IBM Connections Next is around the corner and we would like to give you the close up view of all the new capabilities. IBM Connections has been the market leader for Enterprise Social Platforms for six years in a row now, see and learn how we continue to make a great product even better. Many new features focus on added productivity, streamlined interaction and an overall updated experience.

1. What’s Coming in
IBM Connections Next
René Schimmer
Sr. Product Manager - IBM Connections

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4. IBM Connections 5.x Release Themes
Team Sites and Communications
Productivity and Attention Management
File Sync and Share
Mobile

5. Focus on your Work:
New User Experience Theme

6. Team Communications:
Focus your team on the info they need to see
Apps are
responsive to
allow drag-n-
drop of apps
between
columns
Ability to hide/
remove all
apps including
Members,
Bookmarks &
Description to
create a
specialized
landing page
Community
navigation
auto-
collapses to
free up space
for other apps
Rename apps
to target your
audience
(ex. Members
> Marketing
Associates)

7. Team Communications:
Change the layout of your landing page
New layouts
to control
how the
Overview
page looks
Edit the
community
description
in line to
make it
easier to
adjust
content to
desired
location

8. Rich Content App in Communities:
Take advantage of apps to maximize the value of Communities
Create and/or
embed content
from other sites

9. Add Events to your Personal Calendar
Quickly add
event into your
personal
calendar
Use reminders in
your personal
calendar to
participate in
important events

10. Discoverable Private Communities
Only the title, description
and tags are shown and
all other content remains
protected
Create private
communities that others
can find and request to
join

11. Organize Your Communities:
Restructure communities as content grows
Move a
community to a
sub-community
or vice-versa

12. Focus on your work:
Control email notifications
Control
whether
members can
mail each
other or only
owners

13. Real-time Alerts:
Help you focus on items that need your attention
Stay up-to-date
with things that
require your
attention

14. DEMONSTRATION
and now…

15. IBM Connections 5.x Release Themes
Team Sites and Communications
Productivity and Attention Management
File Sync and Share
Mobile

16. Smart Type-Ahead Search:
Find content you’re interacted with recently
Type-ahead
remembers
where you’ve
been recently so
you can find
content faster

17. Find your content faster:
Your content is boosted in search results
Control if you
want your
content to be
prioritized higher
in the list to find it
faster

18. Stream Roll Up:
Read the stream faster to work on what matters
Event rolled up
into a single entry
makes the
stream more
consumable

19. Rich Text Editor Improvements
Work faster with your content
Sort table
data by
columns (e.g.
after pasting
from Excel)

20. Rich Text Editor Improvements
Permanent pen to have text stand out when reviewing inline
Highlight text
inline with
permanent to
make you
text stand out

21. Rich Text Editor:
Consistent experience from desktop to mobile
Responsive UI design on
any screen
HTML5 editor for faster
performance
Rich text editing in the
Connections mobile app
Copy/paste Word content
and images
*Optional editor installed separately

22. IBM Connections 5.x Release Themes
Team Sites and Communications
Productivity and Attention Management
File Sync and Share
Mobile

23. Nested Folders
Create, view, and
manage nested
folders across
platforms

24. Nested Folders: Windows Explorer
Create, view,
manage, and
share nested
folders from your
desktop
Drag and drop
entire folder
hierarchies to and
from Connections

25. Nested Folders: Web
Nested folder
hierarchies in personal
and community files
Explorer / Finder – like experience with independently scrollable panes

26. Call-Outs to initiate Upload & Install Sync app
New prompts
help guide users
to more efficient
behaviors

27. New File Details Page
View, comment,
and see file
details all in one
place without
every leaving
your context

28. Office Save As Integration Save files from Office
directly into My Files or to
a specific community

29. New in the Plug-ins
• Windows: Nested
folders – organize files
in structured folders
• Windows: Drag and
Drop entire folder
structures
• Office Save As
integration
• Mac: Share with
Communities; view sync
status; Copy and send
URL
• Support for Serbian
• Outlook: Increase file
uploads and downloads
to 2 GB

30. DEMONSTRATION
and now…

31. IBM Connections 5.x Release Themes
Team Sites and Communications
Productivity and Attention Management
File Sync and Share
Mobile

32. Mobile Enhancements
New Mobile Enhancements
Easier management of the mobile application
Administrator
can enforce
app level
password
Users have the
ability to delete
accounts

33. IBM Connections Editor: Mobile
Editing Capabilities
•Allow users to create, update or modify
documents, presentations or
spreadsheets directly from their mobile
devices.
•Provide round trip editing support which
allows users to take files from IBM
Connections files, update or modify those
files and save them back to IBM
Connections files.
•Share Files in IBM Connections Files.
• Camera mode can take and insert
pictures and videos to documents,
sheets, and slides.
• Available for ALL IBM Connections
customers

34. IBM Connections Editor: Mobile
Tap on the Edit
button to
launch the IBM
Connections
Editor app

35. IBM Connections Editor: Mobile
Easily saves
back to IBM
Connections
Full featured
editing
capabilities

36. Nested Folders: Mobile
Create, view, and
manage nested
folders from your
phone or iPad

37. Polls and Surveys: Mobile
Access Polls
and Surveys
directly form
your mobile
device Polls and
Surveys are
displayed in
the Community
navigation

38. Non Functional Requirements
Software Version
Application server WebSphere Application Server ND 8.5.5.6
Operating systems
(servers)
Red Hat Linux 5, 6, and 7, SUSE Linux 12, AIX 6.1
and 7.1, Windows Server 2008 and 2012
Desktop OS Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, OS X 10.10, Red Hat Linux 5,
6, and 7, SUSE Linux 11
Mobile OS Android 4.0, 5.0, and 5.1, BlackBerry 10, iOS 7, 7.1,
8, and 8.3
LDAP servers IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3, IBM Domino 9.0.1, IBM
Tivoli Directory Integrator 7.1.1, Microsoft Active
Directory 2012, Novell eDirectory 8.8, Oracle
Directory Server 11g
Databases DB2 10.5, Oracle 12c, MS SQL Server 2012
Web browsers Mozilla Firefox 38 and ESR 38, Internet Explorer 11,
Safari 8.0, Chrome 43

39. IBM Social Landing Page
http://ibm.com/social
Latest product info, research, podcasts, and
more
http://www.ibm.com/lotus/connections
YouTube Videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/IBMSocialBiz
IBM Connections Team Blog
http://ibmsocialsoftware.com
Assets, discussion, and opinion about
driving the adoption of IBM Social software
http://ibm.com/blogs/socialbusiness
Customer Success Stories
http://www.ibm.com/social-business/us/en/
customers.html
Book- Doing Business with IBM Connections
http://michaelsampson.net/
doingbusinesswithconnections/
App Catalog
http://catalog.lotus.com