Presentation about IBM Connections/Pink Jason Gary of IBM at ICON Switzerland, September 2017

1. The Future of
Enterprise Software
Jason Roy Gary
IBM Director of Software Engineering
Distinguished Engineer
@jasonroygary
jasonroygary@us.ibm.com

2. 6 Connections 6
31 March

3. “Software Engineers are Far More
Important than the Code they Produce”

4. “People Who Write Software are Not
Smarter than People Who Use Software”

5. 5 10/27/17

6. All New Connections
Cutting Edge Codebase and Technologies
Get Started with Connections 6
Coexistence
Easy Migration
A Vision and Journey
PINK

7. Pink is
About How

8. Starting Over
But Integrating
with the Past

9. Pink Works in
IBM’s Cloud, a
Partners Cloud, or
Your Private Cloud

10. Pink Allows
Your Data to
Stay Where
You Want it

11. Pink is a Journey
Not a Destination

12. Pink Technology

13. 13
Proxy
Middleware layer
API gateway
API assembler New-to-Legacy APIs Legacy-to-New APIs GraphQL
Mapping
Thro?ling Caching
AuthenBcaBon Response modificaBon
… …
Green
Profiles
Pink
Profiles
Blue
Profiles
Partner
Clients
Mobile
Clients
Desktop Clients
Desktop Plugins
API Explorer
Profiles
Client
GraphQL
ExisBng data is migrated

15. Pink Technology
Modern CI-CD
StrongLoop / IBM API Connect
(node.js/express)
SWIFT / GO
React.js
MongoDB
Redis
Ngnx
Docker

17. 2017 2018
Connections Customizer Preview
First part of Pink Middleware. Allows
customers and partners to easily
customize the Connections UI.
OrientMe 2
First on premises update of OrientMe
containers released including cognitive
tuning updates, increased scalability, etc.
Connections 6 Mobile
Includes new search, community
features, all new navigation, etc.
Periscope UI Preview
A new modern theme using the latest
design elements for Connections Pink .
Connections Middleware
Seamless integration between existing
Connections deployments and the new
Pink Services.
Pink Mobile
GA release of Pink Mobile Clients.
Engagement Center
First release of IBM Connections
Engagement Center. Provides a digital
workspace that promotes internal
communication and employee
engagement.
Periscope UI GA
People Service
New People Service providing a unified
Profiles directory.
Content Service
New universal content store for all Pink
applications.
Engagement Center Pink
Pink release of Engagement Center
Engagement Center Cloud
Cloud release of Engagement Center
LiveGrid GA
Content Centric Apps
Leveraging the new Content Service to
provide files, wikis, blogs, and forums
experiences.
An additional new modern theme using
the latest design elements for
Connections Pink .
Build dynamic applications with
minimal or no coding experience.
Pink Mobile Preview
Leveraging latest technologies to build a
new Pink mobile experience starting
with Profiles / People.
OrientMe in Public Cloud
Deployment of OrientMe into Connections
Cloud
LiveGrid Preview
Build dynamic applications with
minimal or no coding experience.
Live Remarks
Enable and manage reactions on content (e.g.
Like and Comment) across Connections and
3rd Party services.
IC 6 CR1
CR1 for IBM Connections 6 including
new metrics service.
Pink Notes
Note taking with social and graph
context.
Connections Customizer
First part of Pink Middleware. Allows
customers and partners to easily
customize the Connections UI.
Periscope UI Preview
A new modern theme using the latest
design elements for Connections Pink .
Verse on Premises 1.0.3
Calendar and other cloud parity updates.

18. Let’s Take a Look at Pink Coming
Soon

19. Muse

20. LiveGrid

21. live grid

22. cognitive folders

23. pink Notes

24. docs track changes

25. client strategy

26. others

27. Suggested PeopleFavourites
Add Remove
Communit
y
Home(Go to Ac tiv ity Stream)
important to me

28. real-time everywhere

29. 3D Search

32. Three Things about Pink

33. Pink - How
“We Are Not Going to Build
Software for Our Customers and
Partners, We Are Going to Build
Software with Them.”

34. Pink -
Omnipresent
“You Choose Your Deployment
Model and Where Your Data
Goes. You Can Integrate In, and
Out, with Other Systems”

35. Pink -
Disruption
“Now is the Time to Change
Everything, Integrate with Today
and Define Tomorrow”

36. why pink?

37. Pink,
Needs
You!