokia series 60 “N-way group chat
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Auto-store/auto-retrieve chat history between chat sessions
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Windows Mobile 2003 Address card integration/lookup
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Emoticon support
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Windows Mobile 5 / 6 Buddy List auto-sort
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Quick-text (user editable)
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External Buddy support - AI M/Yahoo/Google/etc (tentative)
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9. What if your device is not (yet) supported ?
• Lotus Sametime Web Messenger *
Work in progress*
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10. Step 4 - Applications
Then you want to start working and access (web)applications…
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IBM WebSphere Portal
• What does it do?
• Transcoding of the portal navigation structure
• Navigation to pages are automatically transformed into dropdown list
• The portlets on the pages are accessible by dropdown list
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14. Step 4 – Applications on the right size
Then you have your specific application, but not at the right size… what now?
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IBM WebSphere Everyplace Mobile Portal
• What does it do?
• On top of WebSphere Portal… Transcodes the portlets
• Extends portlets to a wide range of mobile devices
• “write once, render many” mobile devices with device-independent authoring
• Utilizes a continuously updated device repository and adapts to new devices
without any changes to the existing content
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16. Step 5 – Web 2.0 applications
You want to create and deliver web2.0 apps?
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IBM Lotus Mashups
• What does it do?
• A graphical, browser-based tool tool that will help enable easy, on-the-glass assembly of
new applications by Web-savvy business users
• A Mashup catalog which will help facilitate the sharing and discovery of mashup
components, with planned, built-in community features like ratings, tagging, commenting
• An easy-to-use development environment rapid creation of dynamic widgets
• A rich set of out-of-the-box, business-ready widgets
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17. Lotus Mashups*
Not for all mobile webbrowsers*
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18. Step 6 – Keep working
That was the online part, but what if you don’t have connection… what then?
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IBM Lotus Expeditor
• What does it do?
• universal managed client software (used for Sametime 8, Notes 8 and in future Sametime Mobile)
• Client on Windows, Linux, Mac, Symbian, Windows mobile
• Synchronizes data and application
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19. Traditional Browser Applications
Lotus Expeditor: Connections
Always on / Always Connected
Full application support – at the client
Web Container
Request
DB2
Response
Transaction
• Enable better responsiveness Container MQ
– Minimal round trip to server(s) Browser
Portal
• Improve end to end scalability
Server: Portal, WebSphere, Forms, Sametime, Domino
– Locally hosted business logic
• Enable transparent server interaction when server becomes available
– Outgoing - Complete transactions when connected
– Incoming - Refresh/Update local content when connected
• Enable mobility
– “Full” disconnected for long periods of time (i.e.: on an airplane)
W eb Container
DB2e
DB2
MQ
Transaction
MQ
Container
e
Expeditor Server
• Rich Client or Brow ser Connectors
Expeditor Applications
• Laptop / Desktop or Device
Productive Anytime / Anywhere
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20. Lotus Sametime Mobile client on Expeditor
Work in progress*

21. Step 7A – IBM Special Product Clients
Lotus Connections Client
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22. Step 7B – IBM Special Product Clients
IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile
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23. Step 8 - Don´t forget to Feed
Works anyplace anytime anywhere
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Online and Offline
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The whole Lotus Portfolio is “Feeded”
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– Lotus Connections
– Lotus Sametime Advanced
– Lotus Quickr
– Lotus Notes - template to enable DB´s
– Domino Blog
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24. Step 9 – When even a PDA is too Heavy
Notes on a (USB) stick
-- came in Notes 7.0.2
Description
Enables users to take their Notes experience with them on
a USB stick.
Customer Profiles / Use Cases:
Satellite Office workforce
Workers that do not have laptops
Ready backup capability for Notes environment
Workers that want to take their “Notes” experience to
other computers (hotels, customer site, remote
office, etc..)
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25. Press
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jY1aQAidys
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http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24854.wss
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