You are lucky, your Connections platform is experiencing rapid growth – now what? How to you determine when you have grown to where you need to build out the service? How do you grow WebSphere or the File Service Space? How do you add additional Web Servers or is it better to add a proxy server? Learn how to judge and decide what you need to change – and how to then implement it.
Are You Ready for an Alternative in Application Development?LetsConnect
You and I have been developing applications with the Domino Designer for most of their professional lives. Are we ready for an alternative? Have a look at the Forms Experience Builder. See an introduction to FEB and learn how the Forms Experience Builder compares to the Domino Designer with respect to
– Forms
– Notifications
– Approval Workflows
– Access Management
– Views & Reports
– Cross Browser & Mobile Support
– Data Limitations
– Advanced Programming
– Application Management
– Hardware Requirements
– Cloud Availability
The results will be suprising.
IDI103 - What is New in IBM Connections - IBM ConnectED 2015Luis Benitez
Presented at IBM ConnectED 2015 . Abstract: IBM Connections provides the platform of social tools you need to transform your organization into a social business. IBM Connections enables you to reach your customers and partners faster, drive innovation, share content and expertise, and complete work faster. In this session, we'll describe what's new in IBM Connections and highlight the new features being planned for the next release. See first hand how IBM Connections can work for you!
What is new in IBM Connections 5.5 and IBM Docs 2.0Luis Benitez
This deck covers the highlights of the new capabilities introduced in the IBM Docs 2.0 and IBM Connections 5.5 released on December 2015.
To learn more, go to http://ibm.com/social
Follow me:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lbenitez
LinkedIn: http://pr.linkedin.com/in/luisbenitez
My Blog: http://www.lbenitez.com
IBM Connections Cloud & IBM Docs: Working securely and quickly with contentLuis Benitez
Are you struggling to manage your unstructured social content? Imagine combining the power of social and real-time document collaboration with ECM-grade native repositories and document management to help. This session will explore the benefits of online editors like IBM Docs that help to improve productivity and reduce the review and rework cycles associated with team-based business documents. Discover how to extend your content management strategy to include social documents and files by complementing it with a rich enterprise social network provided by IBM Connections Cloud.
IBM Connections Cloud Application Development StrategyLuis Benitez
This session will help you get started building your social applications. IBM Connections Cloud S1 provides easy to access integrated email with IBM Verse, social business capabilities and third party applications. It also provides a solid foundation for social and mail application development through APIs. This session guides users through the application development process for IBM Connections Cloud, from a blank page to a functional application. Attend this session to learn how to use existing services in your own applications and how to deploy to IBM Bluemix. Bluemix developers who haven't used IBM Connections can use a new Bluemix service to get started using these services within minutes.
What's New in IBM Connections Social Cloud - Q2 2016Luis Benitez
This deck summarizes the new features in IBM Connections Social Cloud that were delivered in the Q2 2016 release. For more information, check out http://ibmcloud.com/social
Follow me:
http://twitter.com/lbenitez
http://youtube.com/lbenitez3000
IBM Connections 4.5 CR2 Installation - From Zero To Social Hero - 2.02 - with...Frank Altenburg
IBM Connections 4.5 setup can be fast, smooth and easy when you know what you are doing. And I will show you how.
With this presentation I want to prove, that it is possible to install an IBM Connections 4.5 "Proof-Of-Concept" setup very quickly.
You can install and configure all the new IBM Connections 4.5 components : DB2 Server, IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator, IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS), IBM HTTP Server, IBM COgnos, IBM Connections Content Manager and IBM Connections. This new version (2.01) does not contain any integration like Social Mail and Sametime. This is now separated in a separate document "IBM Connections 4.5 Integration - From Zero To Social Hero" This document now contains the CR1 update.
This is a place holder only. the full document can be downloaded from IBM Greenhouse (after your registration)
What's new for Existing Customers in Connections 5.0Albert Nichols
A presentation that covers new features for existing customers in the newest release of IBM Connections. This deck covers all the social business tools and features in IBM Connections that will take your business to the next leve
Are You Ready for an Alternative in Application Development?LetsConnect
You and I have been developing applications with the Domino Designer for most of their professional lives. Are we ready for an alternative? Have a look at the Forms Experience Builder. See an introduction to FEB and learn how the Forms Experience Builder compares to the Domino Designer with respect to
– Forms
– Notifications
– Approval Workflows
– Access Management
– Views & Reports
– Cross Browser & Mobile Support
– Data Limitations
– Advanced Programming
– Application Management
– Hardware Requirements
– Cloud Availability
The results will be suprising.
IDI103 - What is New in IBM Connections - IBM ConnectED 2015Luis Benitez
Presented at IBM ConnectED 2015 . Abstract: IBM Connections provides the platform of social tools you need to transform your organization into a social business. IBM Connections enables you to reach your customers and partners faster, drive innovation, share content and expertise, and complete work faster. In this session, we'll describe what's new in IBM Connections and highlight the new features being planned for the next release. See first hand how IBM Connections can work for you!
What is new in IBM Connections 5.5 and IBM Docs 2.0Luis Benitez
This deck covers the highlights of the new capabilities introduced in the IBM Docs 2.0 and IBM Connections 5.5 released on December 2015.
To learn more, go to http://ibm.com/social
Follow me:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lbenitez
LinkedIn: http://pr.linkedin.com/in/luisbenitez
My Blog: http://www.lbenitez.com
IBM Connections Cloud & IBM Docs: Working securely and quickly with contentLuis Benitez
Are you struggling to manage your unstructured social content? Imagine combining the power of social and real-time document collaboration with ECM-grade native repositories and document management to help. This session will explore the benefits of online editors like IBM Docs that help to improve productivity and reduce the review and rework cycles associated with team-based business documents. Discover how to extend your content management strategy to include social documents and files by complementing it with a rich enterprise social network provided by IBM Connections Cloud.
IBM Connections Cloud Application Development StrategyLuis Benitez
This session will help you get started building your social applications. IBM Connections Cloud S1 provides easy to access integrated email with IBM Verse, social business capabilities and third party applications. It also provides a solid foundation for social and mail application development through APIs. This session guides users through the application development process for IBM Connections Cloud, from a blank page to a functional application. Attend this session to learn how to use existing services in your own applications and how to deploy to IBM Bluemix. Bluemix developers who haven't used IBM Connections can use a new Bluemix service to get started using these services within minutes.
What's New in IBM Connections Social Cloud - Q2 2016Luis Benitez
This deck summarizes the new features in IBM Connections Social Cloud that were delivered in the Q2 2016 release. For more information, check out http://ibmcloud.com/social
Follow me:
http://twitter.com/lbenitez
http://youtube.com/lbenitez3000
IBM Connections 4.5 CR2 Installation - From Zero To Social Hero - 2.02 - with...Frank Altenburg
IBM Connections 4.5 setup can be fast, smooth and easy when you know what you are doing. And I will show you how.
With this presentation I want to prove, that it is possible to install an IBM Connections 4.5 "Proof-Of-Concept" setup very quickly.
You can install and configure all the new IBM Connections 4.5 components : DB2 Server, IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator, IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS), IBM HTTP Server, IBM COgnos, IBM Connections Content Manager and IBM Connections. This new version (2.01) does not contain any integration like Social Mail and Sametime. This is now separated in a separate document "IBM Connections 4.5 Integration - From Zero To Social Hero" This document now contains the CR1 update.
This is a place holder only. the full document can be downloaded from IBM Greenhouse (after your registration)
What's new for Existing Customers in Connections 5.0Albert Nichols
A presentation that covers new features for existing customers in the newest release of IBM Connections. This deck covers all the social business tools and features in IBM Connections that will take your business to the next leve
IBM Collaboration Mobile Strategy and a New Way To workLuis Benitez
How can your data and analytics platforms and strategies keep up with a workplace that is ever more mobile and social? IBM can support not only your emerging data and analytics strategies, but connect them with the social and mobile tools people use every day. In this session, you will learn how an IBM collaborative mobile strategy can extend and transform your enterprise. You will see how mobile applications like IBM Connections and IBM Verse can drive employee productivity while they are on the go, by enabling them to use mobile social apps that tap into your enterprise data and analytics platforms.
What’s New in IBM Connections 4.5 and IBM Connections Content ManagerLuis Benitez
Presentation that I gave at the IBM Collaboration Solutions highlighting the new features of IBM Connections 4.5 and IBM Connections Content Manager 4.5
IBM InterConnect 2015 - What is New in IBM Connections 2015Luis Benitez
Presented at IBM InterConnect 2015 #ibminterconnect , this deck summarizes what's available in the latest release of IBM Connections and what's coming in the future. It's inclusive of deliveries in the cloud (following our cloud-first model) and updates to our mobile app and desktop plugins.
A preview of some of the newest features that are now part of IBM Connections 4.0. To watch the recorded session for this, check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gki2vlfTgyU
How to upload a file to an IBM Connections.Cloud Community using the Plugins ...Gavin Bollard
The IBM Connections plugins for Microsoft Office 2013 were updated in April 2016. Here's an walk-through tutorial of them in action uploading from Excel to an IBM Connections Community.
IBM Filenet Content Navigator + IBM Docs screen demoBrian Pearson
A short sample of screens showing how IBM Docs is now integrated into IBM FileNet Content Navigator. IBM Docs brings real time (and asynchronous) multi person browser based editing to the Filenet tools base.
What's New in IBM Connections Social Cloud - Q1 2015Luis Benitez
This presentation covers the new features that were delivered to the IBM Connections Social Cloud offering in the Q1 2015 releases. To learn more, go to http://ibmcloud.com/social
Even in the Cloud you need to manage your IBM Connections Cloud environment. This presentation will explain the key tasks for IBM Connections Cloud Administration especially around User Management. We will discuss the challenges and the best practices approach to integrate and sync with your enterprise directories using IBM Integration Server.
IBM SmartCloud Connections Overview - Q2 2014Luis Benitez
This presentation provides an overview of the features available in IBM SmartCloud Connections, which has the social business tools you need to work with colleagues, customers, and partners, including file sharing, instant messaging, and communities. To learn more, go to http://ibmcloud.com/social
IBM Messaging and Collaboration Roadmap - Notes and Domino update - December ...Ed Brill
An update on IBM's Messaging and Collaboration software solutions, including IBM Notes and Domino 9.0 Social Edition and other updates and innovations.
IBM Connect 2016: 1402 - Getting Technically Cozy with IBM Connections Cloud ...David Simpson
From setting up your development environment to shipping a great new app for your IBM Connections Cloud instance, this session shows you how to achieve all that and more. We define and review a baseline project with basic scaffold code, including a structured layout, events, modules, package conventions, functional skeletons for streams, embedded experiences, apps interactions, native UI/UX dialogs, buttons, and more. We review best practice tips and "gotcha" areas, and provide detailed examples.
Full code samples available at:
https://github.com/dvdsmpsn/ibm-connect-2016-examples/
What's New in IBM SmartCloud Connections - May 2014Luis Benitez
This presentation provides an overview of the new features coming to IBM SmartCloud Connections, which has the social business tools you need to work with colleagues, customers, and partners, including file sharing, file sync, instant messaging, and communities. To learn more, go to http://ibmcloud.com/social
IBM Connections 4.0 Installation From Zero To Social Hero - 1.03 with AD LDAPFrank Altenburg
IBM Connections 4.0 setup can be fast, smooth and easy when you know what you are doing. And I will show you how.
With this presentation I want to prove, that it is possible to install an IBM Connections 4.0 "Proof-Of-Concept" setup very quickly.
You can install and configure all the new IBM Connections 4.0 components : DB2 Server, IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator, IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS), IBM HTTP Server and IBM Connections. This version of the Presentation works with Microsoft Active Directory as LDAP.
IBM Connections enables you to connect and socialize with colleagues, find experts, and quickly share and organize information to get work done. As a developer, you can leverage the IBM Connections data to provide a better experience for your users. In this session, you learn what features you can extend, leverage and use to build a compelling experience. The session highlights how best to extend and work with the IBM Connections Cloud.
Updated file adds pointers to other sessions throughout the week.
What’s Coming in IBM Connections Next? LetsConnect
IBM Connections Next is around the corner and we would like to give you the close up view of all the new capabilities. IBM Connections has been the market leader for Enterprise Social Platforms for six years in a row now, see and learn how we continue to make a great product even better.
Many new features focus on added productivity, streamlined interaction and an overall updated experience.
From Social What to Social WOW! How to design social user experiences that ma...LetsConnect
Do you have a sense of how Social can impact your organization but do not know how to turn that into into motivations for employees? Or you are struggling to get your executives and sponsors behind your adoption of Connections?
Using IBM Design Thinking, this session will introduce audience members to key concepts to understanding business users, what they need, feel and really wan to do. We then will turn those user needs into tangible Social “use cases” to onboard users and launch the adoption of your Social transformation. This approach relies on generating big ideas and converging on solutions that matter to real users and to the business. We discuss the role of Agile in the context of adoption and apply all of this to IBM Connections and Connections Cloud business cases.
Come hear the secrets of our user-centric approach that helps you inspire your organization to leverage social for things matter and drive outcomes.
How TELUS used collaboration to change our culture and drive business results LetsConnect
In this 30-minute deep dive, attendees will learn how a culture of collaboration helped TELUS transform how we supported customers, employees and drove business outcomes. Instead of positioning collaborative technology as the solution, TELUS worked to change the culture by introducing the behaviors and leadership model needed to truly become an organization that shared information and expertise across the enterprise.
Regardless of location (TELUS has 44K employees in 8 countries), role or tenure, TELUS team members were expected to demonstrate spirited team work. The deployment of collaborative technologies helped support the evolution from a closed, hierarchical model to a open, transparent culture where employees were empowered to help their peers and customers, develop their own career and
The results speak volumes – employee engagement went from 53%-87%, customer likelihood to recommend jumped 20% and share price more than doubled since 2010.
IBM Collaboration Mobile Strategy and a New Way To workLuis Benitez
How can your data and analytics platforms and strategies keep up with a workplace that is ever more mobile and social? IBM can support not only your emerging data and analytics strategies, but connect them with the social and mobile tools people use every day. In this session, you will learn how an IBM collaborative mobile strategy can extend and transform your enterprise. You will see how mobile applications like IBM Connections and IBM Verse can drive employee productivity while they are on the go, by enabling them to use mobile social apps that tap into your enterprise data and analytics platforms.
What’s New in IBM Connections 4.5 and IBM Connections Content ManagerLuis Benitez
Presentation that I gave at the IBM Collaboration Solutions highlighting the new features of IBM Connections 4.5 and IBM Connections Content Manager 4.5
IBM InterConnect 2015 - What is New in IBM Connections 2015Luis Benitez
Presented at IBM InterConnect 2015 #ibminterconnect , this deck summarizes what's available in the latest release of IBM Connections and what's coming in the future. It's inclusive of deliveries in the cloud (following our cloud-first model) and updates to our mobile app and desktop plugins.
A preview of some of the newest features that are now part of IBM Connections 4.0. To watch the recorded session for this, check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gki2vlfTgyU
How to upload a file to an IBM Connections.Cloud Community using the Plugins ...Gavin Bollard
The IBM Connections plugins for Microsoft Office 2013 were updated in April 2016. Here's an walk-through tutorial of them in action uploading from Excel to an IBM Connections Community.
IBM Filenet Content Navigator + IBM Docs screen demoBrian Pearson
A short sample of screens showing how IBM Docs is now integrated into IBM FileNet Content Navigator. IBM Docs brings real time (and asynchronous) multi person browser based editing to the Filenet tools base.
What's New in IBM Connections Social Cloud - Q1 2015Luis Benitez
This presentation covers the new features that were delivered to the IBM Connections Social Cloud offering in the Q1 2015 releases. To learn more, go to http://ibmcloud.com/social
Even in the Cloud you need to manage your IBM Connections Cloud environment. This presentation will explain the key tasks for IBM Connections Cloud Administration especially around User Management. We will discuss the challenges and the best practices approach to integrate and sync with your enterprise directories using IBM Integration Server.
IBM SmartCloud Connections Overview - Q2 2014Luis Benitez
This presentation provides an overview of the features available in IBM SmartCloud Connections, which has the social business tools you need to work with colleagues, customers, and partners, including file sharing, instant messaging, and communities. To learn more, go to http://ibmcloud.com/social
IBM Messaging and Collaboration Roadmap - Notes and Domino update - December ...Ed Brill
An update on IBM's Messaging and Collaboration software solutions, including IBM Notes and Domino 9.0 Social Edition and other updates and innovations.
IBM Connect 2016: 1402 - Getting Technically Cozy with IBM Connections Cloud ...David Simpson
From setting up your development environment to shipping a great new app for your IBM Connections Cloud instance, this session shows you how to achieve all that and more. We define and review a baseline project with basic scaffold code, including a structured layout, events, modules, package conventions, functional skeletons for streams, embedded experiences, apps interactions, native UI/UX dialogs, buttons, and more. We review best practice tips and "gotcha" areas, and provide detailed examples.
Full code samples available at:
https://github.com/dvdsmpsn/ibm-connect-2016-examples/
What's New in IBM SmartCloud Connections - May 2014Luis Benitez
This presentation provides an overview of the new features coming to IBM SmartCloud Connections, which has the social business tools you need to work with colleagues, customers, and partners, including file sharing, file sync, instant messaging, and communities. To learn more, go to http://ibmcloud.com/social
IBM Connections 4.0 Installation From Zero To Social Hero - 1.03 with AD LDAPFrank Altenburg
IBM Connections 4.0 setup can be fast, smooth and easy when you know what you are doing. And I will show you how.
With this presentation I want to prove, that it is possible to install an IBM Connections 4.0 "Proof-Of-Concept" setup very quickly.
You can install and configure all the new IBM Connections 4.0 components : DB2 Server, IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator, IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS), IBM HTTP Server and IBM Connections. This version of the Presentation works with Microsoft Active Directory as LDAP.
IBM Connections enables you to connect and socialize with colleagues, find experts, and quickly share and organize information to get work done. As a developer, you can leverage the IBM Connections data to provide a better experience for your users. In this session, you learn what features you can extend, leverage and use to build a compelling experience. The session highlights how best to extend and work with the IBM Connections Cloud.
Updated file adds pointers to other sessions throughout the week.
What’s Coming in IBM Connections Next? LetsConnect
IBM Connections Next is around the corner and we would like to give you the close up view of all the new capabilities. IBM Connections has been the market leader for Enterprise Social Platforms for six years in a row now, see and learn how we continue to make a great product even better.
Many new features focus on added productivity, streamlined interaction and an overall updated experience.
From Social What to Social WOW! How to design social user experiences that ma...LetsConnect
Do you have a sense of how Social can impact your organization but do not know how to turn that into into motivations for employees? Or you are struggling to get your executives and sponsors behind your adoption of Connections?
Using IBM Design Thinking, this session will introduce audience members to key concepts to understanding business users, what they need, feel and really wan to do. We then will turn those user needs into tangible Social “use cases” to onboard users and launch the adoption of your Social transformation. This approach relies on generating big ideas and converging on solutions that matter to real users and to the business. We discuss the role of Agile in the context of adoption and apply all of this to IBM Connections and Connections Cloud business cases.
Come hear the secrets of our user-centric approach that helps you inspire your organization to leverage social for things matter and drive outcomes.
How TELUS used collaboration to change our culture and drive business results LetsConnect
In this 30-minute deep dive, attendees will learn how a culture of collaboration helped TELUS transform how we supported customers, employees and drove business outcomes. Instead of positioning collaborative technology as the solution, TELUS worked to change the culture by introducing the behaviors and leadership model needed to truly become an organization that shared information and expertise across the enterprise.
Regardless of location (TELUS has 44K employees in 8 countries), role or tenure, TELUS team members were expected to demonstrate spirited team work. The deployment of collaborative technologies helped support the evolution from a closed, hierarchical model to a open, transparent culture where employees were empowered to help their peers and customers, develop their own career and
The results speak volumes – employee engagement went from 53%-87%, customer likelihood to recommend jumped 20% and share price more than doubled since 2010.
’Pardon the Interruption’: Future of Work Hot TopicsLetsConnect
Join us in a session designed to cover a myriad of different topics around the nature … and future of work. In the fashion of ESPN’s “Pardon the Interruption” we’ll share ideas and opinions on a list of topics that you have a chance to influence ahead of the session. Tweet your topic suggestion or question to #PTIFoW and we’ll include as many as possible in the time allowed. The pace will be quick and the conversations and interactions will be lively and passionate (and a bit opinionated, too!). This is a “don’t miss” session for anyone wanting to be a part of a Future of Work brain dump!
Viral Adoption of Connections via Activities - Increase User Productivity and...LetsConnect
Join IBM Champion Adam Brown to learn how to create viral adoption of IBM Connections Activities with Kudos Boards. Increasing the usage of Activities can introduce new users to Connections with a clear purpose and goal. They can have that "ah ha!" moment and understand why they should get involved in this new social platform! However the challenge is that users can struggle with the interface of Activities and gaining widespread adoption takes time. Organisations such as Dutch Tax Office, PepsiCo, Mizuno USA, Salvation Army, and many others, have overcome this challenge using Kudos Boards for Connections Activities. INCREASED USER PRODUCTIVITY AND HENCE ADOPTION, THRU CLEVER DESIGN. Get real work done and learn how to sort and manage your projects in a PERSONALISED way so you can focus on what is important to you. Organise My Current Tasks….or leverage Agile Kanban to mange your project teams. And now you can even make Activities ROCK on your Mobile Devices!!!
Win, Win, Win: Changing Attitudes, Adopting Social and Going Green – A Custom...LetsConnect
Adopting Social remains a challenge for many organizations, but how do you change the attitudes of some people, including senior executives who have their minds made up in advance? Many agree the best way is to focus on business solutions rather than lists of features. This session presents what happened when “the old way of doing things” met some new thinking at A&W Food Services of Canada, who faced the challenge of how to increase the use of IBM Connections. Take a corporate strategy process, add Connections and some iPads, focus on the business solution, save some paper and open some eyes to the possibilities. Those senior executives are now happy Connections users. We will explain the need and the solution and give you the steps to do the same thing in your organization.
Collaboration and social applications generate a lot of information: over 80% of business data may be in email, activity streams, files, and other unstructured content that is growing inexorably. Thankfully, cognitive computing and natural language processing have the potential to help and bring unexpected insights from all that content. Come to this session to find out how collaboration tools can become even more efficient through auto-prioritization and identification of actions, the suggestion of relevant content, and a system that can actually learn from your actions to guide you forward in your day.
According to Gallup’s survey on Employee Engagement > http://kcy.me/2bowf (2013), current levels of disengaged employees in most companies are reaching rather alarming % figures (i.e. 87%). Overworked, rather stressed, with more in their own plates than hours in the day while navigating through a rather complex, uncertain and fast speeding working environment, today’s average knowledge workers are barely reaping off the many benefits of working smarter, not necessarily harder, through social, collaborative and cognitive systems.
The challenge we are currently facing in most organizations today though is trying to figure out whether all of these emerging digital, cognitive technologies would be effective enough to help organisations re-humanise their respective knowledge workforces with a rather specific business purpose in mind: re-engage employees to reinstate that long time forgotten journey of delighting their clients. Come & join us to find out!
Dr. John Boudreau, Professor and Research Director, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, shares how Talent Acquisition leaders can navigate the new normal for acquiring and activating employees as businesses grow to be more boundary-less, agile and global.
Course - Online Mini MBA (Free)
Register - http://www.mybskool.com/100-day-mini-mba.php?course=FreeCourse
Expansion strategies the way to growth
By Dr.Ashvini Ravi
Associate Dean – Academics
myBskool.com
Franchising - The Future Of Business ExpansionKarrox
A presentation looking at the franchising industry for a business wanting to expand through franchising.
Looks at the various franchise models and also other business expansion models.
End result is that any succesful franchise is probably a mix of the various models.
There are as many models of Franchises as there are business multiplied by the different ambitions and desires of the owners of those bsuinesses.
Orignally created for entrepreneurs interested in the franchising industry and want to partner with Karrox as part of their Franchisor Business Development Program
7 Must Read Facts About Digitizing Your Business ProcessCognizant
By digitizing the processes at the heart of their companies, business leaders can turbo-charge operational efficiency and propel massive revenue growth and cost savings.Read on to get data-based insights and tactical advice on applying new digital technologies to front-, middle- and back-office work processes to realize new levels of business performance.http://cogniz.at/TWAbp
4 Tech Insights to Master the Work Ahead in the New Digital AgeCognizant
Critical technology trends are at the heart of digital transformation. Our latest study reports on the technologies that businesses must embrace — and when — to succeed in the digital age. http://cogniz.at/TWA2618
Preparing for the OECD Common Reporting StandardCognizant
Maintaining planogram compliance enables retail organizations to better fulfill consumers' expectations and realize higher returns from their display investments by having the right product in the right place, in the right quantity, at the right price, at the right time.
A presentation examining the "Jobs of the Future", the challenges they present, and actionable steps to "Keep Pace" going forward
Original Presentation Date - 01/14/2017
How long does it really take to install and configure IBM Connections - 99% of your time is taken up by waiting for things to install.
In this 45 minute presentation everything you need to know about installing and configuring your first connections install
How to Stabilise and Improve an SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 Enterprise Shared ...Nicolas Henry
• Learn how to investigate your SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 environment and diagnose
issues causing outages and stability problems
• Understand the various options available to resolve the issues you find and to stabilise
your SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 environment
• Consider factors which could have led to the issues on your landscape, and processes
and safeguards you can put into place to avoid future issues
• Identify areas that can be improved to boost the resilience of your SAP BusinessObjects
BI 4.2 platform
The Dev-Admin Chimera: Customising Connections (with Gab Davis)Mark Myers
IBM Connections customisation comes in many flavours, from modifying branding, adding languages and customising menu items to developing and adding your own widgets. Some of it is as simple as changing XML files or style sheets, some take us into the dark world of JSPs and ear files. We'll take you through the highlights of what can be customised and what skills you need to achieve different effects. Some are simple enough for even an administrator to manage and all of them need the work of an administrator to deploy. If you're a Administrator who fancies making a few simple Connections changes or a Developer who fancies deploying your own changes onto a server, Mark and Gab will explain why it's better to work together to build a customised maintainable system with little of no bloodshed and the minimum of ritual sacrifice.
Kiedy aplikacja napisana w Serverless Frameworku jest mała, można zamieść niektóre rzeczy pod dywan. Ale co, kiedy po kilku miesiącach zaczyna wychodzić spod niego prawdziwy potwór? Co, kiedy musisz przetestować jedną lambdę na środowisku, a deploy całego stacka trwa 20 minut? No i jak przeorganizować aplikację wiedząc, że ciągle będzie rosła? Dowiedz się, jak rozbiliśmy naszą hurtownię danych wykorzystując Serverless Compose. Jakie przyniosło nam to efekty i o czym dowiedzieliśmy się w trakcie.
Marjorie M. K. Hlava, President, Chair of the Board, and Chief Scientist, Access Innovations, Inc.
During this annual highlight of the DHUG meetings, Margie will discuss the exciting new changes and additions to the Data Harmony software. She will be joined by some members of our software development team to talk about specific initiatives we have worked on over the past year.
Developing Connections Plug-ins and applications is full of "What the??" moments, from what browser technologies and versions are supported through to common functions working in different ways in different parts of Connections, any of these can put a real dent in your delivery date but most are easy to cure and avoid with a little bit of hindsight and knowledge, here is that knowledge for you to take home and help you deliver on time.
Moving Windows Applications to the CloudRightScale
RightScale Webinar: March 10, 2011 – This webinar will give you insight into how Windows instances can be dynamically configured using RightScale and equip you to move your Windows applications to the cloud.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
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1. Toronto, June 6-7 2016
IBM Connections
Managing Growth and
Expansion
What to do when you start growing
Victor Toal
ToalSystems
2. What will we talk about today?
• What does a “Normal” Environment look like?
• Identify where you need to grow
• Why would you want to change/grow?
• What Components do you have and what do
you do about them?
Let’s Go!
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3. Let’s look at some samples of Environments
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4. Architecture – Non Clustered
Web Layer
Application Layer
Services Layer
User HTTP Traffic
Connections Server 1
Deployment Manager
Application Node1
DB2 Server File Server Share
Shared File Services
Web Server 1
Access to shared
file repository
DB Access Share File Services
CNX5.ToalSys.Social
Connections 5.0 Architecture
Non-Clustered
Non Clustered Components:
Connections URL: http://cnx5.toalsys.social
Server1: CNXSrv01.intranet.toalsys.com
HTTP: HTTP01.intranet.toalsys.com
DB2: dbSrv01.intranet.toalsys.com
File server: space01.intranet.toalsys.com
Connections Data File Share: fileserver.toalsys.socialcnxdata
OR
D:IBMConnectionsDatashared
5. Architecture - Clustered
Web Layer
Application Layer
Services Layer
User HTTP Traffic
Connections Server 1
Deployment Manager
Application Node1
Connections Server 1
Application Node2
DB2 Server File Server Share
Shared File Services
Web Server 1
Access to shared
file repository
DB Access Share File Services
CNX5.ToalSys.Social
Connections 5.0 Architecture
Clustered
Clustered Components:
Connections URL: http://cnx5.toalsys.social
Server1: CNXSrv01.intranet.toalsys.com
Server2: CNXSrv02.intranet.toalsys.com
HTTP: HTTP01.intranet.toalsys.com
DB2: dbSrv01.intranet.toalsys.com
File server: space01.intranet.toalsys.com
Connections Data File Share: fileserver.toalsys.socialcnxdata
6. Identify Where You Need To Grow
Connections has 4 Distinct Layers
• WEB IHS, Proxy Server
• APPLICATION WebSphere
• DATABASE DB2, SQL, Oracle
• FILE SYSTEM Local file system,
remote file system
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7. Reasons For Growth
• More users
• More engagement
• Business uptick
• Integration of Connections into business
processes causes increased usage
• External collaboration causes you to drastically
increase your number of communities
• To create redundancy and resiliency in your
environment
• To simply make operations easier
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8. First Things first
Review Performance Tuning
If you do not tune your environment, adding
complexity will possibly kill it.
• Connections 5.0 performance tuning guide
https://goo.gl/YNbWRr
• Connections 4.5 performance tuning guide
https://goo.gl/l3oHrT
• Review the Post Install Tasks in the Connections
WIKI
• http://goo.gl/gPJ7FF
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9. Identify The Weak Link
• Just looking at CPU and memory is not enough
• Each Component has different characteristics
• One weakness can impact another layer,
masking the actual problem
• Sometime Network can impact performance –
routing, DNS, network links, network cards …
• Example: a slow SANS EVA might impact file
performance, but in reality it is a network issue
that shows itself as a slow file system.
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10. The Web Layer
Components making up the web layer:
• IHS
• Proxy Servers
• Load Balancers
• Any other connected Web Services
(STProxy, ICMail/Email tie-in)
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11. Adding To the Web Layer
Why Another Web Server?
Moving an IHS on to a separate server
Adding an additional/second IHS
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12. Adding To the Web Layer … continued
• Have you done your homework in terms of
performance? Often tweaking the
httpd.conf can greatly improve
performance
• Multiple HTTP servers will necessitate
adding load balancing / switching
capability in front of the web servers
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13. Adding To the Web Layer … continued
• If you are looking at adding redundancy then you
need to make sure you are not just kicking the
vulnerability can down the rad by now relying on a
singular device in front of two web servers …
• But – most systems have a single point of failure
someplace, it simply depends on WHAT part and
HOW LIKLEY is it to fail and HOW IT FITS INTO
OPERATIONS.
• Example: which device is more likely to experience
changes and require a reboot: a Windows server
running IHS or a dedicated load balancing HW
device?
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14. Adding To the Web Layer … continued
• Adding another HTTP Server:
• Install IBM HTTP server on new machine – use
the same configuration settings as the existing
server!
• Add another unmanaged node, setup and
configure the HTTP server/web server
• Remap all application modules to add the new
IHS
• Generate the Plug-in, propagate it, restart IHS
and then restart Connections WebSphere
servers
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16. Adding to the Application Layer
Add some WebSphere
“We need more servers!”
17. Adding to the Application Layer -
WebSphere
Let me ask again:
Have you done any real performance tuning?
Links:
• Connections 5.0 performance tuning guide
https://goo.gl/YNbWRr
• Connections 4.5 performance tuning guide
https://goo.gl/l3oHrT
• Review the Post Install Tasks in the Connections
WIKI
• http://goo.gl/gPJ7FF
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18. Adding to the Application Layer …
continued
What can you do?
• Add additional nodes – on existing servers
as well as on new WebSphere servers
• Add more cluster members (servers) – on
any node
• Expand vertically – adding additional
WebSphere instances and federating them
in is simple
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19. Adding to the Application Layer …
continued
What you cannot do:
• CAN’T move Connections applications from one
server/JVM to another. Apps will no longer work,
upgrades become impossible
• CAN’T change from your current deployment
(small, medium, large) to another type of
deployment. If you need to do this, consider it to
be a migration -> parallel build and cut-over.
• CAN’T cluster WebSphere over a WAN
connection – too slow
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20. Adding to the Application Layer …
continued
If adding a physical WebSphere server:
• Make sure you set it up the same way as the
existing servers – same drive/folder configuration,
database ODBC drivers at same location, member
of SPNEGO config, etc. Turn off firewall on server
• Federate the Node to the Deployment Manager, you
don’t have to add the default server and apps to the
deployment manager
• Make sure that server is up and running correctly,
review the logs after running the addNode.bat/.sh
command
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21. Adding to the Application Layer …
continued
• When adding Was servers – add them as cluster
members on a new node -> they get all the same
applications and settings. All default Connections
Apps will work right away
• CCM … Cognos … Docs … Surveys/FEB … ->
they don’t work out of the box, you need to do
actual installation tasks on the new server
• If you are creating NEW WebSphere servers
always create them as clusters, even if they are
not actually clustered with another server -> that
way you can cluster them in the future.
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24. Adding to the Database Layer
Here is our usual first question:
If your reason to add to the database layer is
performance - have you looked into all the
available performance tuning options?
i/o performance is everything for any database
server, tweaking logging and archiving can
make an enormous difference in performance
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25. Adding to the Database Layer …
continued
• IBM documentation does suggest an
individual DB2 instance for each database
(for large, busy systems)
• But if your dB server is already
busy/struggling, then adding an additional
instance will only further degrade
performance
• If you want to just spread the databases over
multiple servers -> that is an easy task
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26. Adding to the Database Layer …
continued
• Build any new servers the same as your
originating server, that way moving/restoring
databases to them is much easier -> otherwise
you get to do a redirected restore
• Add the same user accounts and password on
new DB2 servers
• Any new server must be the same or a newer
version/FP level of DB2. Your database will be
upgraded to the latest version once you restore it
to the new server
• You cannot import/restore a database to a server
with a lower DB2 release – this will not work.
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27. Adding to the Database Layer …
continued
• If you restore a database to a new DB2 instance, it
keeps all of the original settings …i.e. back-ups,
logging settings, etc.
• Any Instance-wide settings should be
copied/implemented in the new instance
• If you have a busy environment, consider building
more than one additional server/instance. It does add
to the complexity but if you plan the disk space right
(SANS can be tricky) you can gain allot in terms of
performance
• Homepage and metrics are great candidates to be
moved to a separate server all by themselves – the
domino effect of that can improve overall performance
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28. Adding to the Database Layer …
continued
• Consider a common log file archive strategy
for all DB2 instances
• Make sure all your servers are backed-up the
same way and in the same frequency
• Restores are always a battle of calculated
data loss …
• Clustered DB2 is part of the Connections
DB2 license – if you feel you absolutely need
it, get an experienced professional to design
it, build it and MOST IMPORTANT teach you
how to maintain it
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29. Adding to the Database Layer …
continued
• Review and update all the correct DB2
related variables in WebSphere: IBM
console – Resources – JDBC – Data
sources
• Each database is entered as a distinctive
data source
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30. Adding to the File System Layer
We have the issue of
“I NEED MORE ROOM
or
“YOUR FILE SERVER IS
SLOOOOOOOW”
31. Adding to the File System
Can you guess my first question?
Performance Tuning anyone?
• What kind of tuning … mainly OS/SANS/i/o of
your infrastructure
• Adding direct file upload/download via the
IBM HTTP servers can greatly improve i/o
stats … WAS is slow and will impact overall
performance of your i/o layer
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32. Adding to the File System … continued
• Just adding to the overall file space is OK – if
you have the space and the performance for
it
• Files on disk get stored in different sub-
folders depending on the date they were
added
• Older files are often accessed much less
frequently than more recent files
• Strategy – if you have multiple SANS
environments you can take advantage of that
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33. Adding to the File System … continued
• Use multiple mount points for each upload
(Files, Wikis, Activities) to spread the
load/io over multiple systems
• Take the folders of Files (analysis is key)
and move it to a slower/older/less
important SANS drive/share.
• This require documentation of the actions
you took
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34. Adding to the File System … continued
• Review back-up and restore procedures
• I personally prefer to move all files of a
service rather than re-point individual
subfolders …. Less complexity and easier
to understand -> it’s WebSphere variables
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