ID301 What's New and Coming in
IBM Connections
Luis Benitez | IBM Connections Product Manager | @Lbenitez
David Brooks | IBM Connections Lead Architect | @brooksda
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Agenda
Transforming Content with
Social IBM IBM Connections Content Manager
Business Connections Connections Resources &
Platform in Today Tomorrow New features available soon Information
Review Key Platform Integrations
Tons of demos
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IBM's Social Business Leadership
The Foundation to deliver “social” Native mobile support for phones and
wherever it is required to increase usage tablets
and encourage adoption
Comprehensive out-of-the-box solution for cloud, Pipeline of innovation from IBM Research
on-premises and hybrid allows us to deliver new value faster
Widest range of deployment options to protect Social meets Business Process – it's time
existing information technology investments
for a transformation
Proven Scalability and Open Standards based
architecture
Worldwide Market 2X A Leader! Forrester Leader in Aragon IBM is in the leader
Leader for 3 years in Wave Enterprise Research Globe for quadrant in the Gartner
a row! Social Platform and Enterprise Social Magic Quadrant for
Cloud Strategies for Software Social Software in the
Online Collaboration Workplace, August
Software Vendors 2011
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Source: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace, August 2011
2
Source: The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011 and The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Strategies for Online Collaboraton Software Vendors, Q3 2012,
Forrester Research, Inc
3
Source: IDC: Number 1 position from 2009-2011, IDC Worldwide Enterprise Social Software 2011 Vendor Shares, doc #235273, June 2012.
4
Source: Aragon Research Globe for Enterprise Social Software, Aug 2012
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The Value of a Social
Business Platform
By leveraging a Social Business
Platform, you are able to:
Take advantage of a broad range of
industry leading social tools
Grow your deployment as you need
over time on the platforms you require
Integrate with your current systems
Customize as you see fit
Develop an adoption strategy
Access your social data from a variety
of touchpoints (e.g. applications,
desktops, mobile, etc)
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The IBM Platform for Social Business
Enabling “systems of engagement” solutions
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Social Business
Key Focus Areas
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Foundation for a
Social Business
It's about the people and information
Social business is an investment in
your technology infrastructure
IBM is committed to Open Standards
to enable integration across your
critical business applications
saml, aria, html5
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Expand Openness in IBM Connections
Bring collaboration to the user's context
OpenSocial
 Standard API to share social data across
applications. Available In:
 Enables secure integration of non-trusted
gadgets for in-context collaboration.
 IBM is on Board of Directors and invented
Embedded Applications
ActivityStrea.ms
 Primary event propagation mechanism for
Social Business
 Contain events and the means to act upon
them in-context (via Embedded applications)
 IBM is lead editor
OAuth
 Delegated Authorization for integration without
federated identity
 Can use a variety of authentication
mechanisms (SAML, etc.)
 Cornerstone for secure authorization in
heterogeneous environments
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Expand Openness in IBM Connections
Bring collaboration to the user's context
SmartCloud
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Example Fraud Alert
Embedded Application
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Embed the Activity
Stream in Other
Contexts
Leverage the activity stream in any
OpenSocial container.
Expose as-is or pin to a specific filter
(i.e. a community)
Uses embedded applications to
enabled full interaction model.
Out of the box integration with IBM
WebSphere Portal & Notes 9.0 Social
Edition.
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Designs Subject to Change

Flexibility of deployment options
Support a large set of system platforms and deployment options
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IBM Connections
Single Codestream Across Cloud and On-Premises
IBM SmartCloud IBM
IBM Connections PureSystems
On-Premises IBM WebSphere
Portal
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IBM Connections Today
The Foundation Platform for Social Business
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Social Networking is Collaboration ...
… leveraging all IBM Connections services:
Profiles - Communities - Files - Wikis - Blogs - Forums - Events
Media Gallery - Ideation Blogs - Activities - Activity Stream
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IBM Connections 4 #hashtag in posts
#hashtag in posts
Be ready to act with up-to-the-minute in- allow for discovery
context views of critical activity in your allow for discovery
network and following of topics
and following of topics
Engaged networks with
Engaged networks with
@ mentions, in-line liking,
@ mentions, in-line liking,
and liking of comments.
and liking of comments.
Intuitive user experience
Intuitive user experience
encourages viral
encourages viral
adoption
adoption
Take action on
Take action on
content without
content without
Switching content
Switching content
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IBM Connections 4
Integrate business applications to promote
fast action around projects and tasks
Action Required view to
Action Required view to
highlight activity requiring
highlight activity requiring
Your attention.
Your attention.
Enhanced notifications
Enhanced notifications
allowing easy follow up
allowing easy follow up
on open conversations
on open conversations Open design allows
Open design allows
combining business
combining business
applications with
applications with
network updates
network updates
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IBM Connections 4
Share and discover ideas and insights
across the organization
Share your current status
Share your current status
or files from across
or files from across
the social tools
the social tools
Search across all
Search across all Discover trending topics
Status updates to Discover trending topics
Status updates to That are happening now
That are happening now
leverage intellectual
leverage intellectual and filter conversations
capital created in these and filter conversations
capital created in these
micro conversations
micro conversations
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IBM Connections 4
Mail and Calendaring integrated
into the Social experience
Integrates with IBM
Integrates with IBM
Notes Or Microsoft®
Notes Or Microsoft®
Exchange to leverage
Exchange to leverage
More easily manage
More easily manage existing investments
existing investments
and share information
and share information
by moving email
by moving email
conversations and
conversations and
content into the social
content into the social
tools
tools
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Socialize content to get answers
and respond faster
Bring multiple communities
Bring multiple communities
Together to monitor and act
Together to monitor and act
On them from a single place
On them from a single place
Capture relevant content
Capture relevant content
from external websites and
from external websites and
bring internal for fast action
bring internal for fast action
and collaboration
and collaboration
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IBM Connections 4
Extended customization in profiles
Custom text controls with
Custom text controls with
phone number validation
phone number validation
Custom multi-select
Custom multi-select
Text & dropdown controls
Text & dropdown controls and radio controls
and radio controls
Rich text control
Rich text control
Custom time & date
Custom time & date
Picker controls with
Picker controls with
Form validation
Form validation
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IBM Connections 4
Extended customization in profiles
 Customize Profile View, Edit,
Business Card, and Search Results
with FreeMarker templates.
 Extend field definitions from
hierarchically defined profile types
 Control if a particular field is editable,
hidden, or indexed for search
 Out of the box form controls + build
your own using any JavaScript
library.
 Support custom layouts with custom
logic (i.e. show if users is in-network)
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IBM Connections 4
Any time anywhere comprehensive
mobile ACCESS
 Comprehensive update of
mobile features
 Device specific gestures (i.e.
sliding drawers vs. split views)
 Improved usability via native
device capabilities
● Camera
● Device contacts
● Open In/Share with the application
● Offline Access
● QR Codes
 Start the mobile app from a Full support for activity
Full support for activity
browser or another mobile app Stream with 3rd party
Stream with 3rd party
events and their
events and their
on the device embedded applications
embedded applications
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IBM Connections 4
Any time anywhere comprehensive
mobile ACCESS
Full support for activity
Full support for activity
Stream with 3rd party
Stream with 3rd party
Simplified Access events and their
events and their
embedded applications
Multiple accounts embedded applications
Default login
Application Customization
Re-brand and theme
Custom service definitions
Custom login form
EULA or information pages
before granting access
Improved security capabilities
Remote account provisioning
Password management
Encryption
Remote wipe & deny access
Build configuration profile
enforcement
Clientless VPN support
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IBM Connections 4
Use Social Analytics to drive
adoption and deepen engagement
Analytics for IBM Connections
Analytics for IBM Connections
services and page views
services and page views
provide reports:
provide reports:
Top contributors
Top contributors
Top content
Top content
Top activities
Top activities
Flexible drill down
Flexible drill down
and data slicing for
and data slicing for
more detailed analysis
more detailed analysis
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IBM Connections 4
Fostering community centric collaboration
Preview files without
downloading
Print and present full
screen directly from
Preview mode
Expanded community
support with Blogs,
Ideation, and Wikis
Native access to files with
your mobile device
http://ibmcloud.com/social
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IBM Connections Tomorrow
Transforming Content with Connections Content Manager
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Content Management is having Control ...
… over all documents and content in an organization:
Documents - Spreadsheets - Presentations - Movies - Photos
Audio - Symphony - PDF - COLD - Images - Reports
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IBM Connections Content Manager
Views*
Views*
Nested
Nested
folders Check in // out
Check in out
folders
documents
documents
Count and sort
Count and sort
by number of
by number of
Likes and
Likes and
Downloads
Downloads
Trash can for
Trash can for
*Views
*Views “soft” delete
“soft” delete
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IBM Connections 4
Where social meets content management
Content Management becomes an +
active part of the social business:
 Fully integrated social features such as
tags, comments, likes, follow, download
count and more.
 Traditional content management features
such as check-in/check-out, approval
routing, nested folders, documents types,
metadata, and more
 Fully integrated into Activity Stream
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Designs Subject to Change

IBM Connections 4 @ mention anyone in private
@ mention anyone in private
Drive the engagement by following messages, including private
messages, including private
conversation easier references to non-members
references to non-members
Quick view of all status
Quick view of all status
updates or comments
updates or comments
targeted @ you
targeted @ you
Filter or search on
Filter or search on
any @ mentions of
any @ mentions of
any user
any user
Follow-up on questions
Follow-up on questions
with a consolidated view
with a consolidated view
of all your @ mentions
of all your @ mentions
directed at others
directed at others
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Community Ideation Manage ideas in a
Manage ideas in a
Harvest and execute ideas faster spreadsheet
spreadsheet
or other product
or other product
Browse new ideas with
the Open Ideas View
Merge duplicates to
streamline voting
Lock comments & votes
on graduated ideas.
Export ideas to CSV
Choose to show new
ideas first by default
Focus participants on
Focus participants on
voting on open ideas
voting on open ideas
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Community Forums Like a forum topic
Like a forum topic
Harvest and execute ideas faster to share it with
to share it with
your followers.
your followers.
Sort to view most
Sort to view most
“liked” topics in a
“liked” topics in a
Forum or across
Forum or across
forums.
forums.
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Designs Subject to Change

Community Surveys/and Polls
Surveys Polls
Powered by Forms Experience Builder
Results shown
Results shown
after submission
after submission
Question-based
Question-based
authoring directly
authoring directly
from Communities
from Communities
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Enhanced Microsoft
Outlook Integration
Your choice of tools
IBM Connections content is
directly accessible from
Outlook
● Share files easily by sending
links instead of attachments
● Drag-n-drop email messages and
attachments directly to the IBM
Connections sidebar
● Receive live updates from your
colleagues, communities and
files
Drag the file right
Drag the file right
Into an email message
Into an email message
To send a link to an
To send a link to an
IBM Connections file.
IBM Connections file.
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Notes 9 Social Edition
Your choice of tools
IBM Connections content is
directly accessible from
Notes 9
Full Activity Stream with
embedded applications as a
tab or in the side-bar
Right click on any email to
view most recent Activity
Stream updates for the
sender
Interact with IBM
Connections' notifications
from your inbox using
embedded applications
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Anytime,
Mobile Apps anyplace access
to your network
Engaging reading experience that
is interactive and customized.
Discover people and information
related to you and your interests
Access important information
offline. Sync data when
reconnected to the network.
Securely browse content in your
activity stream for a quick snapshot
of activity within your network.
Trending topics to filter the stream
for areas of interest.
Expand your social knowledge with
integration from external social
systems (e.g. Twitter, and
Facebook)
Designs subject to change
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SmartCloud Connections Updates
Advancing collaboration in the cloud
Post a status message informing
your network of what you are
doing
Share and personalize Status
Updates and Files using the
share button
Repost interesting content from
your network in one click
Upload images and videos for
viewing inline
Native mobile app updates
Access and upload files via
Windows Explorer and Microsoft
Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
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Delivering a “Social” Web Experience
Inside and outside your organization
Drive greater engagement with
Customers, Partners and
Employees:
 Ability to publish and interact with
Connections social content with IBM Web
Content Manager
● Publish WCM Content to IBM
Connections and other social networks.
● Add any social lists to your page using
WCM designs templates on custom
queries over Connections content.
 Integration of the Activity Stream and
Embedded Applications to enable in-
context business processes
 Expanded Community integration and
portlets in WebSphere Portal
 Navigate users to community pages as a
preferred experience via Connections
email notifications and digests
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Unified APIs for the IBM Social Business Toolkit
Provide exceptional work experience
Embedded
Experiences Share Box
Activity
Streams
New APIs and services designed to help
developers build
unified user experiences
and
consistent extensibility
independent of product, delivery model
Collaboration (cloud, on-premises), and client type
- Communities
- Activities (desktop client, browser, mobile)
- File sharing Unified
- Wikis, forums Communication
- ...
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Open NTF Appathon (Starts February 2013)
 IBM Connections App
Dev - Prizes: $5000
 IBM XPages App Dev -
Prizes: $5000
 Anything leveraging
Connections (social SDK,
OpenSocial, iWidgets,
REST APIs,
customization,
WebSphere, PHP,
XPages, etc.) will be
accepted.
http://appathon.openntf.org
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Come give us feedback on Connections 4.0 and beyond.
Review design prototypes or help us do a usability study. Provide feedback
about document management capabilities, microblogging enhancements and
more. Join us all week in the Design Lab @ Asia 4 in the Dolphin.
Get answers to questions you've always wanted to ask, provide feedback from
your own experience, and make suggestions for new features. Join us all week
in the Meet the Developer Lab @ Asia 1 & Asia 2 in the Dolphin.
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Related Sessions
 AD104 – IBM Connections Activity Stream Integration – Bill Looby & Brian O'Gorman
 AD105 – Customizing and Extending IBM Connections – Vijay Francis & Derek Carr
 CUST119 – Social Business Adoption Needs Social Governance – Jean Balbo
 ID301 – What's New and Coming in IBM Connections – Luis Benitez & David Brooks
 ID302 – What's New in IBM Connections Mobile – Baan Slavens & Edward Shockley
 ID305 – Getting the Most Out of IBM Connections Metrics – Miguel Estrada & Nan Shi
 ID307 – Make Your Microsoft Stack Social with Connections – Baan Slavens & Steve Foley
 ID308 – Social Content Management for IBM Connections – Diane Loomis & Jon Brunn
 INV109 – The Next Steps in Social Software – Jeff Schick
 INV205 – Extending Your Social Network Beyond the Firewall – Brian Pearson & Mac Guidera
 INV209 – 4 Trends Shaping Social Business in 2013 – Sandy Carter
 INV304 – Pardon the Interruption: Social Business Hot Topics – Luis Benitez & Luis Suarez
 INV305 – The Power of Social Software in the Enterprise – Heidi Ambler & Jim Battle
 INV306 – A Compliant Social Business in a Regulated World – René Schimmer & Firas Yasin
 SHOW301 – Becoming a Connections Developer – Rob Novak
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External Resources and Information
New IBM Social Landing Page
http://ibm.com/social
Latest product info, research, podcasts, and
more http://www.ibm.com/lotus/connections
IBM Connections Team Blog
http://ibmsocialsoftware.com
Assets, discussion, and opinion about driving
the adoption of IBM social software
http://www.ibm.com/blogs/socialbusiness
App/Widget Catalog
http://catalog.lotus.com
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Social Business
is not an option
– it's a mandate
Social Business Becoming a Social
transformation Business is easy
delivers real with IBM
business value Connections
Start Your Social Business Journey Now!
ibm.com/social
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