The document discusses how to build apps rapidly by leveraging services from IBM Collaboration Solutions. It introduces Niklas Heidloff and Henning Schmidt and provides two sample scenarios: a Partner Community app built using IBM SmartCloud for Social Business and a Loan Manager app built using IBM Connections. The document demonstrates how these apps were implemented using the IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK and XPages for rapid development. It summarizes the key services accessed from the SDK, such as profiles, files, tasks and forums. The document encourages developers to reuse existing collaboration services rather than reinventing functionality.

1. AD206: Build Apps Rapidly
by Leveraging Services
from IBM® Collaboration
Solutions
Niklas Heidloff, IBM
Henning Schmidt, hedersoft
© 2014 IBM Corporation

2. Who we are
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 Niklas Heidloff
– IBM
– IBM Collaboration Solutions app dev community advocate
– OpenNTF director and technical committee chair
– @nheidloff / heidloff.net
 Henning Schmidt
– Co-founder of hedersoft
– OpenNTF member, contributor and sponsor
– XPages enthusiast
– Dedicated to Social Business
– @schmhen / schmhen.de

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4. Don't reinvent the Wheel
 How many times have you implemented this?
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– User profiles
– Files
– Tasks and updates

5. Agenda
 Services from IBM Collaboration Solutions
 Scenarios
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– Partner Community
– Loan Manager
 Implementation
– IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK
– XPages
 Resources and Questions

6. Scenarios: Extensibility and Social Apps
 Extensibility / Inside – Out
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– Extend IBM Collaboration Solutions user interfaces
to integrate third party apps
– Via OpenSocial gadgets, iWidgets, SPIs and
extension points
 Social Apps / Outside – In
– Utilize the services of IBM Collaboration Solutions
as infrastructure for your apps
– Via the Social Business Tookit SDK

7. Sample Scenario: Partner Community
 IBM SmartCloud® for Social Business (SC4SB) provides
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a big set of out of the box functionality, for example:
– Ability to invite guests
– Communities with forums, files, file synchronization, etc.
 Apps can be developed to extend the SC4SB functionality to implement specific business
requirements, specifically:
– Workflow functionality
– Internal discussions

8. Sample Scenario: Partner Community
 Zeta Insurance is a fictive health insurance company that sells their products through
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partners, the insurance brokers
Zeta Insurance
Support Specialists
Insurance Brokers
SC4SB Community Internal Support App
Paul Zhou Samantha Daryn Harry Greene

9. Demo: Partner Community
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10. Sample Scenario: Loan Manager
 IBM Connections offers a large set
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of functionality just like SC4SB
 These functions can be used 'as-is' or
consumed as services in order to create
new applications

11. Sample Scenario: Loan Manager
 Customer advisors and accountant clerks are closely working together on loan applications
 Customer advisors initiate new loan applications as requested by customers
 Accountant clerks have to check the applications and prepare all paperwork
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Customer Advisor Accountant Clerk
Ed El-Amon Fernando Brion

12. Demo: Loan Manager
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13. IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK
 Build your social apps with the SDK
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– Leverage IBM Collaboration Solutions
– Simplify Development
– Speed Up Deployment
 Services
– Profiles, files, status updates, tasks,
forums and much more
 Access to services
– Java and JavaScript APIs
– Generic REST calls
– Reusable UI controls

14. IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK Components
 SDK (open source)
 Development community
 IBM Collaboration QuickStart image
 Playground
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15. Functionality used in Sample Scenarios
 Loan Manager
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– XPages and SDK
– IBM Connections
– App
– OAuth
– Services
● Files
● Activity streams
● Activity and to dos
 Partner Community
– XPages and SDK
– SC4SB
– SC4SB user interface and App
– Basic authentication
– Service
● Forums
– UI controls
● Community members
– SC4SB UI extension
– Embedded experience

16. Rome wasn't built in a Day, but the Samples were
 Loan Manager
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– 2 XPages
– 18 Custom controls
– 3 Java classes
– 3 Views
– 2 CSS
– 62 KB (not minified, not compressed)
– 24 KB (not minified, compressed)
 Partner Community
– 11 XPages
– 14 Custom controls
– 4 Java classes
– 3 Views
– 1 CSS
– 84 KB (not minified, not compressed)
– 32 KB (not minified, compressed)

17. Usage of the Social Business Toolkit SDK in XPages
com.ibm.xsp.sbtsdk.library
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Playground
XPagesSBT.nsf

18. Basic Authentication
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19. Basic Authentication
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20. OAuth
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21. Java APIs
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22. Cache
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23. Cache
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24. userBean
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25. UI Controls
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26. UI Controls
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27. SmartCloud UI Extension
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28. Summary
 Don't reinvent the wheel. Use services provided by IBM Collaboration Solutions
 Use the IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK to access IBM Collaboration Solutions
 XPages = Rapid Application Development
 To get started with the SDK in XPages check out the various open source samples
 Use the 60 days trial of IBM SmartCloud for Social Business and the IBM Collaboration
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Quick Start image

29. Resources and Questions
 Home page: http://ibmdw.net/social
 SDK: http://ibmsbt.openntf.org
 GitHub: https://github.com/OpenNTF/SocialSDK
 Webinars: https://www.ibmdw.net/social/events/
 StackOverflow: #ibmsbt
 Twitter: @ibmsbt
 YouTube: http://youtube.com/ibmsbt
 Playground: http://bit.ly/sbtplayground
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Image via Placeit.net

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62. Engage Online
 SocialBiz User Group socialbizug.org
– Join the epicenter of Notes and Collaboration user groups
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Engage Online
 Follow us on Twitter
– @IBMConnect and @IBMSocialBiz
 LinkedIn http://bit.ly/SBComm
– Participate in the IBM Social Business group on LinkedIn:
 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/IBMSocialBiz
– Like IBM Social Business on Facebook
 Social Business Insights blog ibm.com/blogs/socialbusiness
– Read and engage with our bloggers

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– Connect Online kiosk onsite

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