IBM Connections Cloud Application Development Strategy

© 2015 IBM Corporation
Drive Innovation by Connecting Your
Collaboration and Data Applications in
the Cloud - #1244
Heidi Ambler
Director of Offering Management for ESS Technologies
@heidi_ambler
Luis Benitez
Manager, Social & Mobile Technologies
@Lbenitez
October 26, 2015

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Please Note:
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IBM Connections Cloud Overview
Industry Trends and Market Information
Next Steps
Building Apps with IBM Connections Cloud

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Two – thirds
of enterprises
plan to increase their
investment in social
over the next two
years.

4
67%
of leading social
adopters have
accelerated the
speed at which they
innovate.

IBM Connections Cloud
Overview

Mobile
Social
Cloud
Analytics
Security
Focus for Enterprise Social Solutions
Evolution of Collaboration

A Fully Integrated Collaborative Experience
 All the tools you need to
collaborate, communicate and
coordinate
 Pick and choose the
capabilities that work for your
environment
 Integrated Web Experience
 Rich mobile applications
 Extensible and Open
Architecture
 Delivered in the cloud, on
premises or hybrid

Where the Battleground Is …
Most products now offer
robust activity streams, blogs, wikis,
and profiles and the
battleground for differentiation
has moved to
analytics, integration, and partner
ecosystems
Source: Forrester Wave for Enterprise Social Software Q2 2014

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IBM Enterprise Social Solutions
Application Development Strategy

What is IBM Bluemix
Bluemix is an open-standards, cloud-based platform for building, running,
and managing applications.
Build your apps, your way
Use the most prominent
compute technologies to power
your app: Cloud Foundry,
Docker, OpenStack.
Extend apps with services
A catalog of IBM, third party,
and open source services allow
the developer to stitch an
application together quickly.
Scale more than just
instances
Development, monitoring,
deployment, and logging tools
allow the developer to run and
manage the entire application.
Layered Security
IBM secures the platform and
infrastructure and provides you
with the tools to secure your apps.
Deploy and manage hybrid apps
seamlessly
Get a seamless dev and management
experience across a number of hybrid
implementations options.
Flexible Pricing
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only for what you use. Pay as you go
and subscription models offer choice
and flexibility.
Coming
Summer
2015

What is IBM Cloud marketplace
IBM Cloud marketplace is the IBM digital channel for all things cloud
• Self-service model for the new buyer – new to IBM and already engaged with IBM, startups to the
enterprise – to navigate and search for stand-alone, integrated and add on services relevant to their
specific needs
• A single user experience to discover, learn, try, buy, adopt and advocate hundreds of IBM and partner
IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and BPaaS, including hybrid environments
Deliver trusted,
enterprise features
• Enterprise-grade cloud platform
• Open integration including pre-built
partner integration with APIs
• Hybrid options to enable enterprise
integration, a composable business
Infuse IBM expertise
• Relevant, helpful, search-optimized content
for business professionals, developers and
IT leaders
• Industry best practices and “how-to” offering
content and assets based on IBM client
experience
• Solutions and solution scenarios to help
guide IT and LOB leaders
• Unified cloud naming, messages and
portfolio
Serve up a world class
partner ecosystem
• Emerging and key tech partners via open
invitation and targeted recruitment
• Must qualify for inclusion: run on or be
deployable to SoftLayer®, integrate with
an IBM premium platform service, or
integrate with or extend our SaaS
offerings
• Favorable to complement key solution
scenarios

The Enterprise Social Solutions (ESS)
Application Development Strategy
 Entice developers / partners to use IBM Connections cloud by
creating a compelling open and extensible platform.
 Embrace IBM Developer programs (e.g. IBM Bluemix) to drive
developers to create, build and manage new socially enabled
applications using IBM Connections Cloud services.
 Promote ISVs who can provide complimentary solutions and / or
solutions that help address specific customer needs.

How It All Comes Together
Connections Cloud
IBM Verse
SmartCloud Notes
Communities
Activities
Profiles
Files
Blogs
Wikis
Forums
Docs
Domino
Hosted managed service
Catalog
Developer Customer
Administrator
End user

Connections Cloud
IBM Verse
SmartCloud Notes
Communities
Activities
Profiles
Files
Blogs
Wikis
Forums
Docs
Domino
Bluemix
Catalog
Developer Customer
Administrator
End user
Builds app for ….
API access

Connections Cloud
IBM Verse
SmartCloud Notes
Communities
Activities
Profiles
Files
Blogs
Wikis
Forums
Docs
Domino
Bluemix
Catalog
Developer Customer
Administrator
End user
Builds app for ….
Apps published to catalog
API access

Connections Cloud
IBM Verse
SmartCloud Notes
Communities
Activities
Profiles
Files
Blogs
Wikis
Forums
Docs
Domino
Bluemix
Catalog
Developer Customer
Administrator
End user
Builds app for ….
API access
User / Admin
discovers App
App discovery

Connections Cloud
IBM Verse
SmartCloud Notes
Communities
Activities
Profiles
Files
Blogs
Wikis
Forums
Docs
Domino
Bluemix
Catalog
Developer Customer
Administrator
End user
Builds app for ….
API access
User / Admin
discovers App
User / Admin
provision & use App
User / Admin
access App
Migrate on-premises
Domino apps to cloud
App discovery
App access

Developer Ecosystem Overview
The developer ecosystem adds value to the IBM
Connections Cloud portfolio in a variety of different ways;
• Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) / Strategic Partners
• OEMs
• Business Partner Resellers
• Corporate IT
And more …

Building Apps for IBM
Connections

Existing Capabilities
• Replacing Logos and Theme
• Extension Points
- Apps Menu
- Profiles Person and Contact Records
- File Details
- New File
- Activity Stream Event Embedded Experience for Cloud
• Adding IBM Connections Cloud Navigation Header / Footer to your
own App
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Customizable Logos and Themes
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Customizable Contacts Links
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Activity Stream and 3rd Party Integration
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Activity Stream and 3rd Party Integration
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Adding the Connections Cloud banner to
partner applications
Go from this…
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…to this:
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In 3 simple steps:
1.Add the following before the closing body tag in your web app
<script
src="https://apps.na.collabserv.com/navbar/banner/partner/navB
ar?oneui=3" type=“text/javascript"></script>
2.Add the following to the head tag
<link href="http://apps.na.collabserv.com/theming/theme/css/3"
rel="stylesheet" type=“text/css"></link>
3.Add the following CSS classes to your opening body tag
<body class="lotusui30 lotusui30_body lotusui30_fonts
scloud3">
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Customizable Mobile
Navigation and Configuration
Mobile Navigation and Configuration
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AppFusions Puts It All Together
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Bluemix is an open-standards,
cloud-based platform for building,
running, and managing
applications.
Bringing The Power of Domino To The IBM Cloud
• Developers can realize the next generation of Domino LOB applications
 New types of cloud based applications that use Bluemix services like Watson, mobile,
analytics, social files and more....
• Leverage your investment in Notes & Domino apps
 Easier path to modernized applications
 Integrate your on-premises applications with hybrid architecture
• Opportunities for Business Partners
 New routes to market for ISVs, migration and modernization services….
+
Domino is a Rapid Application
Development & Deployment platform for
custom Line-of-Business applications

Domino Comes to Bluemix!
Experimental services now available
• Bluemix Runtime: IBM XPages Runtime
• Bluemix Service: IBM XPages NoSQL Database
• Bluemix Boilerplate: XPages/Domino Database starter
kit with samples to quickly get up and running
• Domino Designer extensions: Build & deploy to Bluemix

IBM Connections Cloud Example on Bluemix
Social File Sharing
• IBM Social File Sharing
 Service Brokers on Bluemix
 Targeting Java runtimes
• Sample App
 Using Social features when sharing photos
• Value
 Automatic provisioning and de-provisioning
of organization and users
 Guidance, examples and documentation
geared towards development of cloud
based social applications

New Extensibility Architecture
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Extensibility Overview
1. Builds on existing Declarative UI extensions in Connections Cloud
2. New AppRegistry component introduces multi-tenant flexibility to allow
individual organizations to deploy additional extensions, specify what they
extend and configure how they behave
3. Communities new Apps feature is first component making use of AppRegistry
4. Partners can extend and add value without incurring multiple deployments or
challenges related to new releases of Connections Cloud
5. Investments in extensibility in Cloud typically carry to on premises
deployments
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Extensibility Personas and Roles
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Vincent Carlos Vijay Kelly
IBM (Dev) Imaginnado (Dev) Greenwell admin Greenwell user
• Codes, Exposes
and Documents
extension points
inside Component
• Discovers and
learns extension
points
• Creates extensions
/ apps for them
• Deploys extensions
/ apps for specific
extension points
• Configures
extensions
• Uses extensions /
Apps as part of
integrated
experience

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Vincent
IBM (Dev)
• Codes, Exposes
and documents
extension points
inside Component
Extension
Point
Exposes
Extension Contract
Extension
Declaration
Extension
Protocol
Behavior as configured by Org Admin
What extension point tells
Extension/App
What extension/App tells extension
host Component

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Carlos
Imaginnado (Dev)
• Discovers and
learns extension
points
• Creates Extension
Apps for them
Extension
Point
Extension
App
Renders
Uses
Extension Contract
Extension
Declaration
Extension
Protocol
Extension/App
host Component
Exposes

Extension Contract
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Vijay
Greenwell admin
• Deploys extensions
apps for specific
extension points
• Configures
extensions
Extension
Declaration
Extension
Protocol
Extension/App
host Component
Extension
Point
Extension
App
Exposes
Renders
Uses

Extension Contract
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Kelly
Greenwell user
• Uses extensions /
Apps as part of
integrated
experience
Extension
Declaration
Extension
Protocol
Extension/App
host Component
Extension
Point
Extension
App
Exposes
Renders
Uses

3rd Party Apps in Communities
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Surfacing 3rd Party Apps in IBM Connections
Communities
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• Third-party content is surfaced through a new App named the
"Url Widget" provided out-of-the box on Connections
Communities Cloud:
• The body of the Url Widget is an iFrame surfacing a web
page from a specific url
• The organization administrator can configure one of more
instances of the Url Widget

Programatic App/Extension Deployment Steps
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• Obtain and configure AppExtension declaration and store in file
• Register AppExtension using HTTP POST API
URL: <SC host>/appregistry/api/v1/extensions
Header: Content-Type: application/json
Content (body): The content of the file created in step 1.
• Community Owners should now see the App in the “Add Apps” menu
• Optional:
• Verify AppExtension was successfully registered (get all extension IDs)
URL: <SC host>/appregistry/api/v1/extensions/
• Remove AppExtension using HTTP DELETE
URL: <SC host>/appregistry/api/v1/extension/<id>
Extension
Declaration

Development of Community App
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• General approach
1.App code should be implemented in the form of a webpage that is deployed, hosted and
managed by the owner of the App. (IBM Bluemix is an excellent venue for this)
2.The extension point in IBM Connections Communities surfaces the 3rd party App in an
iFrame sandboxed via HTML 5 sandbox attribute.
3.The App communicates with Communities via message passing to receive context
• The contextual data are passed to the 3rd party web page loaded in the iFrame
inside the URL Widget through an object in JSON format defined as follows:
{
userData: {<userData>},
source: {<sourceInformation>},
extraContent: {<community-specific data>}
}
Extension
App
Extension
Point

Contextual information available to the 3rd party
App
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▪ UserData
– userId User's unique id
– orgId User's organizations id
– email User's email address
– displayName User's display name
▪ Source
– resourceId Community's id
– resourceName Community's name
– resourceOrganizationId Community's owning organization
– resourceType Type of the resource
(*community" in the case of widget running in Community)
▪ extraContent: (additional data that are specific to Communities)
– canContribute Determines whether the logged-in user can contribute content
– canPersonalize Determines whether the logged-in user can personalize the content
Extension
Protocol

Contextual information available to the 3rd party
content (cont)
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▪ Context is passed through a postMessage event. event.data contains the JSON object with the contextual information
described above. The 3rd party webpage can intercept the event as follows (using example on North America data
center ):
▪ The 3rd party content must "ask" Connections to send the contextual information through a postMessage event with the
text value "appReady".
parent.postMessage("appReady", "*");
▪ Note that postMessage is only supported on HTML5 browser, meaning that the Url widget in Communities is only
supported on such browsers.
window.addEventListener('message', function(event) {
if (event.origin === “https://apps.na.collabserv.com") {
// event.data contains the full context
console.log("Running in community named " + event.data.source.resourceId);
}
}, false);
Extension
Protocol

Social Business Breakout Sessions
Session
Number
Title Speaker Date / Time Location
BSS-1244 Drive innovation by connecting your
collaboration and data apps in the Cloud
Luis Benitez / Heidi
Ambler
Mon, Oct 26th,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
Mandalay Bay SCC,
Level 2, Breakers L
BSS-1259 Adopting Cloud with Confidence: Taming
the Regulatory Dragons
David Dutcher / David
Durazzano
Mon, Oct 26th, 4-5pm Mandalay Bay SCC,
Level 2, Breakers L
BSS-1215 Accelerating Social Adoption Through
Deeper Engagement and Transparency
to Insights
Suzanne Livingston,
Clients TBD
Tues, Oct 27th, 1-2pm Mandalay Bay SCC,
Level 2, Lagoon AB
BSS-1260 Driving mobile, data- and analytics-rich
employee engagement
Heidi Ambler, Luis
Benitez
Tues, Oct 27th, 4-5pm Mandalay Bay SCC,
Level 2, Breakers L
SUP-4053 Technology Transcendence: giving your
collaboration tools a brain
Jason Silva / Rob
Koplowitz
Weds, Oct 28th, 1-
2pm
Mandalay Bay, South
Seas Ballroom F
BSS-1274 Reimagine the Way You Work: The
Next-Generation Mail and Social
Experience
Rene Schimmer,
Andy Yiu
Weds, Oct 28th, 2:30-
3:30pm
Mandalay Bay SCC,
Level 2, Breakers L
BSS-3635 Deliver Content Quickly and Safely:
Secure Your Social Content with IBM
Connections Cloud
Luis Benitez / Jim
Puckett
Weds, Oct 28th, 4-
5pm
Mandalay Bay SCC,
Level 2, Breakers L

Resources
IBM Connections Cloud Trial - http://ibmcloud.com/social
Request pre-production access – http://bit.ly/RequestCA1
API Documentation - http://bit.ly/ConnectionsAPIs
Start building your apps - http://developer.ibm.com/social

Summary
Social, Messaging,
Unified
Communications &
Collaboration in a
single experience
Securely
collaborate
internally &
externally
effortlessly
All supported in a
variety of
deployment
choices
IBM Delivers A Fully Integrated Social Business Platform

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