This document discusses IBM's Connections and LotusLive social software products. It outlines priorities for 2011/2012 including enhancing LotusLive, releasing Connections 4.0 with social platform capabilities, and expanding into business-to-consumer markets. Research areas are also mentioned like meeting transcription and analytics. The document advocates improving customer adoption, converting more pilots, and hardening the platform.

1. MikeRoche@ie.ibm.com
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2. Ireland Lab
 SWG
 Tivoli  WPLC
 IM
 BAO
 Rational
 Solutions
 Research/STG
 HPC
 CIO
07/08/11
 Tivoli 2

3. WPLC
➢ Work on the following Portfolio Items:
➢ LotusLive
➢ Connections
➢ Quickr
➢ Portal Accelerators, Portlet Factory,
➢ Sametime - SUT, Advanced
➢ XPages
➢ System Test
➢ Vulcan
➢ Mobile
➢ SFA
➢ GAD
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4. Connections 3.01
Sametime Web Proxy Integration
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Microsoft Outlook Social Connector
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Lotus Notes Files Connector
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Community features
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Ideation blog for idea generation/management
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● MediaGallery (images and video)
● Community moderation (blogs, files, forums)
● IBM ECM library integration
●Global site moderation (blogs, files, forums)
Connections 3.01 Portlets
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5. Connections 2011/12 Priorities/Deliverables
● Customers & Deals!
● LotusLive Tune-ups
● LotusLive Trains
● Connections 4.0
● Social Platform
● Continue Community Evolution
● B2C & Internal/External capabilities
● Vulcan
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6. Connections Business Focus
● Social 'platform'
● To support Social Business and partner ecosystem
● To deliver the 2015 revenue targets
● To enable better integration with our stack and future social offerings
from IBM and partners – growth and pull through sales
● Supporting customers to really leverage the services
● Maturing the services, consistency, flexibility, branding
● Looking for opportunities to extend
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7. Social Software “Next” Themes
Social Platform Enhanced Communities Business to Consumer
Evolution for Teams
Support “IBM Vulcan” with new Add new functions to Creation and management of
services and deeper integration communities to meet team use compelling customer
across the portfolio cases for sharing and communities
collaboration
Need to streamline work
● Need engaging social
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● Need anytime, anywhere ● Need to share and collaborate customer communities to
access across a group of people increase loyalty and revenue
● Need to prioritize what's ● Need to support different ● Need to understand what is
important and avoid distractions groups with different social and working and gain insight from
● Need consistent, integrated collaboration requirements trends
collaboration experience ● Need to support openness and
choice
Social Everywhere
Deliver new or expanded value in the context of other applications
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8. Connections Business Focus
● Things we need to do better
● W3 & CIO
● Convert more pilots
● Support new customers with adoption
● Get from sales meeting to pilot faster
● Support customers with feature requests & use the pre-release
process as a litmus test
● Harden the platform and make it easier to leverage
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9. Hot Research
● Newman (Agora) – meeting transcription, indexing, search,
scene detection, commenting)
● SaND
● Analytics
● Reputation
● EU Framework 7: ROBUST, CULTURA & CLIQUE
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