All major software vendors are switching their business model to cloud based delivery. Will this be a win / win situation for vendors and customers or is it just a more effective vendor lock in?
In this session we are discussing different aspects to provide a better understanding
– for software companies business model to move its customers to their Cloud solution and
– for the potential benefits and risk for enterprise customers abandoning their on-premise infrastructure
Socialize your ERP, and collaborate with him!LetsConnect
Discussion on how to turn your ERP from the old view, where you have to search for information, to the new method where your ERP becomes an integral part of the community, pushing the information in the community.
Bringing together an Exceptional Digital Experience, where WebSphere Portal and Connections, become the dashboard where the information managed by SAP are integrated.
SAP comes to you, bringing the information when you need it, where you need it.
The European Collaboration continues – a progress reportLetsConnect
Earlier this year we went live with a collaboration platform for a European insurance conglomerate. We moved from an antiquated chat server and different IBM Notes databases to a fully integrated platform with IBM Sametime, IBM Connections and IBM Notes/Domino and XPages applications. To top it all up, we customised the user experience with a design partner to create a unique collaboration platform.
We’ll talk about the starting point, the pitfalls, the successful results, how the platform is used now and what the plans for the next phase are. We’ll also talk about low hanging fruits, user feedback and share the learnings.
Managing Meeting Minutes – A concept for a Connections addonLetsConnect
Meetings and how to manage the meeting minutes are a recurring topic in many organizations. How can an organization share the essential information, decision, task or document with all those who need to know, while keeping the transcript of the meeting in one place and some parts of it locked.
As it happens, one of the first use cases that we tested when trying out Connections, was managing information and tasks from and within meetings. We soon realized that we need to keep many meetings out of Connections until a few requirements are met.
In this session we will discuss the requirements of sharing information in an organization that is – by law and tradition – rather focused on security and not sharing information. Different types of meetings and different resulting types of data will be analyzed. A concept for creating meeting minutes and distributing them over several communities will be presented.
This session is meant to be a conversation starter.
Webinar: Microsoft Power Platform Licensing UntangledWithum
When it comes to Microsoft licensing, have you ever felt like you need a PhD in mathematics to make sense of the maze of products and interaction between them? You wouldn’t be alone. It is not uncommon to assume that because you have Office 365, PowerApps and Power Automate are free to use and that PowerBI is integrated and available. While this is true in some cases, there are many licensing scenarios to consider in order to take advantage of numerous advanced features of the platform.
This session is your comprehensive guide to Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents) licensing. We cover:
- What the Power Planform is, what products it entails and what you can do with them.
- What IS and ISN’T included with Office 365.
- Licensing options for the more advanced scenarios of automating your business processes with examples on how to integrate licensing.
Fight them or join them? Surviving and thriving with IBM Collaboration in an ...LetsConnect
Your company is considering, deciding or now adopting Office 365 and you like IBM. What do you do? Look for a new job? Take some Microsoft training? Challenge the IT director to a UFC match?
In reality, Microsoft has successfully convinced customers to trade in their perpetual licenses for a perpetual expense. But what does that mean for your plans for IBM moving forward?
Come and understand how to fit IBM in a Microsoft world and where the opportunities to innovate and deliver higher levels of engagement and collaboration to your organization.
Webinar: Stay Productive at Home with Microsoft 365Withum
Best Practices for Working from Home During Time of Crisis – How Microsoft 365 Can Help
In this informative webinar learn about best practices for managing working from home and how to leverage the power of Microsoft 365 to improve business continuity, productivity and security during a crisis.
Whether you are already actively using Microsoft Teams or are just in the process of rolling it out, you do not want to forget about governance.
Our experts share their vast experience on how they have guided clients in making the right decisions around Microsoft Teams governance for a successful rollout.
In this first session, you will learn insights and best practices for:
- Automated Teams Governance
- Microsoft Teams Policies
- External and Guest Access
Webinar: Accelerating Process Automation with Low/No-Code Forms TechnologyWithum
Learn about a low-code intelligent process automation platform WEBCON BPS for Microsoft 365. Learn how we enabled our customer to convert hundreds of requests per month into a seamless and standardized business process. We will teach you how we translated a complex process into a simple, intuitive solution using WEBCON BPS.
Socialize your ERP, and collaborate with him!LetsConnect
Discussion on how to turn your ERP from the old view, where you have to search for information, to the new method where your ERP becomes an integral part of the community, pushing the information in the community.
Bringing together an Exceptional Digital Experience, where WebSphere Portal and Connections, become the dashboard where the information managed by SAP are integrated.
SAP comes to you, bringing the information when you need it, where you need it.
The European Collaboration continues – a progress reportLetsConnect
Earlier this year we went live with a collaboration platform for a European insurance conglomerate. We moved from an antiquated chat server and different IBM Notes databases to a fully integrated platform with IBM Sametime, IBM Connections and IBM Notes/Domino and XPages applications. To top it all up, we customised the user experience with a design partner to create a unique collaboration platform.
We’ll talk about the starting point, the pitfalls, the successful results, how the platform is used now and what the plans for the next phase are. We’ll also talk about low hanging fruits, user feedback and share the learnings.
Managing Meeting Minutes – A concept for a Connections addonLetsConnect
Meetings and how to manage the meeting minutes are a recurring topic in many organizations. How can an organization share the essential information, decision, task or document with all those who need to know, while keeping the transcript of the meeting in one place and some parts of it locked.
As it happens, one of the first use cases that we tested when trying out Connections, was managing information and tasks from and within meetings. We soon realized that we need to keep many meetings out of Connections until a few requirements are met.
In this session we will discuss the requirements of sharing information in an organization that is – by law and tradition – rather focused on security and not sharing information. Different types of meetings and different resulting types of data will be analyzed. A concept for creating meeting minutes and distributing them over several communities will be presented.
This session is meant to be a conversation starter.
Webinar: Microsoft Power Platform Licensing UntangledWithum
When it comes to Microsoft licensing, have you ever felt like you need a PhD in mathematics to make sense of the maze of products and interaction between them? You wouldn’t be alone. It is not uncommon to assume that because you have Office 365, PowerApps and Power Automate are free to use and that PowerBI is integrated and available. While this is true in some cases, there are many licensing scenarios to consider in order to take advantage of numerous advanced features of the platform.
This session is your comprehensive guide to Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents) licensing. We cover:
- What the Power Planform is, what products it entails and what you can do with them.
- What IS and ISN’T included with Office 365.
- Licensing options for the more advanced scenarios of automating your business processes with examples on how to integrate licensing.
Fight them or join them? Surviving and thriving with IBM Collaboration in an ...LetsConnect
Your company is considering, deciding or now adopting Office 365 and you like IBM. What do you do? Look for a new job? Take some Microsoft training? Challenge the IT director to a UFC match?
In reality, Microsoft has successfully convinced customers to trade in their perpetual licenses for a perpetual expense. But what does that mean for your plans for IBM moving forward?
Come and understand how to fit IBM in a Microsoft world and where the opportunities to innovate and deliver higher levels of engagement and collaboration to your organization.
Webinar: Stay Productive at Home with Microsoft 365Withum
Best Practices for Working from Home During Time of Crisis – How Microsoft 365 Can Help
In this informative webinar learn about best practices for managing working from home and how to leverage the power of Microsoft 365 to improve business continuity, productivity and security during a crisis.
Whether you are already actively using Microsoft Teams or are just in the process of rolling it out, you do not want to forget about governance.
Our experts share their vast experience on how they have guided clients in making the right decisions around Microsoft Teams governance for a successful rollout.
In this first session, you will learn insights and best practices for:
- Automated Teams Governance
- Microsoft Teams Policies
- External and Guest Access
Webinar: Accelerating Process Automation with Low/No-Code Forms TechnologyWithum
Learn about a low-code intelligent process automation platform WEBCON BPS for Microsoft 365. Learn how we enabled our customer to convert hundreds of requests per month into a seamless and standardized business process. We will teach you how we translated a complex process into a simple, intuitive solution using WEBCON BPS.
Webinar: Productivity for Legal Professionals with Microsoft 365Withum
Legal professionals today face many challenges. They need to not only ensure compliance, and make sure their documents are secure and easily shared internally and with clients, but ensure business continuity even while working remotely.
Learn best practices for working remotely and see how to improve your firm’s business continuity, productivity and security with Microsoft 365.
Webinar: Modernizing Your Supply Chain ManagementWithum
This webinar helps guide the development of your digital supply networks. Our experts share insights and tips that will help you rethink key business processes to achieve your supply chain and operational efficiencies.
In this session we share how you can:
- Modernize your systems and tools
- Reduce complexity, consolidate & simplify the technology footprint
- Optimize technology investments to drive value through discipline and accountability
- Streamline/re-think key processes to achieve financial and operational efficiencies
Taking a Strategic Approach to the Use of Microsoft Office 365Michael Sampson
Slides from my presentation at the Digital Workplace Conference 2016, on taking a strategic approach to the use of Office 365, covering the four aspects of the approach.
Driving the Digital Workplace with Office 365Bill Ryan
Organizations are moving to Microsoft Office 365 at unprecedented speed making the platform Microsoft’s most successful product in it’s history. Many organizations use Office 365 for Exchange but have little expertise in understanding how to utilize the collaboration features of the platform. Companies struggle to understand how to deploy and use SharePoint, Lync, and Yammer as these features often go unused:
- SharePoint is often used simply as a document store
- There is little focus on integrating the Office 365 components into a cohesive solution
- Organizations lack the knowledge in how to put it all together to drive the Digital Workplace
On-Demand Webinar: Evolving Intranet for HealthcareWithum
With so many ways to communicate and collaborate within Microsoft 365, how does the concept of an Intranet, or central portal, fit into the Healthcare landscape?
In this on-demand webinar, our intranet experts discussed three successful use cases for the evolving Intranet to satisfy today’s centralized communications process for Healthcare systems with 30,000 employees. The good news, the Intranet is not the same as it was, but they showed that you can manage content and processes centrally, and have individuals access the information where they work every day.
The three use cases were:
- Intranet Everywhere – Web pages and within Microsoft Teams
- Centralizing Corporate Communications with News
- Automating Processes with Bots – Finding and Requesting materials
Governing Office 365 Webinar - ClearBox with DebbleSam Marshall
In this webinar we look at the options for managing Office 365, and how to govern it so that it’s aligned with how your organisation works. Co-hosted by Sam Marshall of ClearBox and Franck van Diest of Debble.
Part of the appeal of Office 365 is that you get a broad range of tools. People are also empowered with a lot of freedom to request and manage features, such as sites, groups and teams. This openness can work well in some situations, but can also cause confusion.
-How Office 365 gives users freedom
-Why Microsoft’s push to let everyone do anything isn’t a great idea
-Strategies for Office 365 and SharePoint governance settings
-Why silos aren’t always such a bad thing.
Developing a Strategic Approach to Microsoft Office 365Michael Sampson
Going beyond a tactical approach to Office 365, and thinking strategically. Includes two approaches for doing so - top-down (starting from strategy) and bottom-up (starting from technology-enabled opportunities).
You started out with the best of intentions. Then things started to go wrong.
You wanted to deploy an intranet solution to improve communication and collaboration. You had dreams of engaged employees easily sharing and managing their content. But then things started to go wrong. If your intranet is failing, it's likely that your intentions were sound, but your expectations were unrealistic.
In this webinar Daniel Cohen-Dumani, founder and CEO of Portal Solutions and OneWindow Workplace, tells us about the 7 Signs Your Intranet is Failing (...And How to Fix It).
We discussed:
- The seven signs of a failing intranet
- Using the right tool(s) for your organization's needs
- Governance planning
- Setting goals and measuring ROI
- The overwhelming importance of having a plan
The fork in the road - the Application Modernization Roadmap for Notes/Domin...John Head
For the past five years, PSC has presented at conferences all over the world sharing our vision of how applying a modernization methodology to Notes & Domino can lead to major improvements in user adoption and accessibility. The impact is felt by the user, the developer, and the ROI of the application. During this time, we have been successfully applying the same proven processes to other technologies outside of the ICS realm. It is now time to bring those worlds together. There are a lot of questions in the community about what to do with our applications given the change in Notes/Domino application development roadmap. This session will give you the PSC perspective on your options. It will include our vision for IBM XPages, including IBM Bluemix and will highlight our integration work with IBM Digital Experience. We will showcase our work with other technologies, including Microsoft (Office365, Azure, Addins, and more), Nintex, OutSystems, QuickBase, to name a few. This session is for Notes/Domino/XPages customers who want robust options to modernize their existing applications. We will show you other platforms as well as announce an exciting partnership that will allow IBM XPages apps to have life on other platforms as well. Come and see real world demos of how our strategy is working for our existing customers and will work for you. We can help you navigate the road ahead.
Re imagining Productive Work with Office 365 - at OSPUG October 2016Michael Sampson
Slides from the Office 365 and SharePoint User Group meeting in Christchurch on October 6, 2016. There was a workshop activity during the session for participants to explore one of two scenarios.
Webinar: Microsoft Teams Adoption and GovernanceWithum
Whether you are already actively using Microsoft Teams or are just in the process of rolling it out, you can’t forget two important factors: adoption and governance. Adoption and governance are key for a smooth transition and longevity. In this webinar we will look at the lifecycle of managing Teams governance and discoverability with a demonstration.
We share insights and best practices for:
- Teams request creation made easy using templates
- Teams naming conventions
- Security including guest access and data access/retention policy
- Boosting Microsoft Teams adoption
Every year we independently evaluate the marketplace for SharePoint intranet in-a-box products. In this webinar, we take an industry focus to consider the trends and prospects for products and vendors.
We'll begin with the state of the art identified in our 2019 SharePoint Intranets report, and compare Microsoft's roadmap with how vendors have responded. We'll also look at trends outside the SharePoint space and ask what should be learned.
Join us for 30 minutes of analysis and discussion, covering:
• In-a-box product trends
• Vendor changes and acquisitions, such as Wizdom, LiveTiles and Bonzai
• The non-SharePoint intranet space
• Likely developments into 2020
• Q&A.
Although practitioners are very welcome to join, this webinar is primarily aimed at vendors, service providers, Microsoft partners and investors.
Portal Solutions' Rick Hinton, Vice President, Products & Solutions and Mobile Entree's Lisa Ruff, Business Development Manager discuss how you can stay productive as you access your content, applications and data – anytime, anywhere, from the palm of your hand with any mobile device.
Office 365 allows small and medium sized companies to compete with large enterprises with the same collaboration technology they've been using for years. Implementing the Digital Workplace with Office 365 enables your teams to work from anywhere on any device. Use the power of the Microsoft Cloud to compete and outpace your competition.
Content Chaos: Why SharePoint and Office 365 Aren't the (only) AnswerZia Consulting
When Microsoft launched SharePoint, it was made for simply sharing documents within departments. Today, many organizations are trying to use it as their primary content management solution—their “system of record”—even though it was never designed for this.
In a recent ECM market study we see that:
93% of respondents use SharePoint in some manner within their organization
More than 75% still have a “strong commitment” to it
Yet...
Only 11% of these organizations see their deployment as a success
Why is this?
The leading concern is around the lack of true information governance capabilities within SharePoint. This makes it challenging to address compliance and security concerns. Additionally, significant issues remain around utilizing SharePoint for workflow/business processes or case management tasks. Finally, confusion around how to leverage SharePoint Online and Office 365—whether as a standalone or hybrid model—has further contributed to the “content chaos” around SharePoint.
In order to be successful, you need an organizational content management strategy that provides IT with security and compliance, while giving end users an intuitive experience for increased adoption. Ideally, your ECM should include:
SharePoint integration and synchronization
Federated search
Automated records management
Universal Content Security—from SharePoint to Alfresco and external collaboration
Document processing including case management and capture
Integration with Office/Email 365
and more….
How we can help
This presentation will further discuss known issues around SharePoint. We will also identify ways your company can implement solutions that ensure security and user adoption—through integration with your existing SharePoint deployment. You will also have the opportunity to network with industry peers and talk with leaders in ECM solutions.
IBM Connections and Office 365 are often considered as direct competitors. In this presentation I will describe the social capabilities of both platforms and explain why IBM Connections is much better :-)
Discover why turnkey intranets are becoming the norm.
A turnkey solution is perfect for organizations with limited resources to build and deploy a robust digital workplace. That's because the flexibility, low setup costs, as well as the outsourced support and maintenance the intranet-as-a-service model provides, holds immense appeal for organizations from startups to the massive enterprise. See why a turnkey intranet should be your next solution.
In this webinar, Daniel Cohen-Dumani, founder and CEO of Portal Solutions and OneWindow Workplace, and Val Orekhov, CTO talked to us about how to ignite your intranet to help you increase productivity and increase employee engagement within your organization.
They discussed:
- What is a turnkey intranet
- How to decide between a custom or turnkey intranet solution
- Key benefits and features of OneWindow Workplace
While Office365 continues to grow at a rapid rate, adoption beyond Exchange can be slow without a strategy in place. This presentation discusses: a "go to market" strategy for a successful Office 365 deployment; productivity features that will enhance adoption; strategies for keeping end users engaged; how to track usage and activity so you can measure your success; and touches on many of the productivity features (Groups, Delve, Yammer, co-editing, etc). The primary focus, however, is on the management/ongoing educational aspects of a successful deployment.
You can find a video recording of this session via #Collab365 at https://youtu.be/uYpPx5R3lPY
Webinar: Productivity for Legal Professionals with Microsoft 365Withum
Legal professionals today face many challenges. They need to not only ensure compliance, and make sure their documents are secure and easily shared internally and with clients, but ensure business continuity even while working remotely.
Learn best practices for working remotely and see how to improve your firm’s business continuity, productivity and security with Microsoft 365.
Webinar: Modernizing Your Supply Chain ManagementWithum
This webinar helps guide the development of your digital supply networks. Our experts share insights and tips that will help you rethink key business processes to achieve your supply chain and operational efficiencies.
In this session we share how you can:
- Modernize your systems and tools
- Reduce complexity, consolidate & simplify the technology footprint
- Optimize technology investments to drive value through discipline and accountability
- Streamline/re-think key processes to achieve financial and operational efficiencies
Taking a Strategic Approach to the Use of Microsoft Office 365Michael Sampson
Slides from my presentation at the Digital Workplace Conference 2016, on taking a strategic approach to the use of Office 365, covering the four aspects of the approach.
Driving the Digital Workplace with Office 365Bill Ryan
Organizations are moving to Microsoft Office 365 at unprecedented speed making the platform Microsoft’s most successful product in it’s history. Many organizations use Office 365 for Exchange but have little expertise in understanding how to utilize the collaboration features of the platform. Companies struggle to understand how to deploy and use SharePoint, Lync, and Yammer as these features often go unused:
- SharePoint is often used simply as a document store
- There is little focus on integrating the Office 365 components into a cohesive solution
- Organizations lack the knowledge in how to put it all together to drive the Digital Workplace
On-Demand Webinar: Evolving Intranet for HealthcareWithum
With so many ways to communicate and collaborate within Microsoft 365, how does the concept of an Intranet, or central portal, fit into the Healthcare landscape?
In this on-demand webinar, our intranet experts discussed three successful use cases for the evolving Intranet to satisfy today’s centralized communications process for Healthcare systems with 30,000 employees. The good news, the Intranet is not the same as it was, but they showed that you can manage content and processes centrally, and have individuals access the information where they work every day.
The three use cases were:
- Intranet Everywhere – Web pages and within Microsoft Teams
- Centralizing Corporate Communications with News
- Automating Processes with Bots – Finding and Requesting materials
Governing Office 365 Webinar - ClearBox with DebbleSam Marshall
In this webinar we look at the options for managing Office 365, and how to govern it so that it’s aligned with how your organisation works. Co-hosted by Sam Marshall of ClearBox and Franck van Diest of Debble.
Part of the appeal of Office 365 is that you get a broad range of tools. People are also empowered with a lot of freedom to request and manage features, such as sites, groups and teams. This openness can work well in some situations, but can also cause confusion.
-How Office 365 gives users freedom
-Why Microsoft’s push to let everyone do anything isn’t a great idea
-Strategies for Office 365 and SharePoint governance settings
-Why silos aren’t always such a bad thing.
Developing a Strategic Approach to Microsoft Office 365Michael Sampson
Going beyond a tactical approach to Office 365, and thinking strategically. Includes two approaches for doing so - top-down (starting from strategy) and bottom-up (starting from technology-enabled opportunities).
You started out with the best of intentions. Then things started to go wrong.
You wanted to deploy an intranet solution to improve communication and collaboration. You had dreams of engaged employees easily sharing and managing their content. But then things started to go wrong. If your intranet is failing, it's likely that your intentions were sound, but your expectations were unrealistic.
In this webinar Daniel Cohen-Dumani, founder and CEO of Portal Solutions and OneWindow Workplace, tells us about the 7 Signs Your Intranet is Failing (...And How to Fix It).
We discussed:
- The seven signs of a failing intranet
- Using the right tool(s) for your organization's needs
- Governance planning
- Setting goals and measuring ROI
- The overwhelming importance of having a plan
The fork in the road - the Application Modernization Roadmap for Notes/Domin...John Head
For the past five years, PSC has presented at conferences all over the world sharing our vision of how applying a modernization methodology to Notes & Domino can lead to major improvements in user adoption and accessibility. The impact is felt by the user, the developer, and the ROI of the application. During this time, we have been successfully applying the same proven processes to other technologies outside of the ICS realm. It is now time to bring those worlds together. There are a lot of questions in the community about what to do with our applications given the change in Notes/Domino application development roadmap. This session will give you the PSC perspective on your options. It will include our vision for IBM XPages, including IBM Bluemix and will highlight our integration work with IBM Digital Experience. We will showcase our work with other technologies, including Microsoft (Office365, Azure, Addins, and more), Nintex, OutSystems, QuickBase, to name a few. This session is for Notes/Domino/XPages customers who want robust options to modernize their existing applications. We will show you other platforms as well as announce an exciting partnership that will allow IBM XPages apps to have life on other platforms as well. Come and see real world demos of how our strategy is working for our existing customers and will work for you. We can help you navigate the road ahead.
Re imagining Productive Work with Office 365 - at OSPUG October 2016Michael Sampson
Slides from the Office 365 and SharePoint User Group meeting in Christchurch on October 6, 2016. There was a workshop activity during the session for participants to explore one of two scenarios.
Webinar: Microsoft Teams Adoption and GovernanceWithum
Whether you are already actively using Microsoft Teams or are just in the process of rolling it out, you can’t forget two important factors: adoption and governance. Adoption and governance are key for a smooth transition and longevity. In this webinar we will look at the lifecycle of managing Teams governance and discoverability with a demonstration.
We share insights and best practices for:
- Teams request creation made easy using templates
- Teams naming conventions
- Security including guest access and data access/retention policy
- Boosting Microsoft Teams adoption
Every year we independently evaluate the marketplace for SharePoint intranet in-a-box products. In this webinar, we take an industry focus to consider the trends and prospects for products and vendors.
We'll begin with the state of the art identified in our 2019 SharePoint Intranets report, and compare Microsoft's roadmap with how vendors have responded. We'll also look at trends outside the SharePoint space and ask what should be learned.
Join us for 30 minutes of analysis and discussion, covering:
• In-a-box product trends
• Vendor changes and acquisitions, such as Wizdom, LiveTiles and Bonzai
• The non-SharePoint intranet space
• Likely developments into 2020
• Q&A.
Although practitioners are very welcome to join, this webinar is primarily aimed at vendors, service providers, Microsoft partners and investors.
Portal Solutions' Rick Hinton, Vice President, Products & Solutions and Mobile Entree's Lisa Ruff, Business Development Manager discuss how you can stay productive as you access your content, applications and data – anytime, anywhere, from the palm of your hand with any mobile device.
Office 365 allows small and medium sized companies to compete with large enterprises with the same collaboration technology they've been using for years. Implementing the Digital Workplace with Office 365 enables your teams to work from anywhere on any device. Use the power of the Microsoft Cloud to compete and outpace your competition.
Content Chaos: Why SharePoint and Office 365 Aren't the (only) AnswerZia Consulting
When Microsoft launched SharePoint, it was made for simply sharing documents within departments. Today, many organizations are trying to use it as their primary content management solution—their “system of record”—even though it was never designed for this.
In a recent ECM market study we see that:
93% of respondents use SharePoint in some manner within their organization
More than 75% still have a “strong commitment” to it
Yet...
Only 11% of these organizations see their deployment as a success
Why is this?
The leading concern is around the lack of true information governance capabilities within SharePoint. This makes it challenging to address compliance and security concerns. Additionally, significant issues remain around utilizing SharePoint for workflow/business processes or case management tasks. Finally, confusion around how to leverage SharePoint Online and Office 365—whether as a standalone or hybrid model—has further contributed to the “content chaos” around SharePoint.
In order to be successful, you need an organizational content management strategy that provides IT with security and compliance, while giving end users an intuitive experience for increased adoption. Ideally, your ECM should include:
SharePoint integration and synchronization
Federated search
Automated records management
Universal Content Security—from SharePoint to Alfresco and external collaboration
Document processing including case management and capture
Integration with Office/Email 365
and more….
How we can help
This presentation will further discuss known issues around SharePoint. We will also identify ways your company can implement solutions that ensure security and user adoption—through integration with your existing SharePoint deployment. You will also have the opportunity to network with industry peers and talk with leaders in ECM solutions.
IBM Connections and Office 365 are often considered as direct competitors. In this presentation I will describe the social capabilities of both platforms and explain why IBM Connections is much better :-)
Discover why turnkey intranets are becoming the norm.
A turnkey solution is perfect for organizations with limited resources to build and deploy a robust digital workplace. That's because the flexibility, low setup costs, as well as the outsourced support and maintenance the intranet-as-a-service model provides, holds immense appeal for organizations from startups to the massive enterprise. See why a turnkey intranet should be your next solution.
In this webinar, Daniel Cohen-Dumani, founder and CEO of Portal Solutions and OneWindow Workplace, and Val Orekhov, CTO talked to us about how to ignite your intranet to help you increase productivity and increase employee engagement within your organization.
They discussed:
- What is a turnkey intranet
- How to decide between a custom or turnkey intranet solution
- Key benefits and features of OneWindow Workplace
While Office365 continues to grow at a rapid rate, adoption beyond Exchange can be slow without a strategy in place. This presentation discusses: a "go to market" strategy for a successful Office 365 deployment; productivity features that will enhance adoption; strategies for keeping end users engaged; how to track usage and activity so you can measure your success; and touches on many of the productivity features (Groups, Delve, Yammer, co-editing, etc). The primary focus, however, is on the management/ongoing educational aspects of a successful deployment.
You can find a video recording of this session via #Collab365 at https://youtu.be/uYpPx5R3lPY
EIM360 La Gouvernance des espaces collaboratifs : Libérer l'information utile...Sollan France
Support de l'EIM360 de Sollan du 11 février dernier, avec les éditeurs EMC, Nuxeo et OpenText.
Vous souhaitez encourager la collaboration pour accélérer vos prises de décisions? Améliorer la réactivité, la productivité et l'efficacité de votre entreprise tout en conservant la maîtrise de votre information?
Les outils collaboratifs n'échappent pas à la gouvernance de l'information !
Explosion du volume de données ou Big Data, nouvelles exigences métiers, l'information de votre entreprise doit circuler librement et rapidement. Les salariés souhaitent collaborer, partager leurs documents, échanger facilement améliorant de fait la productivité globale et la connaissance de l'entreprise. En témoigne l'engouement pour les outils collaboratifs et les réseaux sociaux d'entreprise (RSE).
Le succès des ces outils dépend de la mise en place de règles associées. Sans ces règles, les risques sont grands : désordre, doublons de contenus, multiplication des espaces non utilisés, perte de cohérence, abandon de l'outil, etc.
Quelles règles appliquer à la création et à la gestion des communautés en gestion documentaire? Quels schémas d'organisation mettre en place pour assurer le succès des espaces collaboratifs?
Sollan vous propose un éclairage sur les capacités de gouvernance qu'apportent les outils collaboratifs, de réseaux sociaux d'entreprise (RSE) couplés aux fonctions de gestion documentaire.
Corriente que se basa en la observación del comportamiento o conducta del ser que se estudia y que explica el mismo como un conjunto de relaciones entre estímulos y respuestas.
Esta corriente es utilizada en la pedagogia y la psicologia.
Su pionero skinner nos contara un poco acerca de este...
Moving IBM i Applications to the Cloud with AWS and PreciselyPrecisely
Core transactional systems like IBM i represent an essential element of the global economy and run mission-critical business processes today.
However, to remain competitive in today’s constantly evolving IT landscape, organizations must integrate cloud-based technologies, such as those from the AWS Cloud, into their architecture to unlock business value, especially in advanced analytics and AI applications.
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3. Agenda
• Introduction
• Cloud
layers
• TCO
• IBM
&
MS
Offering
• Why
Cloud
?
• Vendors
Arguments
for
Customers
• Vendors
Arguments
for
Investors
Vendor
strategies
• What
you
need
to
consider
?
• Organizational
issues
• Security
&
Privacy
• Risk
Management
4. About me
• Studied
Business
Administration
and
Computer
Science
• Notes
Consulting
since
1994
• CEO
and
Founder
of
BCC
in
1996
• Working
as
project
manager
senior
architect
with
large
enterprise
customers
• Securing
IBM
Social
Business
infrastructures
• reducing
Total
cost
of
Ownership
of
IBM
Social
Business
Infrastructures
thru
automating
Administration
• IBM
Champion
in
2014
&
2015
• Twitter:
@OlafBoerner
5. Cloud
Service
Models
• CRM,
Email
,
Web
Meetings,
Virtual
Desktops
Software-‐as-‐a-‐Service
• Web
Servers,
Database
Servers,
Runtime
execution
Platform-‐as-‐a-‐Service
• Virtual
machines
,
Servers,
storages
etc.
Infrastructure-‐as-‐a-‐Service
6. TCO
– Total
Cost
of
Ownership
• TCO
is
used
to
calculate
all
relevant
cost
„driver“
for
an
IT
Service
over
a
given
time
frame
-‐>
Life
cycle
• TCO
can
be
split
in
• Cost
of
Investment
• Software
• Hardware
• Implementation
• Cost
of
Operation
• SW
Maintenance
• HW
Maintenance
• Personal
required
to
run
operations
• Facilities
and
power
• Cost
of
Divestment
• Deinstallation
• “Wrecking”
7. TCO
– Total
Cost
of
Ownership
TCO On
Premise Cloud
Cost of investment Signifcant investment in
Company
asset
3
to 5
years lifecycle
No /
Onboading only
Cost of operation Low to medium
Significant
„shared“
Cloud provider
investments has to be
included
Cost of divestment Low
Low
?
Data Migration
?
Provider
Offboarding
8. IBM
Social
Cloud
Offering
• Public
Cloud
based
on
Softlayer
• IBM
Connections
Cloud
S1
• Complete
package
• „Connections“
• Web
Meeting
• Verse
/
Notes
Mail
• Document
Editors
• Mobile
Apps
• IBM
Connections
Cloud
S2
• „Smaller“
package
• Without
Mail
and
Document
Editors
• IBM
Social
Cloud
Stand-‐alone
Service
• IBM
SmartCloud Notes
9. IBM
Social
Cloud
Stand-‐alone
Services
• IBM
Connection
Social
Cloud
• including
file
sharing,
personal
dashboard,
communities,
activities
and
instant
messaging
• IBM
Connection
Chat
Cloud
• Instantly
communicate
with
colleagues
inside
your
organization
with
text
chat,
audio
and
video,
file
transfer,
and
screen
capture.u
• IBM
Connection
Files
Cloud
• 1TB
File
storage,
sync,
and
sharing
in
a
security-‐rich
environment
across
web,
desktop,
and
mobile
devices.
• profiles
and
contacts,
post
status
updates,
and
view
updates
across
your
network.
• IBM
Connection
Meetings
Cloud
• Web
meetings
with
desktop
and
application
sharing,
chat,
and
polling.
Host
meetings
for
up
to
200
attendees
with
anyone
outside
your
company.
Intra-‐
company
meetings
require
subscriptions
by
all
internal
participants
10. MS
Cloud
Offerings
• Office
365
Enterprise
1
• Office
online
(web
browser)
• Mail
and
calendar
with
50
GB
per
User
• 1
TB
file
storage
and
sharing
for
each
user
• Skype
• Team
Site
• Vc
• Yammer
• Office
365
Enterprise
3
• E1
plus
• Advanced
E
Mail
• Full
Office
Suite
on
PC/Mac
with
apps
for
tablets
and
phones
• Seach and
Discovery
etc
• http://products.office.com/en-‐au/business/office-‐365-‐enterprise-‐e3-‐
business-‐software
11. Why
moving
to
the
cloud
?
Cloud
benefits
for
customers
What
Analysts
and
vendor
Marketing
are
telling
you
?
12. Common
arguments why
using
the
cloud
• Cost
arguments
• cost
efficient
-‐ reduce
your
cost
of
ownership
• Leverage
“economies
of
scale”
• No
IT
operation
overhead
• Pay
as
you
use
• Quality
Arguments
• Always
using
the
most
current
software
releases
• Better
business
results
due
to
modern
software
technologies
• Higher
availability
• No
license
asset
management
13. Vendor
Marketing
J
• 1.
Fully
utilized
hardware
• Cloud
can
provide
high
utilization
and
smoothing
of
the
inevitable
peaks
and
troughs
in
workloads.
• Sharing
server
infrastructure
with
other
organizations'
computing
needs
ensure
efficient
use
of
hardware
• 2.
Lower
power
costs
• Due
to
economies
of
scale
and
better
hardware
utilization
• 3.
Lower
people
costs
• Biggest
part
of
TCO
• IT
people
are
expensive;
their
salaries,
benefits,
and
other
employment
costs
usually
outweigh
the
costs
of
hardware
and
software
• 4.
Zero
capital
costs
• Buying
your
hard-‐ and
software
you're
looking
at
up-‐front
capital
costs
• 5.
Resilience
without
redundancy
• If
run
your
own
servers,
you
need
to
buy
more
hardware
than
you
need
in
case
of
failure.
• Expensive
to
maximize
uptime.
14. There
ain‘t no
such
thing
as
a
free
lunch
!
(Milton
Friedmann )
Cloud
service
provider
are
no
“magical
non
profit”
companies
Cloud
providers
must
make
profits !
Need
to keep
their current
high
profit
margin !(70-‐
80%)
Grow /keep
company
market value
/
stock
price
http://csimarket.com/Industry/industry_Profit
ability_Ratios.php?ind=1011
16. Currently
“no
real
information”
!
• There
is
no
reliable
information
available
!
• Vendors
do
not
publish
detailed
level
of
information
about
the
Cloud
business
EBIT
margin
!
• Amazon
is
currently
the
only
exception
17. IBM
Q1
/
2015
– Investor
Statement
• revenue
performance
improved
to
flat
from
prior
year
• Did
not
decline
again
!
• Strategic
imperatives
revenue
growth
accelerated
to
more
than
30%
• Cloud
business
grew
over
75%;
exited
the
quarter
with
an
annual
as-‐a-‐Service
run
rate
of
$3.8
billion
• Analytics
was
up
more
than
20%,
Social
more
than
40%,
and
Mobile
more
than
4
times
• Remember
IBM
Earning
Strategy
• Invest
in
high
profit
business
which
is
growing
• Sell
or
discontinue
low
profit
or
declining
business
20. Microsoft
Cloud
Strategy
• Does
MS
makes
money
converting
EA
customers
to
Office
365
?
• Not
sure
• But
they
are
„financing“
MS
huge
cloud
investments
• Profit
will
come
from
converting
transactional
customers
• Microsoft
is
seeing
following
benefits
• Ensure
continuous
revenue
stream
• Direct
and
tight
relationship
with
customers
• Grow
and
extend
opportunities
with
customers
>
Starting
point
for
Upselling
customer
with
new
addon services
21. IBM
Q1
/
2015
– Investor
Statement
• revenue
performance
improved
to
flat
from
prior
year
• Did
not
decline
again
!
• Strategic
imperatives
revenue
growth
accelerated
to
more
than
30%
• Cloud
business
grew
over
75%;
exited
the
quarter
with
an
annual
as-‐a-‐Service
run
rate
of
$3.8
billion
• Analytics
was
up
more
than
20%,
Social
more
than
40%,
and
Mobile
more
than
4
times
• Remember
IBM
Earning
Strategy
• Invest
in
high
profit
business
which
is
growing
• Sell
or
discontinue
low
profit
or
declining
business
22. IBM
subscription
revenue
due
to
automatic
renewal
• 6.1
Automatic
Renewal
of
a
Subscription
Period
• If
Customer's
PoE designates
the
subscription
renewal
as
automatic,
Customer
may
renew
Customer's
expiring
IBM
SaaS Subscription
Period
by
written
authorization
to
renew
(e.g.,
order
form,
order
letter,
purchase
order),
prior
to
the
expiration
date,
in
accordance
with
the
terms
of
the
Agreement.
• IF
IBM
DOES
NOT
RECEIVE
SUCH
AUTHORIZATION
BY
THE
EXPIRATION
DATE,
THE
EXPIRING
IBM
SaaS SUBSCRIPTION
PERIOD
IS
AUTOMATICALLY
RENEWED
FOR
EITHER
A
ONE
YEAR
TERM
OR
THE
SAME
DURATION
AS
THE
ORIGINAL
TERM
UNLESS,
WITHIN
NINETY
(90)
DAYS
OF
THE
EXPIRATION
DATE,
IBM
RECEIVES,
EITHER
DIRECTLY
FROM
CUSTOMER
OR
THROUGH
CUSTOMER'S
RESELLER,
AS
APPLICABLE,
CUSTOMER'S
WRITTEN
NOTIFICATION
THAT
CUSTOMER
DOES
NOT
WANT
TO
RENEW.
OTHERWISE,
CUSTOMER
AGREES
TO
PAY
SUCH
RENEWAL
CHARGES.
23. What
kind
of
business
is
Cloud
or
will
it
be
?
High
volume
High
margin
24. What
kind
of
business
is
„Cloud“
High
volume
low
margin
25. Amazon
– for
AWS
• Amazon
is
the
first vendor
who
published
details
• AWS
Q4
2014
• $5
billionbusiness
• operating
profit
of
$265
million
with
• an
profit
margin
of
19.6
percent
• IBM’s SW
gross margins are just
over 50
percent
• AWS
proves
Cloud
business
is
high
volume
with
low
margin
• AWS
says
• that
Infrastructure
as
Service
will
be
a
Commodity
(low
margin)
• Trying
to
move
up
to
Application
Level
26. Summary
• Cloud
infrastructure
market
will
become
a
commodity
market
• Software
vendors
are
trying
to
convert
“highly
profitable”
but
unstable
software
revenue
stream
to
continuous
subscription
streams
• Software
vendors
are
fighting
for
market
share
and
accepting
decreasing
profit
margins
and
revenue
for
these
“transition”
period
to
become
Cloud
service
providers
• Application service (SaaS)
is the most profitable
business
27. What
you
need
to
consider
?
So
how
will
this
impact
my
cloud
evaluation?
What
are
my
other
options
?
30. Security
&
Data
privacy
issues
(not
our
focus
today
J)
• System
Complexity
• A
public
cloud
computing
environment
is
extremely
complex
(e.g.
IBM
SmartCloud on
premise
)
• Shared
Multi
tenant
Environment
• client
organizations
typically
share
components
and
resources
with
other
consumers
that
are
unknown
to
them
• Compliance
• Law
and
Regulations,
Data
Location
,
Electronic
Discovery
• Trust
• Giving
up
direct
control
over
many
aspects
of
security
and
privacy
requires
a
high
level
of
trust
onto
the
cloud
provider
• Access
to
company
Insider
Information
is
expanded
to
cloud
providers
and
subcontractors
• Ensure
rights
to
audit
cloud
provider
!!!
31. Potential
Business
Risk
• Cost
• Loosing
possibility
to
plan
and
manage
your
cost
• Risk
of
increasing
prices
• Availability
• Temporary
Outages
• Prolonged
and
Permanent
Outages
/
Discontinue
of
services
• Incident
Response
• Data
Availability
• Poor
Incident
Analysis
and
Resolution
32. Potential
Business
Risk:
Quality
&
Cost
• Cloud
provider
is
saving
money
by
extending
hardware
lifecycle
and
operate
with
lower
qualified
people
• Cloud
Provider
is
terminating
your
contract
because
your
are
too
demanding
/
expensive
• Using
to
much
bandwith
• Using
to
much
server
load
• Cloud
Provider
is
significantly
changing
his
offerings
or
not
keeping
up
with
competition
• Cloud
Provider
C
is
offering
a
much
„better“
offering
• Your
Cloud
Provider
is
increasing
monthly
prices
or
force
you
to
upgrade
to
more
expensive
service
package
(see
MS
and
IBM
• Cloud
Provider
is
shutting
down
his
offering
• Cloud
Provider
is
going
out
of
business
or
bankrupt
(How
fast
can
you
react)
33. Example
Shutting
Down
Service
Postini
• Postini was
a
startup company
founded
in
1999
• BY
February
2005,
it
was
operating
ten
U.S.
data
centers,
processing
2.5
billion
e-‐mail
messages
weekly,
and
providing
anti-‐spam
services
for
more
than
4,200
companies
and
"6
million
end
users
• On
July
9,
2007,
Google
announced
that
it
had
signed
a
definitive
agreement
to
acquire
Postini.[5]
Google
paid
$625
million
in
cash
for
the
acquisition
• August
21,
2012,
Google
announced
it
would
be
shutting
down
all
of
Postini's web
services
34. • The
1TB
limit on
Office
365
users takes effect
immediately.
• You have 12
month to remove your files from
OneDrive
• Consumers
that
are
not
satisfied
by
the
new
storage
plan
can
opt
out
of
Office
365
and
receive
a
pro-‐rated
refund.
• http://www.computerworld.com/article/3000642/cloud-‐
storage/microsoft-‐shrinks-‐onedrive-‐storage-‐limits-‐for-‐office-‐365-‐
customers.html
Microsoft
shrinks OneDrive storage limits
35. Consider
leasons learned
from
“Outsourcing
Business”
!
• What‘s
difference
to
Cloud
?
• increased
complexity
• No
dedicated
Provider
Manager
• Difficulty
to
maintain
accountability
and
control
over
deployed
applications
or
systems
• What’s
similar
to
Cloud
?
• Steps
that
organizations
need
to
onboard
• Provider
coordination
&
communication
efforts
• Service
Provider
change
!
• Existing
guidelines
for
outsourcing
still
apply
!
36. Risk
Management:
Business
Continuity
Management
?
• Which
risks
do
you
need
to
manage?
• How
can
you
manage
these
risks
?
• Think
about
how
9/11
created
Business
Continuity
Management
!!!
• Data
Backup
&
Migration
• How
do
you
ensure
access
to
your
critical
data
• Where
to
you
store
these
backups
?
• Additional
BackUp /
Cold
StandBy Cloud
Provider
required
?
• Is
„Off
Boarding“
possible
?
• IBM
Domino
is
easy
!
• IBM
Connections
not
sure
?
37. Summary
• There
ain’t no
free
lunch
or
magical
economies
of
scale
providers
must
earn
money
!
• Carefully
select
with
internal
IT
services
you
want
to
use
as
an
cloud
service
• Chat,
WebMeeting are
easy
choices
• “Extranet”
Applications
makes
sense
• Utilize
outsourcing
experience
for
moving
to
Cloud
Services
• Do
not
underestimate
cloud
complexity
• Do
not
underestimate
cost
of
coordination
and
communication
with
cloud
service
provider
• Discuss
and
plan
off
boarding
and
worst
cases
BEFORE
moving
to
cloud
services