What's New In
IBM Connections 4.5 and
IBM Connections Content Manager 4.5
Luis Benitez | Sr. Product Manager - IBM Connections
@lbenitez
http://www.lbenitez.com
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Agenda
Transforming Content with
Connections Content Manager
IBM Social IBM IBM
Business in Connections Connections New features Resources &
the Market Today 4.5 Key Platform Integrations Information
Tons of demos
Architecture/Install/Admin
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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
1
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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IBM Connections 4.0
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 Highlights
Driving innovation and delivering results
 Take action!
 Add Like, hashtags, pictures, and
search the stream and reshare all
from your microblog post
 Access integrated 3rd party apps
 Drive adoption with @-mentions
 Gather adoption insights from
visual, interactive reports
 Bridge social business with the
social web
 Engage via mobile apps that work
the way you want to
 And so much more!!!
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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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IBM Connections 4.5
Advancing collaboration and discovery: anytime, anywhere!
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IBM Connections 4.5 @ 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
Lock votes on graduated
ideas
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
Share and discover content 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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Activities
Complete projects on time and meet goals
Define custom fields
Define custom fields
as links to
as links to
files // folders
files folders
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Enhanced Editing
Link to Files to drive attention
Pick from personal Files,
Pick from personal Files,
community Files,
community Files,
or upload a new one
or upload a new one
Select to link to one of
Select to link to one of
your existing Files
your existing Files
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Updated Mobile Apps
Interact with your network anytime, anywhere
● On-Premises
● SmartCloud
● Communities
● @mentions
● Files
● Inline Liking
● Forums
● Two Factor Authentication
● Bookmarks
● People Support (Android)
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System Platform Support
Your choice of deployment
Now requires WebSphere v8
New support for:
 DB2 v10.1
 Oracle 11.2.0.3
 Siteminder 12
 iSeries 6.1/7.1
 SAML v2 (post GA)
 RedHat Server (RHEL) 6.3
 RedHat Desktop 5.8/6.3
 SuSE Desktop v11 SP2
 Chrome and Firefox (latest and greatest)
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IBM Connections Content Manager 4.5
Evolving Social Collaboration with Content
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Content Management is having Control ...
… over all documents and content in an organization:
Check-in/out
Versioning
Nested Folders
Approval Routing
Metadata
Documents - Spreadsheets - Presentations - Movies - Photos
Audio - Symphony - PDF - Images - Reports
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IBM Connections Content
Manager
Document management in your social platform
IBM Connections Content Manager
(CCM) provides a rich social content
and document experience inside IBM
Connections Communities
● CCM is an add-on to IBM Connections
● Fully integrated social features, e.g., tags,
likes, download count, following
● Traditional content management features
e.g. check in/out, approval routing, nested
folders, document types, full-text and
metadata search
● Fully integrated into Activity Stream
● Provides a migration tool for documents in
a Quickr Document Library to be moved
into CCM
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Demonstration
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IBM Connections Content
Manager
Document management in your social platform
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
#IBMConnections Trash can for
Trash can for
*Views
*Views “soft” delete
“soft” delete
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IBM Connections Content
Manager
Document management in your social platform
Breadcrumb trail
Create, re-use,
remove tags
Like a document
Threaded
comments, keeping
version context
Document type
and custom
metadata
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IBM Connections Content
Manager
Document management in your social platform
Draft is only
available to author
or reviewer
Approved versions
and current drafts
are displayed
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Customization Capabilities
Built on the IBM Connections Foundation
 Connections
● Theme and UI (CCM inherits
Connections themes)
● Activity Stream
● Community widgets
 Connections Content Manager
● Document Types and Views
● APIs *
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* Some APIs may require additional licenses

Augment your community
with apps
Integrate with powerful, value-add services
Another application
in a widget
Connections
Community
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OpenNTF Appathon
Built on the IBM Connections Foundation
 IBM Connections App
Dev - Prizes: $5000
 IBM XPages App Dev -
Prizes: $5000
 Started February 2013
 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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Document types and
metadata
Enforce a consistent data structure to create a
single version of the truth
Admin defines and governs types via admin UI End user fills in required metadata
Document types
follow inheritance
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Get ready to deploy!
Resources
Where to learn more
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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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