Application Modernization: Where Consumer, Social, and Mobile Converge

Application Modernization: Where
Consumer, Social, and Mobile
Converge
John Beck, Worldwide Notes & Domino Sales, IBM @JhnBck

John Head, Director of Enterprise Collaboration, PSC Group, LLC @johnhead

John Beck
 No, I am not very talented at basketball (that's why I have a job at IBM!).
 “Who am I?” I am responsible for global sales of IBM's messaging portfolio (Notes &
Domino, Traveler, Mobile Connect and Protector)
– Previously, I have held cloud sales, product management, development and support roles within
IBM all focused on the IBM Collaboration Solutions portfolio.
 Working with Notes since R3 in 1995 and managed production Domino environment
on NT Alpha (really!?!).
 Recently moved my family to Wisconsin from Massachusetts (yes it is colder there).
 “Why am I here?” As companies analyze their investments in messaging, they are
realizing the incredible value that Domino applications have to their business and
processes. They are also looking to shift that investment to new access modes and
transform their end user computing environments.
 Follow/contact/link to me:
+1 508.414.0734
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© 2013 IBM Corporation

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PSC consultants specialize in all things IBM Lotus, from infrastructure to administration to development.
PSC Group, LLC is a professional
From health checks to installation to find tuning your applications. Our specialty is in transforming your Notes
services and information technology
consulting firm that understands applications into the next generation of XPages applications. We can modernize your critical business
technology is fundamental in the applications and infuse them with social and mobile functionality.
development of business solutions.
Success is collaboration, creation and
innovation. It’s about taking what a
business does and making it better.

F O U N D E D I N 1 9 9 0

IBM offers a full range of industry leading capabilities to meet the
requirements of any organization

Smarter Workforce Exceptional Customer
IBM Employee Experience Suite Experience
Kenexa Talent Management Suite IBM Customer Experience Suite

IBM Platform for Social Business

Social Networking Social Analytics Social Content Social Integration
IBM Connections IBM Social Analytics Suite IBM Enterprise IBM WebSphere Portal
IBM Notes & Domino Social Edition Content Management IBM Web Content Manager
IBM Sametime

Deployment Options

IBM SmartCloud for Social Business Dedicated Private Cloud On Premises Hybrid

Agenda


Users are demanding modern user interfaces...


...and Domino DELIVERS!


Thousands of enterprises around the globe trust their core
collaborative and business applications to Notes & Domino

Apps “by the
numbers”:
280,000 active


developers

$45m investment by


IBM since 2007

10,000,000 applications


in use
 Discussion databases  Inventory and project management
 Community forums  Process tracking 64,000 developers and

 Document storage and collaboration  Sales force automation 200 projects active in
 Customer relationship management  Product catalogs and price lists
 Help desk and customer support  Billing systems open source community
 Human resources  Audit and assessment


Today's Notes/Domino offers the easiest, fastest and richest
development of Web 2.0 apps


From this... Jacobs eLite 1.0


To this with xPages - Jacobs eLite 2.0


Domino is a Premiere application platform
• Claims heard about why one should move to SharePoint

• SharePoint could easily replace the Rapid Application Development feature set of
Notes/Domino

• SharePoint is self service driven and therefore will need less development
resources than a new Notes/Domino environment
• While in reality

• What most consider to be simple Notes client applications often require moderate to
significant development effort that cannot be done with SharePoint Designer,
instead requiring Visual Studio and .Net development skills

• Complex applications with business logic and workflow are not suitable for
SharePoint and require .Net development and additional Microsoft products to
provide the same level of capability you get in one product (Notes/Domino)


Domino Application Competitive Advantages

 Modernizing your applications for web browsers improves
user experience and avoids cost
 Avoids significant migration costs and development time to re-write
applications
 XPages technology has allowed organizations to rapidly modernize at a
significantly lower (25-40%) cost
 Faster time to value with XPages versus a re-write
 Allows end user desktop simplification by minimizing client deployment
needs delivering apps via web browsers and mobile devices

 Far less expensive to transition to XPages than to rewrite
 Existing business logic preserved
 XPages brings specific mobile controls at no addional cost that are not
present in for competitive platforms like .NET and Force.com
 Delivers offline for rich client usage (not possible on alternate platforms)


What To Do With What You Already Have

 Bring your Notes/Domino client applications to the Web with
XPages!

• Preserves the investment in your current application's data and
business logic while providing a modern Web 2.0 user experience
• Provides browser and mobile access and still allows you to take that
application securely offline with all application logic available using
the Notes rich client
• Expands the reach of your Domino applications to other IBM
platforms like WebSphere Portal and IBM Connections thru
iWidgets and Activity Streams
• Integrate Xpages apps with Sharepoint for Create, Replace,
Update, Delete (CRUD) through web services and Open Data
Protocol (oData)

• Integration • Mobile Enablement
• Workflow • Custom Applications
• Rules Engines • Dashboards
• Collaboration • Process Improvement
• SOA • Agile/Sustainable
• Portals/Websites Architectures

Our Partners


PSC’s real world
experiences
with XPages

“The impact of a consumer
economy on the business
and enterprise
application space”


2013 State of the Application
We are at an application crossroad
- Email has become a commodity
- Domino or Exchange or Google
- Cloud or On Premises or Hybrid

Email and application platforms being broken apart
- New Platforms
- Smartphones are common place
- Tablets are outshipping laptops

The Burning Questions – “What about the Applications?”

What Applications are Your Users Using?

Your users are using this at home …

What Applications are Your Users Using?

And this …

Do you think they really want to use this?

Do you think they want to use this?


And this?


Or this?

I know what your thinking …

Your users aren’t like others.
They use the apps we tell them.
They do all their business
on approved tools.


You're wrong.

More than 50% of business users bypass
internal applications for public tools.

Because the internal tools are:

Too slow
Too restrictive
Not accessible at home
Not on the mobile device
Not Sexy


End Users Expect Modern Applications

• End User expect consumer Web 2.0 Experiences
at work

• End Users will find their own solutions if
applications are not updated

• Corporate IT must modernize or become
irrelevant

How modern are your applications?
PSC’s experience is that once a business application is put to
use, it is rarely updated.

The more line of business the app is, the less care it has
gotten.

Many companies using the same app since late 90s/early
2000s with NO changes.

Have you done an internal application audit?


Existing Domino Application Types

Documents & Enterprise Business
Discussions Applications Applications
40% of total apps 25% of total apps 35% of total apps
Based on Templates Highly transactional Mission Critical
that come with or huge volumes of Organization Unique
Domino data Heavy use of custom
Recommendation: Recommendation: workflow and/or
Move to standard Rebuild on top of security
platforms/apps Enterprise Java, Recommendation:
Update with new .NET or other Move to the web via
XPages Templates technology XPages
from IBM (2011)
Use third party
tool(s)
SmartCloud Engage
Other Offerings
Taken from PSC's Application Modernization White Paper and Presentations

Why XPages?

• ‘Develop Once, Use Multiple Places’ is
finally reality
• Works in Notes Client, Browser, & Mobile
• User base can decide how they want to work,
where they want to work
• Corporate Web Branding easily applied
• Source Code Control (SVN, etc.)
• Most rapid updates of development tool in the
platform ever (ExtLib, etc.)

?
Why XPages?
Performance of modern web applications brought
to the platform
Notes Application XPages Application

• Opening on Server thru • Opening on Server thru
VPN VPN
• ~ 30 to 60 seconds • ~ 6 to 10 seconds
• Opening Replica • Opening Replica
• ~20 seconds • ~ 3 to 5 seconds
• Open in Web Browser
• ~ under 2 seconds

Why XPages?

• XPages is developer friendly
• Notes developers w/ web skills can transition
easily
• Web developers can pick up XPages with
basic Domino training
• New Hires / College Grads can pick up
XPages development with a week of training*
*results may vary

PSC’s Methodology for Application Modernization
using IBM XPages

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01/2
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Samples of PSC’s
XPages Development

These are real world applications

App #1: Notes Client Application

App #1: XPages Application w/ OneUI

App #2: Standard Notes Document Library

App #2: XPages Version of Document Library w/ Custom Theme

• XPages Version

App #4: XPages with Custom Theme
App #6: XPages Application

Transformation through XPages


IBM XWork Server to the Rescue

• Companies who left Notes & Domino for other email platforms
are a perfect target for the IBM XWork server
• Purchase a new IBM XWork server license. No mention of
‘Lotus’ or ‘Notes’
• Focus on the apps, not how or where the system is run
• Success Story


In Summer of 2010, IBM asked PSC
to review a Notes application and
compare modernizing the
application with both
XPages and Microsoft SharePoint.

This is the result of that effort.

Notes Client to XPages – PSC’s Process

1. Take an existing Notes Client Application
2. Catalog the Notes Client Assets
3. Create XPages Application
4. Create Custom Theme
5. Build Mobile Interface
6. Compare with SharePoint application

Existing Notes Application
Document Workflow App

Existing Application Details

• 1 User Form – Agreement
• 4 Dialogs
• 5 System Forms – Keywords, Lookups
• 30 User Views
• 17 System Views
• Workflow & Business Logic
• 20 Agents
• 2 Script Libraries
• Export to Excel for Reporting
• User Interface Elements

XPages Version

XPages Version - Mobile

• Uses the OpenNTF.org
Mobile Controls
Project
• Provides Custom UI for
iPhone and other
mobile devices

XPages User Interface Details

• Created a New XPages Interface
• Created Custom Theme with custom branding
and color scheme
• Only Interface Changes
• Home Page
• Document Workflow Form
• Views
• No changes to Workflow or Business Rules
• Used the XPages Mobile Controls on
OpenNTF.org for iPhone interface

XPages Development Details

• Notes:
• Custom Theme is a one time effort. Can be reused by all
future XPages Applications
• Mobile Controls were created as Custom Controls that can
be reused

Comparing XPages to SharePoint

• Same Notes Client application
• Document tasks to build feature comparable
SharePoint application
• Use SharePoint development best practices
that PSC uses with our customers
• Estimate development costs

SharePoint Development Details

• Create SharePoint Site
• Create Agreement Form & Dialogs
• Create Web Parts & Reports
• Create Keyword Lookup Lists
• Build Windows Workflows (not SharePoint Designer)
• Implement Security – Groups and Building Form Filters
• Build Excel Export
• Move Data using Third-Party Tool
• Create Master Page
• Create iPhone on top of SharePoint Mobile
Extension

SharePoint Development Estimates

SharePoint Development Estimates Notes

• PSC recommends Windows Workflow over
SharePoint Workflow using SharePoint Designer
due to it’s quality and support
• iPhone development would be ASP.NET
development talking to SharePoint Web Services
• Security would use Active Directory Groups and
function by applying Filters to parts of the Form
• Data Export using Third Party tools would include
documents, field data, and attachments
• Master Page Estimate includes colors, corporate
branding, logo, and simple menu changes

Estimates Side by Side

XPages Task Hrs. SharePoint Task Hrs.
XPages User Interface 64 SharePoint Site 4
Custom Theme 16 Main Form 24
Excel Export 8 Web Parts & Reports 16
Mobile XPage 16 Windows Workflow 24
Implement Security 40
Excel Export 8
Move Data 16
Create Master Page 16
Create iPhone Interface 40
Offline ??
Total 104 Total 188

Application Modernization in 2013

• Your users are demanding modern
applications in the workplace
• Smartphones and Tablets will force you to
embrace modern and consumer driven
development platforms and techniques
• XPages is ready to build real-world
production applications
• You don't have to migrate to get Modern and
Mobile

Application Modernization with PSC

PSC views the process of
modernizing application
platforms from a holistic,
enterprise perspective.
Building from our Hub
Services, our AMC provides
extensive services in each of
three critical areas – providing
our clients with a 360o View of
the process.

Your users will work with
applications that match the
experience they have at
home.

You have to decide if they
use your apps
or something else.


Notes/Domino Social Edition – Application Development

Domino Designer 9.0 Social Edition beta
– Server-Side JavaScript debugger
– XPages source editor Content Assist
– New Home Page/Welcome Experience
– New XSP Properties editor
– Xpage source editor Hyperlink navigation with CTRL key
– XSP source editor hover help
XPages runtime in 9.0 Social Edition beta
– 8.5.3 Upgrade Pack 1 plus more integrated to Notes/Domino 8.5.4
– Dojo 1.7.2 with improved support for mobile web applications
– CKEditor 3.6.3 includes support
for iOS 5
– XPages in Notes client (XpiNC) performance enhancements

76 © 2013 IBM Corporation

Notes Social Edition Public Beta - Work smarter with embedded experiences


Extend your Xpages apps to Mobile and Social


Choice and flexibility for devices


XPages in Activity Streams


Let me leave you with the following:

Domino + XPages = OPPORTUNITY


An extensive ecosystem of skilled partners
 OpenNTF
 77K Registered users
 670K visits in '12
 221 Contributions & 132K Downloads in '12
 >100K video views on YouTube
 Reaching out – Stack Overflow & GitHub

 OpenNTF Contests
 3 contests complete; 73 contributors & 102 contributions
 4th Contest underway
 XPages integration with Connections
 Quicktstart Domino & Connections image

 Collaboration Today
 Compilation of current and relevant news for IBM
Collaboration Solutions
 Community curated content
 Community developed XPages app
 REST API for embedding in your own site
 Template source coming to OpenNTF soon


Next steps for Notes/Domino developers

• Learn to use XPages
• It is the strategic direction for N/D application development
• Start from http://xpages.info
• Download ready-to-use libraries and components from
openNTF.org
• XPages Extension Library, Mobile controls, Connections components...
• Invest in learning
• HTML5, CSS
• Mobile platforms
• JavaScript, Dojo, jQuery, Sencha
• Gadgets, iWidgets, OpenSocial


More next steps....

• Start to use Java pervasively
• XPages business logic, agents...

• Discover the power and flexibility of OSGi
• Java tasklets from openNTF, XPages Extensibility API

• Join the IBM Social Business Toolkit Community
• https://greenhouse.lotus.com/communities/community/ibmsocialbusinessto
olkit

• Download the Social Enabler Project
• http://socialenabler.openntf.org/


OpenNTF Appathon (Starts Feburary 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

XPages Books


Summary
• Social Business applications build on our heritage...
• ...but Social Business today demands new types of applications
• Beyond the firewall
• Systems of systems
• Both Cloud and on-premises
• The IBM Social Business Framework enables IBM customers and
partners to capitalize on Social Business opportunities
• All IBM collaboration products are part of the framework
• Big opportunities for general web developers and established Lotus developers, building on
their existing skills
• The new IBM Social Business Toolkit are planned to enable a new class of
unified social capabilities based on the latest born-on-the web open
standards
• Consistent extensibility across products, deployment models and user experiences
• Easy to get started with today's products and cloud developer options


Some Additional Resources

• DeveloperWorks
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/community/wikis.html
• Greenhouse
• https://greenhouse.lotus.com
• openNTF.org
• http://www.openntf.org
• xpages.info
• http://xpages.info
• Videos – Youtube, VideoFest...
• https://greenhouse.lotus.com/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/W6696b8ac7465_
4a5f_9327_94f1a5d82132/page/VideoFest
• Resources also provided by the community
•© 2013 http://xpages.tv/, http://xpagesblog.com/...
IBM Corporation

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