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Lotus Quickr provides a platform for team collaboration and managing collaborative documents. It offers libraries for content management, team workspaces for project management, and connectors that allow access to content from Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, Windows Explorer, and other applications. Lotus Quickr's templates and components allow teams to easily create customized workspaces for collaboration. It also integrates with other IBM products for content management and is open to customization.
Ibm Lotus Quickr
- 1. Team Collaboration &Collaborative Document Management: IBM Lotus Quickr
- 2. Agenda Lotus Quickroverview Relationship between Lotus Quickr and other products in the IBM portfolio Benefits Business and market trends
- 3. Organizational change, boldness,need for collaborative innovation through the firewall drives social software adoption Organizations are bombarded by change, and many are struggling to keep up 8 of 10 CEOs: significant change ahead, yet the gap between expected change and the ability to manage it is almost triple since ‘06 CEOs view more demanding customers as an opportunity to differentiate CEOs are spending more to attract and retain increasingly prosperous, informed and socially aware customers IBM Institute for Business Value CEO Study 2008 2/3 of CEOs are implementing extensive innovations >40% are changing their models to be more collaborative Financial outperformers are making bolder plays These companies anticipate more change, and manage it better. They are also more global in their business designs, partner more extensively and choose more disruptive forms of business model innovation
- 4. Work environments: more complex Work environments: more disconnected Interactions: more often, people you don’t know
- 5. Market-leading organizations willbe… Source: 2008 IBM CEO study “ Change-Ready” Capable of changing quickly and successfully. Instead of merely responding to trends, it shapes and leads them. Market shifts become a chance to move ahead of the competition “ Globally integrated” to collaborate more effectively Moving aggressively toward global business designs to take advantage of global integration opportunities. Able to access the best capabilities, knowledge and assets from wherever they reside in the world and apply them wherever required in the world “ Innovation Leaders” Innovative Beyond Customers Imagination. Deep collaborative relationships allow it to surprise customers with innovations that make both its customers and its own business more successful.
- 6. Changing Workplace DemographicsDrives a Need to Empower the New Generation of Business Leaders 19% of the entire American workforce holding executive , administrative and managerial positions will retire in the next five years In the year 2000, there were more people receiving pensions in Italy than people working (22 versus 21 million) Within the next seven years, 33 million people in Japan (26%) will be over 65 years old By 2016, people aged 60-64 in Australia is expected to almost double Boomers depart; millennials arrive
- 7. A workforce intransition provides challenges and opportunities Capture their knowledge before they retire Relieve their stress and increase their effectiveness Attract and retain; harness their collaborative style Older workers (Age 50 +) Mid- career workers (Age 35 – 50) New generation (born after 1980) Growing as % of workforce Shrinking as % of workforce Growing as % of workforce Hold the wisdom and intellectual capital of the organization Essential source of professionals and middle managers Critical to long-term viability and innovation Traditional approach to technology, collaboration, organizational loyalty, and rewards Tech savvy but not “native speakers”; mixed approach to collaboration, loyalty, and rewards Technology is 2 nd nature; more interested in peer / interest groups than organizational identity; think work should be fun and fulfilling
- 8. Web 2.0 isthe native language of “Millennials” and the new language of collaboration … Almost three-fourths of teens send instant messages more than e-mail. A new blog gets created every second. Everyone’s opinion should be heard By 2009, wikis are predicted to become mainstream collaboration tools in at least half of all companies. Everyone contributes Communication is constant And every generation wants the applications at work to be as “cool” and attractive as the ones at home … Technorati/ Law Technology News, Dec 1, 2005 ; Comscore, Aug 8, 2005 ; America Online / Research Alert, Jan 6, 2006
- 9. State of currenttools contributes to the gap… Fragmented: collaboration tools are fragmented and disjointed Hard-to-use: only those with greatest need are willing to tackle the learning curve Stove-pipe silos : users are forced to change applications to access needed collaboration services Lack of integration: separation between communication and collaboration services leads many users to fall back to the pervasive “reply to all” Unfamiliar: current tools don’t enable users to stay within their favorite applications
- 10. Agenda Business andmarket trends Relationship between Lotus Quickr and other products in the IBM portfolio Benefits Lotus Quickr overview
- 11. IBM Lotus QuickrRich collaborative content and team collaboration integrated with entire IBM portfolio Most complete set of connectors to desktop applications and an open connector architecture for developers Out-of-the-box business templates leveraging composite application support Integration with Lotus Domino, JCR content stores and IBM FileNet P8 and IBM Content Manager support, providing comprehensive, scalable end-to-end content management options Quickr Content Stores Fastest way to share business content with your teams…
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- 13. Lotus Quickr providesa universe of capabilities… Library management, check in & out, version control, views, security, custom meta-data for a variety of business content types Self-service, customizable team sites with an extensible infrastructure (membership mgmt, search capabilities), that support a full team lifecycle A collection of reusable collaborative components (libraries, calendars, tasks, blogs, lists, Web content authoring...) to build powerful applications Templates for immediate out-of-the-box value and support of common business processes, including project & meeting management Basic workflow for notification and approval Offline services, extranet access, versatile portlets, to expand and facilitate collaboration
- 14. Lotus Quickr is open and flexible … Infrastructure: Repositories Directories Server operating systems Desktop operating systems Programming models Web 2.0 and industry standards: Eclipse Atom or RSS ODF AJAX Web Services REST Java Linux
- 15. Access LotusQuickr from an inviting, intuitive Web 2.0 interface…
- 16. Pervasive access tocontent using the connectors Lotus Notes Microsoft Office / IBM Lotus Symphony Windows Explorer / “ My Documents” Lotus Sametime Web Browser Microsoft Outlook
- 17. Lotus Notes connector Open and save attachments into library or team workspace Replace e-mail attachments with shared links Integrated into file menus and “right click” “ Reminder” prompt encourages participation Helps reduce inbox bloat, content duplication, and “version anxiety”…
- 18. Microsoft Outlook connector Lotus Quickr task pane displays a hierarchical view of document libraries Drag an email (or just its attachment) from a Microsoft Outlook folder and drop into a Lotus Quickr document library
- 19. Microsoft Office connector Open and save documents into library or team workspace Assign document properties (meta-tags) Integrate with workflow for approval routing Use your editor of choice (no forced upgrade) Microsoft Office XP, 2003, 2007… IBM Lotus Symphony Facilitates collaborative document authoring and version management…
- 20. Lotus Symphony connector Integration within the Menu actions Open, save to, check-in, check-out documents directly to a Lotus Quickr place from within Lotus Symphony
- 21. Lotus Sametime connector Navigate content through a simple tree interface Drag and drop from local system to libraries and team workspaces Integrated action menu Quick contextual access to shared documents Provides easy access to shared content right from real-time client … Send links in chats Invite colleagues to download the connectors
- 22. Microsoft Windows Explorer connector Makes it easy and natural to move content to collaborative environment… Navigate content through familiar tree interface Drag and drop content from local system to libraries and team workspaces Integrated action menu
- 23. Team workspaces Componentsfor managing projects, including: Document libraries Team calendar and milestones Lists for managing structured content Discussions forums, team blogs, & wikis And more... Self-service with a step-by-step guide to set up the places Easily create online places for projects and teams
- 24. End users cancreate custom team workspaces using flexible Lotus Quickr templates and components Team blog Wiki Project dashboard Many more…
- 25. You do notneed to reinvent the wheel Use the extensible business application library Use Lotus Quickr application templates designed for specific business needs…
- 26. Content Libraries Check-in,check-out, version control Customizable views to organize content Multi-level security (library, folder, document) Search across multiple libraries Workflow for routing & approving content RSS/Atom feed support to share or consume content Extensibility: custom meta-data, document types and templates Quickly set up libraries to store and share content securely
- 27. Lotus Quickr Entry“ My” Online content library Simple & intuitive personal document sharing Use the browser or any of the connectors to access your Lotus Quickr Entry places
- 28. Administration Improved abilityto manage Lotus Quickr Place reporting Sort by size, owner, status Place actions Lock & unlock Places Policies Track size quota & inactivity Warning thresholds Policy is assigned to place or template
- 29. Agenda Business andmarket trends Lotus Quickr overview Relationship between Lotus Quickr and other products in the IBM portfolio Benefits
- 30. Lotus Quickr ContentIntegrator Microsoft SharePoint sites Microsoft Exchange Public Folders Lotus Notes Team Rooms Lotus Domino Document Manager Lotus Quickr Content Integrator Provides migration, and transitional co-existence, from existing applications/repositories into Lotus Quickr services for Lotus Domino Separately priced companion product
- 31. Lotus Quickr and composite applications User Interface Services Connector services Portal & Notes 8.0 Content and Collaboration Services Team places Calendar Milestones Blogs Wikis Content lib Deployment Services Multiple repositories, devices, directories… Domino, Portal, FileNet… Rich Clients Browser Extranet Offline Lotus Quickr provides quick out-of-the-box value A set of extensible services for end-users to quickly create rich business applications - with no programming skills required Lotus Quickr leverages the strengths of the core IBM application platforms - Domino, WebSphere Portal, Eclipse Programmers familiar with any of these platforms can integrate and extend Lotus Quickr services and components to create advanced custom applications Sametime 7.5 Business templates
- 32. Lotus Quickr and Lotus Connections Connect team members to their profiles for expert location Connect places and communities to support rich collaboration Add place content to an activity Grow an activity to a place Spawn-off activities from a place Tag content, events, wiki pages, tasks, etc... for more accurate searching and retrieval Complement Quickr contextual team blogs with personal blogs Profiles Blogs Communities Bookmarks Activities
- 33. The Business ContentServices Continuum Personal Content Content creation and communication, Personal content management Content collaboration, Project and product collaboration, Workgroup content management Ad-hoc & Basic Content Services Situational & Enterprise Application Services Departmental and Enterprise applications, leveraging BPM, RM, Search/Discovery, Advanced Doc Mgmt. Business Content Continuum Enterprise Content Services (Business Documents, Imaging, Capture Report Management, RM, BPM, Classification, Archiving, Analytics, Search) Team Collaboration Content Enabled Applications
- 34. integration with IBMECM systems Collaborate and share everyday business content with IBM Lotus Quickr Collaboratively author content Share projects that generate content Discuss, debate, blog, leverage Web 2.0 authoring tools Manage the organization’s content assets in ECM Participate in Business Process Management Manage compliance issues and apply record retention policies Secure corporate assets with content discovery and auto classification Leverage the intuitive Lotus Quickr user interface for both
- 35. Lotus Quickr integrates easily & provides flexibility For end users, Lotus Quickr connectors integrate into desktop applications Increases adoption of collaborative tools Simplifies collaboration among users with different styles and preferences Improves effectiveness For IT, Lotus Quickr leverages current software and hardware investment Works with multiple versions of Notes clients, Sametime, Domino and Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook (no forced upgrades) Supports open standards Support for additional repositories and clients Designed for a heterogeneous environment; doesn’t force adoption of a single set of tools
- 36. Agenda Business andmarket trends Lotus Quickr overview Relationship between Lotus Quickr and other products in the IBM portfolio Benefits
- 37. Lotus Quickr solves key customer needs To maintain competitive position, innovate, and grow revenue, organizations require solutions to enable them to collaborate across the enterprise and beyond—to more effectively manage their information and projects Let me... Work the way I want Get control of my content and information Integrate my mail client with my shared places and libraries Organize my files in a secured environment Share simply and easily Reuse and expose content across applications Stop using my inbox to dump content Reduce the duplication and inconsistencies of content Be more productive Work more effectively with my colleagues I want to... Lotus Quickr lets me... Access and manage content naturally from within the applications I use everyday Collaborate anywhere and anytime Take my content and projects offline Better collaborate with partners and customers Quickly set-up places to share content with anyone I want Manage projects securely Add users to my spaces myself Provide tools to track and manage my team activities
- 38. Lotus Quickr provides anytime, anywhere access For end users: Take an entire team workspace offline to work wherever you are Access team workspaces from outside the firewall to collaborate with strategic partners Access the same content from multiple applications For IT: RSS / ATOM feeds provide an easy way to post Lotus Quickr content to other applications Use Domino replication to move Lotus Quickr content to the edges of your network for better performance
- 39. Lotus Quickr = simplicity For end users: Lotus Quickr Entry lets you get started easily Lotus Quickr connectors let you collaborate with minimal disruption to your normal work patterns Setting up intranet or extranet team workspaces takes a few simple steps Templates make it easy to create business-specific team workspaces Use of Web 2.0 technologies makes UI more compelling and more similar to what they use at home For IT: Leverages your current skills Provides self-service options for end users
- 40. The fine printThe screenshots in this presentation show views of both Lotus Quickr services for Domino and Lotus Quickr services for J2EE. Since the two services may not have identical features, you may not be able to recreate the views. Some material in this presentation is directional in nature and does not imply any product plan commitment on the part of IBM. Plans are subject to change at any time without notice.
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- #6 Participate in BPM process Deal with compliance issues—apply record retention policy Store as an enterprise asset
- #7 Sages = experienced workers who are preparing to retire; millenials = recent college graduates who are entering the workforce The next trend to discuss is the changing demographics of the workforce. Many companies from around the globe are wrestling with this issue. From the US to Italy to Australia and Japan, each country is facing an increasingly older population. The older workforce possess’ huge amounts of information, contacts and professional knowledge. Quite simply, they know how to get things done. So how do you transfer that information to your younger workforce before it is too late? Many companies are using social software to do that because people can interact and exchange information so easily. The tacit information that took years to accumulate can be stored in the social software and accessed when the employee is gone. Source: Beazley, et. al, Continuity Management, Mackay, Alan. “Mature Age Workers: Sustaining Out Future Labor Force.” An Ageless Workforce - Opportunities for Business' Symposium Conference Paper. August 27, 2003. www.ageing.health.gov.au/ofoa/wllplan/aawpapers.htm, Time to act quickly on aging.” The Japan Times Online. August 23, 2002 www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?ed20020823a1.htm, A. Paulli, “Pension systems and gradual retirement in Italy”, September 2000, p.17
- #8 Another important trend that many organizations are starting to focus on is the dramatic shift in the demographics of the workforce. The number of mid-career workers – the core that represents middle managers and critical professionals – is shrinking. Workers approaching retirement is a growing number… and execs are worried about how to capture their intellectual capital before they leave. The number of gen Y workers or millenials is growing… organizations need to court and keep them and they have very different styles of working. They aren’t e-mail driven … and they aren’t document-centric…
- #9 For the millenials, Web 2.0 isn’t a passing fad. It is fundamental to the way they expect to work. They expect that authoring means everyone contributes… thus the rapid growth of wikis. They expect that everyone has a right to publish their opinions… thus the rapid expansion of the blogisphere. And they communicate via IM and Facebook or Myspace, rather than e-mail.
- #10 Why the gap? Some of the reasons are obviously things like corporate culture… or like the transformation in demographics that we mentioned earlier. But we know that it is also the collaboration tools we have today. People might have tools, but they don’t use them as pervasively as they use e-mail or IM. They find the tools non-intuitive, silo’d… not integrated. And Lotus Quickr is focused on helping organizations close this gap.
- #13 IBM Lotus Quick delivers on this mission in 5 ways By connecting your users through their familiar desktop applications By providing business significant templates By managing your team’s documents, images, spreadsheets, etc. By working to integrate with your existing ECM systems (if applicable) And by doing all this in a way that your users will find engaging and enjoyable Let’s take a closer look at each of these points
- #14 Let’s spend more time talking about the capabilities or services that are included in Lotus Quickr….
- #15 We also want to mention an important quality that really differentiates Lotus Quickr from the competition… notably Microsoft. Lotus Quickr is open, flexible, and extensible. We’ve already talked about support for multiple content stores. Lotus Quickr also runs on multiple servers, supports multiple desktops and integrates with multiple directories. And Quickr supports industry standards like Eclipse, RSS / Atom feeds, Open Document Format, AJAX for user interfaces, and of course Java and Linux.
- #16 This Lotus Quickr welcome page is representative of a new, fresh, Web 2.0 user interface… designed to make people want to use the product. Our goal is to provide a rich browser experience that surfaces the full range of Lotus Quickr capabilities. In addition to this browser experience we also provide the Quickr connectors to access many Lotus Quickr functions directly from popular desktop applications.
- #17 These Lotus Quickr Connectors are a key differentiator for the product… an important part of how we plan to help organizations close the gap between their desire to collaborate and the actual practice of collaboration. Initially, we’re providing four connectors – for Lotus Notes, for Microsoft Office and the IBM Lotus Symphony, for Windows Explorer, and for Sametime. We’ll provide more in the future (like Microsoft Outlook) and we also anticipate that our Business Partners will leverage our open architecture to build additional connectors. Let’s take a look at them up close…
- #18 These are screen shots of the Lotus Notes Connector… both for Notes 7 and for Notes 8. You can see that you have the ability right from an e-mail to attach a link to a document that is in one of your Quickr places. Right from your Notes client… from within the e-mail.. you can navigate to find the right document in your Quickr place, just like you would navigate through the window that shows the folders on your C-drive when you want to send an attachment. That’s the key here… you don’t have to leave what you’re doing to go find the appropriate document and do “copy as link”… you use the same familiar “gesture” that you would use to attach a document. Another key capability of this connector that people really love when they hear about it --- the little pop-up window that gently nudges you when you revert to your “send an attachment” behavior. Essentially, it says “do you really want to send that attachment? wouldn’t you like to put the document in a Quickr place and send a link instead?” Seems like a simple concept but it can make a huge difference in managing your in-box and actually starting to transform behavior… By the way, the Notes connector works with Notes 7 and Notes 8… so you can start collaborating with Lotus Quickr before you have upgraded your desktops to Notes 8.
- #20 The Microsoft Office connector lets you take advantage of Lotus Quickr capabilities directly from Office applications … PowerPoint, Excel, and Word. You can see that when you are in Office, you have an actions drop down that gives you capabilities like being able to check a new document into a Quickr place. If you have created workflow for a document, you might have additional actions (that are grayed out in the example) like being able to approve or reject a document. An important thing to note here… our goal is to support the versions of these desktop tools that are the most common, which means Office 2000 and 2003. In the near future, when adoption starts to increase, we will of course support Office 2007. This is an important advantage for customers. They don’t want a solution that forces them to upgrade all their desktops to the latest version of Office. A final point to mention. We will provide a similar Quickr connector for the IBM Productivity Editors. These are the editors that we provide as part of the Notes 8 client.
- #22 The Sametime connector takes advantage of the Eclipse framework that we use for the Sametime 7.5 client. You can see we have a “shelf” for the Lotus Quickr connector where you can easily navigate through your Quickr places to find a particular document. You can choose to chat with someone about that document and it inserts a link into the chat. So if we step back a minute… what you’ve seen with these Quickr connectors is what we consider to be a key benefit of the product. They provide the ability to access your content and collaborate from where you are without having to switch to a separate application. We believe – and the overwhelming response we’re already hearing from the customers and press and analysts who have reviewed the product – that this has the potential to make a huge difference in how people work. By letting them work the way that they normally do… and still share content and collaborate … we actually have the potential to make big changes in how they work.
- #23 Let’s look at the last Quickr connector for Windows Explorer. This is also a connector that people really like… You can navigate naturally through your Quickr places just like you normally navigate through the folders in your C-drive. You can drag and drop into and out of Quickr places. You have a “right click” action menu that lets you do things like check-in, check-out, and approve or reject.
- #24 Now let’s go back and look more closely at the browser interface for Lotus Quickr where you can really leverage the full power of its capabilities. Quickr is designed to be self-service so that business users can create a Quickr place or team workspace like the one that you see here. We provide a number of components that you can select from to create a Quickr place. Most places will start with a content or document library. You can add things like a team calendar and team milestones for the project. You have options for creating content that we’ve now expanded to include wikis – an increasingly popular method for collaborative authoring. (note to presenter: if you’re not familiar with wikis, check out wikipedia.com). You can have discussion forums and you can also create a blog inside your Quickr place.
- #25 These are some visual examples of the type of components that we’ll provide … you can easily assemble them to create your own Quickr places.
- #27 Let’s go back and talk a little more about the content library … one of the fundamental components that every Quickr place will have. The content library provides the capabilities that you would expect to help you organize and manage content. You get version control with check-in and check-out capability. You can set up granular security on your content. We also provide basic workflow … not sophisticated workflow like Business Process Choreographer … but the basic workflow that people use to get documents through an approval cycle. You also have the ability to subscribe to content in the library so that it is published to your favorite reader. (Note to presenter… RSS is Really Simple Syndication)
- #29 That’s an overview of the capabilities of Lotus Quickr, which we think are really exciting. Let’s talk about one more thing before we move to the next section of the presentation. At Lotusphere, we also announced that we will provide a personal edition of Lotus Quickr. This is basically a simple, streamlined subset of the capabilities focused on content management. It is designed for people to get started and solve the fundamental problem – how can I organize my important stuff, put it someplace that is secure and backed up, and share it with my colleagues.
- #30 The next section provides a very high level look at high Lotus Quickr relates to other products in our portfolio. Many of you might have specific questions about both a technical and entitlement roadmap, based on particular Lotus products that you own. I encourage you to work individually with your Lotus representative to get those questions answered. Our goal here is simply to give you the broad brush and to assure you that we are very focused on protecting the investment that you have already made with us.
- #32 Without going into great detail, let’s position Lotus Quickr as it relates to application development and SOA. First and foremost, Lotus Quickr provides great out-of-the-box capability that is deployed and leverages the strengths of either a Domino or a Portal infrastructure. Lotus Quickr is also a set of very extensible services… so as a Domino programmer or a Portal programmer, you can customize Quickr capabilities, build your own templates, integrate Quickr components into applications, or build your own connectors.
- #34 Terminology: Business Users - Knowledge Worker vs. Business User vs. General Users vs Process Workers Knowledge Worker – targeted with ECM - view content as high value, majority of content is an business asset General Business (Not-Knowledge) Users – targeted with BCS – view content as lower value, some content is an asset and majority may not be a company asset CEVA Users - Process Workers – (IT or ECM term) targeted with BPM-based CEVAs Advanced CEVA Users/Administrators Out of the Box Products - Content Authoring & Editing - Content Communication – Email & Instant Messaging - Ad-hoc Content Collaboration – SharePoint Content Enabled Applications - Content Management - Content Enabled Vertical Applications - Situational Business Applications
- #35 IBM ECM Services for Lotus Quickr Collaborate on business content with Lotus Quickr via common desk applications and Web 2.0 style interfaces, while leveraging the strengths of IBM ECM
- #36 Remember we talked about the beginning about the attributes that customers told us were important in a collaboration product? Integration, anywhere-anytime, and simplicity. Let’s conclude by talking about those attributes… it’s a good way to review what we’ve said about Lotus Quickr. First, integration. People think of this in different ways … and we provide integration in a number of different ways with Lotus Quickr. First, the Connectors that integrate easily into the way that people work. This enables people to easily collaborate together even if they have different working styles and preferences. Lotus Quickr also integrates with your current environment. It integrates with the versions of desktop tools that you use today rather than forcing you to upgrade. It supports different server operating systems and different directories. Lotus Quickr is also designed to work with different content stores or repositories… starting with Domino and JCR but expanding to FileNet, SharePoint and others. And of course we embrace open standards, which gives you the flexibility to easily integrate Lotus Quickr into other applications that you have and to extend it with your own customization.
- #38 This page summarizes some of the key benefits of Lotus Quickr. They are pretty self-evident from the bullets on the chart.
- #39 Anywhere … anytime. CEO’s have identified how critical extranet collaboration is. That’s a key “anywhere” capability that differentiates Lotus Quickr. It is easy for an end user to add an extranet user to a Quickr place. Of course the Quickr connectors give you access to your Quickr content from other applications… that’s anywhere. And you can subscribe to Quickr content in your favorite RSS reader… anytime, anywhere. We’ve also built Lotus Quickr as an open extensible application that ISVs with expertise in various mobile devices can use to build connectors. Mobile plug-ins for QuickPlace are already in the market, for example. We will be working with ISVs to build similar capability for Lotus Quickr.
- #40 Finally, simplicity. I hope that everything you have heard today…. all the sample screens that you’ve seen, the story of Quickr connectors … all this has convinced you that we are laser-focused on the end user experience and simplicity.