Introduction to IBM Connections & Pink

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Welcome to
IBM Connections 6

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IBM Connections
Is a leading business social network platform that helps you get work done
Eliminate barriers to
collaboration while
traveling or at other
locations
Extend
Expertise
Greater understanding
creates better business
outcomes.
Get Work
Done
Eliminate barriers to
collaboration while traveling
or at other locations.
Innovate Anywhere.
Inspire Innovation
Analytics and
personalization help drive
adoption and deepen
relationships.
Trust
People
Bring customers
and partners into
the conversation
Empower
People
Work with anyone, anytime,
anywhere, even offline
Engage
People
Filter out the noise,
illuminate ideas

IBM Connections 6.0
Enhanced On-boarding
Users are guided through their on-boarding experience when they first join they will be prompted with suggestions for building their network and discovering
relevant content.
Modern Communities
Build out your communities now with more options to design and customize the community homepage. Use the new rich text application to enhance the look &
feel of your community with CSS/HTML. Copy existing layouts to spend less time re-creating and more time adding content to enable you and your teams!
Files Experience
Store, organize and sync your files / folders with the new Files experience. Use My Drive to sync folders and files between your desktop and IBM Connections
Files. Leverage IBM’s new object-based storage solution to drive down costs when storing large amounts of data.
Orient Me
This component leverages the power of cognitive and provides a homepage that is tailored and personalized to what is important to you! This allows users to
filter out the noise and easily see content that is most relevant.
Mobile
To keep in constant touch use the newly designed IBM Connections mobile app,
on your smartphone or tablet, and be productive on-the-go!

On-boarding Experience
Welcome new users into
Connections by guiding them
through a personalized
experience
while helping them to learn about
the new features and functions.

New Onboarding and User Adoption Experience
Let’s make this more engaging !

A New Personalized Onboarding Experience
• Drive adoption by welcoming new users.
• New users are guided through a few steps to capture information.
• From suggested lists new users can easily select people and communities to follow.
• Guided tours to fast start with homepage, files and community apps.

A New Onboarding Experience
Personalize by adding a profile
photo
Make it your own by selecting
areas of interest so others
can learn more about you and
the work you are doing.

Easily select colleagues to follow
Tap the card to get details
Select from recommended
Communities, or quickly and
easily search to find other
content you may be interested
in.

Users can exit at any point, and come
back to finish later
But why exit ? You are almost done

Guided Tours
First time users can understand the
value of the offering via intro screens
that describe the experience.

Make the first five
minutes a great
experience !
OrientMeGuidedTourExperience

First Time User Experiences - Communities
• IBM Connections 6 Communities have a new modern and easily customizable layouts.
• Utilize Touchpoint and Guided Tours to help drive visibility and ease of use.

Guided Tours - Communities First Time Experience
In four clicks, new users
get a quick guide to
understand Communities
landing page options.

Guided Tours - Files First Time Experience
Get started with the new
enhanced Files experience.
• Get Organized
• Find or create a File
• Take Action
• My Drive and Sync

Guided Tours - Homepage First Time Experience
This is your Command Center!
• See what needs attention
• Easily customize to make it
yours

Modern Communities
Community owners have more
options to design and customize their
Community Homepage.

Provide Community Owners more options when designing their custom Community
Homepage.
Allow Community owners to copy existing layouts and designs from one Community into a new
one.
Modern Communities

Rich Text Application
enhanced with CSS and
HTML.

New layouts for a modern look
and feel to your community.

Newly designed top navigation bar.

Clear and defined widget styes.

Create new communities using layouts
and templates from existing communities.

Rich Text App content is
automatically copied over.
Widget labels are copied
over but data is not.
Members are not copied over.
Only the owner is displayed in
the community by default.

Files Experience
IBM Connections users have full control
over their folders and files to collaborate,
share files and stay organized.

Use My Drive to keep folders and files
synced between your desktop and
Connections.
Files Experience

Store all of your content, documents,
spreadsheets, photos and more in a central
location making them easily accessible from
anywhere.
Get Organized!

Enhanced Files
New My Drive view
for all files & folders I
want to keep in sync
Add files or folders from
your personal files or
someone else's files…
… and they will be
sync’d to your
desktop

IBM Cloud Object Storage
Store your organizations files in IBM’s Object-
Based Storage solution
More Information on IBM Object-Based Storage

Orient Me
Business users have clarity, control,
and the insights they need to
confidently make informed
decisions.

Important people and communities always in view

Prioritized updates based on
your behavior and interaction
with your colleagues

Updates grouped by person,
community or content

Notification Center available
everywhere in IBM Connections

Quick Selection
Users can quickly see a filtered view
of all updates from a specific person
or community, with one click.

Filter your feed to see updates
from specific people in your
organization with Quick
Selection!

Filter your feed to see updates
from communities that are
important to you with one click!

Take Action
Users can act on an update by
commenting on it or liking it
directly from the homepage.

Take action on an update
and comment or “like” it.

Integrated Notifications
The new integrated notifications side
bar provides important updates and
notifications to users from
IBM Connections and Microsoft Outlook

The newly designed notification
side-bar makes it easy for you to see
your notifications, updates and
tasks.

Mobilize!
Business users can stay engaged and
connected with their teams on-the-go
without skipping a beat!

Mobile
Users see updates grouped by
person, community or content in card
format.
New persistent navigation
Advanced search capabilities
provide quick results and history view.
In the Notification Center, users can
access
a summary of their day at-a-glance.

Mobile
When displayed on a mobile
tablet the user experience is
responsive to the additional
screen real estate and provides
the user more information.

IBM Connections 6.0 – more
Previous IBM Connections Cloud updates delivered in IBM Connections 6:
• Remove Inactive Users from Community (wsadmin command)
• Large File Upload (> 2GB)
• Rich Text Editor: Copy/Paste Formatting (inline, list and table styles)
• Search UX improvements / History view
• File upload enhancements in File Viewer panel
• Preview/edit additional file types in File Viewer
• Open specific Forum item (Permalink)

IBM Connections – Search Enhancements
Enhanced designs and capabilities
• Search has been
streamlined to help you
find Connections Cloud
content faster and it
remembers the pages
you visited.
• A new search icon is
available regardless of
where you are on the
page. Open the search
panel to search. Or use
the panel to go back to
pages you've previously
visited.

IBM Connections – Search Enhancements
Enhanced search history
• Before you search anything, the panel
displays the previous 500 pages you've
visited in chronological order.
• This feature is especially helpful when
someone gives you a link to a page and later
you'd like to go back to that page but can't
remember where it is.
• Type-ahead in the search field immediately
brings you pages that you have viewed
before.

Introducing
IBM Connections
Engagement Center

The Future is…
PINK

Composed of integrated applications
where users and cognitive systems collaborate
in an environment tailored to their needs
allowing work to seamlessly flow between different mediums,
in context
Connections PINK: An engagement platform
tying together people and their content in the fabric of collaboration

• Designed for usability
Connections PINK
• Focused on the people you collaborate with
• Focused on the content you collaborate on
• Focused on engagement
• Delivering low code/no code application development
• Inherently cognitive
• Built for agility and future needs

What analysts are saying
about Connections Pink
”Pink represents a
significant break from
established product
development
methodologies within IBM”
–Brad Shimmin
“The focus on leveraging skills
through collaboration, internal and
external user experience and
customer-focused success measures
makes IBM Pink products worth
looking at closely.” --IDC
Faced with a constantly shifting and increasingly competitive collaboration
technology market, IBM is completely overhauling its established IBM
Connections technology to make it more flexible, scalable, and ready for the
next generation of customer needs. –MWD Advisors

® 2017 IBM Collaboration Solutions
Work the way you want
Our solutions run on our
public cloud, your dedicated
cloud, private cloud, or in
hybrid cloud scenarios*.
You should control where
your data lives.*
Your cloud and
your data
Our solutions are optimized
for digital business with
continuous delivery,
engaging end-to-end
experiences, and value that
will keep you coming back
for more.
Easy to try,
deploy, and grow
Always
up-to-date
Your solutions should
understand the way you
work and the language of
your profession. They
should be easily tailored to
meet any need by you.
*Watson services available on public and dedicated cloud.

IBM Connections
Evolved
IBM Connections Blue
On Premise
IBM Connections Green
Cloud
IBM Connections Pink
• New codebase
• Interoperability with Blue and
Green
• IBM Public Cloud current codebase
• Orient Me – First of the Pink Features
• Enhanced Files and Communities
• Box.com Integration
• Fit and Finish
• Connections On-Premise current
codebase
• Orient Me – First of the Pink Features
• Enhanced Files and Communities
• User On-boarding (Touchpoint)
Fit and Finish

Continuously updated
Container-based deployment
• No more 18-month release cycles
• No more costly upgrades
• Streamlines and simplifies on premises
updates
Flexible
Micro-service based architecture
• More consistent experience across the apps
• Faster to new features
• Improves experience for both cloud and on
premises customers
Customizable
Separate presentation and service layers
(Proxy Server??)
•Customize, easily
•Stay current
Expandable
Everything will be an API
•Painlessly add 3rd party applications to
your environment
•Seamlessly integrate the experience
•Choose alternatives to Connections apps
from growing list of partners
Connections PINK

TODAY

Deploy
Connections
Implement
Business
Solutions
Migration
Planning
Current
Use
Review
Require-
ments
workshop
Explore
Connections
Capabilities
Implemen-
tation
Planning
Licensing
Review
Implemen-
tation /
Upgrade
Planning
Next Steps:
New Connections Implementations

Deploy
Connections
Implement
Business
Solutions
Migration
Planning
Current
Use
Review
Require-
ments
workshop
Explore
Connections
Capabilities
Implemen-
tation
Planning
Licensing
Review
Implemen-
tation /
Upgrade
Planning
Next Steps:
Upgrading or Re-Instating Existing Connections

Deploy
Connections
Implement
Business
Solutions
Migration
Planning
Current
Use
Review
Require-
ments
workshop
Explore
Connections
Capabilities
Implemen-
tation
Planning
Licensing
Review
Implemen-
tation /
Upgrade
Planning
Next Steps:
Migrating from SharePoint / Yammer / Jive

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